Jonathan Hafetz Explained

Jonathan Hafetz is an American lawyer and writer.[1]

Career

Hafetz is professor of law at Seton Hall Law School.[2] He formerly worked as a senior attorney for the National Security Project of the American Civil Liberties Union.[3] [4] [5] [6] [7] He is notable for volunteering to serve to assist Guantanamo captives to access the US justice system. He has also served as a lawyer for Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri, who from 2003 to 2008, was the sole enemy combatant held in extrajudicial detention in the continental USA.[8] [9] [10] Prior to his career at the ACLU, Hafetz served as litigation director for the Liberty and National Security Project at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law and as a Gibbons fellow in public interest and constitutional law at Gibbons, P.C. He was also a law clerk to both Jed S. Rakoff of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, and Sandra L. Lynch of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.[3] Hafetz is a graduate of Yale Law School.[11] From 2014-15, Hafetz was a visiting professor in the law and public affairs program at Princeton University.

Hafetz is the author of Habeas Corpus after 9/11: Confronting America's New Global Detention System (NYU Press 2011). He is the editor of Obama's Guantanamo: Stories from an Enduring Prison (NYU Press 2016) and the co-editor of The Guantanamo Lawyers: Inside a Prison Outside the Law (NYU Press 2010).

On June 20, 2008 the Associated Press reported that government officials wanted to "rewrite detainee evidence".[1] The impetus to rewrite the evidence is a reaction to the Supreme Court's June 12, 2008 ruling on Boumediene v. Bush. The Supreme Court had ruled that Guantanamo captives were entitled to challenge the basis for their detention through the US justice system, because the Combatant Status Review Tribunals were not an adequate substitute for habeas corpus. According to the article:

The Associated Press quoted Hafetz reaction to this development.[1]

Notes and References

  1. News: US asks to rewrite detainee evidence . . Matt Apuzzo . June 20, 2008 . 2008-06-21 . https://archive.today/20080621085306/http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gqojNIPF7zZ2IQtXyZGI0BO8D4OQD91DUSL80 . dead . Matt Apuzzo . 2008-06-21.
  2. Web site: Jonathan Hafetz . . May 30, 2017.
  3. News: Jonathan Hafetz . . June 21, 2008 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080704191708/http://www.brennancenter.org/people/hafetz_jonathan/ . July 4, 2008.
  4. News: Supreme Court Deals Death Blow to Gitmo . Jonathan Hafetz . . June 12, 2008 . June 21, 2008 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080828133043/http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080630/hafetz . August 28, 2008.
  5. News: No Blank Checks on Torture . Jonathan Hafetz . . October 9, 2006 . June 21, 2008 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080618040745/http://www.thenation.com/doc/20061023/hafetz . June 18, 2008.
  6. News: Boumediene Guest Commentary: Jonathan Hafetz of the Brennan Center . Jonathan Hafetz . . June 16, 2008 . dead . June 21, 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080618042758/http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/boumediene-guest-commentary-jonathan-hafetz-of-the-brennan-center/ . June 18, 2008.
  7. News: TD Blog Interview with Jonathan Hafetz . Jonathan Hafetz . . April 16, 2006 . June 21, 2008.
  8. News: A guest post from Jonathan Hafetz . Jonathan Hafetz . April 7, 2009 . . April 8, 2009 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090306074557/http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/convictions/archive/2008/04/07/a-guest-post-from-jonathan-hafetz.aspx . March 6, 2009.
  9. News: Statement of Jonathan Hafetz on Al-Marri v. Pucciarelli . Jonathan Hafetz . September 30, 2008 . . December 4, 2016 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090410210548/http://www.aclu.org/scotus/2008term/36981res20080930.html . April 10, 2009.
  10. News: Salon Radio: ACLU's Jonathan Hafetz on Guantanamo cases . Glenn Greenwald . . October 10, 2008 .
  11. News: Torturegate . Jonathan Hafetz . . October 27, 2007 . April 8, 2009 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080101074313/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jonathan-hafetz/#blogger_bio . January 1, 2008.

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