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Author:   Jonathan Hafetz ,  Mark P. Denbeaux
Publisher:   New York University Press
Imprint:   New York University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.590kg
ISBN:  

9780814785058

ISBN 10:   0814785050
Pages:   464
Publication Date:   04 March 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Introduction Mark P. Denbeaux and Jonathan Hafetz Prelude 1 Representing the ""Worst of the Worst"" How and Why the Lawyers Started Representing Detainees 2 Getting behind the Wire Rasul/Al Odah: The Right to Representation 3 Uncovering Guantanamo's Human Face First Impressions Rendered: How the Detainees Got to Guantanamo Female Attorneys Family Members Interpreters 4 Red Tape and Kangaroo Courts Barriers to Representation The No-Hearing Hearings: Combatant Status Review Tribunals Military Commissions Political Maneuvering Boumediene v. Bush: The Death Knell for Prisons beyond the Law 5 Tortured A Product of Torture Culture Reactions Hunger Strikes Suicides 6 Alternative Forms of Advocacy 7 Leaving Guantanamo Stuck in Limbo Out but Not Free Happy Endings? 8 Guantanamo beyond Cuba: A Global Detention System outside the Law Guantanamo Comes to America Black Sites Coda Timeline: Guantanamo and the ""War on Terror"" Contributors"

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Provides an invaluable perspective-or more accurately, perspectives, since more than one hundred lawyers contributed to the volume. These men and women, all working for nothing, have gained intimate access to those whom the United States sought to keep hidden behind strictly closed doors...The stories these lawyers have been able to tell, adroitly edited by Mark Denbeaux and Jonathan Hafetz, offer a multifaceted portrait of life on the base. - New York Review of Books A valuable contribution to the record of an unfinished story bound to reverberate for years to come. - Kirkus Reviews The desperate words, quoted here, of Gitmo detainees on torture grab the heart and do not let go. This compelling book on the American penal colony and its residents is a cautionary tale of overzealous executive wartime power and the awful mess it sometimes leaves behind. - Publishers Weekly This is a fascinating and revealing behind-the-scenes account of the human stories inside Guantanamo, told candidly by some of America's best, and most public-spirited, lawyers. - Jane Mayer, author of The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals

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Jonathan Hafetz is Associate Professor at Seton Hall Law School and has litigated numerous landmark habeas corpus detention cases. He also is the co-editor (with Mark Denbeaux) of The Guantánamo Lawyers: Inside a Prison Outside the Law (NYU Press, 2009). Mark Denbeaux is a professor at Seton Hall Law School, where he also directs the Center for Policy and Research.

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