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OverviewThe stories of Guantánamo detainees, silenced and imprisoned without trial, as told by their lawyers Following the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the United States imprisoned more than seven hundred and fifty men at its naval base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. These men, ranging from teenage boys to men in their eighties from over forty different countries, were detained for years without charges, trial, and a fair hearing. Without any legal status or protection, they were truly outside the law: imprisoned in secret, denied communication with their families, and subjected to extreme isolation, physical and mental abuse, and, in some instances, torture. These are the detainees’ stories, told by their lawyers because the prisoners themselves were silenced. It took habeas counsel more than two years—and a ruling from the United States Supreme Court—to finally gain the right to visit and talk to their clients at Guantánamo. Even then, lawyers were forced to operate under severe restrictions designed to inhibit communication and envelop the prison in secrecy. In time, however, lawyers were able to meet with their clients and bring the truth about Guantánamo to the world. The Guantánamo Lawyers contains over one hundred personal narratives from attorneys who have represented detainees held at “GTMO” as well as at other overseas prisons, from Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan to secret CIA jails or “black sites.” Mark Denbeaux and Jonathan Hafetz—themselves lawyers for detainees—collected stories that cover virtually every facet of Guantánamo, and the litigation it sparked. Together, these moving, powerful voices create a historical record of Guantánamo’s legal, human, and moral failings, and provide a window into America’s catastrophic effort to create a prison beyond the law. An online archive, hosted by New York University Libraries, will be available at the time of publication and will contain the complete texts as well as other accounts contributed by Guantánamo lawyers. The documents will be freely available on the Internet for research, teaching, and non-commercial uses, and will be preserved indefinitely as a historical collection. Read free excerpts from the book at http://www.theguantanamolawyers.com and explore the complete archive of narratives at http://dlib.nyu.edu/guantanamo Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jonathan Hafetz , Mark P. DenbeauxPublisher: New York University Press Imprint: New York University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.590kg ISBN: 9780814785058ISBN 10: 0814785050 Pages: 464 Publication Date: 04 March 2011 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. 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"ReviewsProvides 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 Author InformationJonathan 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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