Joseph Margulies
Academic background
EducationCornell University (AB)
Northwestern University (JD)
Academic work
DisciplineLaw
Sub-disciplineHuman rights law
Criminal law
Guantanamo litigation
InstitutionsCornell University
MacArthur Justice Center

Joseph Margulies is an American attorney with the MacArthur Justice Center and a professor of law and government at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.[1]

Education

Margulies earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Cornell University and a Juris Doctor from the Northwestern University School of Law.

Career

Margulies was lead counsel in Rasul v. Bush, the case in which the Supreme Court of the United States established prisoners at Guantanamo Bay detention camp are entitled to judicial review and the U.S. court system has the authority to decide whether non-U.S. citizens held in Guantanamo Bay were wrongfully imprisoned.[2][3]

Margulies is the author of the book Guantánamo and the Abuse of Presidential Power[4] and of What Changed When Everything Changed: 9/11 and the Making of National Identity.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Joe Margulies". Cornell Law School. Retrieved 2021-10-06.
  2. ↑ Honigsberg, Peter Jan (2009-05-18). Our Nation Unhinged: The Human Consequences of the War on Terror. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-94312-4.
  3. ↑ "Fighting for Detainees at Guantanamo". NPR.org. Retrieved 2021-10-06.
  4. ↑ Guantánamo and the Abuse of Presidential Power (Simon and Schuster 2006) ISBN 978-0-7432-8685-5
  5. ↑ What Changed When Everything Changed: 9/11 and the Making of National Identity (Yale University Press 2013) ISBN 978-0300176551
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