Ghalib Mahmoud '15 is the first Arab-Muslim law student to represent Seton Hall Law at Camp Justice at the detention camps in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He visited the Camp in November 2014 to observe the observing the hearings of Abdul al-Hadi al-Iraqi, an Iraqi "high value" detainee: an alleged Al-Qaeda leader charged with several war crimes. Read Ghalib Mahmoud's reflections on his visit to Guantanamo >>
Josh Wirtshafter '14 represented Seton Hall Law at the pre-trial hearings of the '9/11 Five," the defendants accused of plotting the attacks of September 11, 2001. During his visit, issues of attorney-client privilege, and defendants' rights to privacy, were brought to light when defense counsel asserted that listening devices were installed in the rooms where they talked with their clients. In addition, defendants returned to their cells after proceedings on February 13 to find their attorney-client mail had been ransacked and some of it, confiscated. Read more >>
A Fellow of the Center for Policy and Research, visited the Guantánamo Bay Military Base with official Observer status, to observe military commissions, the tribunals established to try detainees for alleged war crimes. Read more.
Chris Whitten attended the pretrial hearings as a representative of Seton Hall Law, which has non-government organization (NGO) observer status at the hearings taking place at GTMO. He writes of his experience: "This is one of the few chances we have to peek behind the curtain and see what's really going on here . . . How many times do you think the government is going to charter flights and invite members of the public to a military base just to criticize what they're doing? So we have to keep taking advantage. This opportunity is simply too important to pass up." Read more >>
Jason Stern attended the pretrial hearings as a representative of Seton Hall Law, which has non-government organization (NGO) observer status at the hearings taking place at GTMO. The week-long visit included extensive tours of Camp Justice - which includes an arts and crafts building no one ever visits - and mysterious technology glitches that caused the defense teams to conclude it is safer to share files from their local Starbucks than to rely on U.S. government-maintained servers. Read more >>
Seton Hall Law was granted NGO observer status for the military tribunals at Guantanamo Bay. Ryan Gallagher's Day One report appears in The Public Record. Read the blog entry.
Charles Church '71 is attending the week's pre-trial hearings regarding the case of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, a Saudi Arabian citizen, alleged to have masterminded the bombing of the USS Cole. His daily summaries of the proceedings appear in The Public Record. Read the blog posts.
Kari Panaccione '12, a Fellow of the Center for Policy and Research, is visiting Guantánamo Bay Military Base with observer status, as a representative of Seton Hall Law's Transnational Justice Project and Center for Policy and Research, to observe military commissions, the tribunals established to try detainees for war crimes. Her reports from GTMO are being published by Truthout.org. Read her second installment in Truthout.
Chrystal Loyer '12, a Fellow of the Center for Policy and Research, is visiting Guantánamo Bay Military Base with official Observer status, as a representative of Seton Hall Law's Transnational Justice Project and the Center for Policy and Research, to observe military commissions, the tribunals established to try detainees for war crimes. Loyer's reports from GTMO are being published nationwide by Truthout.org. Read more.
Center for Policy & Research Fellow, Kelly Ross, traveled to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in the shadow of Hurricane Sandy, to report on the military commission detainee hearings of Abd al-Rahim Al-Nashiri. Read more.
Eric Miller, a Fellow of the Center for Policy & Research, visited the Guantánamo Bay Military Base with official Observer status, as a representative of Seton Hall Law's Transnational Justice Project and the Center for Policy & Research, to observe military commissions, the tribunals established to try detainees for war crimes. Stratton's reports from GTMO were published nationwide by Truthout.org and The Public Record. Read more.
Nicholas Stratton '12, a Fellow of the Center for Policy & Research, visited the Guantánamo
Bay Military Base with official Observer status, as a representative of Seton Hall
Law's Transnational Justice Project and the Center for Policy & Research, to observe
military commissions, the tribunals established to try detainees for war crimes. Stratton's
reports from GTMO were published nationwide by Truthout.org and The Public Record.
Read more.
Kelli Stout a Fellow in the Center for Policy and Research, visited Guantánamo Bay Military Base with observer status, as a representative of Seton Hall Law... Read more.
