Kristine A. Huskey
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Kristine Huskey is an American lawyer.[1][2][3][4] Huskey is notable because she volunteered to help defend Guantanamo captives. Huskey is the author of "Standards and Procedures for Classifying “Enemy Combatants”: Congress, What Have You Done?"[5]
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[edit] Studies
| 1992 | B.A. Columbia University |
| 1997 | J.D. University of Texas School of Law |
[edit] Career as a model
According to an article in Marie Claire magazine, Huskey worked part-time as a fashion model prior to completing her law degree.[3][4] The magazine said that Huskey was once a dancer on MTV, appearing in a 1993 video "Knockin' Da Boots" by H-Town.
[edit] Professional career
Huskey has served as a visiting professor, at various institutions, specializing in human rights, including[2]:
- American University Washington College of Law
- Victoria University of Wellington, Faculty of Law
- George Washington University Law School
Huskey worked for the large New York-based law firm Shearman & Sterling. It was while working at Shearman & Sterling that Huskey volunteered to help defend Guantanamo captives. Huskey was one of the lawyers who worked on Rasul v. Bush.[2]
Huskey had worked for Canadian Guantanamo captive Omar Khadr, one of the ten captives who has faced charges before a Guantanamo military commission.[1]
In an interview with the Council on Hemispheric Affairs Huskey said[1]:
“It’s so easy to say that they are terrorists and that terrorists don’t deserve rights, but because they were never given rights to begin with, like the right to a fair trial for instance, how did we reach the decision that they are even terrorists?”
Huskey told WJLA that she received death threats because of her work helping Guantanamo captives.[6] WJLA reported that Huskey paid 13 visits to Guantanamo.
[edit] Professor at the University of Texas
In the Summer of 2007 Huskey became a Professor at her alma mater, the University of Texas School of Law, and became the founding director of its newly established National Security & Human Rights Clinic.[7][8][9][10][11]
[edit] References
- ^ a b c Guantanamo and the Semantics of Terror. Council on Hemispheric Affairs (Saturday, July 14, 2007). Retrieved on 2007-07-14.
- ^ a b c d Kristine Huskey: Practitioner in Residence, International Human Rights Clinic. University of Washington College of Law. Retrieved on 2007-07-14.
- ^ a b "Working Women: Kristine Huskey", WJLA, Friday July 6, 2007. Retrieved on 2008-04-25.
- ^ a b Jennifer Senior. "Gitmo's Girl", Marie Claire, December 2006. Retrieved on 2007-07-14.
- ^ Kristine A Huskey. "Standards and Procedures for Classifying “Enemy Combatants”: Congress, What Have You Done?", Texas International Law Journal, Fall 2007. Retrieved on 2008-04-29. "When I began down this road five years ago, Guantánamo was literally a “legal black hole.”1 The Supreme Court changed much of that in June of 2004 when it ruled in my case, Al Odah v. United States, joined with Rasul v. Bush,2 that the detainees were entitled to bring habeas corpus petitions in federal court to challenge their detention. But after two years of fighting with the government over the meaning of Rasul, Congress abruptly passed the Military Commissions Act of 2006 (“MCA”),3 which ostensibly strips the Guantánamo detainees of the right to challenge any aspect of their detention, including the right to habeas corpus. Remarkably, we are almost exactly where we were five years ago, except that now, Congress has weighed in and approved of Guantánamo as a virtual law-free zone."
- ^ "Working Women: Kristine Huskey", WJLA, Friday July 6, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-07-14.
- ^ "UT Law welcomes detainee law expert Kristine Huskey", University of Texax, September 26, 2007. Retrieved on 2008-04-28.
- ^ "Defending Habeas", University of Texax, Fall 2007. Retrieved on 2008-04-28.
- ^ "Kristine A Huskey: Clinical Professor, Director", University of Texax. Retrieved on 2008-04-28.
- ^ "UT Law launches National Security and Human Rights Clinic", University of Texax, September 4, 2007. Retrieved on 2008-04-28.
- ^ "Clinical Education at UT Law: Contact Us", University of Texax. Retrieved on 2008-04-28.
[edit] External links
- Discussion on Representing Guantanamo Bay Detainees. The Washington Journal, (November 25, 2006). Retrieved on 2007-07-14.
- Kristine A. Huskey (August 13, 2006). The administration has already begun trying to work its way around the Supreme Court's Hamdan decision.. American Prospect. Retrieved on 2007-07-14.
