Kristine A. Huskey

Kristine Huskey is an American lawyer.[1][2][3][4] Huskey is notable because she volunteered to help defend Guantanamo detainees. Huskey is the author of "Standards and Procedures for Classifying “Enemy Combatants”: Congress, What Have You Done?"[5]

Huskey grew up in Alaska.[6]

Contents

Studies

Studies[2]
1992 B.A. Columbia University
1997 J.D. University of Texas School of Law

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.

Professional career

Huskey has served as a visiting professor, at various institutions, specializing in human rights, including[2]:

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.[7] WJLA reported that Huskey paid 13 visits to Guantanamo.

Huskey was one of the invited speakers at a July 2009 event, organized by the American Society of International Law, entitled "Women in International Law Networking Breakfast".[8] The other speakers were Andrea Prasow, Laura Black and Andrea Menaker.

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.[9][10][11][12][13]

Publications

Huskey co-wrote a book based on her experience: "My own Counsel: One Woman's Odyssey and Her Crusade for Justice at Guantanamo".[6][14]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Guantanamo and the Semantics of Terror". Council on Hemispheric Affairs. July 14, 2007. http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0707/S00157.htm. Retrieved 2007-07-14. 
  2. ^ a b c d "Kristine Huskey: Practitioner in Residence, International Human Rights Clinic". University of Washington College of Law. http://www.wcl.american.edu/faculty/huskey/. Retrieved 2007-07-14. 
  3. ^ a b "Working Women: Kristine Huskey". WJLA. July 6, 2007. http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0707/437183.html. Retrieved 2008-04-25. 
  4. ^ a b Jennifer Senior (December 2006). "Gitmo's Girl". Marie Claire. http://www.marieclaire.com/world/news/gitmo-girl. Retrieved 2007-07-14. 
  5. ^ Kristine A Huskey (Fall 2007). "Standards and Procedures for Classifying “Enemy Combatants”: Congress, What Have You Done?". Texas International Law Journal. http://tilj.org/journal/entry/43_41_huskey/. Retrieved 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 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." 
  6. ^ a b "Reading the North". Anchorage Daily News. 2009-06-27. http://www.adn.com/life/alaskana/story/845903.html. Retrieved 2009-06-28. 
  7. ^ "Working Women: Kristine Huskey". WJLA. July 6, 2007. Archived from the original on 2007-09-30. http://web.archive.org/web/20070930152439/http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0707/437183.html. Retrieved 2007-07-14. 
  8. ^ "Women in International Law Networking Breakfast". American Society of International Law. 2009-07-09. Archived from the original on 2009-12-09. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.asil.org%2Factivities_calendar.cfm%3Faction%3Ddetail%26rec%3D80&date=2009-12-09. 
  9. ^ "UT Law welcomes detainee law expert Kristine Huskey". University of Texas. September 26, 2007. http://www.utexas.edu/law/news/2007/092607_huskey.html. Retrieved 2008-04-28. 
  10. ^ "Defending Habeas". University of Texas. Fall 2007. http://www.utexas.edu/law/academics/clinics/nationalsecurity/feature_2007_defending_habeas.php. Retrieved 2008-04-28. 
  11. ^ "Kristine A Huskey: Clinical Professor, Director". University of Texas. http://www.utexas.edu/law/faculty/profile.php?id=huskeyka. Retrieved 2008-04-28. 
  12. ^ "UT Law launches National Security and Human Rights Clinic". University of Texas. September 4, 2007. http://www.utexas.edu/law/news/2007/090407_nationalsecurity.html. Retrieved 2008-04-28. 
  13. ^ "Clinical Education at UT Law: Contact Us". University of Texas. http://www.utexas.edu/law/academics/clinics/nationalsecurity/contact_us.php. Retrieved 2008-04-28. 
  14. ^ Kristine A. Huskey, Aleigh Acerni (2009). My own Counsel: One Woman's Odyssey and Her Crusade for Justice at Guantanamo. The Lyons Press. ISBN 9781599214689. 

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