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Peter Jan Honigsberg  

Professor of Law, School of Law, University of San Francisco

Professor Peter Jan Honigsberg’s current research focuses on the rule of law and human rights violations that occurred in the detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and the study of terrorism and other post-9/11 issues. Honigsberg is the founder and director of the Witness to Guantanamo project witnesstoguantanamo.com, which began in fall 2008. He has filmed full-length and in-depth interviews of former detainees in more than a dozen countries who have worked in or are associated with Guantanamo Bay, including prison guards, interrogators, interpreters, medical personnel, psychologists, prosecutors, habeas attorneys, JAG attorneys, high-ranking government officials, high-ranking military officials, and family members of former prisoners. In May 2007, Honigsberg visited Guantanamo Bay. He teaches Terrorism and International Criminal Law, as well as Administrative Law. He is the author of numerous law review articles and books, including Our Nation Unhinged: The Human Consequences of the War on Terror (University of California Press, 2009); “Chasing Enemy Combatants and Circumventing International Law: A License for Sanctioned Abuse” (UCLA International Law and Foreign Affairs Journal, 2007); “Inside Guantanamo,” (Nevada Law Journal, 2010); and Crossing Border Street: A Civil Rights Memoir (University of California Press, 2000). His most recent article is “In Search of a Forum for the Guantanamo Disappeared” (University of Denver Law Review, forthcoming). Honigsberg also frequently contributes pieces to the Huffington Post.

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