Reply #13: Deborah Pearlstein, Princeton and Human Rights First [View All]

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I hope you're not implying that the author the OP cites is, by contrast, chopped liver. Indeed, international and human rights law is her specialty

A graduate of Harvard Law School, where she served as articles editor of the Harvard Law Review, Pearlstein clerked for Judge Michael Boudin of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, then for Justice John Paul Stevens of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Returning to academia from an active law practice in national security law and human rights, Pearlstein's scholarly interests include the powers of the executive branch and the role of the courts, and issues of international law enforcement in domestic courts. Her work has appeared in journals including the Harvard Law Review, Harvard Journal of Law & Policy, and Columbia Human Rights Law Review, and she has taught courses in national security law, international human rights and U.S. constitutional law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, Georgetown University Law Center, Stanford Law School and at Princeton University. She has also served as a teaching fellow for undergraduates at Harvard College and for Masters Degree candidates at Harvard Law School.

From 2003-2006, Pearlstein served as the founding director of the Law and Security Program at Human Rights First, where she led the organization’s efforts in research, litigation and advocacy surrounding U.S. detention and interrogation operations. Among other projects, Pearlstein led the organization's first monitoring mission to the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; prepared a series of briefs amicus curiae to the U.S. Supreme Court; and co-authored multiple reports on the human rights impact of U.S. national security policy, including Command’s Responsibility, which provided the first comprehensive accounting of detainee deaths in U.S. military custody since 2002, and received extensive press coverage worldwide.

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