Publisher's Synopsis
To Gitmo or Bust: Practical Challenges in Representing Guantanamo Detainees On April 25, 2008, the Northeastern University Law Journal hosted a symposium titled To Gitmo or Bust: Practical Challenges in Representing Guantanamo Detainees. The February 2009 publication features papers authored by the Symposium speakers. Foreword: - Guantanamo and the Lawyer as Hero: 500 and Counting by Michael Ratner Articles: - Clericalism and the Guantanamo Litigation by Sabin Willett - A Law Professor's Reflections on Representing Guantanamo Detainees by Randall T. Coyne - Lost and Found: The Experience of a Lawyer from "Old Europe" Defending in a Law-Free Zone by Bernhard Docke - Guantanamo Bay: Redefining Cruel and Unusual by Stewart Eisenberg - Habeas Revisited: An Associate's View of Guantanamo Bay by Nicole Moen - The Uighurs at Guantanamo: "Sometimes We Just Didn't Get the Right Folks" by Jason S. Pinney - Challenging the Practice of Transfer to Torture in U.S. Courts: A Model Brief for Practitioners by Colleen Costello Note: - Writing Off the Great Writ: Preserving Habeas Corpus in Boumediene v. Bush Against Strong National Security Pressures by J. Erik Heath"
