human rights
Human rights are Morality, moral principles or Social norm, normsJames Nickel, with assistance from Thomas Pogge, M.B.E. Smith, and Leif Wenar, 13 December 2013, Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyHuman Rights Retrieved 14 August 2014 for ce ...
lawyer.
''The Case for Impeachment''
Olshansky is author with
Dave Lindorff
Dave Lindorff is an American investigative reporter, filmmaker, a columnist for ''CounterPunch'' and a contributor to '' Tarbell.org,'' ''The Nation,'' ''FAIR'' and ''Salon.com''. His work was highlighted by Project Censored 2004, 2011 and 2012. ...
of ''The Case for Impeachment: The Legal Argument for Removing President George W. Bush from Office''.
Olshansky and Lindorff include as rationales for impeachment in ''The Case for Impeachment''
Recipient of Matthew Diaz's leak
Olshansky was the recipient of a document leaked by
Lieutenant Commander
Lieutenant commander (also hyphenated lieutenant-commander and abbreviated Lt Cdr, LtCdr. or LCDR) is a commissioned officer rank in many navies. The rank is superior to a lieutenant and subordinate to a commander. The corresponding rank i ...
Matthew Diaz
Matthew Mark Diaz is a former active-duty Lieutenant Commander (LCDR) and Judge Advocate General's Corps (JAGC) officer in the United States Navy.
In mid-to-late 2004, Diaz served a six-month tour of duty in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba as deputy dire ...
, that later lead to his
court martial
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, detention, and discharge. Mirror
The efforts of the
Center for Constitutional Rights
The Center for Constitutional RightsThe Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) is a Bush administration's policy of withholding the captives' identities. Diaz had met Olshansky during a visit to Guantanamo, and he sent her a list in an unmarked greeting card. The list provided by Diaz contained the names of 550 captives.
Olshansky suspected the list might have been classified, so she contacted Federal authorities.
In 2007 Olshanksy was appointed the Leah Kaplan Visiting Professor in Human Rights at
Stanford University
Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...
's
Law School
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Law degrees Argentina
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.
In Spring 2010, Olshansky joined the faculty at the
University of Maryland School of Law
The University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law (formerly University of Maryland School of Law) is the law school of the University of Maryland, Baltimore and is located in Baltimore City, Maryland, U.S. Its location places Maryland ...