Jonathan Hafetz is an

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lawyer and writer.

Career

Hafetz is Professor of Law at Seton Hall Law School. He formerly worked as a senior attorney for the National Security Project of the American Civil Liberties Union. He is notable for volunteering to serve to assist

Guantanamo captive The Guantanamo Bay detention camp ( es, Centro de detención de la bahía de Guantánamo) is a United States military prison located within Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, also referred to as Guantánamo, GTMO, and Gitmo (), on the coast of Guant ...

s to access the US Justice system. He has also served as a lawyer for Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri, who from 2003 to 2008, was the sole "

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" held in

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in the continental USA. Prior to his career at the ACLU, Hafetz served as Litigation Director for the Liberty and National Security Project at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law and as a Gibbons fellow in Public Interest and Constitutional Law at Gibbons, P.C. He was also a

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to both

Jed S. Rakoff Jed Saul Rakoff (born August 1, 1943) is a Senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Education Rakoff was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on August 1, 1943. He grew up in ...

of the

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, and Sandra L. Lynch of the

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. Hafetz is a graduate of

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. From 2014-15, Hafetz was a Visiting Professor in th
Law and Public Affairs Program at Princeton University
Hafetz is the author of ''Habeas Corpus after 9/11: Confronting America's New Global Detention System'' (NYU Press 2011). He is the editor of ''Obama's Guantanamo: Stories from an Enduring Prison'' (NYU Press 2016) and the co-editor of ''The Guantanamo Lawyers: Inside a Prison Outside the Law'' (NYU Press 2010). On June 20, 2008 the ''

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'' reported that the Government wanted to "rewrite detainee evidence". The impetus to rewrite the evidence is a reaction to the

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's June 12, 2008 ruling on

Boumediene v. Bush ''Boumediene v. Bush'', 553 U.S. 723 (2008), was a writ of ''habeas corpus'' submission made in a civilian court of the United States on behalf of Lakhdar Boumediene, a naturalized citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina, held in military detention by ...

. The Supreme Court had ruled that Guantanamo captives were entitled to challenge the basis for their detention through the US Justice System, because the

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s were not an adequate substitute for habeas corpus. According to the ''Associated Press'': The ''Associated Press'' quoted Hafetz reaction to this development.

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