Lawfare: 10th Anniversary Project

Jonathan Hafetz, a habeas lawyer and law professor at Seton Hall University School of Law and the author of  Habeas Corpus after 9/11: Confronting America's New Global Detention System, writes in with the following in connection with Lawfare's 9/11 10th Anniversary Project:

The central challenge facing lawyers in the early days of the Guantánamo habeas corpus litigation was to persuade the

In the Fall of 2002, a month or so after I started work in the Defense Department General Counsel’s office, I had a chat with Rear Admiral Michael Lohr, who at the time was the Judge Advocate General of the Navy.  I had come to the Pentagon from the University of Chicago Law knowing very little about how the U.S. military worked.

My contribution to Lawfare's 10th Anniversary Project concerns the role of the military in strengthening justice institutions in countries struggling to emerge from instability, a topic on which my personal and professional views have changed as a result of deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan and service in U.S.

Joseph Margulies is a professor at Northwestern Law School who serves as the associate director of the MacArthur Justice Center.  Joseph served as counsel of record on behalf of the detainees in Rasul and Munaf, and currently is counsel to Abu Zubaydah.  Joseph also is the author of the book Guantanamo and the Abuse of Presidential Power.  He writes in with the following contribution to