Lisa Hajjar (UCSB) Book “The War in Court: Inside the Long Fight against Torture”
November 9, 2022
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
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Lisa Hajjar will discuss her new book, The War in Court: Inside the Long Fight against Torture, with a focus on legal battles over the treatment of people detained at Guantanamo. Those who took up the fight against the government over torture, forced disappearance, protracted incommunicado detention, and invented law-of-war offences for use in the military commissions were lawyers. Hajjar will explain why hundreds of legal professionals—JAGs and attorneys from the toniest corporate law firms, human rights lawyers and solo practitioners, law professors and their students—were galvanized to defend the rule of law that was upended by the torture policy and enlisted in what became a war in court. The last front is the 9/11 case; the five defendants were disappeared and tortured by the CIA for years before being transferred to Guantanamo in 2006. That case, which started in 2008 and remains ongoing, is proof that torture and justice are utterly incompatible and Guantanamo’s legacy is failure.
Book launch and conversation featuring author LISA HAJJAR (Department of Sociology, UC
Santa Barbara) with UIC Faculty: RONAK KAPADIA (Gender and Women’s Studies), ATEF SAID
(Sociology), and A. NAOMI PAIK (Criminology, Law, and Justice & Global Asian Studies)
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Sep 2, 2022
Date updated
Nov 1, 2022