The Rule of Law Oral History Project was initiated in 2008 to explore and document the state of human and civil rights in the post-9/11 world. In its first year, the project conducted a series of interviews with attorneys in order to document legal challenges against capital punishment in the United States. Recognizing important intersections between litigation challenging the administration of capital punishment and the legal architecture of post-9/11 detention policies and practices, the Rule of Law Oral History Project expanded in 2010 to study the statutory and constitutional challenges of the use of the detention facilities at Guantánamo Bay.
Select interviews from the project are featured here.
Feroz Ali Abassi
Cageprisoners Caseworker and Former Guantánamo Detainee
Stephen B. Bright
President and Senior Counsel, The Southern Center for Human Rights
Morris D. Davis
Chief Prosecutor, Guantánamo Bay Military Commissions
Shane Kadidal
Senior Managing Attorney of the Guantánamo Global Justice Initiative, Center for Constitutional Rights
Asim Qureshi
Cageprisoners Executive Director
Anthony G. Amsterdam
University Professor, New York University School of Law
Cerie Bullivant
Cageprisoners Caseworker Intern
Joshua L. Dratel
Attorney, Dratel & Mysliwiec, P.C.
Brittain Mallow
Commander, Criminal Investigation Task Force
Clive Stafford Smith
Founder and Director, Reprieve
P. Sabin Willett
Partner, Bingham McCutchen LLP
Moazzam Begg
Cageprisoners Director and Former Guantánamo Detainee
Richard H. Burr
Private Practice and Federal Death Penalty Resource Counsel
Mark Fallon
Deputy Commander, Criminal Investigation Task Force
Stephen H. Oleskey
Partner, WilmerHale
Jeremy Varon
Witness Against Torture
Thomas B. Wilner
Of Counsel, Shearman & Sterling
Yvonne R. Bradley
Judge Advocate General, U.S. Air Force
V. Stuart Couch
Prosecutor, Guantánamo Bay Military Commissions
Daniel Heyman
Artist, Portraits of Iraqis Project and Abu Ghraib Detainee Interview Project
Gareth Peirce
Defense Attorney, Birnberg Peirce & Partners
Lawrence B. Wilkerson
Former Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin L. Powell