Michael Ratner is President of the Center for Constitutional Rights and co-author, with political journalist Ellen Ray, of the forthcoming book Guantánamo: What The World Should Know (Chelsea Green Publishing). He serves as co-counsel in Rasul v. Bush, the historic case of Guantánamo detainees currently before the U.S. Supreme Court. His timely new book is a primer on the dangers that U.S. policy in Guantánamo presents to our democracy. The book will be released as the Supreme Court prepares to rule in the Rasul case in June/July 2004.
At a time when the Bush Administration is acting to radically alter the US's historic commitment to civil and human rights, Michael Ratner is a leading force defending the values of a democratic society. Under Michael's leadership, the Center for Constitutional Rights has aggressively challenged the constitutional and international law violations undertaken by the United States post-9-11, including the constitutionality of indefinite detention and the restrictions on civil liberties as defined by the unfolding terms of a permanent war. In addition to the Guantánamo litigation, the Center for Constitutional Right's cases include a suit on behalf of Canadian citizen Maher Arar, who was sent by the U.S to be tortured in Syria, as well as a class action suit against the detention of non-citizen, Muslim and Arab men within the United States. In the 1990s Michael also acted as a principal counsel in the successful suit to close the camp for HIV-positive Haitian refugees on Guantánamo Bay. Over the years, he has litigated a dozen cases challenging a president's authority to go to war without congressional approval. He has written and consulted extensively on Guantánamo, the Patriot Act, military tribunals and civil liberties in the post-9/11 world.
Michael Ratner has also been lecturer of international human rights litigation at the Yale Law School and the Columbia School of Law, president of the National Lawyers Guild, special Counsel to Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to assist in the prosecution of human rights crimes, Legal Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, and radio co-host for the civil rights show Law and Disorder.
In Guantánamo: What The World Should Know, Ratner and Ray give an authoritative account of what Guantánamo means for the rule of law, for liberty, democracy, and the right to dissent. To schedule an interview please contact Mahdis Keshavarz 212.260.5000 , ext. 10. Email: maddik@riptideonline.com
Sidney M. Greenfield EDUCATION:
1954 A.B. Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Major Fields: Economics and Sociology 1959 Ph.D. Columbia University, New York, NY.
Major Field: Anthropology AWARDS: 1954 Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude (Brooklyn College) 1954-55 Yale University Fellowship (declined) 1955-56 Columbia University Fellowship 1955-56 George William Curtis Fellow (Columbia University) Research Institute for the Study of Man in the Tropics Fellow 1956-57 Social Science Research Council Fellow 1960 Purdue University Research Council X.L. Research Award 1964 University of Wisconsin Summer Research Award 1965-66 Social Science Research Council Fellow Land Tenure Center Fellow (The University of Wisconsin)
1967 Fulbright-Hays Center Faculty Fellow (Brazil) 1972-73 National Science Foundation Fellow 1978 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Graduate School Summer Research Award 1982 Fulbright Fellow (Brazil) University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Graduate School Summer Research Award
1983 UW-System American Ethnic Studies Coordinating Committee Award 1984-85 UW Sabbatical Leave Award UW-System Undergraduate Teaching Improvement Grant
1985 Academic Specialist Grant, United States Information Agency 1986-87 UW-System Undergraduate Teaching Improvement Grant
1988 Fulbright Fellow (Brazil) 1989 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Graduate School/UWM Foundation Research Award
1990-91 School of American Research Resident Scholarship (declined) 1993-94 UW Sabbatical Leave Award 1994-95 Fellow, Center for Twentieth Century Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
1996 Fulbright Award (For Nigeria) Could not accept for political reasons in Nigeria.
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