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Jonathan Hafetz

Senior Staff Attorney

桃子视频Center for Democracy

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Jonathan Hafetz () is聽a senior staff attorney with the 桃子视频Center for Democracy.聽He is also a professor of law at Seton Hall University School of Law, where he teaches courses on constitutional law, national security law, and international law. Mr. Hafetz works on issues involving detention, torture, surveillance, racial and religious discrimination, and the intersection of immigration and national security law. Mr. Hafetz previously worked as a senior staff attorney in the ACLU鈥檚 National Security Project, a litigation director at NYU鈥檚 Brennan Center for Justice, and a John J. Gibbons fellow in Public Interest and Constitutional Law at Gibbons聽PC. He has written books on habeas corpus and on international criminal law聽and authored numerous articles for academic journals and popular publications. Mr. Hafetz served previously as the chair of the New York City Bar Association鈥檚 Task Force on National Security and the Rule of Law. Mr. Hafetz served as a law clerk for the Hon. Sandra L. Lynch of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and the Hon. Jed S. Rakoff of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. He is a graduate of Amherst College, Oxford University, and Yale Law School.


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