Prof. Falkoff Discusses Guantánamo Anniversary and Detainees He Represents

Associate Dean Marc FalkoffNIU Law Professor Marc Falkoff, who is also an attorney for Guantánamo detainees, was featured during a radio interview discussing the current state of the prison camp and his clients on the 20th Anniversary of its opening.

Professor Falkoff joined the NIU law faculty in 2006. He teaches courses primarily in civil rights, constitutional law, criminal law, criminal procedure, post-conviction remedies, and the federal courts.

Since 2004, Professor Falkoff has represented a number of prisoners being held by the U.S. military at Guantánamo Bay on suspicion of involvement with terrorism. For this work, he was named the Charles F.C. Ruff Pro Bono Lawyer of the Year in 2005 by Covington & Burling, LLP. He received the Frederick Douglass Human Rights Award in 2007 from the Southern Center for Human Rights and the Bill of Rights in Action Award in 2008 from the Constitutional Rights Foundation in Chicago.

Professor Falkoff writes and speaks frequently about the rule of law in the context of the war on terror. The book of prisoner poetry he edited – Poems from Guantánamo: The Detainees Speak – was a bestselling anthology and has been translated into a dozen languages.

Professor Falkoff is a graduate of Columbia Law School, where he was articles editor for the Columbia Law Review and was a James Kent and Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. He holds a Ph.D. in American Literature from Brandeis University, an M.A. from the University of Michigan and a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania.

 

 

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