Michale Ratner Dr Stanley Greenfield Air Date 04 07 0

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Watch the Michale Ratner Dr Stanley Greenfield Air Date 04 07 0 video, Michael Ratner is President of the Center for Constitutional Rights and co author with political journalist Ellen Ray of the forthcoming book Guant namo What The World Should Know Chelsea Green Publishing He serves as co counsel in Rasul v Bush the historic case of Guant namo detainees currently before the U S Supreme Court His timely new book is a primer on the dangers that U S policy in Guant namo 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 Guant namo 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 Guant namo 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 Guant namo 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 Guant namo What The World Should Know Ratner and Ray give an authoritative account of what Guant namo 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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