Joshua Dratel is a defense lawyer. He is experienced in "high-profile" court cases related to alleged domestic terorism.[1] Dratel is a Fellow at New York University Law School's Center on Law & Security.[2] He was awarded the 2006 Robert C. Heeney Memorial Award by the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.[3]

Dratel was president of the New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.[4]

Awards edit

  • 2005 Clarence Darrow Award from the Idaho American Civil Liberties Union <--questioning this one, need to nail it down before using it
  • 2006 Robert C. Heeney Award from the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
  • 2007 Frederick Douglas Human Rights Award from the Southern Center for Human Rights (shared)[1]

Works edit

  • The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib edited by Karen J. Greenberg and Joshua L. Dratel (Cambridge University Press, 2005)
  • The Enemy Combatant Papers: American Justice, the Courts, and the War on Terror edited by Karen J. Greenberg and Joshua L. Dratel
  • shorter works:
    • "Torture: The Road to Abu Ghraib and Beyond" (panel discusson) and "The Curious Debate" in The Torture Debate in America Cambridge University Press: 2005
    • "No Laughing Matter" in The Guantanamo Lawyers: Inside a Prison, Outside the Law New York University Press: 2009

External links edit

(need to go over these, right now just possibilities)

References edit

  1. ^ a b Greg Moran "High-profile lawyers join terror support case" San Diego Union-Tribune June 21, 2011 http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/jun/21/high-profile-lawyers-join-somali-terror-support-ca/ Cite error: The named reference "smith" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Fellows | The Center on Law and Security | Policy, Programs, Publications | NYU School of Law" http://www.lawandsecurity.org/About/Fellows
  3. ^ "NACDL Awards" http://www.nacdl.org/public.nsf/freeform/awards?OpenDocument retrieved on July 9, 2011
  4. ^ http://www.nysacdl.org/about/past-presidents/ retrieved July 11, 2011