James Friedman

James Friedman is a Professor of Law at the University of Maine School of Law. [http://mainelaw.maine.edu/faculty-details.aspx?facultyID=9 James Friedman: official biography] , "Maine School of Law"]

Friedman, a graduate of Brown University and The University of Chicago School of Law, has served as a visiting Professor at the United States Military Academy at West Point; and the Faculty of Law, University College, Galway Ireland. He was a visiting scholar at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Friedman's areas of speciality include: American Constitutional Law, law and philosophy, and legal and ethical issues posed by counterterrorism. Friedman has studied British, Israeli, and American responses to terrorist attacks.

Friedman published 'Arendt in Jerusalem, Jackson at Nuremberg: Presuppositions of the Nazi War Crimes Trials," in the Israel Law Review, Vol 28, No. 4, Autumn 1994.

On November 13 2006 Friedman published a criticism of the Bush administration's argument that it could prevent Guantanamo detainees from testifying in court about the interrogation techniques to which they had been subjected. [http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/forumy/2006/11/secrecy-interrogation-and-rule-of-law.php Secrecy, Interrogation and the Rule of Law] , "The Jurist", November 13 2006]

In October, 2007, Professor Friedman argued in a speech to the New England Conference of Appellate Judges that Congress' Suspension of Habeas Corpus in the Military Commissions Act of 2006 was unconstitutional. In June, 2008, The United States Supreme Court upheld this position in Boumedienne v. Bush.

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