Kristine A. Huskey

Kristine Huskey is an American lawyer.cite web
url=http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0707/S00157.htm
title=Guantanamo and the Semantics of Terror
date= July 14 2007
publisher=Council on Hemispheric Affairs
accessdate=2007-07-14] cite web
url=http://www.wcl.american.edu/faculty/huskey/
title=Kristine Huskey: Practitioner in Residence, International Human Rights Clinic
publisher=University of Washington College of Law
accessdate=2007-07-14] cite news
url=http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0707/437183.html
title=Working Women: Kristine Huskey
publisher=WJLA
date= July 6, 2007
accessdate=2008-04-25
quote=] cite news
date=December 2006
url=http://www.marieclaire.com/world/news/gitmo-girl
title=Gitmo's Girl
author=Jennifer Senior
publisher=Marie Claire
accessdate=2007-07-14] Huskey is notable because she volunteered to help defend Guantanamo captives.Huskey is the author of "Standards and Procedures for Classifying “Enemy Combatants”: Congress, What Have You Done?"cite news
url=http://tilj.org/journal/entry/43_41_huskey/
title=Standards and Procedures for Classifying “Enemy Combatants”: Congress, What Have You Done?
publisher=Texas International Law Journal
author=Kristine A Huskey
date=Fall 2007
accessdate=2008-04-29
quote=When I began down this road five years ago, Guantánamo was literally a “legal black hole.”1 The Supreme Court changed much of that in June of 2004 when it ruled in my case, Al Odah v. United States, joined with Rasul v. Bush,2 that the detainees were entitled to bring habeas corpus petitions in federal court to challenge their detention. But after two years of fighting with the government over the meaning of Rasul, Congress abruptly passed the Military Commissions Act of 2006 (“MCA”),3 which ostensibly strips the Guantánamo detainees of the right to challenge any aspect of their detention, including the right to habeas corpus. Remarkably, we are almost exactly where we were five years ago, except that now, Congress has weighed in and approved of Guantánamo as a virtual law-free zone.]

tudies

Career as a model

According to an article in Marie Claire magazine, Huskey worked part-time as a fashion model prior to completing her law degree.The magazine said that Huskey was once a dancer on MTV, appearing in a 1993 video "Knockin' Da Boots" by H-Town.

Professional career

Huskey has served as a visiting professor, at various institutions, specializing in human rights, including:
*American University Washington College of Law
*Victoria University of Wellington, Faculty of Law
*George Washington University Law School

Huskey worked for the large New York-based law firm Shearman & Sterling. It was while working at Shearman & Sterling that Huskey volunteered to help defend Guantanamo captives.Huskey was one of the lawyers who worked on Rasul v. Bush.

Huskey had worked for Canadian Guantanamo captive Omar Khadr, one of the ten captives who has faced charges before a Guantanamo military commission.

In an interview with the Council on Hemispheric Affairs Huskey said: quotation
“It’s so easy to say that they are terrorists and that terrorists don’t deserve rights, but because they were never given rights to begin with, like the right to a fair trial for instance, how did we reach the decision that they are even terrorists?”

Huskey told WJLA that she received death threats because of her work helping Guantanamo captives.cite news
url=http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0707/437183.html
title=Working Women: Kristine Huskey
publisher=WJLA
date= July 6 2007
accessdate=2007-07-14] WJLA reported that Huskey paid 13 visits to Guantanamo.

Professor at the University of Texas

In the Summer of 2007 Huskey became a Professor at her alma mater, the University of Texas School of Law, and became the founding director of its newly established National Security & Human Rights Clinic.cite news
url=http://www.utexas.edu/law/news/2007/092607_huskey.html
title=UT Law welcomes detainee law expert Kristine Huskey
publisher=University of Texas
date=September 26, 2007
accessdate=2008-04-28
quote=] cite news
url=http://www.utexas.edu/law/academics/clinics/nationalsecurity/feature_2007_defending_habeas.php
title=Defending "Habeas"
publisher=University of Texas
date=Fall 2007
accessdate=2008-04-28
quote=] cite news
url=http://www.utexas.edu/law/faculty/profile.php?id=huskeyka
title=Kristine A Huskey: Clinical Professor, Director
publisher=University of Texas
accessdate=2008-04-28
quote=] cite news
url=http://www.utexas.edu/law/news/2007/090407_nationalsecurity.html
title=UT Law launches National Security and Human Rights Clinic
publisher=University of Texas
date=September 4, 2007
accessdate=2008-04-28
quote=] cite news
url=http://www.utexas.edu/law/academics/clinics/nationalsecurity/contact_us.php
title=Clinical Education at UT Law: Contact Us
publisher=University of Texas
accessdate=2008-04-28
quote=]

References

External links

*cite web
url=http://www.shadowtv.com/redirect/notification.jsp?vid=23d6ae2741a030f54db2a0fb8cfae3a5
publisher=The Washington Journal,
title=Discussion on Representing Guantanamo Bay Detainees
date=November 25, 2006
accessdate=2007-07-14
*cite web
publisher=American Prospect
url=http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?articleId=11856
title=The administration has already begun trying to work its way around the Supreme Court's Hamdan decision.
author=Kristine A. Huskey
date=August 13 2006
accessdate=2007-07-14