Detention on a Global Scale: Punishment and Beyond Participant Biographies

Participant Biographies Detention on a Global Scale: Punishment and Beyond Yale Law School, April 9-10, 2015

Dr. Uju Agomoh is the Founder/Executive Director of Prisoners’ Rehabilitation and Welfare Action (PRAWA) – a not-for-profit organization she established at the age of 24. Her work involves training, advocacy, assessment, program design and implementation of programs on security, justice, corrections and development related issues. She has personally carried out over 1000 prison visits/monitoring activities covering over 100 prisons in over 26 countries, including Nigeria, Ghana, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Kenya, United Kingdom, the Netherlands, USA, Mexico, Thailand, and Japan. She is also President, International Corrections and Prisons Association Africa Chapter; Executive Committee Member, African Security Sector Network; Executive Committee Member of the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims representing Sub Saharan Africa; Council Member of the National Human Rights Commission of Nigeria. She has also served as Special Rapporteur on Police, Prisons and Centers of Detention of Nigeria (2001-2008); Member, Presidential Committee on Prerogative of Mercy Committee of Nigeria (2006-2009); Member, Presidential Committee on Prison Decongestion (1999–2001, 2013-2014). She was until July 2013 a Research Fellow at the Institute for Development Studies (IDS) University of Nigeria Nsukka (Enugu Campus). She is also currently coordinating the Police and Human Rights Project (A Switzerland Embassy- funded initiative), and the Speeding Up Criminal Justice Project (a Justice for All/DFID-funded initiative) in Nigeria.

Mary Bosworth is Professor of Criminology and Fellow of St Cross College at the University of Oxford, as well as, concurrently, Professor of Criminology at Monash University, Australia. At Oxford, she is Director of Border Criminologies, and Assistant Director of the Centre for Criminology. Mary has published widely on prisons, punishment, immigration detention, citizenship, race, gender and research methodology. Her research has been based in England, France, Greece and the USA. Since 2009 she has been conducting research inside British immigration detention centres. Her most recent book is Inside Immigration Detention (Oxford Univ. Press, 2014). Currently she is heading a five year (2012-2017) European Research Council Starter Grant entitled Subjectivity, Penal Power and Identity, and three year Leverhulme International Network on External Border Control.

Başak Çalı is Director, Center for Global Public Law and Associate Professor in International Law at Koç University Law School, Istanbul. Previously, she was a senior lecturer in human rights at University College London and director of the multi-disciplinary Masters in Human Rights at UCL. Başak is an expert on international human rights law, with a focus on the European system. She has published widely on the purposes, legitimacy and effects of the Detention on a Global Scale: Punishment and Beyond Participant Biographies

European Human Rights System and monitoring the implementation of human rights judgments. Başak has been a Council of Europe expert on the European Convention on Human Rights since 2002. In that capacity she has been involved in trainings of judges, prosecutors, police officers and local authorities in human rights law over ten Council of Europe jurisdictions. She has also litigated before Strasbourg.

Maja Daruwala is Director of Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, an international NGO mandated to ensure the practical realization of human rights across the Commonwealth. A barrister by training, Daruwala been has been working to advocate for rights and social justice for over 20 years. She is actively engaged in numerous human rights initiatives and concentrates on issues relating to civil liberties including police reform, prison reform, right to information, discrimination, women's rights, freedom of expression, and human rights advocacy capacity building. Born in India, Daruwala has lived and worked in England, Singapore and Sri Lanka. Prior to joining CHRI in 1996, she was a program officer for South Asia at the Ford Foundation. Her interests lie particularly in the area of systemic reforms. She has focused her energies on issues of accountability and participation, which she believes are essential underpinnings for good governance and the realisation of human rights. Daruwala sits on several charitable boards, including the Open Society Justice Initiative and the International Women’s Health Coalition, both based in New York.

Fiona Doherty is Clinical Associate Professor of Law at Yale Law School. From 2005 to 2010, she was an Assistant Federal Defender with the Federal Defenders of New York. Before that, she was Senior Counsel at Human Rights First in New York City, working to ensure that U.S. anti- terrorism measures incorporate human rights protections. She received her J.D. from Yale Law School in 1999 and clerked for the Honorable Martha Craig Daughtrey on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. She then received a Bernstein Fellowship to work with the Committee on the Administration of Justice in Northern Ireland, where she focused on cases involving the targeting of defense lawyers during the conflict. She recently published an article in the New York University Law Review titled Indeterminate Sentencing Returns: The Invention of Supervised Release.

David C. Fathi is Director of the American Civil Liberties Union National Prison Project, which brings challenges to conditions of confinement in prisons, jails, and other detention facilities, and works to end the policies that have given the United States the highest incarceration rate in the world. He worked as a staff lawyer at the Project for more than ten years before becoming director in 2010, and has special expertise in challenging “supermax” prisons, where prisoners are held for months or years at a time in conditions of near-total isolation. From 2007 to 2010 Fathi was Director of the US Program at Human Rights Watch. The US Program works to defend the rights of vulnerable groups in the United States, and has published groundbreaking reports on the death penalty, prison conditions, racial discrimination, the rights of immigrants, and many other human rights issues. Fathi has lectured nationally and internationally on criminal Detention on a Global Scale: Punishment and Beyond Participant Biographies justice issues, and his op-eds have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Houston Chronicle, and other major media outlets. He is a graduate of the University of Washington and the Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley.

Robert A. Ferguson is George Edward Woodberry Professor in Law, Literature, and Criticism at Columbia Law School and Columbia University in Arts and Sciences. His books include, LAW AND LETTERS IN AMERICAN CULTURE, THE AMERICAN ENLIGHTENMENT, 1750-1820, READING THE EARLY REPUBLIC, THE TRIAL IN AMERICAN LIFE, ALONE IN AMERICA: THE STORIES THAT MATTER, INFERNO: AN ANATOMY OF AMERICAN PUNISHMENT, and forthcoming this year, PRACTICE EXTENDED: CONNECTIONS BEYOND LAW AND LITERATURE. He has also edited a critical edition of The Federalist and is currently at work on a book about the language of punishment entitled METAMORPHOSIS: HOW TO TRANSFORM PUNISHMENT IN AMERICA. He has taught at Harvard, The University of Chicago, Stanford, Princeton, Yale, and Columbia, in English Departments, History Departments, and Law Schools.

Michael Flynn is the Executive Director of the Global Detention Project, an interdisciplinary research center based in Geneva, Switzerland, that investigates the use of detention as a response to international migration. His experience includes working as a project director for the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C.; as a coordinator at the Graduate Institute’s Programme for the Study of Global Migration, overseeing research projects supported by the Geneva International Academic Network and the Swiss Network for International Studies; and as an associate editor of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists based at the University of Chicago. Flynn has also been a fellow at the International Reporting Project (formerly the Pew International Journalism Program), based at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and has received reporting grants from the Fund for Investigative Journalism. Flynn holds a BA in Philosophy from DePaul University and an MA and PhD in International Studies from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies. His most recent publication is “There and Back Again: On the Diffusion of Immigration Detention" (Journal on Migration and Human Security, 2014).

Marie Gottschalk is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. She specializes in American politics, with a focus on criminal justice, health policy, and the development of the welfare state. She is the author of, among other works, THE PRISON AND THE GALLOWS: THE POLITICS OF MASS INCARCERATION IN AMERICA, which won the 2007 Ellis W. Hawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians, and THE SHADOW WELFARE STATE: LABOR, BUSINESS, AND THE POLITICS OF HEALTH CARE IN THE UNITED STATES. Her latest book is CAUGHT: THE PRISON STATE AND THE LOCKDOWN OF AMERICAN POLITICS. She is a former editor and journalist and was a university lecturer for two years in the People’s Republic of China. She was a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation and was named a Distinguished Lecturer in Japan by the Fulbright Program. Gottschalk served on the American Academy of Arts and Sciences national task force on mass incarceration and is currently a Detention on a Global Scale: Punishment and Beyond Participant Biographies member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on the Causes and Consequences of High Rates of Incarceration.

Johanna Kalb is a Visiting Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Arthur Liman Public Interest Program at Yale Law School. She is also an Associate Professor of Law at Loyola University New Orleans College of Law. Her research and teaching interests include civil procedure, constitutional law, federal courts, human rights law, and the law of democracy. She holds degrees from Yale Law School, Johns Hopkins University of School of Advanced International Studies, and Stanford University. Kalb also serves as a Jurisprudence Fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law.

Nicola Lacey is School Professor of Law, Gender and Social Policy at the London School of Economics. From 2010 until September 2013 she was Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, and Professor of Criminal Law and Legal Theory at the University of Oxford. She has held a number of visiting appointments, most recently at Harvard Law School and at New York University Law School. She is an Honorary Fellow of New College Oxford and of University College Oxford, and a Fellow of the British Academy. Her research is in criminal law and criminal justice, with a particular focus on comparative and historical scholarship. Over the last few years, she has been working on the development of ideas of criminal responsibility in England since the 18th Century, and on the comparative political economy of punishment. She is currently working, with David Soskice, on American Exceptionalism in crime, punishment, and social policy; and, with Hanna Pickard, on the philosophy and psychology of punishment. She also has research interests in legal and social theory, in feminist analysis of law, in law and literature, and in biography.

Darryl Li is an Associate Research Scholar in Law and a Robina Visiting Human Rights Fellow at Yale Law School. He was most recently a Postdoctoral Research Scholar and Lecturer in Law at Columbia University. Li is writing a book under contract with Stanford University Press on transnational jihad movements in the international legal order. He is also at work on a project funded by the Social Science Research Council on migrant labor in private military industries; a portion of that research will appear in the UCLA Law Review in 2015. Li holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology & Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University and is a graduate of the Yale Law School.

Zonke Majodina has spent the last 8 years as a member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee, in the course of which she served as Chairperson for two years. Over her career—which spans nearly four decades—she has been involved in academic, clinical, research and human rights work in South Africa and abroad. She spent 18 years in Ghana, lecturing and working as a Clinical Psychologist at the University of Ghana Medical School. Before returning to South Africa she went on a 2 year Visiting Fellowship at Oxford University. She completed her doctoral degree at the University of Cape Town. Following a brief spell at the Detention on a Global Scale: Punishment and Beyond Participant Biographies

Public Services Commission of South Africa, Zonke Majodina was invited to develop a Master’s level Programme in Forced Migration Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand in 1998. This programme has grown to be one of the best of its kind in Africa. Before the end of her contract with the University, Zonke Majodina got nominated to serve as a part-time Commissioner with the South African Human Rights Commission. In this new position, she decided to expand the scope of human rights protection in South Africa by focusing on refugees, asylum seekers and other migrants. She is a member of many professional associations, both national and international, mainly related to human rights, refugees, applied psychology and public sector management. She has published and presented many papers, ranging in subject matter from clinical psychology, to effects of war, violence, exile, public service, forced displacement and human rights. She is currently a Visiting Adjunct Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand and is also a member of the Magistrates’ Commission of South Africa.

Glenn E. Martin is the Founder and President of JustLeadershipUSA (JLUSA). He is a national leader and criminal justice reform advocate who spent six years in New York State prisons. Prior to founding JLUSA, Martin served for seven years as Vice President of Development and Public Affairs at The Fortune Society and six years as Co- Director of the National HIRE Network at the Legal Action Center. Martin is Co-Founder of the Education from the Inside Out Coalition, a 2014 Echoing Green Black Male Achievement Fellow, a 2012 America’s Leaders of Change National Urban Fellow, and a member of the governing boards of the College and Community Fellowship, Prisoners’ Legal Services, the Petey Greene Program, the Reset Foundation, the New York Foundation, and California Partnership for Safe Communities. Martin also serves on the advisory board of the Vera Institute’s Public Health and Mass Incarceration Initiative, the National Network for Safe Communities and the Executive Session on Community Corrections at Harvard Kennedy School. Martin regularly contributes to national news outlets such as MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, Al Jazeera and CSPAN on topics such as policing, decarceration, alternatives to incarceration, and reentry issues.

Allegra M. McLeod is Associate Professor of Law at Georgetown Law. Her research and teaching interests include criminal law and procedure, immigration law, international and comparative law, and legal and political theory. She received a J.D. from Yale Law School, Ph.D. and M.A. from Stanford University and B.A. with highest honors and Phi Beta Kappa from Scripps College of the Claremont Consortium. She also completed a postdoctoral fellowship in political theory at Stanford University. Prior to coming to Georgetown, McLeod practiced immigration and criminal law at the California-Mexico border as an Arthur Liman Public Interest Fellow and staff attorney with the ABA Immigration Justice Project, an organization she helped to create. She has taught political theory at Stanford University, served as a consulting attorney with the Stanford Immigrants’ Rights and Criminal Defense Clinics, worked with the ACLU National Prison Project and clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Her publications appear in the Georgetown Law Detention on a Global Scale: Punishment and Beyond Participant Biographies

Journal, California Law Review, UCLA Law Review, Yale Law & Policy Review, Harvard Unbound, and American Criminal Law Review.

Hope Metcalf is Executive Director of the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights and co-teaches the Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic. Metcalf formerly directed the Arthur Liman Public Interest Program, where she advised students on public interest careers and co-taught the Liman Workshop and Liman Practicum, an experiential course on criminal justice reform. She also supervised the National Litigation Project of the Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic, which was founded in 2002 to respond to rights violations arising out of U.S. counterterrorism policy. Metcalf's teaching and research focus on U.S.-based human rights violations, particularly with respect to people in various forms of detention. She chairs the ABA Subcommittee on Solitary Confinement and a board member of Junta for Progressive Action, a New Haven-based immigrants' rights organization.

Lukas Muntingh is co-founder and Project Coordinator of CSPRI and holds a Masters Degree (Sociology) from Stellenbosch University. He has been involved in criminal justice reform since 1992 and was Deputy Executive Director of Nicro prior to joining CSPRI full-time. He has worked in Southern Africa and Central Asia on child justice, prisoners’ rights, preventing corruption in the prison system, the prevention and combating of torture, and monitoring legislative compliance. He has published extensively and presented at several conferences. His current focus is on the prevention and combating of torture and ill treatment of prisoners and detainees.

Nils Öberg is Director-General of the Swedish Prison and Probation Service, a position he has held since 2012. He has held many positions in governments, including Director-General for Administrative Affairs at the Swedish Ministry of Justice and Deputy Director-General, Director of the Division for Police and Prosecution. Before joining public service, Öberg consulted for several international foundations and organizations, including the Swedish Red Cross. He holds a PhD in Government from Uppsala University as well as a M.P.A. from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.

Rick Raemisch is Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Corrections and has more than three decades serving American communities in law enforcement. He has successfully served as a deputy and elected sheriff, prosecutor, and head of the Wisconsin and now Colorado Department of Corrections. Raemisch’s productive career in law enforcement began in 1976 as a deputy sheriff in Dane County, Wisconsin and transitioned to an undercover narcotics detective. After earning his law degree, he joined the county district attorney’s office where he served as an assistant district attorney. In 1989, he became Assistant U.S. Attorney and in 1990 was appointed Sheriff of Dane County and was reelected four more times before entering the private sector in 1997. As the Secretary of the Wisconsin DOC, Raemisch was accountable for more than 22,000 inmates, 73,000 individuals on probation or parole, and approximately 1,000 Detention on a Global Scale: Punishment and Beyond Participant Biographies juveniles. He lowered the prisoner population for three consecutive years for the first time in the state’s history. Before leading the CDOC, Raemisch served as the Dean of the School of Human and Protective Services at Madison College. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and a J.D. with honors from the University of Wisconsin Law School.

Judith Resnik is the Arthur Liman Professor of Law at Yale Law School, where she teaches about federalism, procedure, courts, prisons, equality, and citizenship. Her books include REPRESENTING JUSTICE: INVENTION, CONTROVERSY, AND RIGHTS IN CITY-STATES AND DEMOCRATIC COURTROOMS (with Dennis Curtis, 2011) and MIGRATIONS AND MOBILITIES: CITIZENSHIP, BORDERS, AND GENDER (co-edited with Seyla Benhabib, 2009). In 2011, Representing Justice was selected by The Guardian as one of the year’s ten best legal reads and in 2014, Justice won the Order of the Coif award. Recent articles include Globalization(s), privatization(s), constitutionalization, and statization: Icons and experiences of sovereignty in the 21st century (International Journal of Constitutional Law, 2013); Fairness in Numbers (Harvard Law Review, 2011); and Detention, The War on Terror, and the Federal Courts (Columbia Law Journal, 2010). Resnik is an occasional litigator and is a Managerial Trustee of the International Association of Women Judges; she co-founded Yale’s Women's Faculty Forum;,and she now chairs the Global Constitutional Law Seminar, a part of the Gruber Program on Global Justice and Women’s Rights. Resnik is also the founding director of the Arthur Liman Program and Fund. Resnik is the recipient of many honors, including the Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Award from the Commission on Women of the ABA, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the American Philosophical Society.

Miguel Sarre is Professor of Law, Instituto Tecnólogico Autónomo de México (ITAM). He was a member of the UN Subcommittee for the Prevention of Torture (2007-2014). He holds an LLM from Notre Dame and a Lawyer's degree from Mexico City's Escuela Libre de Derecho. He worked in the drafting of a national prison legislation and is currently lobbying to get it passed in the Mexican Senate. He promoted the adoption of the Ombudsman institution in Mexico and was the first ever ombudsperson to perform in the nation. (1988-1990).

Martin Schönteich directs the criminal justice reform programme of the Open Society Justice Initiative. The Justice Initiative promotes rights-based law reform and strengthens legal capacity worldwide through hands-on technical assistance, research, network building, and litigation. A focus area of Schönteich’s work is pretrial justice, understood as reducing the excessive and arbitrary use of pretrial detention and providing legal assistance to detainees in the earliest stages after arrest. Based in Washington DC, Schönteich previously worked as a senior researcher for the Institute for Security Studies in South Africa. He also worked as Parliamentary Affairs Manager for the South African Institute of Race Relations, where he undertook policy- related advocacy and research on issues affecting criminal justice and civil liberties in South Africa. Schönteich has also worked as a public prosecutor for the South African Department of Justice. He is an Advocate of the High Court of South Africa. Detention on a Global Scale: Punishment and Beyond Participant Biographies

James J. Silk is a Clinical Professor of Law and Supervising Attorney at Yale Law School, where he directs the Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic. He is also director of the Law School’s Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights. He was formerly the director of the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights in Washington, D.C. After completing law school, he was an attorney at the Washington law firm of Arnold & Porter, where his pro bono work included representing a Virginia death-row inmate in his appeals. Before attending law school, Professor Silk was editor, policy analyst, and senior writer for the U.S. Committee for Refugees. He has taught English in Shanghai, China. Professor Silk has a B.A. in Economics from the University of Michigan, an M.A. in the Humanities from the University of Chicago, and a J.D. from Yale.

Dirk van Zyl Smit is Professor of Comparative and International Penal Law at the University of Nottingham and is Emeritus Professor of Criminology of the University of Cape Town. In 2012 he was Global Visiting Professor of Law at New York University. In recent years he has also been a visiting professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin, the Paul Cezanne University in Aix en Provence and the Catholic University of Leuven. His publications include PRINCIPLES OF EUROPEAN PRISON LAW AND POLICY: PENOLOGY AND HUMAN RIGHTS (with Sonja Snacken) (Oxford University Press, 2009) and TAKING LIFE IMPRISONMENT SERIOUSLY IN NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL LAW (Kluwer, 2002). Professor van Zyl Smit is currently project leader of a study of life imprisonment worldwide, which is funded by the Leverhulme Trust. Van Zyl Smit has acted as an expert adviser to the Council of Europe on the new European Prison Rules, on the Rules on Juvenile Offenders subject to Sanctions and Measures and on the Recommendation on the Treatment of Foreign Prisoners, and to the United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime for its Handbooks on Alternatives to Imprisonment and the International Transfer of Sentenced Prisoners. He has also advised the governments of South Africa, Bangladesh, Malawi, Malaysia and Bosnia and Herzegovina on new prison legislation.

Melanie Velez is Managing Attorney of the Southern Center for Human Rights. She joined SCHR in October 2004. Her work focuses on litigation challenging prison and jail conditions in Georgia and Alabama and on litigation regarding the provision of indigent defense in Georgia. Prior to joining SCHR, Melanie was a litigation associate with Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, New York, where in addition to handling general commercial litigation matters she represented numerous clients pro bono. Her pro bono matters included representing individuals seeking asylum, obtaining orders of protection in domestic violence matters, and she was part of a team that won discharge planning for a class of individuals with mental illness incarcerated in New York City Jails. During law school, she took part in the “Prisoners & Families Clinic” which represented incarcerated mothers who faced termination of their parental rights and served as an editor of the Columbia Human Rights Law Review and Columbia’s Jailhouse Lawyer’s Manual. Melanie graduated from Columbia Law School in 2001 and earned her undergraduate degree from Williams College. She is a member of the New York and Georgia bars Detention on a Global Scale: Punishment and Beyond Participant Biographies

Bernie Warner is Secretary of the Washington Department of Corrections. Bernie Warner has over 34 years of experience in both juvenile and adult corrections. In July of 2011, Warner was appointed by Governor Gregoire as the Secretary of the Department of Corrections. He was then reappointed by Governor Jay Inslee in 2013. As Secretary, Warner leads an agency of 8,000 employees responsible for over 35,000 offenders in 12 prisons, 15 work release facilities and 123 community supervision offices throughout the state. Warner has also held executive positions in corrections in the states of Arizona, Florida and most recently, California where he served as the Director of state juvenile justice system. In each jurisdiction, he has focused on comprehensive system reform based on an evidence based model of risk, need and responsivity. In Washington state, Warner is leading several innovative initiatives to include: the reengineering of community corrections, providing for the first statewide implementation of the HOPE model, blending swift and certain sanctions with community based cognitive behavioral interventions; a “mission-focused” response to offenders in restrictive programs, significantly reducing the number of inmates in segregation; the piloting of a prison based “cease-fire” model, as a strategy to manage serious gang behavior; and a gender responsive strategy to ensure appropriate services for incarcerated women. Warner is a member of the Washington Sentencing Guidelines Commission and the Association of State Correctional Administrator’s committee to address the issue of segregation.

Vesla Mae Weaver joined the faculty at Yale University in African American Studies and political science after being on the faculty at the University of Virginia and having received her doctorate in Government and Social Policy at Harvard University. Weaver is broadly interested in understanding racial inequality in the United States, how state policies shape citizenship, and the political causes and consequences of the growth of the criminal justice system in the United States. Her newest book with Amy Lerman, ARRESTING CITIZENSHIP: THE DEMOCRATIC CONSEQUENCES OF AMERICAN CRIME CONTROL, is concerned with the effects of increasing punishment and surveillance in America on democratic inclusion, particularly for the black urban poor. She is also the author of FRONTLASH: CIVIL RIGHTS, THE CARCERAL STATE, AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICAN POLITICS (under contract with Cambridge), which uncovers a connection between the movement for civil rights and the development of punitive criminal justice. Weaver is also the co-author of CREATING A NEW RACIAL ORDER, which explores how multiracialism, immigration, the genomics revolution, and generational changes are reshaping the racial order in the United States (with Professors Jennifer Hochschild and Traci Burch). Weaver’s research has been supported by fellowships from the National Science Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Brookings Institution. She is currently regional leader of the Scholars Strategy Network, member of the Executive Session on Community Corrections, and co-leader of SPIRE (the Symposium on the Politics of Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity). She has previously worked for the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University, the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, and the Southern Poverty Law Center. Detention on a Global Scale: Punishment and Beyond Participant Biographies

James Q. Whitman is the Ford Foundation Professor of Comparative and Foreign Law at Yale Law School, where he teaches comparative law, criminal law, art law and legal history. He is the author of several books, including HARSH JUSTICE: CRIMINAL PUNISHMENT AND THE WIDENING DIVIDE BETWEEN AMERICA AND EUROPE (Oxford, 2004), THE ORIGINS OF REASONABLE DOUBT: THEOLOGICAL ROOTS OF THE CRIMINAL TRIAL (Yale, 2008), and THE VERDICT OF BATTLE: THE LAW OF VICTORY AND THE MAKING OF MODERN WAR (Harvard, 2012). His many articles include The Two Western Cultures of Privacy: Dignity versus Liberty, published in the 2004 volume of The Yale Law Journal. Whitman received a B.A. and a J.D. from Yale, an M.A. from Columbia, and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He has been a visiting professor at a number of American and foreign universities, and received fellowship support from a variety of American and foreign sources.