BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE
NATIONAL SECURITY AND LOCAL POLICE
Michael Price
Brennan Center for Justice
at New York University School of Law
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Te Brennan Center’s Liberty and National Security Program works to advance effective national security policies that respect Constitutional values and the rule of law, using innovative policy recommendations, litigation, and public advocacy. Te program focuses on government transparency and accountability; domestic counterterrorism policies and their effects on privacy and First Amendment freedoms; detainee policy, including the detention, interrogation, and trial of terrorist suspects; and the need to safeguard our system of checks and balances.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Michael Price
serves as counsel for the Brennan Center’s Liberty and National Security Program, which seeks to ensure that our government respects human rights and fundamental freedoms in conducting the fight against terrorism. Before joining the Brennan Center, Mr. Price was the National Security Coordinator for the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, where he provided legal assistance for the defense of detainees in the military commissions at Guantanamo Bay. Mr. Price also engaged in litigation and public advocacy on issues related to privacy, electronic searches and surveillance, and government secrecy. Mr. Price was the student research director for NYU’s Center on Law and Security, an intern with the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, a symposium editor for the Journal of International Law and Politics, and a student advocate in NYU’s International Human Rights Clinic, where he represented two Yemeni nationals detained and tortured in secret CIA “black sites.” He holds a J.D. from NYU School of Law and a B.A. from Columbia University in Political Science and Middle East & Asian Languages and Cultures.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Te Brennan Center gratefully acknowledges Te Atlantic Philanthropies, C.S. Fund, Democracy Alliance Partners, Te Herb Block Foundation, Open Society Foundations, and the Security & Rights Collaborative, a Proteus Fund initiative, for their generous support of the Liberty & National Security Program.Te author would like to thank Emin Akopyan, Sadia Ahsanuddin, R. Kyle Alagood, Emanuel Arnaud, Jeremy Carp, Michael Eggenberger, Lena Glaser, Elizabeth Goitein, Elizabeth Hira, Seth Hoy, John Kowal, Rachel Levinson-Waldman, Kimberly Lubrano, Jim Lyons, Eric Opsal, Shannon Parker, Faiza Patel, Jeanine Plant-Chirlin, Desiree Ramos Reiner, Frederick A.O. Schwarz, Jr., Jeramie Scott, Madeline Snider, Amos oh, and Michael Waldman for their invaluable input and assistance. In addition, the author greatly benefited from the advice and comments of Kara Dansky, Michael German, Patrick O’Hara, Stephen Schulhofer, Matthew Waxman, and members of the Muslim American Civil Liberties Coalition.