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Kristine Huskey is a Clinical Professor and Director of the National Security and Human Rights Clinic at the University of Texas School of Law. She recently taught in the International Human Rights Law Clinic at American University Washington College of Law and represented Omar Khadr, the young Canadian citizen detained at Guantanamo and charged with war crimes under The Military Commissions Act of 2006. Professor Huskey also represented the Guantanamo detainees in Rasul v. Bush, which went before the Supreme Court and won the right of the detainees to challenge their detentions in federal court. She has been to Guantanamo over a dozen times and has frequently appeared in the media to discuss Guantanamo and “war on terrorism” issues. Professor Huskey was profiled in the December 2006 issue of Marie Claire as a “Woman to Watch” and was the subject of the bi-weekly program, “Working Woman,” on ABC News. She is a contributing author to One of the Guys: Women as Aggressors and Torturers, an anthology addressing the abuses at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo.

Professor Huskey was an attorney in the International Litigation and Arbitration practice group at Shearman & Sterling LLP for eight years, representing primarily international entities, including OPEC, the Mexican tomato industry, and PDVSA, Venezuela’s national oil company. She was also an adjunct professor in the International Human Rights Clinic at George Washington University Law School, an adjunct faculty advisor to the Howard University School of Law International Law Moot Court Team, and a visiting professor on international human rights and humanitarian law at Victoria University Law School in New Zealand.

Selected Research:

• "Standards and Procedures for Classifying 'Enemy Combatants,': Congress, What Have You Done?," Texas International Law Journal, Fall 2007

Selected Commentary:

• "2008 Public Interest Award from Travis County Women Lawyers' Association," University of Texas, May 2008
• "Former Army Chaplain Talks About Gauntanamo Incarceration," K-EYE TV, Mar 2008
• "Blind Justice: From Austin to Gitmo," Austin Chronicle, Sep 2007