SCHOOL OF LAW

Kristine A Huskey

Adjunct Professor - National Security Clinic

JD University of Texas at Austin
BA Columbia University

Kristine Huskey teaches in the National Security Clinic, which she established in 2007 and served as Director for two years. She 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 in 2004 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 is the author of Justice at Guantanamo: One Woman's Odyssey and Her Crusade for Human Rights (2009), a memoir about her experiences representing suspected terrorists. She was profiled in the December 2006 issue of Marie Claire as a Woman to Watch, was the subject of the bi-weekly program, Working Women, on ABC News, and was featured in Texas Lawyer. She is a Fellow at the Robert S Strauss Center for International Security and Law and 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.