Bio
Jonathan Hafetz (@JonathanHafetz) is a senior staff attorney with the ACLU Center for Democracy. He is also a professor of law at Seton Hall University School of Law, where he teaches courses on constitutional law, national security law, and international law. Mr. Hafetz works on issues involving detention, torture, surveillance, racial and religious discrimination, and the intersection of immigration and national security law. Mr. Hafetz previously worked as a senior staff attorney in the ACLU’s National Security Project, a litigation director at NYU’s Brennan Center for Justice, and a John J. Gibbons fellow in Public Interest and Constitutional Law at Gibbons PC. He has written books on habeas corpus and on international criminal law and authored numerous articles for academic journals and popular publications. Mr. Hafetz served previously as the chair of the New York City Bar Association’s Task Force on National Security and the Rule of Law. Mr. Hafetz served as a law clerk for the Hon. Sandra L. Lynch of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and the Hon. Jed S. Rakoff of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. He is a graduate of Amherst College, Oxford University, and Yale Law School.
Featured work
Jun 29, 2020
After 17 Months of Unlawful Detention, Court Orders Release of U.S. Resident Wrongfully Detained Under Patriot Act
Feb 20, 2020
U.S. Resident Indefinitely Detained Without Charge Secures His Day In Court
Jan 11, 2019
William Barr’s Unsolicited Memo to Trump About Obstruction of Justice
Oct 29, 2018
U.S. Citizen, Detained Without Charge by Trump Administration for a Year, Is Finally Free
Jun 7, 2018
The Trump Administration Wants to Dump a Detained American Into One of the Most Dangerous Places on Earth
Apr 18, 2018
The Trump Administration Is Trying to Forcibly Send a Detained US Citizen to Another Country
Nov 3, 2017
The Trump Administration Is Keeping a U.S. Citizen Secretly Locked Up Without Charges
Sep 22, 2017
What Are the Rights of an American Captured Fighting for ISIS?
Dec 16, 2014
After Torture Report, Lawsuit Tests U.S. Commitment to Accountability
Dec 11, 2013
Disappeared, Threatened with Torture, and Still Seeking Accountability