Guantanamo and Beyond: Debating Pro Bono Publico
Saturday, January 20, 2007
- Organization: WNYC -- The Brian Lehrer Show
- Link: http://www.wnyc.org
- Source: New York
Brian Lehrer solicits comment on under secretary of defense Charles Stimson's criticism of corporate law firms' pro bono work on behalf of Gunatanamo detainees. (Length: 38:20)
Interviewees:
- Anant Raut, litigator at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, provided habeas representation for detainees in Guantanamo Bay for the past year
- Robert L. Pollock, member of the Wall Street Journal editorial board
- Michael Ratner, president at the Center for Constitutional Rights
- John Blackman, partner at Cleary Gottlieb
- Douglas Kmiec, chair and professor of constitutional law at the Pepperdine University School of Law
- Mark Alcott, president of the New York Bar Association and senior litigation partner in the New York City law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, LLP
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