{{short description|American lawyer}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}}

{{Infobox person | name = Baher Azmy | education = University of Pennsylvania (BA)<br>Columbia University (MPA)<br>New York University School of Law (JD) | occupation = Lawyer<br>Legal scholar | employer = Center for Constitutional Rights | known_for = Constitutional law litigation<br>Guantánamo detainee representation<br>Civil rights advocacy | title = Legal Director | citizenship = American }}

'''Baher Azmy''' is an American lawyer and professor of law at Seton Hall University, specializing in constitutional law.<ref name=SetonHallBio>{{Cite web| url=http://law.shu.edu/faculty/fulltime_faculty/azmybahe/azmy.html| title=biography| publisher=Seton Hall University| accessdate=January 14, 2007| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061208163258/http://law.shu.edu/faculty/fulltime_faculty/azmybahe/azmy.html| archive-date=December 8, 2006| url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Education== Azmy received his Juris Doctor from New York University School of Law, an MPA from Columbia University, and a BA from University of Pennsylvania.<ref name=SetonHallBio />

==Career== After law school{{when|date=October 2020}} Azmy clerked for Dolores K. Sloviter, Chief Judge of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia.<ref name=SetonHallBio/>

In 2005 Azmy started working at the Center for Constitutional Rights, which provides legal assistance to communities under threat, including the prisoners held in extrajudicial detention in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps in Cuba.<ref name=NewYorker050704>{{cite magazine| url=http://www.newyorker.com/printables/fact/050711fa_fact4| title=The Experiment| magazine=The New Yorker| author=Jane Mayer| author-link=Jane Mayer| date=July 4, 2005| accessdate=2007-01-14| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20070202040329/http://www.newyorker.com/printables/fact/050711fa_fact4| archivedate= 2 February 2007 | url-status= dead}}</ref> Azmy was the lawyer for Guantanamo captive Murat Kurnaz.<ref name=ArbKurnaz64>{{Cite web| url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/Reading_Room/Detainee_Related/ARB_Transcript_Set_5_20000-20254.pdf#64| title=documents presented to Murat Kurnaz Administrative Review Board&nbsp;– pages 64–66| publisher=Department of Defense| author=Baher Azmy| accessdate=January 14, 2007| archive-date=June 27, 2015| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150627102815/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/Reading_Room/Detainee_Related/ARB_Transcript_Set_5_20000-20254.pdf#64| url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=SetonHall061221>{{Cite web|url=http://law.shu.edu/administration/public_relations/press_releases/2006/azmy_murat_kurnaz_lawsuit_transcripts.htm |title=Lawsuit challenges Defense Department's withholding of transcripts that could exonerate former Guantanamo Bay detainee |publisher=Seton Hall University |date=December 21, 2006 |accessdate=January 14, 2007 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071202074015/http://law.shu.edu/administration/public_relations/press_releases/2006/azmy_murat_kurnaz_lawsuit_transcripts.htm |archivedate=December 2, 2007 }}</ref><ref name=AzmyVDoD>{{Cite web|url=http://law.shu.edu/administration/public_relations/press_releases/2006/kurnaz_complaint_12_21_06.pdf |title=Baher Azmy v. Department of Defense |accessdate=January 14, 2007 |publisher=Seton Hall University |author=Baher Azmy |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081202210844/http://law.shu.edu/administration/public_relations/press_releases/2006/kurnaz_complaint_12_21_06.pdf |archivedate=December 2, 2008 }}</ref> Azmy shared his experiences defending Kurnaz on the Peabody Award-winning episode of ''This American Life'' entitled "Habeas Shmabeas".<ref>[http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=310 Show Description for This American Life episode #310: Habeas Shmabeas]</ref><ref>[http://www.thisamericanlife.org/extras/radio/310_transcript.pdf Transcript of This American Life episode #310: Habeas Shmabeas]</ref>

==See also== *Mark P. Denbeaux *Seton Hall reports *Unlawful combatant

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