# Baher Azmy > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Baher_Azmy > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Baher_Azmy.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baher_Azmy > Source revision: 1353839853 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{short description|American lawyer}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox person | name = Baher Azmy | education = [University of Pennsylvania](/source/University_of_Pennsylvania) (BA)
[Columbia University](/source/Columbia_University) (MPA)
[New York University School of Law](/source/New_York_University_School_of_Law) (JD) | occupation = Lawyer
Legal scholar | employer = [Center for Constitutional Rights](/source/Center_for_Constitutional_Rights) | known_for = Constitutional law litigation
Guantánamo detainee representation
Civil rights advocacy | title = Legal Director | citizenship = American }} '''Baher Azmy''' is an American lawyer and professor of law at [Seton Hall University](/source/Seton_Hall_University), specializing in constitutional law.{{Cite web| url=http://law.shu.edu/faculty/fulltime_faculty/azmybahe/azmy.html| title=biography| publisher=[Seton Hall University](/source/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}} ==Education== Azmy received his [Juris Doctor](/source/Juris_Doctor) from [New York University School of Law](/source/New_York_University_School_of_Law), an [MPA](/source/Master_of_Public_Administration) from [Columbia University](/source/Columbia_University), and a [BA](/source/Bachelor_of_Arts) from [University of Pennsylvania](/source/University_of_Pennsylvania). ==Career== After law school{{when|date=October 2020}} Azmy clerked for [Dolores K. Sloviter](/source/Dolores_K._Sloviter), Chief Judge of the [Third Circuit Court of Appeals](/source/Third_Circuit_Court_of_Appeals) in [Philadelphia](/source/Philadelphia). In 2005 Azmy started working at the [Center for Constitutional Rights](/source/Center_for_Constitutional_Rights), which provides legal assistance to communities under threat, including the prisoners held in [extrajudicial](/source/extrajudicial) detention in the [Guantanamo Bay detention camp](/source/Guantanamo_Bay_detention_camp)s in Cuba.{{cite magazine| url=http://www.newyorker.com/printables/fact/050711fa_fact4| title=The Experiment| magazine=[The New Yorker](/source/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}} Azmy was the lawyer for Guantanamo captive [Murat Kurnaz](/source/Murat_Kurnaz).{{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 – pages 64–66| publisher=[Department of Defense](/source/United_States_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}}{{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](/source/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 }}{{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](/source/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 }} Azmy shared his experiences defending Kurnaz on the [Peabody Award](/source/Peabody_Award)-winning episode of ''[This American Life](/source/This_American_Life)'' entitled "Habeas Shmabeas".[http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=310 Show Description for This American Life episode #310: Habeas Shmabeas][http://www.thisamericanlife.org/extras/radio/310_transcript.pdf Transcript of This American Life episode #310: Habeas Shmabeas] ==See also== *[Mark P. Denbeaux](/source/Mark_P._Denbeaux) *[Seton Hall reports](/source/Seton_Hall_reports) *[Unlawful combatant](/source/Unlawful_combatant) ==References== {{Reflist|2}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Azmy, Baher}} Category:Year of birth missing (living people) Category:Living people Category:Guantanamo Bay attorneys Category:New Jersey lawyers Category:New York University School of Law alumni Category:Seton Hall University faculty Category:Place of birth missing (living people) Category:School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University alumni Category:University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences alumni Category:21st-century American legal scholars {{US-legal-academic-bio-stub}} --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Baher Azmy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baher_Azmy) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baher_Azmy?action=history)). 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