{{short description|American human rights lawyer}} '''Barbara Olshansky''' is an American human rights lawyer.
==''The Case for Impeachment''==
Olshansky is author with Dave Lindorff of ''The Case for Impeachment: The Legal Argument for Removing President George W. Bush from Office''.<ref> {{cite book | isbn=0-312-36016-9 | title=The Case for Impeachment: The Legal Argument for Removing President George W. Bush from Office | url=https://archive.org/details/caseforimpeachme00lind | url-access=registration | page= | pages= | publisher= | author=Barbara Olshansky, Dave Lindorff | date=2 May 2006 | quote= }}<!--| accessdate=2008-06-10--></ref>
Olshansky and Lindorff include as rationales for impeachment in ''The Case for Impeachment''
{{blockquote|...lying and inducing Congress and the American people into an unjust war; allowing his friends and business cronies to profiteer off the war in Iraq; authorizing torture and rendition of prisoners of war and suspected terrorists -- a complete violation of the Geneva Conventions, a treaty the U.S. has signed and is therefore part of our law; stripping American citizens of their Constitutional rights -- holding people with no charge, wiretapping them illegally, offering them no trial, and never allowing them to face their accusers; [and] failing in almost every way possible to defend the homeland and our borders.}}
==Recipient of Matthew Diaz's leak== Olshansky was the recipient of a document leaked by Lieutenant Commander Matthew Diaz, that later led to his court martial, detention, and discharge.<ref name=TheJurist20070509> {{cite news | url=http://jurist.org/paperchase/2007/05/jury-selection-begins-in-guantanamo.php | date= May 9, 2007 | title=Jury selection begins in Guantanamo names court-martial | author=Jeannie Shawl | publisher=The Jurist | access-date=2015-05-24 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070516030152/http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2007/05/jury-selection-begins-in-guantanamo.php| archive-date= 16 May 2007 | url-status= live}}</ref><ref name=VirginiaPilot060829> {{cite news |url=http://home.hamptonroads.com/stories/story.cfm?story=110037&ran=217653&tref=po |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130813145610/http://home.hamptonroads.com/stories/story.cfm?story=110037&ran=217653&tref=po |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 13, 2013 |title=Navy lawyer once posted at Cuba base is charged |publisher=The Virginian-Pilot |author=Kate Wiltrout |date=August 29, 2006 |access-date=2008-06-09 |quote= }} [https://web.archive.org/web/20130813145600/http://hamptonroads.com/node/146341 Mirror].</ref> The efforts of the Center for Constitutional Rights were impaired by the Bush administration's policy of withholding the captives' identities. Diaz had met Olshansky during a visit to Guantanamo, and he sent her a list in an unmarked greeting card. The list provided by Diaz contained the names of 550 captives.<ref name=CourtMartialDoc20070312> {{cite web |title=Response to Government motion requesting an Article 39a session and Defense motion to suppress evidence (.doc) |url=http://www.cnrma.navy.mil/cnrma05/Public%20Affairs/press%20releases/07-01%20LCDR%20DIAZ%20REFERRED%20TO%20GCM.doc |publisher=Department of the Navy General Court-Martial Navy and Marine Corps Trial Judiciary Central Judicial Circuit |date=March 12, 2007 |access-date=2007-05-09 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070205165535/http://www.cnrma.navy.mil/cnrma05/Public%20Affairs/press%20releases/07-01%20LCDR%20DIAZ%20REFERRED%20TO%20GCM.doc |archive-date=February 5, 2007 }}</ref>
Olshansky suspected the list might have been classified, so she contacted Federal authorities.<ref name=TheJurist20070509/>
==Director of the International Justice Network==
After leaving the Center for Constitutional Rights Olshansky was hired as director of the International Justice Network.<ref name=IJNetwork20070709> {{cite news |url=http://www.ijnetwork.org/content/view/26/53/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090106014548/http://www.ijnetwork.org/content/view/26/53/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 6, 2009 |title=IJN Legal Director to Head Stanford Human Rights Clinic |publisher=International Justice Network |date=July 9, 2007 |access-date=2008-06-09 }}</ref>
==Academia==
In 2007 Olshanksy was appointed the Leah Kaplan Visiting Professor in Human Rights at Stanford University's Law School.<ref name=IJNetwork20070709/><ref name=StanfordDaily20071126> {{cite news |url=http://daily.stanford.edu/article/2007/11/26/olshanskySaysRightsSubverted |title=Olshansky says rights subverted |publisher=Stanford Daily |author=Ana Diaz-Hernandez |date=November 26, 2007 |access-date=2008-06-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080207224247/http://daily.stanford.edu/article/2007/11/26/olshanskySaysRightsSubverted |archive-date=2008-02-07 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name=StanfordDailySpringEvents2008> {{cite news | url=http://www.stanford.edu/group/SPLS/calendar.html | title=Spring 2008 Events: Defending the Guantanamo Bay Detainees | publisher=Stanford Daily | access-date=2008-06-09 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080605050730/http://www.stanford.edu/group/SPLS/calendar.html| archive-date= 5 June 2008 | url-status= live}}</ref><ref name=BusinessWite20070709> {{cite news | url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2007_July_9/ai_n19346461 | title=Barbara Olshansky to Join Stanford Law School as the Leah Kaplan Visiting Professor in Human Rights | publisher=Business Wire | date=July 9, 2007 | access-date=2008-06-09 | quote= }}</ref><ref name=YemenObserver20070724> {{cite news |url=http://www.yobserver.com/front-page/10012631.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130210091121/http://www.yobserver.com/front-page/10012631.html |url-status=usurped |archive-date=February 10, 2013 |title=Yemeni detainee can continue his case |page=1 |publisher=Yemen Observer |author=Kawkab al-Thaibani |date=July 24, 2007 |access-date=2008-06-09 }}</ref>
In Spring 2010, Olshansky joined the faculty at the University of Maryland School of Law. She will be teaching the International Clinic.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.law.umaryland.edu/faculty/profiles/faculty.html?facultynum%3D712 |title=Maryland Law | Barbara Olshansky |access-date=2010-10-18 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100613042252/http://www.law.umaryland.edu/faculty/profiles/faculty.html?facultynum=712 |archive-date=2010-06-13 }}</ref>
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