{{Short description|American lawyer}} {{infobox person | name = Jennifer C. Daskal | image = Who’s Afraid of Online Speech?, Jennifer Daskal (cropped).jpg | alt = | caption = Daskal in January 2018 | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1972}} | birth_place = | death_date = <!-- {{death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> | death_place = | alma_mater = Harvard Law School<br>University of Cambridge<br>Brown University | other_names = | known_for = senior counsel for Human Rights Watch | occupation = lawyer }} '''Jennifer C. Daskal''' (born 1972) is a professor of law and faculty director of the Tech, Law, Security Program at the Washington College of Law at American University in Washington, D.C.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Faculty|url=https://www.wcl.american.edu/community/faculty/profile/daskal/bio/|access-date=2021-11-23|website=American University Washington College of Law|language=en}}</ref> Her work focuses on terrorism, national security, and criminal law.
She previously served as senior counsel for Human Rights Watch, where she focused on similar issues.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-05-05 |title=People {{!}} Human Rights Watch |url=https://www.hrw.org/about/people |access-date=2026-02-02 |website=www.hrw.org |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Jennifer Daskal |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jennifer-daskal/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304035728/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jennifer-daskal/ |archive-date=2016-03-04 |access-date=2026-02-02 |website=www.huffingtonpost.com |language=en |url-status=live }}</ref> She also worked in the U.S. Department of Justice during the Obama administration, which was seeking to prosecute terror suspects through the criminal justice system instead of through military tribunals.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-09-12 |title=Yes, But, However! |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/MurderedByWords/comments/1qtvztb/antifa_was_allied_with_hitler/ |access-date=2026-02-02 |language=en-US|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref> {{cite news | url = http://www.minnpost.com/community-voices/2012/06/jennifer-daskal-obama-and-institutionalizing-war-terrorism | title = Jennifer Daskal, Obama, and the institutionalizing of the war on terrorism | publisher = Minneapolis Post | date = 2012-06-07 | accessdate = 2012-06-09 | quote = | page = | author = Matt Ehling }} </ref>
==Career== A graduate of Harvard Law School, the University of Cambridge, and Brown University and a Marshall Scholar,<ref name="Federalist Society - Bio as of May 2017">{{cite web|title=Jennifer Daskal - Bio|url=https://www.newamerica.org/our-people/jennifer-daskal/|publisher=New America|accessdate=24 May 2017}}</ref><ref name=":0" /> Daskal garnered attention after traveling to the countries to which Guantanamo detainees had been released to verify that those countries were abiding by the undertakings they made to the U.S. federal government to respect the returned detainees' human rights.<ref name="WashingtonPost20070902"> {{cite news | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/31/AR2007083101463.html | title=A Fate Worse Than Guantanamo | author=Jennifer Daskal | date= September 2, 2007 | newspaper=Washington Post | accessdate=2007-09-02 }}</ref>
Daskal is a professor of law at American University.<ref name="Federalist Society - Bio as of May 2017"/><ref>{{cite web|title=Prof. Jennifer Daskal - Bio|url=http://www.fed-soc.org/experts/detail/jennifer-daskal|website=Federalist Society|accessdate=24 May 2017}}</ref>
In April 2022, Daskal was announced as a member of the Disinformation Governance Board for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-04-28 |title=DHS Standing Up Disinformation Governance Board Led by Information Warfare Expert - HS Today |work=HSToday |url=https://www.hstoday.us/federal-pages/dhs/dhs-standing-up-disinformation-governance-board-led-by-information-warfare-expert/ |access-date=2022-04-30 |language=en-US}}</ref> Daskal co-led the Disinformation Governance Board immediately after it was constituted,<ref>{{cite web | title=DHS Standing up Disinformation Governance Board Led by Information Warfare Expert HS Today | work=HSToday | date=28 April 2022 | url=https://www.hstoday.us/federal-pages/dhs/dhs-standing-up-disinformation-governance-board-led-by-information-warfare-expert/ }}</ref> and Daskal co-developed the Disinformation Governance Board Charter.<ref>{{cite web |author1=Jennifer Daskal |author2=Robert Silvers |title=Disinformation Governance Board Charter |url=https://www.hawley.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/files/2022-06/2022-06-07%20DOCS%20ONLY%20CEG%20JH%20to%20DHS%20(Disinformation%20Governance%20Board)%5B1%5D.pdf |publisher=Department of Homeland Security |access-date=21 May 2025 |date=31 January 2022 |quote=we developed the attached charter for a DHS Disinformation Governance Board}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|access-date=21 May 2025 |date=13 January 2022 |publisher=Executive Assistant To the Senior Counselors Office of the Secretary Department of Homeland Security |quote=Ms. Daskal is a crucial member of this discussion |title=IMMEDIATE RESPONSE REQUESTED-OHS Disinformation Governance Board Draft Charter |url=https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/2023-09/12%20Records%207-13-23.pdf |website=Department of Homeland Security}}<!-- auto-translated from Spanish by Module:CS1 translator --></ref>
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==External links== *{{C-SPAN|1028091}} *{{cite web | url=http://hrw.org/english/docs/2007/01/04/usdom14973.htm | title=Congress must restore basic rights | date=2 January 2007 | publisher=Sacramento Bee | accessdate=2007-09-27 }} *{{cite news | url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jennifer-daskal/spring-break-in-guantanam_b_44805.html | title=Spring Break in Guantanamo: The View from the Hicks Hearing Courtroom | date=April 2, 2007 | publisher=Huffington Post | author=Jennifer Daskal | accessdate=2007-09-02 }} *{{cite web |url=http://www.libertycoalition.net/audio/download/682/LC+2007-06-08+Jennifer+Daskal.mp3 |title=FREE SPACE: Jennifer Daskal on Guantanamo Bay by Aaron Titus |publisher=Liberty Coalition |author=Jennifer Daskal |accessdate=2007-09-02 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070801011323/http://www.libertycoalition.net/audio/download/682/LC%2B2007-06-08%2BJennifer%2BDaskal.mp3 |archivedate=2007-08-01 |url-status=usurped }} *{{cite web |url = http://www.heritage.org/Press/Events/ev030106c.cfm |title = GITMO: What You Read vs. What You See |date = March 1, 2006 |publisher = The Heritage Foundation |accessdate = 2007-09-02 |url-status = unfit |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070806051744/http://www.heritage.org/Press/Events/ev030106c.cfm |archivedate = August 6, 2007 }} *{{cite web | url=https://www.un.org/radio/news/RS/nnF/nnFRItmCut.asp?id=723&title=Torture%20and%20the%20War%20on%20Terror%20-%20The%20UN%20Investigates | title=Torture and the War on Terror - The UN Investigates | date=August 23, 2007 | publisher=United Nations Radio News Service | accessdate=2007-09-02 }} *{{cite web | url=http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/04/01/opinion/eddaskal.php | title=This was a trial? | author=Jennifer Daskal | publisher=International Herald Tribune | date=April 1, 2007 | accessdate=2007-09-02 }}
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