The ABA 's Human Rights magazine says of Cole, "for the past fifteen years, he has devoted his legal talents to representing people and organizations targeted by the government based on their speech, associations, status as aliens, or political beliefs. For the past two years, he has been in the forefront of the effort to maintain civil liberties during a 'war on terrorism'." The full article can be found at: http://www.abanet.org/irr/hr/winter04/hero.html

Cole, whom New York Times columnist Anthony Lewis has called "one of the country's great legal voices for civil liberties today," has been an outspoken advocate for civil liberties from the earliest days after the attacks of September 11, 2001. Indeed, Cole's experience in terrorism and civil liberties pre-dates September 11, as he has spent nearly two decades litigating constitutional cases involving charges of terrorist affiliation and national security.

His new book, Enemy Aliens , argues that we have selectively sacrificed the liberties of immigrants for the purported security of the majority, but that these sacrifices have paved the way for infringements on citizens' liberties as well.

In addition to teaching at Georgetown , Cole is the legal affairs correspondent for The Nation, a columnist for Legal Times, and a commentator on National Public Radio: All Things Considered. He is the author of No Equal Justice: Race and Class in the American Criminal Justice System (1999), which was named Best Nonfiction Book of 1999 by the Boston Book Review, and co-author of Terrorism and the Constitution (revised edition, 2002).

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