Bridging the gap between science & the practice of interrogation
March 7, 2023 Print & Online News ClipsBridging the Gap Between Science & the Practice of Interrogation
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Bridging the Gap Between Science & the Practice of Interrogation
America on Fire is a co-winner of the Book Award at the 2022 Robert F. Kennedy Book & Journalism Awards. Through in-depth research and powerful storytelling, the book presents a nuanced understanding of how racist police violence fueled the Black rebellions of the post-civil rights era from the late 1960s to the early 1970s and how the twin challenge of racial and economic inequality, which underpinned those rebellions, persists.
“The use of Title 42 was a cruel and cynical ploy by the Trump administration to shut down access to refugee protection at the southern border,” Elisa Massimino wrote to The Hoya in an article discussing the Coalition of Jesuit Leaders' letter to the Biden Administration on the topic. “It has been condemned by public health experts as unnecessary and counterproductive. I was proud to see our dean and other leaders of Jesuit institutions call for an end to it.”
Elisa Massimino, with David Luban, Scott Roehm, and others, write on Abd Al-Rahim Hussein Al-Nashiri's case to prevent the U.S. government from using torture-derived evidence in his capital prosecution before the Guantanamo military commissions in Just Security.
Elisa Massimino talks about a new report produced for the Center for American Progress on "Redefining Homeland Security: A New Framework for DHS to Meet Today's Challenges."
POLITICO covers the appointment of Elisa Massimino as the Robert F. Drinan, S.J. Chair in Human Rights in news roundup on September 9, 2019.
Homeland Security Today covers the appointment of Elisa Massimino, human rights advocate and former CEO of Human Rights First, as the Robert F. Drinan, S.J., Chair in Human Rights at the Human Rights Center at Georgetown Law.