Peter Jan Honigsberg

Books

• Our Nation Unhinged: The Human Consequences of the War on Terror (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009).
• Crossing Border Street: A Civil Rights Memoir (University of California Press, 2000).

Law Review and Journal Articles

• "In Search of a Forum for the Families of the Guantanamo Disappeared," 90 Denver University Law Review 433 (2012). SSRN
• "Conflict of Interest that Led to the Gulf Oil Disaster," 41 Environmental Law Reporter News & Analysis 10414 (2011). SSRN
• "Inside Guantanamo," 10 Nevada Law Journal 82 (2009). SSRN
• "Chasing Enemy Combatants and Circumventing International Law: A License for Sanctioned Abuse," 12 UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs 1 (2007). (Symposium: Protecting the Nation at the Expense of Individuals? Defining the Scope of U.S. Executive Power at Home and Abroad in Times of Crisis) SSRN
• "Pursuing Dignity Through Three Tumultuous Decades: Reporting Civil Rights: American Journalism 1941-1973," 44 Santa Clara Law Review 335 (2003). SSRN
• "The Evolution and Revolution of Napster," 36 University of San Francisco Law Review 472 (2002). SSRN
• "A Barbie Doll Story: How the Doll Study in Brown v. Board of Education led Berkeley High School Students to Question the World of Barbie Dolls," Phi Delta Kappan  (1995).
• "When the Client Harasses the Attorney — Recognizing Third-Party Sexual Harassment in the Legal Profession," 28 University of San Francisco Law Review 715 (1994). (With Marilyn Tham and Gary Alexander)
• "Unfairness in Access to and Citation of Unpublished Federal Court Decisions," 18 Golden Gate University Law Review 277 (1988). (With James A. Dikel)
• "Tenant Union-Landlord Relations Act: A Proposal," 58 Georgetown Law Journal 1013 (1970). (With Myron Moskowitz)

Book Contributions

Opinion Pieces and Blog Posts

• "A Darkening Cloud Hangs Over Guantanamo," The Huffington Post (May 2013).
• "How Is Linguistic Isolation Similar to—and Different From—Physical Isolation?" Science and Religion Today (May 2013).
• "In Guantanamo, Obama's Promise of Hope Has Transformed Into Hopelessness," The Huffington Post (March 2013).
• "Obama 'Doubled Downed'," American Constitution Society (March 2013).
• "Isolated Inside the Administration," American Constitution Society (November 2012).
• "In Memory of Adnan Latif: ‘Timmy’ and a Hospital Corpsman in Guantanamo," American Constitution Society (October 2012).
• "Spielberg, Guantanamo, and Me," California Lawyer Magazine (November 2011).
• "The Defining Moment of the Decade," The Huffington Post (September 2011).
• "Coping With Loneliness in Guantanamo," The Huffington Post (August 2011).
• "Without Human Rights We Are Just Another Country," The Huffington Post (March 2011).
• "A Legacy," The Huffington Post (November 2010).
• "Transforming Lives on this Side of the GTMO Wire," The Huffington Post (October 2010).
• "Dignified, But Broken," The Huffington Post (August 2010).
• "Stateless Pawns in the Global Game of the Superpowers," The Huffington Post (January 2010).
• "The Witness to Guantanamo Project: In-Depth Filmed Interviews of Former Guantanamo Detainees," The Huffington Post (September 2009).
• "I Debated a War Criminal," The Huffington Post (April 2009).
• "Establishing a Truth Commission for Guantanamo," The Huffington Post (January 2009).
• "A Bumpy Application to Guantanamo," The Huffington Post (July 2007).

Other Publications

• Learning Legal Analysis Through its Components: Issue, Rule, Application, Conclusion — IRAC [computer file] (Minneapolis, Minn.: CALI, 1989) .
• Using IRAC to Develop an Objective Memorandum of Law [computer file] (Minneapolis, Minn.: CALI, 1989).

Briefs

Court Citation of Research

Presentations

• Panelist, "National Security’s New Paradigm: Confronting the Post-9/11 Past," Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at NYU, "Why Remember Guantánamo? GTMO Before 9-11, What Now, and What’s Next," New York, N.Y. (December 2012).
• Panelist, "The Legacy of Guantanamo: Where Do We Go From Here?" Barry University Law Review 2012 Symposium, "Guantanamo’s Legacy: Reflections on a Decade of Detention," Orlando, Fla. (February 2012).
• Presenter, "Witness to Guantanamo Project," Barry University Law Review 2012 Symposium, "Guantánamo’s Legacy: Reflections on a Decade of Detention," Orlando, Fla. (February 2012).
• Presenter, "Narrating Detentions and Deportations of Muslims, Post 9/11," Southwestern University's "September 11th Ten Years Later: The Impact on Muslims at Home and Abroad," Georgetown, Texas (September 2011).
• Presenter, "Filming In-Depth Interviews with Former Guantanamo Detainees and Other Witnesses," Sonoma County Bar Association "The Witness to Guantanamo Project," Santa Rosa, Calif. (April 2011).
• Presenter, "Witness to Guantanamo," Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass. (March 2011).
• Moderator, "American War Crimes," 13th Annual Trina Grillo Public Interest and Social Justice Retreat, University of San Francisco School of Law, (March 2011).
• Presenter, "Witness to Guantanamo," UC Hastings College of the Law "2010 Amnesty International USA Western Coast Regional Conference 'Shine a Light: 50 Years of Activism'," San Francisco, Calif. (November 2010).
• Presenter, "The BP Oil 'Spill' and the Law," University of San Francisco Teach-In "BP, the Gulf, and Beyond: Environmental and Human Costs of the Gulf Oil Disaster," (November 2010).
• Presenter, the Witness to Guantanamo project to Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP. , San Francisco (September 2010).
• Presenter, Harvard University Carr Center for Human Rights Policy Panel, Cambridge, Mass. (April 2010). (Honigsberg spoke and presented video clips on the Witness to Guantanamo project.)
• Presenter, Harvard Social Anthropology Program Seminar Series "Witness to Guantanamo," Cambridge, Mass. (April 2010).
• Presenter, New York University's Cantor Film Center Panel, New York, N.Y. (April 2010). (Honigsberg spoke and presented video clips on the Witness to Guantanamo project.)
• Presenter, "Witness to Guantanamo Project," Berkeley High School Human Rights Day Celebration , Berkeley (December 2009).
• Presenter, "Witness to Guantanamo Project," University of San Diego Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice, (November 2009).
• Presenter, "Witness to Guantanamo," University of San Francisco School of Law, (October 2009). (Honigsberg discussed his Witness to Guantanamo Project and presented several clips of interviews with former Guantanamo detainees that he filmed this summer.)
• Presenter, Our Nation Unhinged: The Human Consequences of the War on Terror, Barnes and Noble in Jack London Square, Oakland (September 2009). (Book Reading)
• Presenter, "The Human Consequences of the War on Terror and the Closing of Guantanamo," World Affairs Council, East Bay Chapter, Walnut Creek (April 2009).
• Presenter, "An Independent, NGO-Sponsored Guantanamo Truth Commission: The Tension with Those Who Want a Government-Sponsored Truth Commission," University of San Francisco School of Law Faculty Teaching and Scholarship Workshop Series, (March 2009).
• Presenter, "New Voices in Human Rights," Annual Meeting of the Association of American Law Schools, San Diego (January 2009). (The presentation proposed a truth commission for Guantanamo)
• Presenter, "Executive Power and Detainment of Enemy Combatants," UCLA Law Symposium "Protecting the Nation at the Expense of Individuals?" Los Angeles (February 2007).
• Presenter, "'Enemy Combatants:' Is it a Term of Art or of Mischief?" World Affairs Council, San Francisco (2006).
• Presenter, "The Multistate Performance Test used on the bar exam of 25 states," Annual Meeting of the Association of American Law Schools,
• Presenter, "Workshop on the California Bar Performance Test," University of Oregon Law School and Willamette University College of Law,
• Presenter, workshops on manual and online legal research skills, California Land Surveyors Conference. ,
• Presenter, "Crossing Border Street — A Civil Rights Memoir," Southern University School of Law, annual address,

Testimony and Hearings

Written Testimony and Commentary

Advisor or Consultant

• Consultant, California Continuing Education of the Bar (CEB).
• Center for Computer Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI).
• Consultant, California Land Surveyors Association.
• Consultant, UC Hastings College of the Law: Legal Education Opportunity Program.
• Consultant, Barbri Bar Review.

Counsel

Symposia Organization

Professional Membership

Fellowships

Other Service

• Reached a milestone of 100 interviews for the Witness to Guantanamo Project (November 2012). (As of November 2012, the project has interviewed 45 former detainees and 55 other people who have lived, worked, or were otherwise involved in Guantanamo issues.)
• Filmed interviews with nine former detainees in the countries of Morocco and Tunisia for the Witness to Guantanamo project (July 2012).
• Filmed interviews with former Guantanamo detainees in London, England, and Lativa, in addition to militiary officials in Washington, D.C. and New York for the Witness to Guantanamo project (August 2011).
• Filmed interview with Estela Lebron, the mother of Jose Padilla, an American citizen who was tortured and held in isolation by the Navy for nearly four years (July 2011).
• Filmed interviews of four former Guantanamo detainees in Kuwait and the father of a detainee still in Guantanamo (January 2011).
• Filmed interviews with three individuals in December, including the former general counsel for the Navy and a former Muslim chaplain for the Army (December 2010).
• Filmed interviews with five people, including former detainees in Europe and several "other voices" for the Witness to Guantanamo project (August 2010).
• Filmed interviews with three former detainees (Uhghurs) in Bermuda, a chief prosecutor for Guantanamo and a FBI profiler who worked in Guantanamo (May 2010).
• Filmed interviews with a former Guantanamo prison guard, who had converted to the Muslim religion while in the prison, and a former military JAG officer, who represented a young man who was 14 when first captured and kept in Guantanamo for more than eight years (May 2010).
• Member of the bars of California and New York
• Filmed interviews with three former Guantanamo detainees in Europe and a former prison guard (September 2010).
• Filmed interviews of former Guantanamo detainees in Palau (January 2010).
• Launched Witness to Guantanamo website (January 2010). The website includes testimony of detainees' treatment in Guantanamo Bay.
• Filmed interviews of 16 former Guantanamo detainees in five European countries (Albania, Bosnia, France, Germany, and England) for the Witness to Guantanamo project (August 2009).