A letter authored by 10 Harvard Law School (HLS) professors and signed by more than 300 law professors nationally that urges Congress to address alleged constitutional and human rights violations in Iraq will be sent to congressional members and committees within a week.
The letter—which includes the signatures of 44 HLS professors, including Tyler Jr. Professor of Constitutional Law Laurence H. Tribe ’62 and Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz—was finalized about 10 days ago. On May 28, authors began circulating it to law schools around the nation.
“It’s shocking to me that this has not been an issue,” said Wasserstein Public Interest Professor of Law Elizabeth Bartholet, one of the letter’s authors. “We’ve instituted various extreme coercive interrogation techniques
—there’s no doubt about that.”
The letter pushes for Congress to address U.S. violence on Iraqi prisoners. It asks Congress to “promote a rule of law produced and enforced through a democratic process and to protect the physical and psychological integrity of all people consistent with the traditions of our nation.”
Bartholet said she and her colleagues felt that they had an obligation to speak out.
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