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Karen J. Greenberg
Director, Center on National Security

http://www.centeronnationalsecurity.org
33 West 60th Street, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10023

Email: karen.greenberg@law.fordham.edu
Telephone: 646.293.3928
Fax: 212.636.6775
Office: Room Room 224

Karen J. Greenberg, a noted expert on national security, terrorism, and civil liberties, is Director of the Center on National Security. She is the author of The Least Worst Place: Guantanamo’s First 100 Days (Oxford University Press, 2009), which was selected as one of the best books of 2009 by The Washington Post and Slate.com. She is co-editor with Joshua L. Dratel of The Enemy Combatant Papers: American Justice, the Courts, and the War on Terror (Cambridge University Press, 2008) and The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib (Cambridge University Press, 2005); editor of the books The Torture Debate in America (Cambridge University Press, 2006) and Al Qaeda Now (Cambridge University Press, 2005); and editor of the Terrorist Trial Report Card, 2001–2011. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Nation, The National Interest, Mother Jones, TomDispatch.com, and on major news channels. She is a permanent member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Experience

  • Director, Center on National Security and Visiting Fellow, Fordham Law School
  • New York University, 1994–2011

    • Founding Executive Director, Center on Law and Security, School of Law, 2003–2011
    • Director, International Initiatives, Office of the Vice-President, 1997–2000
    • Visiting/Adjunct Faculty, 1994–2009
  • Vice President for Programs, Soros Foundations, 1993–1996
  • Member, Board of Whitehead School of Diplomacy
  • Fellow, Madison Policy Forum
  • Member, Council on Foreign Relations

Education

  • Ph.D., Yale University
  • B.A., Cornell University