Joanne Mariner, director of Human Rights Watch's Terrorism and Counterterrorism Program, is an expert on counterterrorism laws and policies. She closely follows developments at Guantanamo and has conducted extensive research on rendition and CIA prisons. In 2006, she testified before the European Parliament about CIA activities in Europe. She drafted Human Rights Watch's 1999 submission to the House of Lords in the Pinochet case, and is the author of a ground-breaking 2001 report on prison rape.

Before joining Human Rights Watch, Mariner served as a law clerk to Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She graduated summa cum laude from Barnard College and received a JD from Yale Law School. Mariner speaks French and Spanish.

Human Rights Watch Reports

Double Jeopardy: CIA Renditions to Jordan (April 7, 2008)

Ghost Prisoner: Two Years in Secret CIA Detention (February 27, 2007)

No Escape: Male Rape in US Prisons (April 1, 2001)

Articles

"Criminal justice techniques are adequate to the problem of terrorism," Boston Review, December 10, 2008

"Is the U.S. putting mentally incompetent terror suspects on trial?" Salon.com, September 29, 2008

"'We'll make you see death,'" Salon.com, April 10, 2008

"Four Good Reasons Why Guantanamo Should Be Closed," FindLaw, November 22, 2006