Witness Against Torture Forum:
From Guantanamo to Streets of Chicago
A presentation by Dr. Marc Falkoff of NIU and Dr. Flint Taylor of the Peoples Law Office.
Location:
Hull Chapel of the First Unitarian Church
5650 S. Woodlawn Ave.
Chicago, IL 60637
Marc Falkoff teaches courses in criminal law, criminal procedure, the federal courts, and lawyering skills. Since 2004 Professor Falkoff has been a principal lawyer in the habeas representation of more than a dozen prisoners being held by the U.S. military at Guantánamo Bay on suspicion of involvement with terrorism. For this work, Covington named him the Charles F.C. Ruff Pro Bono Lawyer of the Year in 2005. Along with other habeas counsel, he also received the Frederick Douglass Human Rights Award from the Southern Center for Human Rights in 2007. He writes and speaks frequently about rule of law issues in the context of the war on terror.
G. Flint Taylor, Jr. is a graduate of Brown University and Northwestern
University School of Law and a founding partner of the People’s Law Office. Among the landmark cases that Mr. Taylor has litigated are the Fred Hampton Black Panther case, the Greensboro, North Carolina case against the Ku Klux Klan and Nazis, the Ford Heights Four case in which four innocent men received a record $36 million settlement for their wrongful conviction and imprisonment, and a series of cases arising from a pattern and practice of police torture and cover-up by Jon Burge, Mayor Richard Daley, State’s Attorney Devine, and numerous other police and government officials.