Reminiscences of Steven R. Shapiro : oral history, 2002.

Biographical Note

Legal Director, American Civil Liberties Union.

Scope and Contents

Born in Brooklyn, NY, raised in Queens, NY; education: New York City Public Schools, Columbia College, Harvard Law School; career: clerkship with J. Edward Lombard, work with New York Civil Liberties Union, American Civil Liberties Union [ACLU] since 1976, legal director since 1993, teacher at Columbia University Law School since 1995; ACLU response to 9/11: day of 9/11 in Washington, D.C.; immediate response of ACLU, government response to civil liberties; personal involvement in ACLU response: staff management, court litigation; 9/11-related suits brought by ACLU regarding: freedom of information, government arrests, deportation hearings, airport security, immigration rights, government surveillance; amicus briefs filed regarding: material witness statute, wrongful prisoner custody; ACLU work regarding 9/11-related civil liberties acts: Patriot Act, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Freedom of Information Act; personal reflection: Congressional/public response to ACLU, meetings with government officials regarding prison detainees, return to New York from Washington, D.C., impact of 9/11 on personal life.

Subjects

• Albarelli, Gerry, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• American Civil Liberties Union--Employees--Interviews.
• Columbia University--Alumni and alumnae--Interviews.
• Columbia University. School of Law--Faculty--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001--Personal narratives.
• September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.
• Shapiro, Steven R.--Interviews.

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