Oral history interview with Clive Stafford Smith, 2010.

Biographical Note

Legal Director, Reprieve; Capital Defense and Guantanamo Bay Defense Lawyer.

Scope and Contents

Born July 9, 1959; education: Radley College; B.A., University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; J.D., Columbia University, 1984; career: UNC Chapel Hill Morehead Fellowship, Team Defense internship; Southern Center for Human Rights, 1984-1993; founder and director, Louisiana Crisis Assistance Center, 1993-2002; founder and director, Reprieve, 1999 - present; founding board member, Gulf Region Advocacy Center, 2002 - present; lawyer for Guantanamo Bay detainees, 2002 - present; United States Supreme Court: Rasul/Al-Odah v. Bush, 2004; discussions: capital defense, prisoners' rights, habeas corpus petitions, public and legal advocacy for Guantanamo detainees; reflections: access to Guantanamo, detainee identity discovery, relationships with detainee families.

Subjects

• Capital punishment--United States.
• Columbia University--Alumni and alumnae--Interviews.
• Combatants and noncombatants (International law)
• Detention of persons--Cuba--Guantánamo Bay Naval Base.
• Grele, Ronald J., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp.
• Gulf Region Advocacy Center.
• Habeas corpus--United States.
• Human rights--United States.
• Interviews.
• Lawyers--United States--Interviews.
• Louisiana Capital Assistance Center.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Prisoners--Legal status, laws, etc.--United States.
• Prisoners of war--Legal status, laws, etc.--Cuba--Guantánamo Bay Naval Base.
• Reprieve (Firm)
• Rule of law--United States.
• Southern Center for Human Rights.
• Stafford Smith, Clive, 1959---Interviews.
• United States. Supreme Court.
• Unlawful combatants--Legal status, laws, etc.--United States.

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