20 Distinguished Americans Letter 03.13.03
In addition, the following Distinguished Americans were signatories to the amicus briefs filed with the Supreme Court March 21, 2005, supporting the POWs and asking the Court to hear the case:
The Washington Legal Foundation brief is on behalf of Members of Congress, including: Senators Allen, Harkin and Murray, and Representatives Bartlett, Berman, Conyers, Cummings, Filner, Goode, Gordon, Harris, Jackson-Lee, McGovern, Meeks, Owens, Rangel, Reyes, Saxton, Strickland, and Woolsey.
The Center for Terrorism Law is joined on its brief by a distinguished group versed in national security issues, including POW experts, former high ranking military, former executive branch officials, ambassadors, and legal experts: Ms. Clydie J. Morgan, National Adjutant, American Ex-Prisoners of War; James R. Cooper, National Commander, American Ex-Prisoners of War; Vice Admiral (Ret.) Robert Dunn, United States Navy, and President, Naval Historical Foundation; Major General (Ret.) Alfred F. Valenzuela, United States Army, Formerly Commander, United States Army South, Deputy Commanding General, United States Southern Command; and Deputy Joint Task Force Panama Commander; Ambassador Max M. Kampelman, Chairman Emeritus of the American Academy of Diplomacy, Georgetown University Institute for the Study of Diplomacy and Freedom House; The Honorable Anthony Lake, Former Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs; The Honorable John Lehman, Member of the ‘9/11’ Commission, and former Secretary of the Navy; Ambassador Mark Palmer, Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, and Ambassador to Hungary; Ambassador W. Nathaniel Howell, Former U.S. Ambassador to the State of Kuwait; Vice Admiral (Ret.) James H. Doyle, Jr., United States Navy, Former Commander, U.S. Third Fleet, and Advisory Board, International Law, Naval War College; Major General (Ret.) John K. Singlaub, United States Army, Former Chief of Staff, U.S. Forces, Korea; Lieutenant General (Ret.) C.J. Le Van, United States Army, Former J3, Operations Branch, Joint Chiefs of Staff; Rear Admiral (Ret.) Horace B. Robertson, Jr., United States Navy, Professor (Emeritus) Duke University School of Law, and Former Judge Advocate General of the Navy; Malvina Halberstam, Professor of Law, Cardozo School of Law, and former Counselor on International Law to the Department of State; John Jay Douglass, Professor of Law, University of Houston School of Law, and Committee Members of the ABA Standing Committee on Armed Forces Law.
The Center for Justice & Accountability is joined on its brief by International Law scholars: Michael J. Bazyler is a Professor of Law and the "1939" Club Law Scholar in Holocaust and Human Rights Studies at Whittier Law School; Carolyn Patty Blum is a Clinical Professor of Law Emeritus at Boalt Hall Law School, University of California at Berkeley; Bartram S. Brown is a Professor of Law and Co-Director of the International and Comparative Law Program at Chicago-Kent College of Law at the Illinois Institute of Technology; John P. Cerone is the Director of the Center for International Law & Policy at New England School of Law; Roger S. Clark is the Board of Governors Professor of Law at Rutgers University School of Law, Camden, New Jersey; Constance de la Vega is a Professor of Law at the University of San Francisco School of Law; Mark Drumbl is an Associate Professor of Law and Ethan Allen Faculty Fellow at the School of Law at Washington & Lee University; Laurel Fletcher is an Acting Clinical Professor of Law at Boalt Hall Law School, University of California at Berkeley; Deena R. Hurwitz is a Professor of the International Human Rights Law Clinic and Director of the Human Rights Program at the University of Virginia School of Law; Bert Lockwood is the Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Director of the Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights at the University of Cincinnati School of Law; Jenny S. Martinez is an Assistant Professor of Law at Stanford Law School; Smita Narula is the Executive Director of the Center for Human Rights & Global Justice and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Clinical Law at New York University School of Law; Jane Rocamora is a Clinic Supervisor of the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic; Naomi Roht-Arriaza is a Professor of Law at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law; Margaret Satterthwaite is the Research Director of the Center for Human Rights & Global Justice and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Clinical Law at New York University School of Law; Dinah Shelton is the Patricia Roberts Harris Professor of Law at George Washington University Law School; Ronald C. Slye is an Associate Professor of Law and Director of the International and Comparative Law Programs at Seattle University School of Law; Beth Stephens is a Professor of Law at Rutgers University School of Law, Camden, New Jersey; David Weissbrodt is a Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota School of Law.