he has personally litigated cases related to discriminatory policing practices (stop and frisk), government surveillance, the rights of Guantánamo detainees, and accountability for victims of torture. In joining CCR, Baher took leave from his faculty position at Seton Hall University School of Law, where he taught Constitutional Law and directed the Civil Rights and Constitutional Litigation Clinic. While a Clinical Law Professor, he successfully represented Murat Kurnaz, a German resident of Turkish descent imprisoned at Guantánamo Bay, until his release in August 2006. In addition, he litigated cases challenging police misconduct and violations of the rights of immigrants, prisoners, and the press. He has authored numerous legal briefs in the federal appeals courts and the United States Supreme Court on issues related to human rights and constitutional law, testified before Congress, and produced substantial scholarship on issues of access to justice. Baher is a magna cum laude graduate of the both University of Pennsylvania and NYU School of Law, where he was a Root-Tilden-Snow Public Interest Scholar. Since 2012 he has been selected as one of the top 500 lawyers in America by Lawdragon Magazine. Baher has been published by and appeared on major media outlets, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Boston Review, 60 Minutes, PBS Newshour, and MSNBC.

Baher Azmy is the Legal Director of the Center of Constitutional Rights. He directs all litigation around issues related to the promotion of civil and human rights. At the Center for Constitutional Rights, he has personally litigated cases related to discriminatory policing practices (stop and frisk), government surveillance, the rights of Guantánamo detainees, and accountability for victims of torture. In joining the Center for Constitutional Rights, Baher took leave from his faculty position at Seton Hall University School of Law, where he taught Constitutional Law and directed the Civil Rights and Constitutional Litigation Clinic. While a Clinical Law Professor, he successfully represented Murat Kurnaz, a German resident of Turkish descent imprisoned at Guantánamo Bay, until his release in August 2006. In addition, he litigated cases challenging police misconduct and violations of the rights of immigrants, prisoners, and the press. He has authored numerous legal briefs in the federal appeals courts and the United States Supreme Court on issues related to human rights and constitutional law, testified before Congress, and produced substantial scholarship on issues of access to justice. Baher is a magna cum laude graduate of both the University of Pennsylvania and NYU School of Law, where he was a Root-Tilden-Snow Public Interest Scholar. Since 2012 he has been selected as one of the top 500 lawyers in America by Lawdragon Magazine. Baher has been published by and appeared on major media outlets, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Boston Review, 60 Minutes, PBS Newshour, and MSNBC.

His scholarly writing includes:

• “A Date with Justice for Victims of Abu Ghraib,” National Law Journal (4/16/14)

• “An Insufficiently Accountable Presidency: Some Reflections on Jack Goldsmith’s Power and Constraint,” 45 Case Western Res. J. Int'l L. 45 (2012)

• "Damages, Equity and the Rule of Law," in Foreign Affairs Litigation in U.S. Courts, Brill/Martinus Njihoff Publishers (2012) (John Norton Moore, ed.)

• “The Pedagogy of Guantanamo,” 26 Md. J. Int'l L. 101 (2011)

• The Guantánamo Lawyers: Inside a Prison Outside the Law, NYU Press (2009) (Denbeaux and Hafetz, eds., several essay contributions)

• “Epilogue: Murat Kurnaz, Five Years of My Life,” Palgrave (2008)

• “A Return to the Writ: Executive Detention, Boumediene, and the New Common Law of Habeas,” 95 Iowa L. Rev. 445 (2010) 

• “Unshackling the Thirteenth Amendment: Modern Slavery and a Reconstructed Civil Rights Agenda,” 71 Fordham L. Rev. 981 (2002)