Senior Counsel
Law and Security Program
Joined Human Rights First in 2010

As Senior Counsel in Human Rights First’s Law and Security Program, Daphne Eviatar investigates U.S. national security policies and practices and their human rights implications. She reports on military commission proceedings at Guantanamo Bay, monitors terrorism trials in federal courts, researches the U.S. drone war and targeted killing policy, and is author of Detained and Denied in Afghanistan: How to Make U.S. Detention Comply with the Law.

Daphne is a lawyer and award-winning journalist who has written widely about law, national security and human rights. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsweek, Politico and many other publications. She writes a blog on the Huffington Post and has been interviewed on CBS News, MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show, WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show and many other television and radio programs.

Daphne was a 2005 Alicia Patterson Foundation fellow, a 2003 Pew International Journalism fellow at Johns Hopkins University’s School for Advanced International Studies, and has taught law and journalism at New York Law School.

Daphne is a graduate of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, New York University School of Law and Dartmouth College. She was a law clerk to Judge Irma E. Gonzalez on the United States District Court in San Diego, and to Judge Dolores K. Sloviter on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Philadelphia.

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