Abstract
Tomsky explores the role of attorneys for detainees at the US Guantanamo Bay Naval Base as proxy witnesses represented in the edited collection The Guantanamo Lawyers: Inside a Prison Outside the Law (2009). Her analysis shows how the lawyers frame their own and their clients’ stories with broader questions of international jurisprudence and the search for justice, referencing the centuries-old habeas legal tradition in order to depoliticize and legitimate their contemporary arguments. Tomsky argues that, by addressing readers as citizens through a moral appeal to the principles of law and justice, the lawyers, perhaps surprisingly, reassert US leadership in human rights causes, while also bearing witness to and providing a moral and legal critique of the conditions of Guantanamo detainees.
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