Douglas Cox
Douglas Cox is an American lawyer, librarian and Professor of Law at the City University of New York.[1] Prior to joining CUNY Cox worked to help inmates use the law library at New York State's Riker's Island Prison; he was a reference librarian for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda; he practiced corporate law at Allen & Overy, and, while there he started working on behalf of a group of Guantanamo captives.[2][3] Cox was a founding member of the Guantanamo Bay Bar Association.
According to Charlie Savage Cox served as the second in command in the Office of Legal Counsel during the George Herbert Walker Bush Presidency.[4] He wrote that Cox was under consideration to be George Walker Bush's first appointee to head the Office of Legal Counsel. According to Savage Cox had played a prominent role in the Bush v. Gore case.
Publications
- Douglas L. Medin, Norbert O. Ross, Douglas G. Cox (2006). Culture And Resource Conflict: Why Meanings Matter. Russell Sage Foundation. ISBN 9780871545701. Retrieved on 2012-05-24.
References
- ↑ CUNY School of Law, City University of New York. Retrieved on 2010-09-29.
- ↑ The Minutes of the Guantánamo Bay Bar Association, New York Magazine, June 26, 2006)., 2006-06-26. Retrieved on 2010-09-29. “Another Allen & Overy lawyer, 32-year-old Douglas Cox, recalls how one of their clients, Emad Abdullah Hassan, 26, regarded as a leader by other detainees, went on a hunger strike.”
- ↑ Testimonies of Defense Lawyers, Center for the study of human rights in the Americas, 2006-06-26. Retrieved on 2010-09-29. “Clockwise around the table fron left, Joshua Colangelo-Bryan, Douglas Cox, Jennifer Ching, Baher Azmy, Marc Falkoff, Sarah Havens, Scott Sullivan, Robert Knowles, Neha Singh Gohil”
- ↑ Charlie Savage (2007). Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy. Hachette Digital. ISBN 9780316118040. Retrieved on 2012-05-24. “Initially Ashcroft wanted Paul Clement, a former clerk to Judge Silberman and Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia who ended up going to the solicitor general's office. The White House instead wanted Douglas Cox, a Washington lawyer who played a prominent role in the Bush v. Gore case and who had been the No. 2 official in the Office of Legal Counsel under the Bush-Quayle administration.”