Joseph Margulies

Joseph Margulies is an American attorney with the MacArthur Justice Center and a Professor of Law and Government atCornell University in Ithaca.

He received a BA with distinction at Cornell University and JD cum laude at Northwestern University.

Joseph Margulies was lead counsel in Rasul v. Bush, the case in which the Supreme Court of the United States established prisoners at Guantanamo Bay detention camp are entitled to judicial review and the U.S. court system has the authority to decide whether non-U.S. citizens held in Guantanamo Bay were wrongfully imprisoned.

Margulies is the author of the book Guantánamo and the Abuse of Presidential Power and of What Changed When Everything Changed: 9/11 and the Making of National Identity

• Margulies, Joseph. "The Promise of May, the Betrayal of June, and the Larger Lesson of Manning and Snowden." (Archive) Verdict. Justia. July 17, 2013.