Jamil Dakwar is director of the Human Rights Program at the American Civil Liberties Union. He has observed numerous proceedings of the Guantánamo military commission system and has advocated for the closure of the detention facility.

Laurel Fletcher is director of the International Human Rights Law Clinic at the University of California, Berkeley, and co-author of Guantánamo and Its Aftermath: U.S. Detention and Interrogation Practices and Their Impact on Former Detainees.

She has expertise designing and implementing an interdisciplinary, problem-based approach to human rights research, advocacy, and policy. She works in international criminal and humanitarian law as well as globalization and migration. She has conducted field work on grave human rights violations in countries including Bosnia, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and the United States. Fletcher has extensive experience interviewing survivors of gross human rights violations as legal counsel, investigator, and researcher.

Jonathan Mahler is author of The Challenge: Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and the Fight Over Presidential Power and a contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine. Mahler was named a Soros Justice Fellow in 2007.

Eric Stover is faculty director of the Human Rights Center at the University of California, Berkeley, and co-author of Guantánamo and Its Aftermath.

He has extensive research experience conducting fieldwork with victims of gross human rights violations in over a dozen countries, including the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. During the wars in Croatia and Bosnia he led several medico-legal investigations of mass graves as an “Expert on Mission” to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague. He also conducted a survey of mass graves throughout Rwanda for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in 1995.

He is the author of an award-winning book, The Witnesses: War Crimes and the Promise of Justice in The Hague (Pennsylvania University Press, 2005). Since 2006, he has investigated the relationship between human rights violations and the spread of infectious disease in Burma and its border regions.