Joseph Margulies

Biography

Joseph Margulies is lead counsel for the plaintiff in Rasul v. Bush. Formerly the senior staff attorney of the Texas Capital Resource Center representing men and women on Texas’s death row, Margulies is now a principal in the Minneapolis firm of Margulies & Richman and a faculty member at the University of Chicago Law School MacArthur Justice Center.

See Work

REPORTING / Fall 2004

A Prison Beyond the Law

By Joseph Margulies

Not long after September 11, 2001, the Bush administration began to develop plans for a prison at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Station, in Cuba. Though modeled physically on maximum-security prisons in the United States, this facility—with a...