Peter Jan Honigsberg is a professor at the University of San Francisco, School of Law.
His book, Our Nation Unhinged: The Human Consequences of the War on Terror (University of California Press) will be published in spring 2009.
Honigsberg visited Guantanamo as a journalist in May 2007, and wrote a piece on the bizarre application process for the Huffington Post.
He has also written, “Chasing Enemy Combatants and Circumventing International Law: A License for Sanctioned Abuse,” published in the UCLA International Law and Foreign Affairs Journal and on SSRN.com.

Blog Entries by Peter Jan Honigsberg

The Witness to Guantanamo Project: In-Depth Filmed Interviews of Former Guantanamo Detainees

1 Comments | Posted September 7, 2009 | 07:09 PM (EST)


"The first day I was at Guantanamo, they put me in a little cage. There was a toilet hole and I thought this is the bathroom and they will then take me to my cell. Later, they brought me food. 'Why food?' I thought, 'This is a bathroom.' Only the...

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I Debated a War Criminal

Posted April 24, 2009 | 02:09 PM (EST)


I Debated a War Criminal
Professor Peter Jan Honigsberg

In September 2005, the Federalist Society at the University of San Francisco School of Law, where I teach, invited me to debate Professor John Yoo of Berkeley Law School on the legitimacy of the term "enemy combatant." Professor Yoo had...

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Establishing a Truth Commission for Guantanamo

Posted January 10, 2009 | 02:23 PM (EST)


There has been much talk in the media lately promoting the possibility of establishing truth commissions for Guantanamo. Suggestions have predominately focused on Congressional investigations, similar to the recent Senate committee determining that the torture at Guantanamo was directed by Defense Secretary Rumsfeld and other administration officials, or the...

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A Bumpy Application to Guantanamo

Posted July 16, 2007 | 06:54 PM (EST)


A fellow law professor cautioned me when I told him I was applying to visit Guantanamo. "After they strap you in, they announce that the next bathroom stop is at Guantanamo. There are no bathrooms on the ten-seater propeller aircraft. And the bumpy flight is over three hours."

The...

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