Baher Azmy is the Legal Director of the Center of Constitutional Rights. He directs all litigation around issues related to the promotion of civil and human rights. At the Center for Constitutional Rights, he has personally litigated cases related to discriminatory policing practices (stop and frisk), government surveillance, the rights of Guantánamo detainees, and accountability for victims of torture. In joining the Center for Constitutional Rights, Baher took leave from his faculty position at Seton Hall University School of Law, where he taught Constitutional Law and directed the Civil Rights and Constitutional Litigation Clinic. While a Clinical Law Professor, he successfully represented Murat Kurnaz, a German resident of Turkish descent imprisoned at Guantánamo Bay, until his release in August 2006. He has authored numerous legal briefs in the federal appeals courts and the United States Supreme Court on issues related to human rights and constitutional law, testified before Congress, and produced substantial scholarship on issues of access to justice. Baher is a magna cum laude graduate of both the University of Pennsylvania and NYU School of Law, where he was a Root-Tilden-Snow Public Interest Scholar. Since 2012 he has been selected as one of the top 500 lawyers in America by Lawdragon Magazine. Baher has been published by and appeared on major media outlets, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Boston Review, 60 Minutes, PBS Newshour, and MSNBC. He is an adjunct professor at NYU and Yale Law Schools, where he teaches Civil Rights Law.