Sociologist of law and conflict. I write about torture, war crimes, military courts and occupations. Ask me about Guantánamo.
Lisa Hajjar is an American sociologist. She is a professor and department chair at the University of California, Santa Barbara sociology department, and a co-editor and contributor at the online magazine Jadaliyya. .. more
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Sammy Zahran and Ghassan Abu-Sittah found that 60,199 recorded deaths translated to an average of 51 years of life lost each—most of them civilians, including over 1 million years among children under 15.
Reposted by Lisa Hajjar, Laia Balcells
The Peril of a White House That Flaunts Its Indifference to the Law
The White House has made no legal argument explaining its bald claim that the president has wartime power to summarily kill people suspected of smuggling drugs.
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Reposted by Lisa Hajjar
