David Cole

David Cole is a professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center. As a staff attorney for the Center for Constitutional Rights, Professor Cole litigated a number of major First Amendment cases, and he continues to litigate First Amendment and other constitutional issues as a volunteer staff attorney at the center. Professor Cole has published in a variety of areas, including civil rights, criminal justice, constitutional law, and law and literature. He is the legal affairs correspondent for "The Nation," a commentator on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered," and the author of four books, all available from New Press: Enemy Aliens, Terrorism and the Constitution (with James X. Dempsey), No Equal Justice, and The Torture Memos. Professor Cole has received awards for his civil rights and liberties work, including from the American Bar Association's Individual Rights and Responsibilities Section, the National Lawyers Guild, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, the Political Asylum and Immigrants' Rights Project, the American Muslim Council, and Trial Lawyers for Public Justice.