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Faiza Patel

Faiza Patel (BlueskyLinkedInX) serves as Senior Director of the Liberty and National Security Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law. She is also a member of the UN Human Rights Council’s Working Group on the Use of Mercenaries. Previously, Faiza worked as a senior policy officer at the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, and clerked at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. She has been published in leading academic publications, including the American Journal of International Law, the Emory Journal of International Law, the European Journal of International Law, and the NYU Journal of International Law and Politics. Faiza is a frequent commentator on national security issues for media outlets such as the New York Times, the L.A. Times, the Guardian, MSNBC, Al-Jazeera, and NPR. Born and raised in Pakistan, she is a graduate of Harvard College and the NYU School of Law.

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Trump addresses a joint session of the U.S. Congress as Vice President Mike Pence and House Speaker Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) sit behind him on February 28, 2017 in the House chamber of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC.
Passengers at O'Hare International Airport wait in line to be screened at a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) checkpoint on May 16, 2016 in Chicago, Illinois.
U.S. border official Marshall Walcer inspects the identification of a Mexican citizen at the U.S.-Mexico border crossing on December 10, 2010 in Nogales, Arizona. Others wait on line in the background.
Chairman Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) listens to Vice Chairman Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) during a hearing before the Senate (Select) Intelligence Committee June 21, 2017 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.

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