Hina Shamsi

Hina Shamsi (@HinaShamsi) is the Director of the ACLU’s National Security Project, which is dedicated to ensuring that U.S. national security policies and practices comply with the Constitution, civil liberties, and human rights.  She has engaged in litigation, research, and policy advocacy on issues including the freedoms of speech and association, racial and religious discrimination, unlawful uses of force and detention, privacy and surveillance, and torture.  Her work includes a focus on the intersection of national security and counterterrorism policies with international human rights and humanitarian law.

Hina appears regularly in the media, is the author and coauthor of publications on targeted killing, torture, and extraordinary rendition, and has monitored and reported on the military commissions at Guantánamo Bay. She is also a lecturer-in-law at Columbia Law School.  Her previous positions include serving as the Acting Director of Human Rights First’s Law & Security Program, and as Senior Advisor to the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Executions. Hina is also on LinkedIn.