Benjamin G. Davis

Benjamin Grimes Davis is an American lawyer and Professor of Law.cite news
url=http://www.toledofreepress.com/?id=5937
title=Keep Our Honor Clean
author=Benjamin Davis
publisher=Toledo Free Press
date=July 13 2007] cite web
publisher=Transnational Dispute Management
url=http://www.transnational-dispute-management.com/authors/author_detail.asp?key=782
title=Contributing Authors: Benjamin G. Davis
accessdate=July 14
accessyear=2007] He teaches International Law at the University of Toledo College of Law.

Early life

Davis's parents worked for the United States Foreign Service.

Between 1983 and 2000 Davis worked outside the USA in a variety of roles in International Development, International Commerce, and International Law.

Testified on behalf of Ehren Watada

Davis testified before a "Citizens' hearing on the legality of U.S. actions in Iraq" that considered the case of Lieutenant Ehren Watada.cite web
date=January 20 2007
url=http://www.wartribunal.org/
title=Citizens' hearing on the legality of U.S. actions in Iraq: The Case of Lt. Ehren Watada
accessdate=July 14
accessyear=2007] Watada is an officer in the United States Army who declined to serve in Iraq because he believed the United States actions in Iraq are illegal.

Davis's comments on Guantanamo detentions

Davis wrote a critique of the Bush Presidency's detainee policy in a weekly tabloid published in Toledo, Ohio, where he criticized the premise that captives taken by the USA during its war on terror, did not have any Constitutional Rights.

References

External links

*cite news
url=http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/hotline/2007/05/no-heroes-at-justice-department.php
author=Ben Davis
title=No heroes at the Justice Department
publisher=The Jurist
date=May 18 2007
accessdate=2007-07-14
*cite news
url=http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/hotline/2007/04/beyond-orwell-existential-threat-of.php
author=Ben Davis
date=Friday, April 27, 2007
title=Beyond Orwell: the existential threat of Guantanamo detainees
publisher=The Jurist
accessdate=2007-07-14