Vanderbilt expert Vijay Padmanabhan talks about Guantanamo Bay
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Channel: Vanderbilt University · 2012 · Education
Vanderbilt law professor Vijay Padmanabhan talks about Guantanamo Bay, interrogation issues, and why it's been difficult for the Obama administration to shut the detainee camp down. Padmanabhan served as the State Department's chief counsel on Guantanamo and Iraq detainee litigation and advised the department on law of war, human rights and public diplomacy questions. He served in the Office of the Legal Adviser for the U.S. Department of State, based in Washington, D.C., from 2003-08, where he was an attorney-adviser for political and military affairs. He also was an attorney-adviser for international claims and investment disputes from 2003-06, during which time he worked on litigation at the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal and on Holocaust restitution claims. He is now a law professor and expert in in international law, national security law, international human rights law, and international criminal law.
