lawsnotmen.org The Robert Jackson Steering Committee

Chair David Swanson, is the author of Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union by Seven Stories Press, Co-Founder of AfterDowningStreet.org. Swanson became chair in November 2009.

Past Chair Lawrence Velvel served as chairman of the Steering Committee of the Justice Robert H. Jackson Conference On Planning For The Prosecution of High Level American War Criminals, or the Robert Jackson Steering Committee for short, through October 2009. Velvel is Dean of Massachusetts School of Law and a professor of law.

John Bonifaz, Legal Director of Voter Action, author of Warrior-King: The Case for Impeaching George W. Bush.

Kristina Borjesson, an award-winning print and broadcast journalist for more than twenty years and editor of two recent books on the media.

Shahid Buttar, executive director of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee.

Marjorie Cohn, a law Professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, immediate past president of the National Lawyers Guild, author of "Cowboy Republic: Six Ways the Bush Gang Has Defied the Law" (PoliPointPress, 2007), and editor of "The United States and Torture: Interrogation, Incarceration and Abuse" (NYU Press, Fall 2011).

Colleen Costello, Staff Attorney of Human Rights, USA, of Washington, D.C., and coordinator of its efforts involving torture by the American government.

Ben Davis, a law Professor at the University of Toledo College of Law, where he teaches Public International Law, Contracts, and International and Domestic Arbitration”. He is the author of numerous articles on international and related domestic law.

Charlotte Dennett, investigative journalist, attorney, candidate for Attorney General of Vermont, and author of "The People v. Bush: One Lawyer's Campaign to Bring the President to Justice and the National Grassroots Movement She Encounters Along the Way" (Chelsea Green, January 2010).

Valeria Gheorghiu, attorney.

Ray McGovern, after serving in the Army as an intelligence officer, joined the CIA. His duties eventually included preparing daily intelligence briefings for Pres. Reagan and the first Bush. He works with Tell the Word, the publishing arm of the Church of the Saviour in Washington, D.C. He recently attempted to sail to Gaza on The Audacity of  Hope.

Jeanne Mirer, President of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers.

Chris Pyle, a Professor at Mount Holyoke College, where he teaches Constitutional law, Civil Liberties, Rights of Privacy, American Politics and American Political Thought, and is the author of many books and articles.

Elaine Scarry, the Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value at Harvard University, and winner of the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism.

Peter Weiss, vice president of the Center For Constitutional Rights, of New York City, which was recently involved with war crimes complaints filed in Germany and Japan against former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and others.

Andy Worthington, British journalist and author of "The Guantanamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America's Illegal Prison" (Pluto Press, 2007).

Ann Wright, first as a military officer and then as a diplomat, spent 35 years serving the U.S. government. She rose to public prominence in March, 2003, when she became one of only three State Department officials to resign in opposition to the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Since resigning, she has been a persistent, committed anti-war activist, and co-author of Dissent: Voices of  Conscience.

Kevin Zeese, attorney, activist, serves as Executive Director of Voters for Peace and Prosperity Agenda.  He has filed complaints with bar associations seeking the disbarment of 15 Bush-Cheney lawyers for facilitating torture (two who also served Obama-Biden) as part of the Disbar Torture Lawyers Campaign of Velvet Revolution on whose board he serves.