On Researching Torture and the Fight Against It – An Interview with Dr. Lisa Hajjar:

On Researching Torture and the Fight Against It – An Interview with Dr. Lisa Hajjar:

In this episode, Dr. Lisa Hajjar, a professor of Sociology at UCSB, shares with us her 20-year journey of research that culminated in her latest book,  The War in Court: Inside the Long Fight Against Torture. Dr. Hajjar recounts some of the ways she began to research torture in Israeli military court systems, and how she later began to recognize and research U.S. torture policies. In her book, she highlights the central role that lawyers have played in the fight against torture, and how the law itself can be studies as a battlefield. She also compellingly tells us how she began visiting Guantanamo bay and practicing journalism through the lens of sociology.