Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Ahmed Ghappour (born May 5, 1980) is a lawyer and Clinical Instructor with the National Security Clinic at the University of Texas Law School. He also directs the National Security Defense Project (the “NSDP”), an access to justice initiative that addresses constitutional issues in cyber-security and national security prosecutions, particularly those related to electronic surveillance and foreign intelligence gathering.Before founding the NSDP, Ghappour worked with Lt. Cmd. Charles Swift (Hamdan v. Rumsfeld), taking numerous national security cases to trial. Prior to that, Ahmed was a Staff Attorney at Reprieve UK, where he represented Guantanamo detainees in their habeas corpus proceedings and challenged the US Extraordinary Rendition Program. He was a senior legal advisor at a Cairo-based human rights organization, where he worked on security sector reform, and international accountability litigation. He is a National Security Committee member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.Formerly, Ahmed was a diagnostics engineer focused on distributed systems and high performance computing.. }
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- Ahmed_Ghappour abstract "Ahmed Ghappour (born May 5, 1980) is a lawyer and Clinical Instructor with the National Security Clinic at the University of Texas Law School. He also directs the National Security Defense Project (the “NSDP”), an access to justice initiative that addresses constitutional issues in cyber-security and national security prosecutions, particularly those related to electronic surveillance and foreign intelligence gathering.Before founding the NSDP, Ghappour worked with Lt. Cmd. Charles Swift (Hamdan v. Rumsfeld), taking numerous national security cases to trial. Prior to that, Ahmed was a Staff Attorney at Reprieve UK, where he represented Guantanamo detainees in their habeas corpus proceedings and challenged the US Extraordinary Rendition Program. He was a senior legal advisor at a Cairo-based human rights organization, where he worked on security sector reform, and international accountability litigation. He is a National Security Committee member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.Formerly, Ahmed was a diagnostics engineer focused on distributed systems and high performance computing.".