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Katherine Hawkins

Senior Legal Analyst

Areas of Expertise

National security law, civil liberties, immigration, legal impunity, policing reform

Katherine Hawkins is a Senior Legal Analyst, focusing on national security, immigration and human rights. She was previously a policy counsel and investigator for the Constitution Project, and a national security fellow for Open the Government. Katherine is one of the leading experts on the United States government's use of torture after September 11, and has published extensively on the subject. She received a B.A. in political science from Yale University, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.

Latest Work

  • The Border Zone Next Door, and Its Out-of-Control Police Force

    report | January 10, 2023

  • Is a Presidential Coup a Federal Crime? DOJ Owes Us an Answer

    analysis | June 1, 2022

  • Sidebar: A Seismic Moment

    analysis | May 5, 2022

  • Misconduct at CBP Runs Deep, and Congress Must Address this Systemic Problem

    analysis | April 14, 2022

  • The Injustice Department

    analysis | March 17, 2022

  • Ending the Constitution-free Zone for Federal Officials

    analysis | December 8, 2021

  • State Secrets that Aren’t Secret

    analysis | September 10, 2021

  • We Can’t “Look Forward” on the Trump Administration’s Abuses

    analysis | December 11, 2020

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    March 12, 2020

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