29 Facts About Mark Denbeaux

Mark Denbeaux is a law professor at Seton Hall University School of Law in Newark, New Jersey and the Director of its Center for Policy and Research.

Mark Denbeaux is best known for his reports on the Guantanamo Bay detention camp and its operations.

Mark Denbeaux is the lead Civilian Military Commission Counsel for two detainees who were tortured by the Central Intelligence Agency in black sites prior to their detainment.

Mark Denbeaux is an expert in forensics and has testified as an expert witness in cases across the country.

Mark Denbeaux was born on July 30,1943, in Gainesville, Florida.

Mark Denbeaux attended local schools before going to the Commonwealth School.

An active supporter of civil rights in the 1960s, Mark Denbeaux participated in the March on Washington on August 28,1963.

Mark Denbeaux was later honored and asked to speak at the 50th anniversary Freedom Dinner in 2015.

Mark Denbeaux participated in the Selma to Montgomery marches for voting rights in 1965.

Mark Denbeaux attended New York University School of Law, where he received his JD in 1968.

Mark Denbeaux served as the citywide coordinator for the Community Action for Legal Services, New York's organization of antipoverty lawyers, from 1970 to 1972.

Mark Denbeaux represented the Young Lords in the Bronx during their takeover of Lincoln Hospital.

In 1972, Mark Denbeaux joined the Seton Hall Law School Faculty.

Mark Denbeaux has taught courses including Evidence, Remedies, Uniform Commercial Code, Contracts, Professional Responsibility, Federal Civil Procedure, Torts, and Constitutional Law.

Mark Denbeaux has been an elected member of the American Law Institute since 1980.

In 2006, Mark Denbeaux founded the Center for Policy and Research at Seton Hall University Law School.

Mark Denbeaux is well known for the center's Guantanamo Reports, studies of United States operations and policies at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp; by late 2009, fifteen studies had been published in this series.

In 2005, Mark Denbeaux began representing two Tunisian detainees, Rafiq Bin Bashir Bin Jalud Al Hami and Lufti Bin Ali.

Mark Denbeaux represented them in their habeas corpus petitions and remains the lead civilian defense counsel for both detainees.

Mark Denbeaux has testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee and the Senate Judiciary Committee, as well as a variety of House and Senate subcommittees, regarding Guantanamo Bay and national security issues.

Mark Denbeaux teaches an upper-level seminar at Seton Hall Law on forensic evidence.

Mark Denbeaux has spoken on the subject of forensic science at dozens of academic gatherings and has testified as an expert witness on the limitations of forensic evidence more than fifty times in state and federal courts as well as in administrative proceedings.

Mark Denbeaux's testimony has been cited in published cases in addition to the Third and Eleventh Circuits.

Mark Denbeaux offered testimony questioning the reliability of handwriting analysis in this 2007 trial.

The government argued that Mark Denbeaux's testimony did not meet the standards of Daubert and Kumho, while Mark Denbeaux concluded that there is no need for expert testimony on handwriting analysis as it has never been proven reliable.

Mark Denbeaux defended Sydney Biddle Barrows, the "Mayflower Madam," in 1984.

Mark Denbeaux was charged with promoting prostitution by the Manhattan District Attorney's Office.

In 1997, Mark Denbeaux served as a forensic expert for the trial of Timothy McVeigh, charged with bombing the Oklahoma Federal Building.

Mark Denbeaux has been a resident of Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey.