34 Facts About Martin Garbus

Martin Garbus was born on August 8,1934 and is an American attorney.

Martin Garbus has argued cases throughout the country involving first amendment, constitutional, criminal, copyright, and intellectual property law.

Martin Garbus has appeared before the United States Supreme Court, as well as trial and appellate courts throughout the United States in leading First Amendment cases.

Martin Garbus's cases have established precedents there and in other courts throughout the country.

Martin Garbus has argued and written briefs that have been submitted to the United States Supreme Court; a number of which have resulted in changes in the law on a nationwide basis, including one described by Justice William J Brennan as "probably the most important due process case in the Twentieth Century".

Martin Garbus has been involved in prisoner exchange negotiations between governments.

Martin Garbus is the author of six books and over 30 articles in The New York Times, The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times.

Martin Garbus received the Fulbright Award for his work on International Human Rights in 2010.

Martin Garbus has represented dissidents in amongst other places such as China, Czechoslovakia, India, Russia, South Africa, and Taiwan.

The series, based on the writings of Martin Garbus, includes stories about the legal journeys of Samuel Beckett, Lenny Bruce, Daniel Ellsberg, Vaclav Havel, Henrietta Wright, Salman Rushdie, Andrei Sakharov, and "Jane Doe" and played to sold-out audiences in NY and LA.

Martin Garbus graduated from the Bronx High School of Science in 1951.

Martin Garbus earned his undergraduate degree at Hunter College in 1955 and his Juris Doctor from New York University Law School.

Martin Garbus thereafter attended Columbia University as a master's candidate in economics, at The New School as a master's candidate in English and at New York University Law School as a master's candidate in law.

Martin Garbus was admitted in New York, and six other states and federal appeals courts, to the United States Supreme Court Bar in 1963.

Martin Garbus was in 1966 co-director of the Columbia University Center on Social Policy and Law while he taught law at Columbia.

Martin Garbus was director-counsel of the Roger Baldwin Foundation of the ACLU, which had offices in Florida, Mississippi, Atlanta, Georgia, Alabama, and California and now has a budget in excess of 2 hundred million dollars.

Additionally, Martin Garbus was Legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union as well as its associate director.

Martin Garbus was director of the Lawyers Committee to Defend Civil Rights, ran for political office in 1974 and formed his own law firm, Frankfurt Garbus in 1977.

Martin Garbus subsequently taught as an adjunct professor at Yale Law School, and has lectured at many law schools in the United States and abroad, including Harvard and Stanford.

Martin Garbus participated in "rule of law" seminars in Shanghai and Beijing.

Martin Garbus has participated in lectures and debates before the American Bar Association, the Bar Associations of New York, Washington and Los Angeles on a variety of topics including trial practice, jury selection, copyright and the Supreme Court.

Martin Garbus debated former Independent Prosecutor Kenneth Starr at venues across the country.

Martin Garbus served as a commentator for NBC, ABC, CBS, PBS, Charlie Rose, CNN, Fox News, Court TV, CCTV in China and the BBC, Time and Newsweek.

Martin Garbus has written numerous pieces for The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The New York Review of Books, The Nation, and Huffington Post.

Martin Garbus' career is set forth in the award-winning HBO documentary Shouting Fire: Stories from the Edge of Free Speech.

Martin Garbus spoke with journalist Christiane Amanpour about challenges to free speech, including social media, political vitriol, and the role of the media.

Martin Garbus is a TED speaker, where he presented on Free Speech and the First Amendment.

Martin Garbus has worked for the governments of the former Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Rwanda, and China as a consultant on constitutional, media and communications law.

Recently in 2002, the government of China hired Martin Garbus to help address the problems posed by digital piracy.

Martin Garbus represented dissidents Vaclav Havel, Nelson Mandela, and Andrei Sakharov.

Martin Garbus has traveled to Russia, former Czechoslovakia, Rwanda, China, Cambodia, North and South Vietnam, South Korea, Vietnam, Taiwan, India, Bangladesh, South Africa, Israel, the West Bank, Gaza, Egypt, Ukraine, Italy, Germany, Spain, Tanzania, Namibia, and Argentina defending human rights.

Martin Garbus taught law in China, Czechoslovakia, and South Africa.

Martin Garbus worked on the writing of constitutions in four countries.

Cassandra Martin Garbus is an author and teacher who is married to David Moreno.