The Sunday Scholars Series is a a
one-hour, post-show panel discussion with experts on
the themes and issues of the play. Panelists for the
February 26th Scholar Series will be:
Bridget Arimond
Bridget Arimond is the Assistant Director of the Center
for International Human Rights at Northwestern University
School of Law, where she has been involved in a series
of cases raising international human rights norms
in domestic United States courts. These cases include
the death penalty appeal of a Colombian national who
was denied his right to consular assistance, a federal
court action against two United States corporations
for their alleged roles in the bombing of a village
in Colombia, and cases challenging the legality of
U.S. military detention of alleged enemy combatants
at Guantanamo and elsewhere. She is a graduate of
Stanford University and Harvard Law School.
Antony S. Burt
Antony S. Burt is a partner at Schiff, Hardin LLP.
He focuses his practice in commercial litigation,
with a particular concentration in the areas of reinsurance,
professional liability, civil fraud investigations,
bankruptcy, and antitrust litigation. He has been
involved in all aspects of complex civil litigation,
including trials, injunctions, appeals, and arbitrations.
Mr. Burt was a Member of the Northwestern University
Law Review.
Gary Isaac
Gary Isaac received his J.D. from Yale Law School
in 1985, and has practiced law at Mayer, Brown &
Platt (now Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw) in Chicago
since 1986. Mr. Isaac has been involved in the Guantanamo
litigation since the Fall of 2003, when he co-authored
two “friend of the court” briefs in the
Rasul case on behalf of retired military officers
– one urging the Supreme Court to hear the detainees’
case, and another urging the Court to hold that U.S.
courts have jurisdiction to entertain detainees’
petitions for habeas corpus. Since the Supreme Court’s
decision in June, 2004 in Rasul, Mr. Isaac has played
an active part in the group of attorneys bringing
habeas actions on behalf of the detainees. Mr. Isaac
is co-counsel in John Does 1-570 v. Bush, filed in
2005 on behalf of detainees whose identities the Government
has refused to disclose. Mr. Isaac was deeply involved
in the Fall of 2005 in lobbying members of Congress
against efforts to strip the courts of jurisdiction
to hear the detainees’ habeas petitions. Mr.
Isaac is also co-author of On Strike for Respect:
The Clerical and Technical Workers’ Strike at
Yale University, 1984-85 (Univ. of Illinois 1995).
