User:Geo Swan/Guantanamo/Douglas Cox (Law Professor)

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Douglas Cox is an American lawyer, librarian and Professor of Law at the City University of New York. Prior to joining CUNY Cox worked to help inmates use the law library at New York State's Riker's Island Prison; he was a reference librarian for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda; he practiced corporate law at Allen & Overy, and, while there he started working on behalf of a group of Guantanamo captives. Cox was a founding member of the Guantanamo Bay Bar Association.

According to Charlie Savage Cox served as the second in command in the Office of Legal Counsel during the George Herbert Walker Bush Presidency. He wrote that Cox was under consideration to be George Walker Bush's first appointee to head the Office of Legal Counsel. According to Savage Cox had played a prominent role in the Bush v. Gore case.