Mark Denbeaux

Mark Denbeaux
Born	July 30, 1943 (1943-07-30) Gainesville, Florida, U.S.

Mark P. Denbeaux (b. July 30, 1943 in Gainesville, Florida) is a law professor at Seton Hall University School of Law. Denbeaux is the Director of the Center for Policy and Research at Seton Hall Law School and practicing attorney of counsel in the family law firm of Denbeaux & Denbeaux. He gained public exposure beyond the legal and academic communities with his publication on February 8, 2006, "Report on Guantanamo Detainees, A Profile of 517 Detainees through Analysis of Department of Defense Data," the first of a series of reports examining issues pertaining the structure and conditions of Guantanamo Bay Detention Center.

Education

• A.B., 1965, College of Wooster
• J.D., 1968, New York University

Education

Denbeaux received his A.B. from College of Wooster (Wooster, OH) in 1965. He then attended New York University School of Law (New York, NY), where he graduated in 1968.

Civil Rights Activism

An active proponent of civil rights in the 1960s, Denbeaux marched at the March on Washington on August 28, 1963. Following the March on Washington, Denbeaux founded the Wooster, OH NAACP chapter. He also marched in Selma, AL in 1965.

Career

After graduating from NYU Law School in 1968, Denbeaux became a founding member of the South Bronx Legal Services. He then became the city-wide coordinator for the Community Action for Legal Services from 1970-1972.

During the 1970s and early 1980s, Denbeaux represented Black Panthers in the Bronx and Manhattan with Jeffrey Brand, who is the current Dean of the University of San Francisco Law School. He represented the Young Lords in the Bronx during their takeover of Lincoln Hospital.

Denbeaux represented a number of U.S. soldiers charged with disobeying orders during the anti-war movement during the early 1970s. This included defending them at their court martials.

In 1972, Denbeaux joined the Seton Hall Law School Faculty, and is now in his 40th year of teaching. At Seton Hall, Denbeaux has taught courses including Evidence, Remedies, Uniform Commercial Code, Contracts, Professional Responsibility, Federal Civil Procedure, Torts, and Constitutional Law. He has been an elected member of the American Law Institute since 1980.

Denbeaux defended Sydney Biddle Barrows, the "Mayflower Madam," in 1984. Barrows ran an escort service in New York City, Cachet, from 1979 until 1984, when the service was shut down and she was charged with promoting prostitution by the Manhattan District Attorney's Office. She eventually pled guilty.

In 1997 Denbeaux served as a forensic expert for the Timothy McVeigh trial.

Denbeaux currently serves as Attorney of Counsel for the family law firm Denbeaux and Denbeaux.

Books

• Trial Evidence, (I.C.L.E.), (with Micheal Risinger), 1978, 1052 pp.
• New Jersey Evidentiary Foundations, Denbeaux, Arseneault and Imwinkelried, The Michie Company, 1995.

Articles

• "The Guantanamo Diet: Actual Facts About Detainee Weight Changes", 2011-26-05
• "Rumsfeld Knew", 2011-03-03
• "Drug Abuse: An Exploration of the Government's Use of Mefloquine at Guantanamo", 2011-02-12
• "DoD Contradicts DoD: An Analysis of the Response to Death in Camp Delta, 2010-04-10
• Death in Camp Delta", 2009-07-12
• "Revisionist Recidivism: An Analysis of the Governments Representations of Alleged "Recidivism" of the Guantánamo Detainees", 2009-06-05
• "Torture: Who knew An Analysis of the FBI and Department of Defense Reactions to Harsh Interrogation Methods at Guantanamo", 2009-04-01
• Released Guantánamo Detainees and the Department of Defense: Propaganda By the Numbers?", 2009-01-15
• "Profile of Released Guantánamo: The Government's Story Then and Now", August 4, 2008 (with Joshua Denbeaux, Adam Deutsch, James Hlavenka, Gabrielle Hughes, Brianna Kostecka, Michael Patterson, Paul Taylor, and Anthony Torntore).
• "Justice Scalia, the Department of Defense, and The Perpetuation of an Urban Legend: The Truth about Recidivism of Released Guantánamo Detainees", June 16, 2008 (with Joshua Denbeaux, Daniel Lorenzo, Mark Muoio, Grace Brown, Jennifer Ellick, Jillian Camarote, Douglas Eadie, and Paul Taylor).
• "Captured on Tape: Interrogation and Videotaping of Detainees in Guantánamo", February 7, 2008 (with Joshua Denbeaux, Jennifer Ellick, Michael Ricciardelli, Matthew Darby).
• "The Meaning of "Battlefield": An Analysis of the Government’s Representations of ‘Battlefield Capture’ and ‘Recidivism’ of the Guantánamo Detainees", December 10, 2007 (with Joshua Denbeaux, Grace Brown, Jillian Camarote, Douglas Eadie, Jennifer Ellick, Daniel Lorenzo, Mark Muoio, Courtney Ray, and Nebroisa Zlatanovic).
• "No Hearing-Hearings", November 17, 2006 (with Joshua Denbeaux, David Gratz, John Gregorek, Matthew Darby, Shana Edwards, Shane Hartman, Daniel Mann, Megan Sassaman and Helen Skinner).
• "Report on Guantanamo Detainees, A Profile of 517 Detainees through Analysis of Department of Defense Data", February 8, 2006 (with Joshua Denbeaux, David Gratz, John Gregorek, Matthew Darby, Shana Edwards, Shane Hartman, Daniel Mann, and Helen Skinner).
• "Second Report on the Guantanamo Detainees: Inter and Intra Departmental Disagreements About Who Is Our Enemy", March 20, 2006 (with Joshua Denbeaux, David Gratz, John Gregorek, Matthew Darby, Shana Edwards, Shane Hartman, Daniel Mann, and Helen Skinner).
• "The Guantanamo Detainees During Detention", July 10, 2006 (with Joshua Denbeaux, David Gratz, John Gregorek, Matthew Darby, Shana Edwards, Shane Hartman, Daniel Mann, Megan Sassaman, and Helen Skinner).
• "June 10 Suicides at Guantanamo", August 21, 2006 (with Joshua Denbeaux, David Gratz, John Gregorek, Matthew Darby, Shana Edwards, Shane Hartman, Daniel Mann, Megan Sassaman, and Helen Skinner).
• "No-hearing hearings", November 17, 2006 (with Joshua Denbeaux, David Gratz, John Gregorek, Matthew Darby, Shana Edwards, Shane Hartman, Daniel Mann, Megan Sassaman, and Helen Skinner).
• "Trust, Cynicism, and Machiavellianism Among First Year Law Students, 53 J. of Urban Law 397" (1976).
• "Restitution and Mass Actions: A Solution to the Problems of Class Actions," 10 Seton Hall L. Rev. 273 (1979).
• "Questioning Questions: Problems of Form in the Interrogation of Witness," 33 Arkansas L. Rev. 439 (1980) (with Risinger).
• "The First Word of the First Amendment," Northwestern University L. Rev. (1988).
• "Exorcism of Ignorance as a Proxy for Rational Knowledge: The Lessons of Handwriting Identification 'Expertise'," U. of Pa. L. Rev. (1989) (with Risinger & Saks).
• "Brave New 'Post- Daubert World'--A Reply to Professor Moenssens," 29 Seton Hall L. Rev. 405 (1998) (with Risinger and Saks).

Book review

• "Resignation in Protest: Political and Ethical Choices Between Loyalty to Team and Loyalty to Conscience in American Public Life," 4 Hofstra L. Rev. (1976).

Sponsored research

• American Bar Foundation, 1974-78. Recipient of a grant, with Professor Alan Katz of Fairfield University, Fairfield, Connecticut, to conduct a longitudinal study on law student attitudes, towards politics, law and legal education
• Alteration or Elaboration: Does Law School Instill Cynicism?, (with Alan Katz), National Conferences on Teaching Professional Responsibility, Detroit, Michigan, Sept. 1977

External links

• Law School Faculty Profile for Mark Denbeaux on Martindale.com
• Faculty member biography on Seton Hall website
• Curriculum vitae: Mark P. Denbeaux