Karen J. Greenberg is the Director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law and a Future Security program fellow at New America. Greenberg specializes in the intersection of national security policy, the rule of law and human rights. She has authored numerous books, including: Subtle Tools: The Dismantling of American Democracy from the War on Terror to Donald Trump (Princeton, 2021); Rogue Justice: The Making of the Security State (Crown, 2016), and The Least Worst Place: Guantanamo’s First 100 Days (Oxford, 2009). Her edited volumes include: Our Nation at Risk: Election Integrity as a National Security Issue (NYU, 2024); Reimagining the National Security State: Liberalism on the Brink (Cambridge, 2020) and The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib (Cambridge, 2005). Her work has been featured in the NYTimes, the Washington Post, the LA Times, the Nation Magazine, the Atlantic and many other major news outlets. She is a frequent guest on national television and radio shows. She is a permanent member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
