Benjamin R. Farley
Benjamin R. Farley
Benjamin R. Farley is the Director of the Office of Terrorist Detentions at the U.S. Department of State. Farley rejoined the Department of State in August 2021 after serving for four years as a supervisory trial attorney and law-of-war counsel at the U.S. Department of Defense, Military Commissions Defense Organization, where he represented Ammar al Baluchi before the capital 9/11 military commission at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. During the 2022-2023 academic year, Farley was a Visiting Professor and the Acting Director of the International Humanitarian Law Clinic at Emory University School of Law while on leave from the Department of State. He originally joined the Department of State in 2012 as a Presidential Management Fellow, and, from 2013 to 2017, he served as a senior adviser to the Special Envoy for Guantanamo Closure.
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