Kristine Huskey

Kristine Huskey is an American lawyer. Huskey is notable because she volunteered to help defend Guantanamo detainees. Huskey is the author of "Standards and Procedures for Classifying “Enemy Combatants”: Congress, What Have You Done?"

Huskey grew up in Alaska.

Huskey was born and raised in Anchorage, Alaska. Her family moved to Saudi Arabia after her father, an Air Force pilot, took a post there. She returned to the United States to attend Interlochen Arts Academy for dance before moving to New York City to pursue a career in dance and modeling.

She attended Columbia University in New York, New York for her undergraduate studies. Huskey graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science in 1992, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. In 1996, she continued on to attend the Centre for Commercial Law Studies University of London's Queen Mary and Westfield College. Kristine then attended the University of Texas at Austin for law school, where she graduated from in 1997 with a Juris Doctorate.

Huskey was a law clerk in the Texas Court of Appeals in the Third District in Austin, Texas for Justice Bea Ann Smith in civil and criminal appeals from 1997 to 1998.

She worked as an attorney at the Washington, DC office of the New York-based law firm Shearman & Sterling LLP in the International Litigation and Arbitration Practice Group from 1998 to 2006. Before working with Guantanamo detainees, she represented international entities such as OPEC and PDVSA in litigation, arbitration, and negotiation with the US and foreign government agencies. Huskey was one of the lawyers who represented Guantanamo detainees in Rasul v. Bush.

Huskey worked on the case of Canadian Guantanamo captive Omar Khadr, who commonly known as "Guantanamo's kid" and one of the ten captives who has faced charges before a Guantanamo military commission.

In an interview with the Council on Hemispheric Affairs Huskey said:

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