Captured by Guantánamo

The detention without trial of Haitian refugees at the United States base in Guantánamo prefigures the "war on terror" by a decade. The Yale University law professor Harold Hongju Koh tells the story of his own immersion in the territory, and assesses its impact on the rule of law in America.

Brandt Goldstein's gripping new book, Storming the Court: How a Band of Yale Law Students Sued the President - and Won recounts how, in the early 1990s, a group of Yale University law students and professors sued two United States presidents on behalf of 300 Haitian refugees held at the US naval base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.