Katherine Hawkins is Investigator for The Constitution Project's Task Force on Detainee Treatment. Katherine joined The Constitution Project after working with the firm Burke PLLC researching detainee issues and serving as co-counsel for former Iraqi detainees in civil cases. Katherine received her undergraduate degree in political science from Yale University, and her law degree from Harvard Law School. After graduating, she clerked for the judges on the Boston Immigration Court through the Department of Justice's Honors Program. Her writing on rendition of prisoners to Egypt, Syria, Libya and other countries has been published in Foreign Policy, Middle East Report, the Georgetown Immigration Law Review, and The American Prospect. She also assisted with research on detention and counterterrorism policies for two award-winning books, The Dark Side by Jane Mayer and Guantanamo and The Abuse of Presidential Power by Joseph Margulies, as well as several human rights reports.

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