This book will be co-published with the Center for Constitutional Rights, an organization dedicated to advancing and protecting the rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Founded in 1966 by attorneys who represented civil rights movements in the South, CCR is a non-profit legal and educational organization committed to the creative use of law as a positive force for social change. Michael Ratner is an attorney and the board chair of the Center for Constitutional Rights. He is well known for his human rights activism, and is the author of numerous books, includingThe Trial of Donald Rumsfeld(The New Press, 2008).