Brittany Benowitz

Since 2011, Brittany Benowitz has served as the director of the ABA Justice Defenders Program and chief counsel for the Center for Human Rights. Previously, she served for four years as a defense advisor to a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. In that capacity, she conducted oversight of operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and monitored U.S. counterterrorism, foreign assistance, arms control and security sector reform policies. She has worked on litigation in civil and criminal courts both in the United States and abroad and conducted human rights investigations in Latin America, Eastern Europe and South Asia. She received her JD from the Washington College of Law at American University.

PUBLICATIONS

• House and Senate Chart Different Courses on US Clandestine Support of Foreign Militias (Just Security, August 2020, co-authored with Alicia Ceccanese)
• How the U.N. Can Help Prevent the Spread of Proxy Conflicts (Just Security, May 2020, co-authored with Alicia Ceccanese)
• How States Supporting Armed Proxies Can Reduce Civilian Casualties and Protracted Hostilities (Just Security, May 2020,  co-authored with Alicia Ceccanese)
• Why No One Ever Wins a Proxy War (Just Security, May 2020, co-authored with Alicia Ceccanese)
• Time to Get a Handle on America’s Conduct of Proxy Warfare (Lawfare, April 2020, co-authored with Tommy Ross)
  
• Lawyers and judges are on the front lines of the peace process in Colombia (ABA Journal, June 2019, co-authored with Juan Franco)
• Threats to judicial independence – not discussion of the Holocaust – are the real threat to Polish democracy (January 2019)
• For Enduring Peace, Colombia Must Protect Advocates for Rights and Prosecute War Crimes (Just Security, January 2019, co-authored with  Juan Franco)
  
• Why Support for UN-Backed Anticorruption Commission in Guatemala is Vital to US Interests (Just Security, September 2018)