Scholarship
Peter Jan Honigsberg's SSRN Page
Selected Works of Peter Jan Honigsberg on bepress
Books
Our Nation Unhinged: The Human Consequences of the War on Terror (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009)
Crossing Border Street: A Civil Rights Memoir (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000)
California Performance Test Workbook (Chicago: Thomson⁄BAR⁄BRI, 2007).
Multistate Performance Test Workbook (Chicago: Thomson⁄BAR⁄BRI, 2007).
Legal Research, Writing, & Analysis, 10th ed. (Chicago: BarBri Group, 2006)
The California Professional Corporation Handbook, 3d ed. (with Anthony Mancuso) (Berkeley: Nolo Press, c1987)
California Bar Performance Test Skills, 5th ed. (Gardena: Gilbert Law Summaries, 1994)
California Eviction Defense Manual (with Moskovitz) (Berkeley: National Housing and Economic Development Law Project; California Continuing Education of the Bar, 1971 to 1992).
We Own It: Starting & Managing Cooperatives & Employee-Owned Ventures, Rev. ed. (with Bernard Kamoroff and Jim Beatty) Laytonville, California, Bell Springs Pub., (1988)
Billpayers' Rights, 6th ed. (Berkeley, CA: Nolo Press, c1984)
The Unemployment Benefits Handbook (Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, c1981) ("A Nolo Press book.")
Cluing into Legal Research: a Simple Guide to Finding the Law (Berkeley, CA: Golden Rain Press, 1979)
California Debtors' Handbook, 3d ed. (Berkeley: Nolo Press, c1979) (with Ralph Warner)
The Unemployment Handbook (New York, Ballantine Books 1977)
Your Legal Guide to Unemployment Insurance (Berkeley, Calif.: Golden Rain Press, 1975)
Law Review and Journal Articles
"Inside Guantanamo" (Essay), 10 Nevada Law Journal -- (Forthcoming, 2010). [SSRN]
"Chasing Enemy Combatants and Circumventing International Law: A License for Sanctioned Abuse" (Symposium: Protecting the Nation at the Expense of Individuals? Defining the Scope of U.S. Executive Power at Home and Abroad in Times of Crisis), 12 UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs 1 (2007) [SSRN abstract of draft]
"Pursuing Dignity Through Three Tumultuous Decades: Reporting Civil Rights: American Journalism 1941-1973," 44 Santa Clara Law Review 335 (2003). [SSRN]
"The Evolution and Revolution of Napster," 36 University of San Francisco Law Review 473 (2002). [SSRN]
"A Barbie Doll Story: How the Doll Study in Brown v. Board of Education led Berkeley High School Students to Question the World of Barbie Dolls," Phi Delta Kappan (November 1995).
"When the Client Harasses the Attorney — Recognizing Third-Party Sexual Harassment in the Legal Profession," 28 University of San Francisco Law Review 715 (with Marilyn Tham and Gary Alexander) (1994).
"Unfairness in Access to and Citation of Unpublished Federal Court Decisions," 18 Golden Gate University Law Review 277 (with James A. Dikel). (1988)
"Tenant Union-Landlord Relations Act: A Proposal," 58 Georgetown Law Journal 1013 (with Myron Moskowitz) (1970).
Opinion Pieces and Blog Posts
The Witness to Guantanamo Project: In-Depth Filmed Interviews of Former Guantanamo Detainees, posting to
Huffington Post, (September 7, 2009).
I Debated a War Criminal, posting to Huffington Post, (April 24, 2009).
Establishing a Truth Commission for Guantanamo, posting to Huffington Post (January 10, 2009).
A Bumpy Application to Guantanamo, posting to Huffington Post (July 16, 2007).
Other Publications
Using IRAC to Develop an Objective Memorandum of Law [computer file] (Minneapolis, Minn.: Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) (CALI exercises available to CALI subscribers via the CALI site).
Learning Legal Analysis Through its Components: Issue, Rule, Application, Conclusion — IRAC [computer file] (Minneapolis, Minn.: CALI, 1989) (CALI exercises available to CALI subscribers via the CALI site).
Presentations and Lectures
Presenter, Witness to Guantanamo Project, Human Rights Day Celebration at Berkeley High School, Berkeley (December 10, 2009).
Presenter, Witness to Guantanamo Project, Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice, University of San Diego (November 10, 2009).
Presenter, Witness to Guantanamo, USF School of Law, San Francisco (October 6, 2009). During a Justice Forum event, Honigsberg discussed his Witness to Guantanamo Project and presented several clips of interviews with former Guantanamo detainees that he filmed this summer.
Reading from his book, Our Nation Unhinged: The Human Consequences of the War on Terror, at Barnes and Noble in Jack London Square (Oakland, California, September 25, 2009)
Presenter, "The Human Consequences of the War on Terror and the Closing of Guantanamo," World Affairs Council, East Bay Chapter (Walnut Creek, California, April 30, 2009)
Presenter, "An Independent, NGO-Sponsored Guantanamo Truth Commission: The Tension with Those Who Want a Government-Sponsored Truth Commission," USF School of Law Faculty Teaching and Scholarship Workshop Series (San Francisco, California, March 3, 2009)
Presentation on a proposed Truth Commission for Guantanamo, Section on International Human Rights "New Voices in Human Rights" Program at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Law Schools (January 7, 2009).
Presenter, "Executive Power and Detainment of Enemy Combatants," UCLA Law Symposium on Protecting the Nation at the Expense of Individuals? (February 2007).
Presenter, "'Enemy Combatants:' Is it a Term of Art or of Mischief?" World Affairs Council (2006).
Presenter, "The Multistate Performance Test used on the bar exam of 25 states," Annual Meeting of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Annual Conference.
Presenter, "Workshop on the California Bar Performance Test," Loyola Law School.
Presenter, "Workshop on the California Bar Performance Test," University of Oregon Law School and Willamette University College of Law.
Presenter, workshops on manual and online legal research skills, California Land Surveyors Conference.
Presenter, "Crossing Border Street — A Civil Rights Memoir" Southern University School of Law, annual address.
Professional Activities and Public Service
Launched Witness to Guantanamo website (January 2010). The website includes testimony of detainees' treatment in Guantanamo Bay.
Filmed interviews of 16 former Guantanamo detainees in five European countries (Albania, Bosnia, France, Germany, and England) for the Witness to Guantanamo project (August 2009). Filmed interviews of former Guantanamo detainees in Palau (January 2010).
Consultant, California Continuing Education of the Bar (CEB).
Consultant, Center for Computer Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI).
Consultant, California Land Surveyors Association.
Consultant, Hastings College of the Law: Legal Education Opportunity Program.
Consultant, Barbri Bar Review.
