Scott Horton (attorney)

{{short description|American lawyer}}

{{Distinguish|Scott Horton (radio host)}}

Scott Horton is an American attorney known for his work in human rights law and the law of armed conflict, as well as emerging markets and international law.

He graduated Texas Law School in Austin with a JD and was a partner in a large New York law firm, Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler.{{cite web | title=Scott Horton | url=http://harpers.org/subjects/ScottHorton | work=harpers.org | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070417021530/http://harpers.org/subjects/ScottHorton | archive-date=April 17, 2007 | url-status=dead }} He "has advised sovereigns on the pursuit of kleptocratic predecessors."Horton, Scott (2011-02-02) [https://foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/02/02/gimme_shelter Gimme Shelter], Foreign Policy In April 2007, he joined Harper's Magazine as a legal affairs and national security contributor, and he currently authors the No Comment blog at Harper's Online.

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Horton has also written for The American Lawyer,

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}} and The Daily Beast[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-04-05/are-republicans-blackmailing-obama/full/ Are Republicans Blackmailing Obama?] and has been interviewed on Antiwar Radio.[http://antiwar.com/radio/2010/12/11/the-other-scott-horton-8/ Scott Horton Interviews The Other Scott Horton] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110220165555/http://antiwar.com/radio/2010/12/11/the-other-scott-horton-8/ |date=2011-02-20 }}, Antiwar Radio (Dec. 11, 2010) and the John Batchelor Show.

Horton was a lecturer at Columbia Law School, as well as a co-founder of the American University in Central Asia[https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2007/08/28/scott-horton-4/ Antiwar Radio: Scott Horton Interviews Scott Horton] and of Sanghata Global.[http://www.sanghata.org Sanghata Global] Horton is a former president of the International League for Human Rights,[https://www.pbs.org/now/politics/horton.html Scott Horton - Biography] and he recently contributed to a report which claimed that human rights standards apply to detainees captured by the U.S. in the War on Terrorism. He "served as counsel to Andrei Sakharov and Elena Bonner, among other activists in the former Soviet Union."