Steven T. Wax
{{short description|American lawyer}}
Steven T. Wax (born 1949) was a U.S. federal Public Defender for the District of Oregon in Portland, Oregon. Wax resigned{{when|date=November 2015}} from his position after 31 years and now works with the Oregon Innocence Project.
He is admitted to the U.S. District Court for districts of Southern and Eastern New York, the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Second and Ninth circuits, and the U.S. Supreme Court.{{cite web |url=http://www.legalspan.com/catalog2/faculty.asp?UserID=20041119729133133418 |title=Steven T. Wax |website=www.legalspan.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713195902/http://www.legalspan.com/catalog2/faculty.asp?UserID=20041119729133133418 |archive-date=2011-07-13}}
Wax earned a B.A. cum laude from Colgate University in 1970 and a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1974. He has been a member of the Oregon State Bar since 1983 and is also a member of the New York State Bar. He started in 1979 as an Assistant District Attorney in Brooklyn, New York and became the Public Defender in Broome County, New York from 1979 through 1983. He was an adjunct professor at Lewis & Clark Law School from 1985 through 1993 and in 2001.
Wax is married to Kathleen Haley, the Executive Director of the Oregon Medical Board.{{cite web |url=http://www.islamdaily.org/en/world-issues/america/6597.kafka-comes-to-america-fighting-for-justice-in-the.htm |title=Kafka Comes to America: Fighting for Justice in the War on Terror, A Public Defenders Inside Account |access-date=2010-11-11 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726192601/http://www.islamdaily.org/en/world-issues/america/6597.kafka-comes-to-america-fighting-for-justice-in-the.htm |archive-date=2011-07-26 }} Kafka Comes to America: Fighting for Justice in the War on Terror, A Public Defenders Inside Account
Notable work
Wax defended several of the detainees of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. His Oregon office worked for Brandon Mayfield when he was arrested due to being erroneously linked with the 2004 Madrid train bombings by the FBI.
Wax wrote a book on the defense of Adel Hassan Hamad (a Sudanese Guantanamo detainee 2002–2006) and Brandon Mayfield.{{Cite book | last=Wax | first=Steven T. | title=Kafka comes to America: Fighting for Justice in the War on Terror | isbn=978-1-59051-295-1 | year=2008 | publisher=Other Press | url-access=registration | url=https://archive.org/details/kafkacomestoamer00waxs }}
Awards
- NACDL President's Commendation for work on the Mayfield case 2004{{Citation needed|date=November 2010}}
- Judge Learned Hand Award of the American Jewish Committee 2006{{Citation needed|date=November 2010}}
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| url = http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/dt.cms.support.viewStory.cls?cid=124659&sid=1&fid=1
| title = Author discusses "War on Terror" abuses
| newspaper = The Register-Guard
| author = Karen McCowan
| date = July 21, 2008
| archivedate = July 23, 2008
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| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20080723212627/http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/dt.cms.support.viewStory.cls?cid=124659&sid=1&fid=1
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| url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/30/AR2008073002736.html?hpid=sec-artsliving
| title = Taking Liberties
| newspaper = Washington Post
| author = Jonathon Fine
| date = July 31, 2008
| page = C02
| accessdate = July 29, 2008
| quote=Wax joins a growing chorus calling for the closure of that prison, though he acknowledges that some Guantanamo prisoners should remain incarcerated. "Kafka Comes to America" says little else about how the U.S. military should handle detainees in the future. But his clients' experiences more than justify Wax's softly stated conclusion: "Of course the threat from terrorists is real, but the unfortunate reality is that the threat from an overzealous response to terrorism is real as well."
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