Mark Denbeaux

Who is Mark Denbeaux?

Mark P. Denbeaux is a law professor at Seton Hall University School of Law in New Jersey and the Director of its Center for Policy and Research.

He is notable for directing numerous studies on the Guantanamo Bay detention camp and its operations, published by the Center for Policy and Research and based on data by the United States Department of Defense. The first was Report on Guantanamo Detainees, A Profile of 517 Detainees through Analysis of Department of Defense Data, which provided a summary of data about the detainees, including circumstances of capture and allegations used to justify detention. These reports have contradicted numerous government statements about the detainees and conditions at the camps, based on DOD data. Denbeaux has testified the findings of the Center to Congress. The Center's 15th report, Death in Camp Delta, analyzed the Naval Criminal Investigative Service's report of 2008, which investigated the deaths of three detainees on June 10, 2006, reported by DOD as suicides.

Denbeaux also is a practicing attorney in the family law firm of Denbeaux & Denbeaux in Westwood, New Jersey.