Melissa Hoffer (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Melissa Hoffer is a lawyer specializing in environmental law. She is currently the New Hampshire Advocacy Center Director for the Conservation Law Foundation. Hoffer graduated from Northeastern University's School of Law in 1998. She was previously with the law firm Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr from 1999 to 2007, and promoted to a junior partner there in 2003. She traveled with a team to Guantanamo Bay detainment camp to volunteer their services to the Algerian Six. On January 7, 2007, the Boston Globe published an article by Hoffer about her Guantanamo clients. Hoffer represents the "Algerian Six." For a profile for Northeastern's Alumni magazine Hoffer compared her clients cases with the landmark civil rights cases of Brown v. Board of Education, key to African-Americans getting equal access to education opportunities and Korematsu v. United States, a key case fought for the rights of Americans of Japanese descent, interned during World War 2.