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Chase Madar

Part-time Faculty
wcm203@nyu.edu
716 - 1 Wash Pl

Office Hours
Monday 10:45-1:00
Wednesday 10:45-1:00

B.A., History, Stanford University, 1993
J.D., New York University, 2004

Chase Madar is an attorney, author, and journalist in New York. He is the author of The Passion of [Chelsea] Manning: The Story Behind the WikiLeaks Whistleblower (Verso, 2013) and a contributor to The New York Times, Guardian, London Review of Books, Le Monde Diplomatique, The Nation, The American Conservative, Jacobin, TomDispatch, Bookforum, and the Times Literary Supplement. He has lectured widely on law and society, from Oxford and Cambridge to Occupy Wall Street and the Mississippi State Capitol, and is a frequent participant in academic conferences and workshops on international law, criminal justice, and US foreign policy. He has translated one book each from French and Spanish and his own reporting has been translated into a dozen languages. A graduate of Stanford and NYU Law School, Madar was previously a staff attorney at Make the Road New York where he provided a wide variety of legal services to Spanish-speaking immigrants and carried out larger advocacy projects, including the first-ever empirical investigation into employment discrimination against transgender job-seekers. The most recent course he taught was a seminar on ÒCriminalization and Its DiscontentsÓ at Wallkill Correctional Facility through the NYU Prison Education Program. .  

Books

2013

The Passion of Bradley Manning

Chase Madar's The Passion of Bradley Manning: The Story Behind the Wikileaks Whistleblower was published by Verso. 

Teaching and Research Interests

Law and war; U.S. foreign policy; police  prisons and state punishment generally; sociology of knowledge and ignorance; leaks and whistleblowers; literary translation 

Courses

2023 Spring

Law and War

2022 Spring

Law and War

2021 Spring

Law and War

2020 Spring

Law and War

2019 Spring

Law and War

2018 Spring

Law and War

Chase Madar