Education
Tisch School of the Arts. University of Maryland School of Law.
Tisch School of the Arts. University of Maryland School of Law.
Libowitz is notable for writing, producing, and acting in a film, The Response, which he wrote after reading the actual transcripts from the Guantanamo detainees" Combatant Status Review Tribunals. Libowitz was a Vice President of Acquisitions and Company-Productions at Paramount Pictures. As an actor, Libowitz had recurring roles in The Sopranos and Law & Order.
The Response has screened at the Pentagon, United States. Congress, Department of Justice, Westpoint and numerous universities including Harvard, University of California, Los Angeles and Columbia.
Previous American Bar Association winners include To Kill a Mockingbird, Twelve Angry Men, and Judgment at Nuremberg. One of Libowitz"s professors at law school distributed the Guantanamo transcripts to the class.
Libowitz decided the transcript could be turned into a script. Peter Riegert, Kate Mulgrew star as the two other Judge Advocate General officers on the Tribunal.
Aasif Mandvi stars as the detainee.
Libowitz graduated from the University of Maryland School of Law in 2007, and currently works for the law firm Venable Limited Liability Partnership.