Background
Garbus, Martin was born on August 8, 1934 in Brooklyn, New York, United States.
Garbus, Martin was born on August 8, 1934 in Brooklyn, New York, United States.
Hunter College (Bachelor of Arts, 1955). Columbia University; New York University (Juris Doctor, 1959).
Worked at Frankfurt, Garbus, Klein & Selz, A Professional Corporation (New York, New York) specializing in Media and First Amendment, Civil Litigation, Criminal Defense, Intellectual Property, Publishing Contracts. Admitted to the bar, 1960, New New York 1962, United States. Supreme Court.
1970, United States.
Court of Appeals, Second, Third and Fifth Circuits. 1975, United States. Tax Court. Author: Books: Ready for the Defense, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1969, Avon, 1970.
Traitors and Heroes, Atheneum, 1987.
Contributor: "Ralph Nader, Verdict on Lawyers," Crowell, 1976. Faculty Member: Columbia University, 1968.
Yale Law School, 1978. Lecturer, Practising Law Institute, Criminal, Civil, Libel, Communications Law and Trial Techniques, 1960-1984.
Director, Columbia University Center Policy and Law, 1967.
Associate Director, Civil Liberties Union, 1967-1969. Member, Board of Directors, American Civil Liberties Union, 1968-1969. Director-Counsel, Committee to Abolish Capital Punishment, 1962-1972.
General Counsel, United Farmworkers Union, 1968-1970.
Member, Mayor"s Select Committee on Criminal Justice, Committee on Criminal Law, 1972-1975 and International Law, 1976-1978. Member of the Board, Bard University Program for International Relations.
Various articles on Civil, Criminal, Trial and Appeals, and First Amendment issues include: "Rushdie and The First Amendment," "Vietnam Today," "25 Years after Times v. Sullivan, What Remains to be Done," "Lincoln Mills," "Libel and New Dangers to Press Freedom," "Secrecy, the Central Intelligence Agency and the Public"s Right to Know," "A Facade of Justice--The McGinnis Case and the Many Costs of Libel," "South African Trials," "Legal System in China," "Law Courts Make Lousy Art Critics," "Defamation in Fiction," "Cross Examination Techniques in Civil and Criminal Cases," "Gag Orders" Don"t Sequester Juries," "Jury Selection in Criminal Cases," "Free Speech in Egypt," "Criminal Prosecutions on the West Bank," "Constitutional Rights in the Soviet Union," "The Sharon Case, Wrong Case, Wrong Time," "Flag Burning A Crime?" in the New York Law Review, Bar Association Journals, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and other magazines and periodicals.
Author: Books: Ready for the Defense, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1969, Avon, 1970. Traitors and Heroes, Atheneum, 1987. Contributor: "Ralph Nader, Verdict on Lawyers," Crowell, 1976.
Faculty Member: Columbia University, 1968. Yale Law School, 1978. Lecturer, Practising Law Institute, Criminal, Civil, Libel, Communications Law and Trial Techniques, 1960-1984.
Director, Columbia University Center Policy and Law, 1967. Associate Director, Civil Liberties Union, 1967-1969. Books: Ready for the Defense, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1969, Avon, 1970.
Traitors and Heroes, Atheneum, 1987. Contributor: "Ralph Nader, Verdict on Lawyers," Crowell, 1976.
Member: Columbia University, 1968. Yale Law School, 1978. Lecturer, Practising Law Institute, Criminal, Civil, Libel, Communications Law and Trial Techniques, 1960-1984.
Director, Columbia University Center Policy and Law, 1967.
Associate Director, Civil Liberties Union, 1967-1969. Member, Board of Directors, American Civil Liberties Union, 1968-1969.
Director-Counsel, Committee to Abolish Capital Punishment, 1962-1972. General Counsel, United Farmworkers Union, 1968-1970.
Member, Mayor"s Select Committee on Criminal Justice, Committee on Criminal Law, 1972-1975 and International Law, 1976-1978.
Member of the Board, Bard University Program for International Relations. Various articles on Civil, Criminal, Trial and Appeals, and First Amendment issues include: "Rushdie and The First Amendment," "Vietnam Today," "25 Years after Times v. Sullivan, What Remains to be Done," "Lincoln Mills," "Libel and New Dangers to Press Freedom," "Secrecy, the Central Intelligence Agency and the Public"s Right to Know," "A Facade of Justice--The McGinnis Case and the Many Costs of Libel," "South African Trials," "Legal System in China," "Law Courts Make Lousy Art Critics," "Defamation in Fiction," "Cross Examination Techniques in Civil and Criminal Cases," "Gag Orders" Don"t Sequester Juries," "Jury Selection in Criminal Cases," "Free Speech in Egypt," "Criminal Prosecutions on the West Bank," "Constitutional Rights in the Soviet Union," "The Sharon Case, Wrong Case, Wrong Time," "Flag Burning A Crime?" in the New York Law Review, Bar Association Journals, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and other magazines and periodicals.