Heidi Boghosian is the executive
director of the National Lawyers Guild, a progressive bar association
established in 1937. She recently published The Assault on Free Speech,
Public Assembly, and Dissent: A National Lawyers Guild Report on
Government Violations of First Amendment Rights in the United States,
(North River Press, 2004), and Applying Restraints to Private Police
(forthcoming in Missouri Law Review, Spring 2005). “The Lynne Stewart
Case and the Impact on Federal Government Spying on Attorneys” will
appear in the New Centennial Review this spring. Her book reviews have
been published in The Federal Lawyer Magazine and the New York Law
Journal. She lives in New York City. www.nlg.org