Jonathan Horowitz is a senior legal officer for the Open Society Justice Initiative where he focuses on issues of human rights, national security and counterterrorism, and the law of armed conflict. Prior to this, he worked at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul on detention policies, investigated detainee and night-raid abuses in Afghanistan, worked as a Sudan/Chad analyst at the International Criminal Court, and from 2005 to 2007 was a U.N. human rights officer in Sudan. Horowitz obtained an LLM from the University of Essex, has published on the application of human rights in times of armed conflict and human rights fact-finding methodologies, and is the author and co-author of several reports that document human rights abuses in the context of armed conflict and counterterrorism.