Editing Michael Ratner (section)

==Posthumous criticism==
In September 2021, ''[[The New York Review of Books]]'' published an essay<ref name="Tragedy">{{cite web |author=Moyn, Samuel |date=September 1, 2021 |title=Michael Ratner's Tragedy, and Ours |url=https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2021/09/01/michael-ratners-tragedy-and-ours/ |access-date=September 10, 2021 |work=[[The New York Review of Books]]}}</ref> by [[Yale Law School]] professor and historian [[Samuel Moyn]] adapted by the author from his book ''Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War'' (2021).<ref name="Humane">{{cite web |title=Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War |url=https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374173708 |access-date=September 10, 2021 |publisher=[[Macmillan Publishers]]}}</ref> Tragically, writes Moyn, Ratner's career is a case history of how U.S. humanitarians ended up sanitizing the [[war on terror]] instead of opposing it. "By legalizing the manner of the conflict," Moyn asserts, "Ratner paradoxically laundered the inhumanity from what began as a brutal enterprise by helping to recodify a war that thus became endless, legal, and ''humane''."<ref name="Tragedy" />

One week later, ''The New York Review of Books'' published a rebuttal by [[Kenneth Roth]], executive director of [[Human Rights Watch]], who objected that "Reducing Ratner's lifework to an effort to sanitize war and therefore unwittingly enable its continuation is not only a betrayal of his memory; it is also a misplaced attack on the decades of efforts of the human rights movement to curb the barbarity of war and protect civilians caught in its midst.".<ref name="Rebuttal">{{cite web |author=Roth, Kenneth |date=September 8, 2021 |title=Litigating the War on Terror: An Exchange |url=https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2021/09/08/litigating-the-war-on-terror-an-exchange/ |access-date=September 10, 2021 |work=[[The New York Review of Books]]}}</ref> Another essay, by Ratner's colleagues [[Joseph Margulies (lawyer)|Joseph Margulies]] and [[Baher Azmy]], terms Moyn's essay "fantastically wrong", charging it with fundamentally misrepresenting Ratner's activities and views, as well as the broader consequences of his litigation.<ref name="The Humanity of Michael Ratner, The Fabrications of Samuel Moyn">{{cite web |author=Margulies, Joseph and Azmy, Baher |date=September 13, 2021 |title=The Humanity of Michael Ratner, The Fabrications of Samuel Moyn |url=https://www.justsecurity.org/78204/the-humanity-of-michael-ratner-the-fabrications-of-samuel-moyn/ |access-date=September 13, 2021 |work=[[Just Security]]}}</ref>