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Garbus, Martin

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Garbus, Martin (1930– )

US lawyer specializing in civil-liberty cases. His clients included Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov, Nelson Mandela, and Václav Havel, for whom he drafted the section on civil liberties in the Czech constitution.

Garbus was born into a poor immigrant family in New York. A law professor at Yale and Colombia, he specialized in First Amendment rights and represented, amongst others, comedian Lenny Bruce (against obscenity charges in 1964), LSD apologist Timothy Leary, Viking Penguin in the Salman Rushdie case, and black people in Mississippi wanting to exercise their right to vote. His books include Ready for the Defense (1971, revised 1987) and Traitors and Heroes (1989).



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