The Al Birr Foundation is one of the organizations pinpointed by a team led by Mark Denbeaux that were used to justify the continued extrajudicial detention of captives held in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba. Denbeaux is a Professor at Seton Hall University's School of law. He and his son, Joshua Denbeaux, serve as pro bono lawyers for two Guantanamo captives. They lead a team of Seton Hall law student who compiled a series of reports, based on the documents that the US Department of Defense has released.