Lawyer, professor, and writer Jonathan Hafetz shares his memories of late CCR President Emeritus Michael Ratner and the enduring mission of efforts to close Guantánamo, which is further explored in...
The United Nations Human Rights Council is underway in Geneva, with diplomats and experts covering such important topics as the rights of indigenous peoples, enforced disappearance, and the critical...
With a conservative Supreme Court majority, it was no surprise the justices upheld Trump's Muslim Ban. But there was a silver lining: In a vote against the racist policy, Justice Breyer cited on page...
Victory! U.S. appeals court rules against former Bolivian president and defense minister over 2003 massacre [caption align="right"] [/caption] Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh...
May 30, 2024, Buffalo, NY – In a lawsuit against the City of Buffalo challenging unconstitutional and racially discriminatory traffic enforcement practices by the Buffalo Police Department (BPD),...
April 11, 2025, Jena, Louisiana - In a decision that appeared to be pre-written, an immigration judge ruled immediately after a hearing today that Mahmoud Khalil is removable under U.S. immigration...
December 30, 2013, New York – In response to the announcement that Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio has selected former United States Attorney Zachary Carter as incoming Corporation Counsel for the...
If Barack Obama can publicly apologize for the accidental killings of two al-Qaida hostages – one American and one Italian – by a US drone strike, the White House should extend the same courtesy to a...
Nearly two weeks after a former Guantánamo attorney asked the Inspector General’s Office at the Pentagon to investigate whether the war court compound at the remote base was linked to seven cases of...
I have settled my lawsuit with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). This declaration of fact supposedly ends a story with the tidiness to which storytelling in a linear society...
