Updated: December 18, 2010
On March 22 in New York a three-judge panel heard arguments from attorneys representing Guantánamo detainees in the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals (Al Odah v. United States of America...
November 1, 2017A case is headed to the Supreme Court in December that centers around Jack Phillips, the owner of the Colorado-based Masterpiece Cakeshop, who refused to make a cake for a same-sex wedding . But the...
Join the Debevoise Muslim Affinity Group, CUNY CLEAR, the Muslim Bar Association of New York, Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP, and the Center for the Constitutional Rights...
Updated: October 9, 2020
March 2010The Supreme Court decides not to immediately hear Uighur case.
On November 14 th , 2013, the CCR and Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute hosted an important CLE program on Alien Tort Statute (ATS). The program focused on the use of the ATS as a tool for...
Updated: March 20, 2014
The principle of universal jurisdiction allows the national authorities of any state to investigate and prosecute people for serious international crimes even if they were committed in another...
Updated: September 8, 2021
The Center for Constitutional Rights is honored to be awarded the Frederick Douglass Human Rights Award, given annually by the Southern Center for Human Rights to those who have made outstanding...
December 1, 2010, New York - Today, CCR sent an urgent appeal to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders to ask her to investigate the case of the shack...
Join us for CCR's First Wednesday on August 5 th . We’ll update you on our stop-and-frisk case Floyd v. City of New York and discuss our work supporting the Black Lives Matter movement. CCR is...
Updated: July 22, 2015
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