The right-wing justices have once again signaled that their mission is to dismantle laws that protect marginalized communities
August 18, 2015, Guantánamo – Today, an attorney from the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) urged a Periodic Review Board (PRB) at Guantánamo to recommend that Mohammed Kamin be cleared for...
June 16, 2020This is the last in a four-part series of blogs about the movement response to COVID-19. It also appears as the latest episode of the Center for Constitutional Rights podcast, The Activist Files...
April 17, 2013, Washington, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court today issued a disappointing decision in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum (Shell) , holding that the Alien Tort Statute (ATS) does not...
CCR seeks a dynamic, creative Staff Attorney with 4-7 years of litigation experience. While this attorney may ultimately work on a broad range of the Center’s litigation and advocacy campaigns, CCR...
Updated: October 10, 2016
On Friday October 24th the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia will hear opening arguments from counsel of the defendants CACI International Inc and CACI Premier...
Updated: October 23, 2008
On October 1, 2018, Katherine Gallagher , a CCR Senior Staff Attorney, will appear as a panelist at The Accountability of ‘Major Powers’ for Alleged Serious Violations of Human Rights and...
Updated: September 14, 2018
CCR senior staff attorney Rachel Meeropol will be speaking on two panels at this conference: the Know Your Rights 101 panel on Thursday, August 3, from 10:45 a.m. - 11:45 a.m., and a plenary titled "...
Updated: July 28, 2017
Updated: September 10, 2008
On Episode 20 of “The Activist Files,” Center for Constitutional Rights Staff Attorney Diala Shamas talks with Noura Erakat , author of the new book Justice for Some: Law and the Question of...
Updated: November 14, 2019
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