August 2012New rules from the Obama Justice Department threaten to return Guantanamo Bay to the legal black hole it was in during the early days of the George W. Bush administration. The rules, which began...
January 2012Lawrence struck down a Texas sodomy law and held that sexual intimacy at home is constitutionally protected under due process and privacy principles. Coming seventeen years after Bowers v. Hardwick...
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
CCR is proud to co-sponsor this NYC performance of There Is A Field, a new play, written by Jen Marlowe and directed by Noelle Ghoussaini, about Aseel Asleh, a 17-year old Palestinian citizen of...
Updated: February 29, 2016
July 7, 2016New Yorkers should visit nypdbodycameras.org now and take advantage of this rare opportunity to give input on not only how we are policed, but on how we will literally be watched. Body-worn cameras...
August 18, 2016, New York – In response to the news that the Department of Justice will cease to use private prisons, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement: CCR welcomes...
CCR Legal Director Baher Azmy will join a distinguished panel titled, "How Can Strategic Litigation Deliver Transformative Change? International Perspectives." The panel is part of a larger three-day...
Updated: October 7, 2016
CCR Bertha Justice Fellow Stephanie Llanes will present a workshop on Movement Lawyering at Lánzate 2016: Mijente Gathering in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Mijente is a digital and grassroots hub for...
Updated: November 21, 2016
February 10, 2017...On this week’s episode of Big Time Dicks , Prachi Gupta and I focus on Sessions’ work as Alabama Attorney General and, later, Senator—and, just a note, it’s really alarming to hear a racist life’s...
June 20, 2017Dozens of lawyers gathered at the New York City Bar Association's third annual Diversity and Inclusion Conference this week with a similar question: What can we do to help? City bar president John...
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