CCR Social Justice Institute fellow Chauniqua Young will take part in an important forum between family members of folks murdered by the NYPD, community organizers and advocates. Save the date! More...
Join us for this discussion where we will hear the reactions of peace and justice activists and lawyers to the ICC Pre-Trial Chamber’s decision refusing to open an investigation...
December 11, 2015, New York – Today, in a case brought by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), the Second Circuit Court of Appeals refused to reconsider a historic ruling by a three-judge...
Democracy Now! hosted a roundtable on police killings of black men. Protests escalated in Charlotte, North Carolina, overnight when hundreds took to the street and blocked Interstate 85 to express...
Baher Azmy, the legal director of the Center for Constitutional Rights and one of the lead lawyers in Floyd, has joined F.J.L.C.’s legal team for the seizure lawsuit. (Melissa Friedman, a leading...
The stunning upset election of Donald Trump has left many Americans wondering what has become of their country, their party, their government, even their sense of the world. Purple prose has been...
The National Lawyers Guild 's Annual Law for the People Convention (#Law4ThePeople ) brings together hundreds of legal professionals, scholars, and activists for five days of interactive CLEs,...
Michael Ratner, a fearless civil liberties lawyer who successfully challenged the United States government’s detention of terrorism suspects at Guantánamo Bay without judicial review, died on...
... A new letter from a coalition of human rights groups (including the Arab American Anti-Discrimination Committee, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and Palestine Legal) calls on the school to...