CCR Senior Staff Attorney Rachel Meeropol and CCR Board member Jules Lobel will speak at a biannual conference at UCLA for advocates around prison issues in September. Rachel is taking part in the...
Updated: September 15, 2016
September 30, 2016... Arguing the case, first in federal court and then before the Supreme Court, was the late human rights lawyer and feminist Rhonda Copelon, who was then an attorney at the Center for Constitutional...
October 27, 2016Shortly after a recent gala celebration of its 50th anniversary, the Center for Constitutional rights (CCR), received word that the U.S. Supreme Court is going to take another look at a favorable...
CCR Executive Director Vince Warren will give the keynote address at the annual Western Regional National Black Law Students Association (WRNBLSA) Convention in Seattle on January 7. His keynote will...
Updated: January 6, 2017
June 2, 2017...Hawkins said the Defense Department's copy also is particularly important because it provides evidence that could be used in the military commission trials of Guantanamo Bay detainees. A military...
December 1, 2017Sixteen years after Sept. 11, 2001, and 17 years after two suicide bombers killed 17 sailors aboard the USS Cole , the death penalty trials of the Guantanamo detainees accused of planning the attacks...
In a case that highlights what some are calling the “Palestine exception” to free speech on college campuses across the nation, DemocracyNow! looks at students who are suing Fordham University’s...
Updated: January 5, 2018
February 17, 2018...In an article for the British newspaper The Guardian Friday, Katherine Gallagher, a senior staff attorney with the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights, argued that the Afghanistan case...
June 20, 2018..."If suspected ISIS fighters are transferred to Guantánamo I would expect that a legal challenge to their detention would be filed within days if not hours of their arrival," said Wells Dixon of...
Let's Talk It Over is a monthly live conversation hosted by Frank Barat with a pool of regular participants, including Roger Waters, Brian Eno, Yanis Varoufakis, and Ken Loach. This month...
Updated: March 10, 2021
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