This paper is released as part of our 100 Days white paper series . Amend the War Powers Resolution provides an overview of executive abuse of war-making power, and calls for restoring checks and...
Updated: June 26, 2009
June 22, 2016Jonathan Hafetz , Associate Professor at Seton Hall Law School, Wells Dixon , Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights and Martha Rayner , Clinical Associate Professor of Law at...
Tomorrow is the one-year anniversary of President Obama’s announcement to close the prison at Guantánamo Bay. The Obama administration has already said it will miss the deadline, and CCR...
January 6, 2019... The latest move reversed a decision by a district court, which denied a public records request made by the Center for Constitutional Rights ( CCR ), a human rights law firm which has worked on...
In September of 1971, an uprising by the incarcerated men of Attica, a maximum-security prison located in western New York, ended in the bloodiest attack by state authorities in United States history...
Updated: August 26, 2021
January 2009President Obama's pledge to close the terror prison camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, is being hailed as a major step toward restoring world opinion of the United States as a champion of human rights and...
CCR Legal Director Baher Azmy will give a talk entitled “Challenging State Power in the 9/11 Era: Guantanamo, Profiling and Human Rights” on Tuesday, December 8 th , at 4:15 p.m. as part of the 2015-...
Updated: December 3, 2015
Join CCR Bertha Justice Fellow Omar Shakir to discuss "The Palestine Exception to Free Speech" alongside Radhika Sainath, Thomas DeAngelis, and Susie Abdelghafar. Speakers will discuss ...
Updated: November 17, 2015
February 17, 2016A student group at Harvard Law School claimed this week that its stance on free speech and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict drove Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy to withdraw generous annual...
December 11, 2020... Diala Shamas, a human rights attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), which represented the plaintiffs, shared a pair of videos on social media in which Tanvir describes how he was...
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