November 12, 2015More than a year after firing Dr. Steven Salaita from a tenured faculty position for publishing personal tweets critical of Israel's 2014 military assault on Gaza, the University of Illinois at...
November 14, 2015As Steven Salaita recounts it in his just-published book, “ Uncivil Rites: Palestine and the Limits of Academic Freedom ,” on the afternoon of Aug. 2, 2014, he was “enjoying a typical Saturday: the...
December 28, 2015The warnings began even before Bill de Blasio was sworn in as New York City’s mayor in January 2014. A safe New York depended on the aggressive policing tactics that began in the 1990s and flourished...
March 16, 2016Attorneys urged the D.C. Circuit to revive claims that federal prisons single out Muslim inmates for isolation units where their communications face 24-7 surveillance. The Center for Constitutional...
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
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...
November 17, 2016..."Until the rise of Trumpism, it had been universally recognized that Japanese internment was one of the most shameful episodes in our country's history, yet in this new era it is becoming an...
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 19, 2017The Supreme Court ruled Monday that Muslim men detained after the Sept. 11 attacks can't sue top U.S. law enforcement officials. The justices by a 4-2 vote ended a long-running lawsuit against former...
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
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