June 15, 2020, New York – In response to today’s ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court in R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and Aimee Stephens , the Center...
Please join CCR and CUNY School of Law’s CLEAR Project for oral argument before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in Tanvir v. Tanzin , our case challenging the FBI’s abuse of the government’s No-...
Updated: February 23, 2017
July 28, 2017New York governor Andrew Cuomo pledged to abolish solitary confinement for children through a Raise the Age law. Despite that, kids as young as seven can be placed into solitary confinement, since...
September 26, 2017As debates about free speech on college campuses rage, Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Tuesday said that America’s universities are “transforming into an echo chamber of political correctness and...
August 2008At least 17 detainees in Guantanamo Bay were subjected to the banned "frequent flyer" treatment where they were moved repeatedly from cell to cell to cause sleep deprivation prior to...
In a first for a former Guantanamo captive freed by a federal judge, a Syrian man now living in Europe is suing the U.S. government for damages from what he calls a "Kafkaesque nightmare."
As part of the William H. Gates Public Service Law Program at the University of Washington School of Law, Vincent Warren , Executive Director of CCR, will be speaking to the campus community. The...
Updated: September 23, 2008
June 13, 2015A leading academic group voted Saturday to censure the University of Illinois’ flagship campus over its decision not to hire a professor following his anti-Israel Twitter messages, a vote the...
June 18, 2015Top officials during the George W. Bush era can be held legally liable for the roundup of innocent detainees post-9/11, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday. In a 2-1 ruling, the 2nd Circuit U.S...
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