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...
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...
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...
August 14, 2015The Obama administration has decided for now to fight any court-ordered release of a detainee at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, who has been on a hunger strike since February 2007 and now weighs less than 75...
November 13, 2015The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) has reached a settlement of $875,000 for firing a professor over his anti-Israel tweets. UIUC fired Steven Salaita for tweets criticizing “the...
November 19, 2015With a wealthy donor's behind-the-scenes influence and a university chancellor's use of a private email account, the withdrawal of a professor's job offer became both a mystery to unravel and a...
January 7, 2016Muslim Advocates and the Center for Constitutional Rights, two organizations headquartered in New York City, said they hoped the settlement would prompt de Blasio to speak out against profiling. "...
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