Katherine Franke, New York, is the James L. Dohr Professor of Law at Columbia University, where she also directs the Center for Gender and Sexuality Law and is the faculty director of the Public...
For decades, the powerful have attempted to silence their critics by filing meritless lawsuits intended to intimidate public watchdogs and advocacy groups. This repressive tactic — called “Strategic...
Updated: August 30, 2018
Detainees released from U.S. detention in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba and Afghanistan live shattered lives as a result of U.S. policies in the "war on terror," according to a new report by...
Updated: September 8, 2021
February 2012'Stop-and-frisk', an American epidemic, has become acceptable by local police forces to view black and Latino males in inner cities as criminals first, and as citizens maybe. According to records,...
June 24, 2019Reflecting on the Stonewall uprising and 50 years of struggle On the 15th episode of The Activist Files, Staff Attorney Chinyere Ezie and Dean Spade , author , activist, and law professor at Seattle...
December 11, 2015By now, much ink has been spilled in rightful condemnation of Donald Trump’s call on Monday for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.” The New York Daily News ran an...
“You Can’t Sue an Idea,” Say Activists December 5, 2017, New York, NY – On behalf of the environmental magazine the Earth First! Journal , the Center for Constitutional Rights urged a court to...
September 22, 2023...But concerns remain about transparency and accountability features to ensure that federal funding is actually distributed to historically disinvested communities to update their aging and...
On February 26th, 2021, join UCLA Law’s Promise Institute for Human Rights, the Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs, and the Corporate Accountability Lab as they host a day-long...
Updated: February 19, 2021
Darius Charney is a Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Consitutional Rights, where he works on government misconduct and racial justice cases. He is lead counsel on Floyd v. City of New York ,...
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