Join CCR's Lauren Gazzola and others for an evening of social justice, animal rights, and vegan food! The newly formed National Lawyers Guild Animal Rights Committee will hold its first event in NYC...
Updated: September 17, 2013
The Center for Constitutional Rights and ten other amici filed a brief of amicus curiae in support of appellee Adree Edmo. The brief argues that the appellate court should uphold the lower court's...
Updated: September 5, 2019
March 4, 2015, New York – Esteemed professor and intellectual Dr. Cornel West has cancelled a high-profile lecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in support of a...
March 13, 2018A Washington state court on Friday moved to end a lengthy legal campaign against former board members of the Olympia Food Co-op over their decision to support a boycott of Israeli goods. “It’s a huge...
New York, May 26th, 2009 – The beginning of the trial in the landmark human rights lawsuits Wiwa v. Royal Dutch Petroleum (Shell) and Wiwa v. Anderson has been delayed. The case had been previously...
December 3, 2021... “It’s not part of the ‘punishment,’ for people who are serving time, to be sexually abused, harassed and assaulted, day in and day out,” says Chinyere Ezie, a senior attorney at the Center for...
There is hardly a struggle aimed at upholding and extending the rights embedded in the U.S. Constitution in which the Center for Constitutional Rights has not played a central role. Whether defending...
Updated: May 17, 2012
April 17, 2013, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) released the following statement in response to the Supreme Court’s ruling in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum...
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