July 2013" As toxins from US munitions and the burn pits the US military used to dispose of waste linger in Iraqi cities and villages, doctors and human rights advocates are reporting unprecedented and...
December 1, 2023...A group of Palestinian human rights organizations have filed a lawsuit asking a federal judge in San Francisco to order President Joe Biden to pressure Israel against continuing its military...
On Monday, April 7, 2008, Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute (HRI) and the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) will co-host a conference, THE UNITED STATES AND THE INTER-AMERICAN...
Updated: April 1, 2008
February 2014"As Black History Month comes to a close, a federal judge last week dismissed a major civil rights lawsuit that affects millions of African-Americans. I joined as a plaintiff on Hassan et al. vs...
The Future of Guantanamo We are pleased to invite you to a panel discussion with top experts on the future of detention policy with a particular focus on Guantánamo at Columbia Law School. Panelist...
Updated: February 25, 2008
THEN: In the 1970s, there were only 3,000 women entering law school yearly and a mere 7,000 in practice. Women were discriminated against (legally), disparaged (without recourse), punished for being...
Updated: May 21, 2008
Join Fordham students in court as they continue to fight for their right to have a Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) club on campus. The last of the four students who brought the case against...
Updated: May 7, 2019
CCR and Palestine Legal wrote a letter to the City University of New York (CUNY) on April 25, 2018, informing the college that the City College of New York’s (CCNY) cancellation of a May 3 event...
Updated: April 30, 2018
September 8, 2023"[A]lso in attendance...was Diala Shamas, a senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights , a Manhattan-based nonprofit legal advocacy organization. Shamas outlined to participants...
Please join the Center for Constitutional Rights in Brooklyn all next week Monday, August 1 – Friday, August 5 , from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM each day, for trial in United States and Vulcan Society...
Updated: July 28, 2011
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