In an effort to spark a more productive and powerful discussion about racial justice, the NYU School of Law hosted activists and academics for a panel discussion that questioned the larger...
Civil rights attorney Vincent Warren has been awarded the New York State Bar Association's Haywood Burns Memorial Award. He received the award during the State Bar Association's Annual Meeting in New...
Raji Sourani , founder and director of the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) in Gaza and Shawan Jabarin, director of al-Haq in Ramallah, will provide timely perspectives from the...
We salute Lynne Stewart, longtime friend of CCR, who was the very definition of a people's lawyer and who passed away yesterday. We send our love and condolences to her partner Ralph Poynter, who was...
In the final hearing of the Obama administration, the US Supreme Court heard arguments in Ziglar v. Abbasi , a case 15 years in the making for Rachel Meeropol ’02, senior staff attorney at the Center...
On April 25th, the Supreme Court will hear Trump v. Hawaii, one of the legal challenges to the Trump administration's Muslim Ban, which has been blocked by the courts time and time again. The night...
Join the Center for Constitutional Rights, The Dream Unfinished , and Lincoln Center for a live community reading of Frederick Douglass's speech, What to the Slave is the Fourth of...
...In 2008, the United States Supreme Court ruled that people imprisoned at Guantánamo can challenge their imprisonment by filing writs of habeas corpus. And in 2020, a federal appeals court panel...
The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) condemns yesterday’s arrest and detention of Aliaksandr (Ales) Bialiatski, President of the Human Rights Center Viasna in Belarus and Vice-President...
