This Black History Month, the Center for Constitutional Rights elevates the powerful history of agendas for Black liberation within the U.S. and globally, through art, dialogue, and uplifting our...
Updated: February 11, 2021
A close look at the most egregious examples of international law violations that have threatened peace and security in recent times reveals a common trend: governments perpetrating these serious...
Updated: March 5, 2021
Michael Ratner devoted four decades of his life at the Center for Constitutional Rights as a staff attorney, legal director, and board president until his untimely death in 2016. We miss him...
Updated: June 2, 2021
June 30, 2021...In this series, George Bisharat looks at private action and violence of the “frontier rabble” as a principal means of the settler colonial state’s expansion. He notes that private violence is a “...
August 6, 2021...A class action lawsuit ( Ashker v. Governor of California )—brought by the Center for Constitutional Rights on behalf of a group of incarcerated people—led to a 2015 settlement that included...
September 11, 2021...Advocates have called on Biden to consider alternatives to commission trials, including plea deals that could give prisoners credit for time served. Already, one prisoner, Majid Khan, is set to be...
Please join Hofstra Law's Monroe H. Freedman Institute for the Study of Legal Ethics on Tuesday, October 26, at 4:00 p.m. ET for a panel discussion commemorating the life of Michael Ratner...
Updated: September 22, 2021
October 8, 2021... On the 20th anniversary of the official launch of the so-called "Global War on Terror," a coalition of progressive advocacy groups on Monday demanded that U.S. President Joe Biden finally shut...
Attorneys Say He Must Now Be Transferred From Guantánamo Without Delay March 11, 2022, New York and Washington, D.C. – Today, the Convening Authority for Military Commissions approved a final...
April 1, 2022... This is not the first time a big business has gotten involved in local politics. In 2019, there was a lawsuit filed by many different civil rights organizations, such as Black Lives Matter and...
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