Spurred by the one-year anniversary of President Obama's pronouncement to close Guantanamo, and the fates of nearly 200 detainees still hanging in the balance, Culture Project brings Blueprint for...
Updated: March 31, 2010
June 12, 2015A Champaign County judge has ordered the University of Illinois to turn over thousands of pages of emails sought by a professor suing the school over a rescinded job offer. Judge Thomas Difanis said...
The Cardozo International Law Society, Cardozo Students for Human Rights, and the Floersheimer Center for Constitutional Democracy present Targeting Terror: Can the Executive carry out “...
Updated: December 2, 2010
Michael Ratner’s activism and human rights work dated back to the 1960s. He was a student at Columbia Law School during the 1968...
Updated: May 12, 2016
Belton v. Gautreaux is a federal class action lawsuit on behalf of people imprisoned at the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison in Louisiana. The lawsuit and an accompanying motion for a temporary...
Updated: April 26, 2021
June 14, 2010, New York – Today, following the announcement by the U.S. Supreme Court that it had refused to hear the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) case on behalf of Canadian citizen...
OVERPOLICED AND UNDERPROTECTED: Women, Race, and Criminalization Engaging scholars from various disciplines, as well as practitioners and community activists, to interrogate how criminalization of...
Updated: January 10, 2012
October 2014"Responding to a lawsuit alleging unlawful and unconstitutional police surveillance of Muslim communities, lawyers under New York Mayor Bill de Blasio have doubled down on the arguments of his...
October 2, 2015Long before a national spotlight was cast on the long-standing, tempestuous relationship between police and the Black and Brown communities they occupy, New York City was in the limelight for its...
More than a decade after the Iraq War began, US veterans and Iraqi civilians continue to live with its legacies - physical wounds, psychological trauma, environmental poisoning, and the displacement...
Updated: February 4, 2014
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