February 25, 2024...“The US has created a situation where Israel, a foreign government, can kill US citizens knowing that the US is not going to hold them accountable,” said Maria LaHood, deputy legal director of the...
November 9, 2015, New York – In reaction to the Egyptian military’s arrest and incommunicado detention of renowned human rights defender, Hossam Bahgat, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued...
December 2014"Under U.S. law, torture is a crime that can lead to life in prison – so why hasn’t it? The Senate report documents comprehensive and detailed evidence of a criminal conspiracy of U.S. government...
The Center for Constitutional Rights seeks two dynamic, visionary attorneys, preferably with 4+ years of litigation experience, who are politically aligned with our vision and approach to movement...
Updated: May 4, 2022
April 2, 2018[caption align="right"] [/caption] #BanTigerSwan: the fight against the Bayou Bridge pipeline in Louisiana continues Last Thursday, our allies in Louisiana fighting against the Bayou Bridge pipeline...
November 3, 2011, Houston, TX and New York, NY – Last night, in a human rights case against Honduran coup leader Roberto Micheletti Baín, attorneys from the Center for Constitutional...
Join The Center for Constitutional Rights for Rabbis for Human Rights (North America) third conference on Judaism and Human Rights: HUMAN RIGHTS UNDER FIRE : A JEWISH CALL TO ACTION , which will be...
Updated: November 5, 2010
How to Sue the Klan is the story of how five Black women from Chattanooga used legal ingenuity to take on the Ku Klux Klan in a historic 1982 civil case filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights...
Updated: February 16, 2024
The University of Dayton is hosting the biennial conference The Social Practice of Human Rights: Charting the Frontiers of Research and Advocacy on October 1-3, 2015. This three-day conference will...
Updated: September 9, 2015
Handbook for Law Students Interested in Social Justice Includes writings like "The Letter I Wish I Had Read Before My First Year in Law School,""Transcending the Pedagogy of the Oppressor," and "...
Updated: June 29, 2015
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