Despite the health professions’ universally recognized duty to do no harm, doctors and psychologists have played a key role in the U.S. government’s policy of torture in its overseas prisons. They...
Updated: August 13, 2015
By Bill Quigley, Associate Legal Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights and Director of the Law Clinic and the Gillis Long Poverty Law Center at Loyola University New Orleans . “Our...
Updated: January 19, 2012
February 25, 2024...“In the history of U.S. terrorism law, Palestine is the elephant in the room,” said Darryl Li, an anthropologist and legal scholar at the University of Chicago and author of the report. The legal...
NYU School of Law's American Constitution Society and Law Students for Human Rights are pleased to announce a panel discussion on National Security and Detainee Policy in the Obama...
Updated: March 26, 2009
A film about CCR's client at Guantánamo is screening on Saturday, November 23 at 7:30 pm as part of Impugning Impunity: A Human Rights Documentary Film Series presented by the Abraham Lincoln...
Updated: October 25, 2013
A version of this article was originally posted by CCR Executive Director Vincent Warren on Huffington Post on November 11, 2010 Hammurabi, Moses, Justinian and Solon -- four titans of justice --...
Updated: December 1, 2010
This paper is released as part of our 100 Days white paper series . Amend the War Powers Resolution provides an overview of executive abuse of war-making power, and calls for restoring checks and...
Updated: June 26, 2009
April 1, 2024Suit against contractor goes to trial on April 15th
August 16, 2015The US Department of Justice (DOJ) [official website] on Friday submitted a sealed document [The Guardian report] in opposition to the habeas corpus petition of Tariq Ba Odah, despite a 2009...
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED From the leader of the “free world” to the leader of a worldwide faith, each person must be subject to the rule of law. Where national legal systems are...
Updated: November 23, 2011
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