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
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
Sync Civi to Web Now Clicking this button should open a new tab that will load for several seconds, and then appear blank once it's done loading. Don't close the window or hit back while it's loading...
Updated: June 19, 2015
August 2, 2016Outgoing NYPD Commissioner William Bratton got high marks Tuesday from his law enforcement colleagues, but mixed reviews from civil liberties and civil rights activists. “Commissioner Bratton leaves...
August 3, 2016Outgoing NYPD Commissioner William Bratton got high marks Tuesday from his law enforcement colleagues, but mixed reviews from civil liberties and civil rights activists. “Commissioner Bratton leaves...
April 21, 2017...Darius Charney, a lawyer with the Center for Constitutional Rights and the lead lawyer in the initial case, Floyd v. City of New York , which challenged stop-and-frisk practices of the New York...
January 14, 2022... It has taken decades of litigation to bring these gross abuses and arrogations of power to light and to seek, all too slowly, even the most remedial human rights protections for those detained at...
January 7, 2010, New York and Washington DC – Congress should not prevent disclosure of its knowledge and oversight of the CIA’s use of rendition, secret detention, and torture, three...
May 13, 2021, New Orleans, LA – Today, the Louisiana Supreme Court ruled that Bayou Bridge Pipeline (BBP) must pay three landowners’ attorneys’ fees in addition to the $10,000 in damages awarded by a...
Join the Center for Constitutional Rights, CUNY School of Law , CLEAR , and CUNY Law International Refugee Assistance Project for a discussion...
Updated: March 20, 2023
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