November 12, 2015The University of Illinois will pay $600,000 to Steven Salaita after the school rescinded a tenure track job offer following a string of anti-Israel tweets during the summer of 2014. ... Read the...
Prisoners, Some Near-Death, File Urgent Petition for Release from “Ticking Timebomb” Detention Centers April 1, 2020, New Orleans – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights and the National...
March 20, 2018...A separate lawsuit filed in federal court in D.C. in January challenges the legal grounds for detaining 11 men held at the military facility for up to 16 years without being charged. That case,...
Please join the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) as we join with elected leaders, community members and advocates for a press conference and vote on the Community Safety Act (CSA) at City Hall...
Updated: August 20, 2013
Warning: The complaint and exhibits contain information that is graphic and that readers may find shocking or disturbing concerning acts of sexual violence, especially for survivors of sexual...
Updated: October 9, 2012
On July 11, 2017, Defending Rights & Dissent, CCR, the Massachusetts chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, and Palestine Legal sent a memorandum to Massachusetts legislators opposing S.1689 and...
Updated: February 21, 2018
November 2013By Laura Raymond, Advocacy Program Manager at the Center for Constitutional Rights Can you travel abroad, commit war crimes and then return home and continue on with your life as if nothing happened...
In this series of related cases, CCR has tackled two sets of legal prohibitions that make it a crime to provide support, including humanitarian aid, literature distribution and political advocacy, to...
Updated: September 8, 2021
Sylvester Johnson is Professor of Black Studies at Northwestern University. He is also co-founder and CEO of the Corporation for Public Interest Technology. Johnson served as the 2024 Kluge Chair for...
“Those who practice social justice law are essentially swimming upstream while others are on their way down. Unless you are serious about your direction and the choices you make and the need...
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