December 2006Guantanamo review boards often fall short as a source of due process for detainees.
Featuring Michael Ratner, president of the Center for Consitutional Rights; Joshua Dratel, attorney and co-editor of The Enemy Combatants Papers; Anthony Romero, executive director of the ACLU; and...
Updated: March 1, 2011
May 20, 2008, WASHINGTON, D.C. — Guantanamo attorneys, experts, and – for the first time - a former detainee today testified to Congress to call for a solution for the approximately 50 refugees still...
Join CCR for a pre-argument event at Georgetown Law School on Tuesday, December 4 and then come to the Supreme Court the next day for the oral argument and a vigil in support of the men at Guantanamo...
Updated: November 30, 2007
Three lawsuits filed on behalf of relatives of murdered activists who were fighting for human rights and environmental justice in Nigeria. The lawsuits are brought against the Royal Dutch Petroleum...
Updated: January 4, 2022
Despite this ruling, the legal fight continues and the government has no legal authority to re-detain him until the appeals process is fully concluded January 15, 2026, Philadelphia — Today, in a...
As part of its widespread investigation of universities in response to Palestine solidarity organizing, the U.S. House Committee on Education and Workforce sent a letter to Northwestern University on...
Updated: April 11, 2025
December 16, 2019We're urging the court to change the ground rules for Guantánamo cases [caption align="right"] [/caption] On Wednesday, our attorneys urged a federal appeals court to overturn a lower court ruling...
April 3, 2017This week's issue: Challenging Michigan’s racist and undemocratic Emergency Manager law; laws passed by state legislatures that attempt to suppress Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions; centering Black...
October 20, 2021Colonialism is generally not a topic of discussion or analysis in constitutional law studies in the United States. Yet U.S. constitutional law has both shaped and been shaped by projects of colonial...
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