This Black History Month, the Center for Constitutional Rights elevates the powerful history of agendas for Black liberation within the U.S. and globally, through art, dialogue, and uplifting our...
Updated: February 11, 2021
September 13, 2023Like Cop City itself, the indictment is born of backlash, white supremacy’s response to Black-led protests
June 12, 2015A Champaign County judge has ordered the University of Illinois to turn over thousands of pages of emails sought by a professor suing the school over a rescinded job offer. Judge Thomas Difanis said...
May 12, 2016In the years following 9/11, Michael Ratner, who has died of cancer aged 72, emerged as one of America’s foremost human rights lawyers. He galvanised 500 US lawyers of various political persuasions...
CCR senior staff attorney Rachel Meeropol will be speaking on two panels at this conference: the Know Your Rights 101 panel on Thursday, August 3, from 10:45 a.m. - 11:45 a.m., and a plenary titled "...
Updated: July 28, 2017
The Cardozo International Law Society, Cardozo Students for Human Rights, and the Floersheimer Center for Constitutional Democracy present Targeting Terror: Can the Executive carry out “...
Updated: December 2, 2010
Michael Ratner’s activism and human rights work dated back to the 1960s. He was a student at Columbia Law School during the 1968...
Updated: May 12, 2016
March 19, 2013, Washington, D.C. – Today, on the 10-year anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, a group of U.S. veterans of the Iraq war and two Iraqi organizations launched the “Right to...
Belton v. Gautreaux is a federal class action lawsuit on behalf of people imprisoned at the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison in Louisiana. The lawsuit and an accompanying motion for a temporary...
Updated: April 26, 2021
June 14, 2010, New York – Today, following the announcement by the U.S. Supreme Court that it had refused to hear the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) case on behalf of Canadian citizen...
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