Leading academicians, activists, political figures, and lawyers will discuss a critical, oft-neglected, public policy issue: how police, prosecutorial, and prison-related practices lead to the...
Fairleigh Dickinson University’s Office of Global Learning will present a conference on "The War on Terror and the Fate of Human Rights in the U.S." at the Metropolitan Campus, Teaneck, NJ...
The Nation, The Center for Constitutional Rights and Akashic Books present a dialogue between best-selling author Walter Mosley and television star Mike Farrell ("M*A*S*H...
The Perceived Tension Between Liberty and Security Don't know what the writ of habeas corpus is? Habeas corpus prevents the indefinite detainment of a prisoner without being charged or brought before...
On September 11-12, 2008, Evangelicals for Human Rights, with the National Religious Campaign Against Torture and Mercer University, will host a national summit on torture in Atlanta, GA, on the...
THEN: In the 1970s, there were only 3,000 women entering law school yearly and a mere 7,000 in practice. Women were discriminated against (legally), disparaged (without recourse), punished for being...
Join bestselling author JEREMY SCAHILL, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer CHRIS HEDGES, journalist LAILA AL-ARIAN, and the New Yorker's SEYMOUR HERSH, as they go behind the headlines to tell the untold...
Detainees at the U.S. Military Prison in Guantánamo will finally get their day in court on May 27 – Superior Court, in Washington DC, when 35 Americans from cities and towns across the country will...
FROM BLACK POWER TO GREEN SCARE: The Criminalization of Dissent in the United States Thursday, June 5, 2008 6:30 p.m. (More details below) FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Join the Center for...
