CCR Executive Director Vince Warren will give the keynote address at the upcoming conference, From Classroom to the Community: Teaching and Advancing Social Justice 2016 Society of American Law...
Updated: September 15, 2016
Law4BlackLives was a national gathering, initiated by CCR, of over 1,000 lawyers, law students, legal workers, and jailhouse lawyers committed to building a world where #BlackLivesMatter. More than a...
Updated: September 14, 2016
On September 8, CCR board chair Katherine Franke testified on behalf of CCR in front of the New York City Council Committee on Contracts regarding Resolution No. 1058-A , which unfairly condemns the...
Updated: September 15, 2016
CCR Senior Staff Attorney Rachel Meeropol and CCR Board member Jules Lobel will speak at a biannual conference at UCLA for advocates around prison issues in September. Rachel is taking part in the...
Updated: September 15, 2016
September 15, 2016"I wish to see him and hug him and sit next to him and hold his head in my arms and tell him that I love him." This week, Senior Staff Attorney Wells Dixon and Advocacy Program Manager Aliya Hussain...
CCR Senior Staff Attorney Shayana Kadidal will join a panel discussion about the tragic December 2015 shooting in San Bernardino, California and subsequent heated dispute: should law enforcement be...
Updated: September 15, 2016
September 16, 2016This week, the New York City Council passed Resolution No. 1058-A, which condemns the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israeli human rights abuses and violations of...
September 21, 2016, Chicago – Today, attorneys from the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) argued before the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, urging the court to strike down the federal Animal...
September 21, 2016Three years ago, my friend Tyler and I crept onto a squalid and cramped fur farm in northern Illinois and released two thousand mink from their cages to save their lives. Approximately a year later,...
CCR Advocacy Program Manager Nahal Zamani will present at a panel discussion, "Perspectives on Police Violence" at Hobart and William Smith (HWS) Colleges in Geneva, New York. Zamani will speak...
Updated: September 22, 2016
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