CCR Bertha Justice Fellow Noor Zafar will join a distinguished interfaith panel examining the recent surge in acts of religious intolerance, and how to counteract such intolerance both as community...
CCR Bertha Justice Fellow Noor Zafar will join a panel to address the Muslim Ban as well as surveillance, profiling, travel restrictions, registries, and more practices that existed long before Trump...
CCR Legal Director Baher Azmy will join the final panel of this two-day conference organized by the Bernstein Center at NYU Law School. The panel title is "Lessons to Confront Closure at Home" and...
Case Challenges Michigan “Emergency Manager” Law March 31, 2017, Flint, MI – Today, a coalition of Michigan residents, organizations, and civil rights attorneys asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a...
This 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...
...One of the weirder turns the legal challenge to the EM law has taken was that the law deprives hundreds of thousands of Michigan citizens, specifically African Americans, of their fundamental...
CCR Senior Staff Attorney Katherine Gallagher will join other experts in a discussion co-organized by the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), Armanshahr/Open Asia , and the Research...
Updated: April 4, 2017
Help us honor the legacy of Michael Ratner and keep up the fight!
On October 6, 2016, the Center for Constitutional Rights launched the Michael Ratner Campaign for the Next Generation, rooted in the values that have always guided us and aimed at building a future as strong as our past. The Campaign deepens our capacity to act as the go-to legal and advocacy partner of social justice movements, spend more time on the ground, shoulder-to-shoulder with our partners, and recruit, mentor, and train young movement lawyers and advocates!
Katherine Franke has generously offered to MATCH up to $333,000 of all NEW and INCREASED gifts to the the Michael Ratner Campaign for the Next Generation!
CCR Deputy Legal Director Maria LaHood will join U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights Executive Director Yousef Munayyer for a discussion on Palestinian advocacy in the Trump era. This discussion is...
April 7, 2017, New York – This morning, the New York City Police Department is publicly releasing its final body-worn camera policy, subject to the approval of the court monitor and, potentially, the...
