December 2014"A white New York City police officer accused of killing a black man with a chokehold avoided indictment, raising the prospect of new protests over police use of force a week after a Missouri...
"Reaction across the city was mixed Wednesday after a grand jury decided not to indict NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo in the apparent chokehold death of Staten Island man Eric Garner. Garner's...
December 2014"Hundreds of civil rights lawyers from across America are descending on Ferguson, Missouri as police and protesters prepare for a grand jury decision on whether to charge the officer who killed...
December 2014"After all the battles over redaction in the Senate Intelligence Committee torture report, we should keep one thing in mind: this is not, primarily, a battle over information. ..." Read the...
October 2014"The U.S. Attorney filed an extraordinary motion this week in the controversial prosecution of Rasmea Odeh, seeking an order to empanel an anonymous jury and sequester jurors from protests occurring...
On November 14 th , 2013, the CCR and Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute hosted an important CLE program on Alien Tort Statute (ATS). The program focused on the use of the ATS as a tool for...
Updated: March 20, 2014
This year's Bertha Justice Conference will celebrate the 50th anniversary of Freedom Summer by profiling global and domestic models of "movement lawyering"--lawyers and organizers working...
Updated: August 13, 2014
Updated: October 8, 2014
For the December 9, 2014 Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on "The State of Civil and Human Rights in the United States," called by the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and...
Updated: December 9, 2014
Updated: January 31, 2014
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