September 10, 2021...But despite early moves to free one prisoner and place five others on a list of those eligible for release, how or when the administration will carry out that plan remains unclear, reports the...
September 1, 2021...This call for “reparations” has mixed antecedents. In North America, demands have been made for reparations to, among others, the victims of transatlantic slavery and Indigenous genocide...
September 11, 2021This weekend marks the 20th anniversary of 9/11, and as the withdrawal from Afghanistan dominates the headlines, so does the conversation about the forever war and its implications. Dahlia Lithwick...
Please join Hofstra Law's Monroe H. Freedman Institute for the Study of Legal Ethics on Tuesday, October 26, at 4:00 p.m. ET for a panel discussion commemorating the life of Michael Ratner...
Updated: September 22, 2021
Prosecutor Seeks to Move Forward With Investigation Against Only Taliban, Islamic State-Khorasan Province September 27, 2021—Prosecutor Karim A.A. Khan of the International Criminal Court (ICC) this...
September 28, 2021 – Yesterday, the ICC Prosecutor announced that he had requested to resume the investigation into international crimes in the Afghanistan situation and that he would be focusing on...
The Center for Constitutional Rights is excited to co-sponsor the War on Terror Film Festival , a month-long, virtual program organized by the Coalition for Civil Freedoms featuring 20 award-winning...
Updated: October 20, 2021
October 7, 2021...In December, lawyers for the outgoing Trump administration urged the Supreme Court to take up the case. They said judges should defer to the government and should not second-guess the executive...
October 7, 2021...The prosecutors had hoped to find a receptive partner in the administration of President Barack Obama, particularly as the American public had widely condemned the war on terror tactics of his...
October 8, 2021... Moyn takes Ratner—the long-time president of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) who died in 2016—to task for filing Rasul v. Bush to give people indefinitely detained at Guantánamo the...
Pages
