| Franklin Siegel
Email
Phone
(718) 340-4231
Office
245A
Franklin Siegel, Adjunct Professor, received his B.A. from New York
University's Washington Square College of Arts and Science, M.A. in Economics
from the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research, J.D. from
Brooklyn Law School, and LL.M from Columbia Law School, where he was a Harlan
Fiske Stone Scholar. A former staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional
Rights, he now serves on its board and as a volunteer attorney. He was a
national board member and New York Chapter President of the National Lawyers
Guild and was a founder and first coordinator of the Guild’s Puerto Rico Legal
Project, later to become the island’s first public interest law firm. His
litigation work has included being co-lead counsel in the stolen assets case
against Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos and participation in the asset
recovery effort against the former Shah of Iran. He represented journalists and
media organizations challenging military restrictions on news coverage during
the 1991 Gulf War. He won a groundbreaking ruling under the Americans with
Disabilities Act defining government’s duties when planning or upgrading
services. He was one of the attorneys who represented members of Congress who
brought lawsuits when the first President Bush and President Clinton sought to
use military force without Congressional authorization required by the
Constitution and War Powers Resolution. He has represented foreign governments,
including the Presidential Commission on Good Government of the Republic of the
Philippines and the Vietnam Mission to the United Nations. He is one of four
Class Counsel in longstanding litigation prohibiting police surveillance of
lawful associational activity in New York City, most recently defending the
decree from efforts to eliminate court-ordered protections.
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