This spring, preLaw magazine ranked CUNY Law #2 for Social Justice and named the school to its Justice & Opportunity Honor Roll.
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What It Means to Be a Top Law School for Social Justice, Access, and Opportunity
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Four Minutes: Paige McDonald on Arguing a Real Case in a Real Court — as a Law Student
In CUNY Law’s Disability Rights and Social Justice Clinic, McDonald wrote the brief, argued it, and discovered she is more than ready for what’s next.
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In Federal Court, CUNY Law Clinic Students Take on a Defining First Amendment Fight
A First Amendment case has put the Equality & Justice In-House Clinic at the center of one of the most consequential constitutional questions of the moment.
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Lawyering for Liberation Comes to CUNY Law: Professor Stahly-Butts Hosts Contributors and Movement Lawyers for a Conversation on the Field
Movement lawyers and organizers on the frontline of social movements on how lawyers and legal workers can strengthen social movements through radical, movement-centered advocacy and power-building.
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Kenny Minaya ’12 Named NYC Small Business Services Commissioner by Mayor Mamdani
The Community & Economic Development Clinic alum joins Mamdani’s administration at a moment of change for NYC’s approach to economic justice.
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A Visiting Semester, Years in the Making with Prof. Jayesh Rathod
The nationally recognized scholar and clinician on teaching students prepared to engage law through critical analysis, lived experience, and practice
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Institute Awards 2026 Student Fellowships Focused on Environmental Justice
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Experience Is Everything: Brittney Frey ’22 Asks “What Do We Do with Serious Harm?”
CUNY Law alumna brings lived experience, legal training, and policy work into one of the hardest questions facing the field of sex crimes
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CUNY Law Interim Interim Dean Natalie Gomez-Velez Honored at NYC Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Women in Business Luncheon
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CUNY Law Ranked #1 in the Nation for Sending Graduates into Public Interest Law
U.S. News & World Report ranking reflects a curriculum built around practice and public service
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CUNY Law Professor Marie Mark Honored for Leadership in New York City’s Immigration Advocacy Community
From the classroom to the field, Mark’s work in “crim-imm” advocacy embeds CUNY Law students in New York’s immigrant justice networks.
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CUNY Law Hosts Symposium on Sentencing Reform and the Second Look Act
The Second Look Project and partners brought together leaders from the judiciary, legislature, and advocates to talk sentencing reform in NY
