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HRGJ Clinic Report Urges Global Action as Afghan Refugees Face Expulsion and Barriers to Education
Explore the challenges of illiteracy among Afghan refugees and the urgent need for education rights in the report by CUNY Law’s Human Rights & Gender Justice (HRGJ) Clinic, MADRE, the Gender Persecution… -
10 Steps for Reform: Closing Reflections from Burns Chair Kristen Clarke
At her final event as the W. Haywood Burns Chair in Human & Civil Rights, Kristen Clarke detailed how we might build the future of justice. -
CUNY School of Law Celebrates the Class of 2026
After weeks of celebration—including portrait sessions, Pipeline to Justice Grad Night, and Student Awards Night—the Class of 2026 crossed the stage at the legendary United Palace Theater on Thursday, May 21. -
What It Means to Be a Top Law School for Social Justice, Access, and Opportunity
This spring, preLaw magazine ranked CUNY Law #2 for Social Justice and named the school to its Justice & Opportunity Honor Roll. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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 -
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 -
CUNY Law Interim Interim Dean Natalie Gomez-Velez Honored at NYC Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Women in Business Luncheon
