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Expansion Update: CUNY Law’s City Counseling Program to Reach More New Yorkers
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CUNY Law to Lead Clinics in $5M Investment in Asylum Seeker Legal Assistance Network
The new Emerging Needs Clinic is part of the New York City Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs and community-based organizations citywide in the launch of $5M Asylum Seeker Legal Assistance Network. The Law School, along with CUNY Citizenship Now!, will design and oversee information sessions, screenings, and application assistance clinics to train Law School students, as well as students throughout CUNY schools, to provide direct legal support.
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CUNY School of Law Celebrates Class of 2023 with Commencement Address from Alumnus Chris Alexander ’19
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CUNY Law Launches Collaborative First Impressions Youth Justice Initiative to Promote Empowerment and Community Justice
CUNY Law announces $1M First Impressions Youth Justice Initiative designed to change how young people and the justice system interact by offering a community-focused framework for mentorship, education, and civic leadership.
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Defender’s Clinic & the Second Look Project Win Clemency, Bring Two Clients Home
On April 24, Stanley Bellamy and Bruce Bryan walked out of prison after receiving clemency. Together, they had served almost 80 years inside.
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Lawyering Seminar III Takes the New Trial Courtroom For a Spin
Professor Sennett takes you inside the case her students tried at the end of the semester
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INRC Secures Asylum for Prominent Venezuelan Human Rights and LGBTQ2IA+ Activist
Two students share how their client won asylum after a seven-year wait and lifetime of organizing and activism
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Class Notes for April 2023
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Inside the Classroom: Engaging with The Exonerated Five Firsthand
Law, Media and Public Discourse students hear from a journalist, an attorney, and an exonerated man
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Exhibition: Faces of Resilience: Portraits of Afghan Women Human Rights Defenders
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Defenders Clinic on the Need for More Clemency and the Power of Video
The Defenders Clinic, along with individuals it has helped win clemency, explores what needs to change in politics and public understanding in the fight to expand clemency.
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INRC Evening Students Expand National Conversation: Marijuana legalization is an immigrant justice issue
Students are partnering with the Immigrant Defense Project to launch a new initiative using policy papers and litigation of individual cases to change the conversation and influence national policy formation for immigrants.
