The convening marks a milestone in the development of Critical Race Theory as a field and features panels with nationally recognized scholars examining CRT’s trajectory from academic intervention to transformative practice.
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CUNY Law Faculty to Present at UCLA Law’s Critical Race Theory 25th Anniversary Symposium
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Professor Deborah Zalesne’s New Collaborative Book Ending Isolation Demands an End to Solitary Confinement
“Ending Isolation: The Case Against Solitary Confinement” is a powerful collaboration between incarcerated writers, legal scholars, and mental health experts that dismantles the moral, legal, and medical foundations of solitary confinement. Blending lived experience with rigorous advocacy, the book offers a humanizing lens on a practice increasingly recognized as torture — and calls for urgent abolition through storytelling, scholarship, and creative activism.
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The Frontlines: CUNY Law Faculty in Focus Summer 2025
Inside the recent work of CUNY Law faculty across litigation, advocacy, scholarship, public dialogue, and more
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CUNY Law Professor Kara Sheli Wallis to Serve as Visiting Scholar at Seattle University School of Law
Professor Wallis ’15 will spend the Fall 2025 semester as a visiting scholar at Seattle University School of Law
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The Time is Now: Professor Jennifer Fernandez Receives National Recognition for Work and Scholarship Advancing Inclusive Legal Education
CUNY Law Professor Jennifer Fernandez’s recent article in the Washington University Journal of Law & Policy highlights the transformative potential of ABA Curriculum Standard 303(c), which requires that all law schools provide education on bias, cross-cultural competency and racism, and calls for a more inclusive legal education, especially during the critical first year.
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Protecting Commoners’ Goods: Professor Gregory Louis’s Vision for Pluralist Coexistence Published in British Journal of American Legal Studies
His new article outlines a pluralist legal framework that reclaims tradition to resist threats like Project 2025
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Professor Natalie M. Chin Receives Inaugural CUNY Award for Outstanding Faculty Research
Scholarship Rooted in Practice: Professor Chin’s Critical Disability Work Earns CUNY’s Highest Research Honor for Associate Professors
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Incarcerated Journalist Kwaneta Harris and Prof. Deborah Zalesne Expose Sexual Violence in Solitary Confinement
The exposé connects to Prof. Deborah Zalesne’s forthcoming book, Ending Isolation: The Case Against Solitary Confinement
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CUNY Law Professor Daniel Loehr Exposes Eugenic Roots of Modern Sentencing Laws
Published by The Sentencing Project, the report examines the historical development of habitual offender laws and their foundations
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Academic Dean David C. Baluarte Expands Innovative Legal Education and Practice with U.S.-Mexico Clinical Collaboration
The Fulbright Scholar leads binational webinar series on refugee and migrant protection amid shifting immigration policies
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CUNY Institute on Gender, Law, and Transformative Peace Hosts Multinational Forum in Ghana: “Election Campaigns as Collective Care”
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IGLTP Hosts Multinational Forum in Ghana: Electoral Campaigns as Collective Care