The CUNY Law community came together for this informative presentation presented by our Faculty Professional Development Committee and vital dialogue with faculty, students, and staff.
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CUNY Law Discusses Where Our Community Stands On The First Amendment, Censorship, and Higher Education
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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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Martha Jones ’87 Honored with Guggenheim Fellowship and Induction into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Reflecting on her recent Guggenheim Fellowship and admission into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Martha Jones ’87 shares her insights on historical truth telling as advocacy, how CUNY Law shaped her, and the future of her “Hard Histories” project.
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HRGJ Clinic Report to UN Highlights the Misuse of Laws to Criminalize Abortion and Punish Pregnant People
The HRGJ Clinic, If/When/How, and Pregnancy Justice submitted a report to the United Nations exposing how criminal and civil laws in the United States are misused to punish people based on pregnancy outcomes, such as abortion, and those who help them access care. The report, endorsed by several organizations, urges the U.S. to end these practices, address structural discrimination, and ensure equitable access to reproductive healthcare ahead of its November 2025 Universal Periodic Review.
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Professor Steve Zeidman on CUNY TV: Rethinking Extreme Sentencing and the Possibility of Redemption
On the Second Look Project: Beyond Guilt, which advocates for legislative and cultural change around clemency, resentencing, and parole
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CUNY Law’s Family Defense Practicum Contributes to Groundbreaking Report on Family Policing
The report, published by Black Families Love and Unite, exposes the racialized harm embedded in the family regulation system
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Academic Dean David C. Baluarte Provides Expert Analysis in Historic Birthright Citizenship Case
Leading scholar on statelessness demonstrates far-reaching impact of proposed changes in expert declaration and CUNY TV interview
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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