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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Lawyering for Liberation Comes to CUNY Law: Professor Stahly-Butts Hosts Contributors and Movement Lawyers for a Conversation on the Field
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Professor Daniel Loehr Files U.S. Supreme Court Amicus Brief on the Eugenic Origins of Habitual Criminal Laws
Andrew Burgess Gregg v. Colorado examines the eugenic origins of habitual criminal sentencing laws and their constitutional implications.
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Justice in Action: In Public Institutions Course, CUNY Law Students Learn to Draft Laws That Aim To Repair Harm
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CUNY Law at the Association of American Law Schools’ Annual Meeting: National Leadership, Scholarly Impact, and Institutional Stewardship
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Shaping the Environmental Future of Western Queens: CUER, Community Power, and a New Chapter at CUNY Law
Celebrating and carrying forward the legacy of Professor Rebecca Bratspies and the Center for Urban Environmental Reform
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CUNY Law Discusses Where Our Community Stands On The First Amendment, Censorship, and Higher Education
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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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…