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Professor Deborah Zalesne’s New Collaborative Book Ending Isolation Demands an End to Solitary Confinement

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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.

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • CUNY Law Student Named Skadden Fellow for Immigration and Disability Rights Project

    Parima Kadikar named to the Skadden Foundation’s class of 2025 Skadden Fellows

  • CUNY Law Takes Top Diversity Ranking Three Years Running

    The nation’s most diverse law school fosters inclusivity and legitimacy in the legal system

  • CUNY Institute on Gender, Law, and Transformative Peace Hosts Multinational Forum in Ghana: “Election Campaigns as Collective Care”

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