Delivering Justice: CUNY Law and The Legal Aid Society Team Up to Reduce Incarceration through Post-conviction Testing of DNA Evidence

The U.S. Department of Justice has granted CUNY Law nearly $500,000 to establish a project powered in part by students that will review and litigate select wrongful conviction claims of New Yorkers incarcerated in state prisons.

Ramzi Kassem has been named one of 12 Freedom Scholars by the Marguerite Casey Foundation and Group Health Foundation.

Ramzi Kassem has been named one of 12 Freedom Scholars by the Marguerite Casey Foundation and Group Health Foundation.

Meet the new Launchpad for Justice Fellows and learn more about their advocacy

Join us in welcoming our new faculty, staff, and clinics to CUNY Law.

Meet the new Launchpad for Justice Fellows and learn more about their advocacy

Dean Mary Lu Bilek updates students on the fall semester

CUNY Law Professors Nermeen Arastu, Janet Calvo, Julie Goldscheid, and Talia Peleg along with students Andy Morrison, Isadora Jaffee, Erik Schlein, and Nikita Patel submit new comments in support of immigrants and asylum seekers.

Deans from all 15 NY law schools released a joint statement in response to the July 16 announcement of the Board of Law Examiners’ decision to cancel the September administration of the bar examination in New York.

Following the SCOTUS decision reproductive rights decision in June Medical v. Russo, CUNY alumni around the country working to protect and ensure access to abortion care weigh in about the case

Our colleagues of color have called us to recommit to our mission, to recapture its boldness, and to interrogate it through the lens of racial equity.