Six Students Awarded Peggy Browning Fellowships

Please join us in congratulating six CUNY Law students — Xhoana Ahmeti, Amanda Jimenez, Nicolette Moore, Elizabeth Pudel, Heather L. Ramirez, and Hugh Schlesinger — who are awarded 2022 Peggy Browning Fellowships for their commitment to workers’ rights through their previous educational, work, volunteer, and personal experiences.

The Sorensen Center for International Peace and Justice recently received a second $300,000 multi-year grant from the Jerome L. Greene Foundation, enabling the Center to fortify its Fellowship Program and support CUNY Law students to address global challenges at home in all five boroughs of New York City.

Explore the impetus behind CUNY’s Formerly Incarcerated Law Student Advocacy Association (FILSAA) and Unlock the Bar’s call to abolish the Character and Fitness portion of the Bar admission process.

Student Reachelle Ramirez, currently a 2L and Co-Director of LALSA, and Interim Dean Eduardo R.C. Capulong ’91 are featured in PreLaw Magazine’s exploration of what diversity means when we go beyond numbers and consider the matter at the heart of justice.

Students and faculty of the HRGJ Clinic submitted amicus briefs central to the landmark human rights and reproductive justice victory

Meet the 2021-2022 LaunchPad Student Fellows. Their collective bios tell our CUNY Law story and give us a glimpse of where we are going. And it’s inspiring!

Lisa is one of 17 advisers appointed by the prosecutor to provide advice within their respective mandates and may assist in training initiatives of the Office.

INRC co-director Professor Nermeen Arastu collaborated with colleagues at the CUNY School of Medicine and CUNY School of Public Health, along with Physicians for Human Rights, to complete a first-of-its-kind, cross-disciplinary study that shows great promise for people seeking humanitarian relief.

Life of Hope, in partnership with the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs, the Office of the Public Advocate, and CUNY Law’s Community Legal Resource Network (CLRN) are hosting a weekly clinic in Brooklyn to assist with TPS applications.

The Queens Daily Eagle is seeking CUNY Law students and professors to write stories about local legal, courthouse and judicial news issues from a legal perspective.

Professor Rebecca Bratspies and artist Charlie LaGreca Velasco are again teaming up to produce a new comic book.

Eduardo R.C. Capulong ’91, Interim Dean & Professor of Law, welcomes CUNY Law back for Fall 2021 with some important updates.