The proven fighters for workplace justice join the PBF’s largest cohort of law students from across the nation
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FIVE CUNY LAW STUDENTS AWARDED PEGGY BROWNING FELLOWSHIPS
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CUNY Citizenship Now! Powered by CUNY Law’s Community of Immigrants, DACA Recipients, First-Generation Students, and Advocates
While the program itself is singular, the many people who make it possible are remarkable.
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Megan Carr Named 2023 Skadden Fellow, Plans to Advance Environmental Justice in NYC
Her project with the New York Lawyers for Public Interest will use New York’s Environmental Rights Act for community power, distributive justice, and environmental abolitionism.
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Student Awarded Customs and International Trade Bar Association Fellowship
One of only four recipients, Sulafa Grijalva Quénard will be the first CUNY Law student to serve in Court of International Trade Judge Claire R. Kelly’s chambers.
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Students Lead Movement to Remove Criminal History Question from CUNY Law Application
In response to a call to action from student advocates, CUNY Law has expanded its access mission for justice-impacted people: application to the Law School will no longer ask students about any criminal history, making it the second law school in the country to do so.
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CUNY Law Named Top Diversity Law School
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.
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Human Rights & Gender Justice Clinic and Collaborators Help Decriminalize Abortion in Colombian Constitutional Court Ruling
Students and faculty of the HRGJ Clinic submitted amicus briefs central to the landmark human rights and reproductive justice victory
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3L Kat Gafycz on the Intersection of Environmental Justice and Child Advocacy
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Live from the Summer Law Institute (SLI)
Go inside the Summer Law Institute program with 1L Jake Heller, 2L Salimah Khoja, 4L Justine Ortiz, 1L Ashley Toruno, and 1L Arpita Vora as they discuss their experiences with the SLI program.
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Student Spotlight: 2L Sneha Jayaraj of CUNY Law’s OUTLaws
Sneha Jayaraj reflects on their experience in starting law school during the pandemic, building community, organizing with the OUTLaws, and embracing queerness as an identity.
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Inside the Mississippi Project Delegation 2021
Melissa Rodney, a current 3L student, takes us inside this year’s virtual work led by movement lawyers and Professors Jaribu Hill ’95 and Chaumtoli Huq. The Project brought the student delegation into a gripping employment discrimination case and new advocacy for Emmett Louis Till.
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Inside the Mississippi Project Delegation 2021
Melissa Rodney, a current 3L student, takes us inside this year’s virtual work led by movement lawyers and Professors Jaribu Hill ’95 and Chaumtoli Huq. The Project brought the student delegation into a gripping employment discrimination case and new advocacy for Emmett Louis Till.