Two students share how their client won asylum after a seven-year wait and lifetime of organizing and activism
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INRC Secures Asylum for Prominent Venezuelan Human Rights and LGBTQ2IA+ Activist
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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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Inside the Classroom: Engaging with The Exonerated Five Firsthand
Law, Media and Public Discourse students hear from a journalist, an attorney, and an exonerated man
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CUNY School of Law Unveils Cutting-Edge Trial Courtroom to Train Next Generation of Legal Minds
The state-of-the-art training ground will prepare students at CUNY Law to defend communities largely underserved and underrepresented and be a resource available to CUNY and the greater Queens community.
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Clinic News: expanding the national conversation on marijuana legalization and immigration, impacting policy on gendered violence before the International Criminal Court, and leading the vanguard of clemency
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preLaw Magazine Ranks CUNY Law #2 for Racial Justice, Awards A- in Criminal Law
Named to the number two spot for the second time, the Law School received an A+ rating as a “Top School for Racial Justice” in preLaw Magazine’s fall 2022 issue.
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Professor Lisa Davis Brings HRGJ Clinic Expertise as Special Advisor on Gender Persecution to Prosecutor of International Criminal Court
Professor Lisa Davis, Co-Director of the Human Rights and Gender Justice Clinic, served as Special Advisor on Gender Persecution to the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.
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INRC Evening Students Expand National Conversation: Marijuana legalization is an immigrant justice issue
Students are partnering with the Immigrant Defense Project to launch a new initiative using policy papers and litigation of individual cases to change the conversation and influence national policy formation for immigrants.
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Revitalized Center Receives Funding to Advance Social and Racial Justice
The Center for Diversity in the Legal Profession’s award from the Black, Race, and Ethnic Studies Initiative as part of an historic University undertaking
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Disability Rights Advocate Robert Briglio Remembered
His greatest professional accomplishments included helping people with disabilities achieve lived equality and integration in the community, and educating his many students at CUNY Law about disability justice.
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New Pilot Program Seeks to Address Systemic Inequities
Equity Line is giving a cohort of 1Ls a graduated schedule, close-knit connections in smaller classes, and earlier access to resources and expertise across the Law School.
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What Public Interest Law Looks Like: Areas of Practice