Alex Rosenberg, Vice-President, Art Appraiser and Dealer, Visiting Professor of Art at the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA).Michael Ratner, President, Attorney, Professor, Columbia Law School.Jules Lobel, Vice-President, Professor, University of Pittsburgh, School of Law.Executive Director, Legal Aid Bureau, Inc. Rhonda Copelon, Professor, CUNY School of Law.David Cole, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center.Ann Cammett, Professor, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Boyd School of Law.Chandra Bhatnagar, Staff Attorney, Human Rights Program, American Civil Liberties Union.Karima Bennoune, Professor, Rutgers University School of Law.Ajamu Baraka, Executive Director, U.S.Radhika Balakrishnan, Treasurer, Executive Director, Center for Global Women's Leadership Professor, Women's and Gender Studies Department, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.Harry Anduze, Managing Partner, Harry Anduze Montaño Law Offices Associate Professor, University of Puerto Rico.Catherine Albisa, Executive Director, National Economic and Social Rights Initiative.Shayana Kadidal-Senior Managing Attorney, GGJI.Qa'id Jacobs-Web Communications & Multimedia Manager.Gitanjali Gutierrez-Staff Attorney, GGJI.Gregory Butterfield-Administrative Assistant.Annette Dickerson-Director of Education and Outreach.Carolyn Chambers-Associate Executive Director.Mailing Address: 666 Broadway, 7th floor, New York, NY 10012 USA.For 35 years, CCR has served as an incubator for progressive lawyering, producing numerous important precedents and innovative legal strategies that have become an established part of law and the legal culture. Peña-Irala created a right to sue for human rights violations occurring anywhere in the world under the then-obscure Alien Tort Claims Act. In 1980, CCR’s landmark case Filártiga v. Today, CCR continues to craft litigation that exposes the fundamental contradictions in American society that undermine the promise of justice for all: fault lines of race, class and gender the ascendancy of global corporate privilege over individual rights the intersection of poverty, race, and industrial pollution and the indifference with which governments around the world continue to violate the human rights of their citizens.
From the beginning, the Centre used innovative impact litigation to move the law forward and facilitate the construction of a more just society. Has played an outstanding role, especially in the area of international human rights.īorn out of the early experiences of its founders, CCR develops pro-active legal strategies to address pressing problems and ensure that the basic rights of all citizens are protected under the law. Peter Weiss became part of CCR early in its history and Robert Boehm, who worked with the CCR from its inception, was instrumental in the effort to turn the vision of the founders into a reality. Impact litigation on behalf of popular movements for social justice. The Center for Constitutional Rights (originally "Law Center for Constitutional Rights") was founded in November 1966 by attorneys Morton Stavis, Arthur Kinoy, Ben Smith and William Kunstler, whose legal work representing civil rights activists in Mississippi convinced them of the need for a privately funded legal center to undertake innovative,
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