Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co . is a lawsuit brought against Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., Shell Transport & Trading Co., Plc, and its wholly owned subsidiary Shell Petroleum Development...
Two years ago, the Supreme Court said corporations were like people and had the same free-speech rights to spend unlimited sums on campaigns ads. Now, in a major test of human rights law, the...
Peter Weiss, Vice President of the Center for Constitutional Rights, discusses an upcoming Supreme Court case with many potential ramifications for American and international law, and for corporate...
Friday, March 16 through Sunday, March 18 the Left Forum will host its annual Conference at Pace University in New York City. The theme is Occupy the System: Confronting Global Capitalism . CCR will...
February 21, 2012, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) requested that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) open an immediate criminal investigation into claims of...
Jump to Conference Schedule Join law students from across the deep South for a two-day conference that roots the practice and study of law in social justice principles and experience. This conference...
February 17, 2012, New York – The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) strongly condemn Pope Benedict’s appointment of...
Please join the Center for Constitutional Rights for the first court hearing in the lawsuit against the Olympia Food Co-op. It is scheduled for Thursday, February 23 at 9:00 a.m. Please come out and...
Eight years after the release of shocking photographs depicting detainee abuse in Iraq's famed Abu Ghraib prison, a federal appeals court in Virginia is grappling with whether former Iraqi prisoners...