Summary
A US nonprofit legal and educational organisation, founded in 1966 by attorneys who represented civil rights movements in the South, dedicated to advancing and protecting the rights guaranteed by the US Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and committed to the creative use of law as a positive force for social change, as it describes itself in The Palestine Exception to Free Speech: A Movement Under Attack in the US (PDF p.2).
Details
- CCR is co-publisher, with Palestine Legal, of The Palestine Exception to Free Speech (2015); its deputy legal director Maria LaHood was among the report’s writers, its Bertha fellow Omar Shakir likewise, and its legal director Baher Azmy contributed writing and editing (PDF p.2).
- In the report, CCR (with Loevy & Loevy) represents Steven Salaita in his January 2015 civil lawsuit against the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign alleging constitutional violations and breach of contract (PDF p.31).
Related pages
The Palestine Exception to Free Speech: A Movement Under Attack in the US, Palestine Legal, Steven Salaita