Law in the service of human needs.
Long Island City, NY
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CUNY Law ranks #1 in Faculty Diversity nationwide in @ThePrincetonRev's "Best Law Schools 2024" list.
Dean Setty: "Our faculty ensures students have a deeper understanding of the law's impact on communities."
#whyCUNYLaw #DiversityInLaw #LegalEd
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ALT CUNY Law: #1 Most Diverse Faculty; #2 Most Chosen by Older Students; #2 Most Liberal Students; #8 Greatest Resources for Women
Prof. @SteveZeidman, founder of Second Look Project NY, analyzes the stakes of Mayor-elect Mamdani’s early criminal justice decisions, outlining the appts & policy choices that will determine whether New York advances meaningful reform in @CityAndStateNY
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@CUNYLaw Prof. Talia Peleg ’10, Co-Director of the Immigrant & Non-Citizen Rights Clinic, speaks with @Gothamist on ICE entering NYC shelters without judicial warrants—and what it reveals about gaps in sanctuary law protections:
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Via @nytopinion: @CUNYLaw @SteveZeidman calls out governors nationwide for failing to use clemency powers—even as Trump abuses his. “The correct response is to demand governors… use them on behalf of those who clearly warrant that measure of humanity.”
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History made. The @IntlCrimCourt has confirmed arrest warrants against Taliban leaders, including for gender persecution of LGBTQI+ people, marking a global first. Prof. Lisa Davis, our Clinic Dean, played a key role in this legal milestone.
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Arrest warrants against the Taliban for gender crimes against Afghan women, girls and LGBTQI+ persons are confirmed. This is the first time in history an international tribunal has confirmed LGBTQI+ victims of crimes against humanity, namely gender persecution. icc-cpi.int/news/situation-a…
"You have someone who’s been out and doing well for two years, worked for a judge, living with his family, working with kids, and you’re going to rip him away from that and put him back in?”
— Prof. @SteveZeidman @CUNYLaw in @nytimes.
nytimes.com/2025/04/24/nyreg…
CUNY Law hosts the launch of Ending Isolation, co-authored by Prof. @DebbieZalesne & Christopher Blackwell.
Join a panel on the fight to end solitary, featuring:
– Johnny Perez
– Jessica Sandoval
– Anisah Sabur
Thurs, April 24 | 6:30PM doors | 7PM event
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How should law professors address Project 2025 and the shifting scope of executive power in their classrooms?
Prof. Ally Coll joins the Integrating Doctrine & Diversity Speaker Series to explore how faculty are teaching in real time.
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ALT Integrating Doctrine + Diversity: Executive Power in the Classroom: Addressing Project 2025 and Executive Orders in the Law School Curriculum Wednesday April 9, 2025
Professor Lynn D. Lu joins the Practising Law Institute to examine how eligibility rules for public assistance and SNAP affect low-income New Yorkers—and what advocates need to know now.
RSVP and more info: pli.edu/programs/representin…
What happens when reporting sexual abuse in prison leads to punishment rather than protection?
Incarcerated journalist Kwaneta Harris collaborated with CUNY Law Professor Deborah Zalesne in this piece of writing as resistance in @MarshallProj
themarshallproject.org/2025/…
NEW: @CUNYLaw Prof. Daniel Loehr uncovers the eugenic origins of habitual offender laws—once designed as an alternative to forced sterilization. Today, these laws still drive #MassIncarceration in 49 states.
Read the @SentencingProj report & more
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Tomorrow: Explore strategic litigation to challenge #immigration policies under the second Trump administration w/ expert clinical law profs from the U.S. & Mexico
📅 March 5 @ 2-4PM EST | 1–3PM CDMX
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🔗 Webinar links & series details
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Join CUNY Law Review for a symposium featuring organizers, practitioners & legal scholars discussing how to move beyond resistance and build real solidarity through movement lawyering in the face of rising authoritarianism
📅 MAR 15 | 10AM - 4PM
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"Clemency can save lives." – Prof. @SteveZeidman, @cunycrimclinic Co-Director
In his latest op-ed, Zeidman calls on Gov. Hochul to free people with meritorious clemency applications—before more lives are lost to unchecked prison violence.
#ClemencyNow
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The nxt session in this binational webinar series explores strategic litigation to challenge #immigration policies under the second Trump administration w/ expert law profs from the U.S. & Mexico
📅 March 5 @ 2-4PM EST | 1–3PM CDMX
#WhyCUNYLaw
🔗 Watch
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“The urgency of erasing the NYPD’s Criminal Group Database has never been greater. As the racialized assault on expression and association escalates, this inaccurate, secret database must be eliminated.”
— Prof. Babe Howell
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What lessons from frontline and community organizers shape today’s justice movements?
Join @CUNYLaw’s Institute on Gender, Law, and Transformative Peace @MADRE @HatianBridgeAlliance @DemocracyNow for a critical discussion at the UN on March 13
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"Emboldened by Dobbs, abortion abolitionists are pushing for extreme laws asserting that 'abortion should be treated like homicide' and IVF banned," says Prof. Cindy Soohoo
How fetal personhood is shaping anti-abortion strategies: motherjones.com/politics/202…
#ReproductiveJustice
Happening tonight, @LICPartnership & @MoMAPS1 host a #BlackHistoryMonth event w/a panel, networking & guided tours of the exhibition "Ceremonies Out of the Air: Ralph Lemon", 60+ works by the artist whose work explores generosity, mortality, devotion, Blackness & joy.
On February 11 at 6 p.m., join us for a powerful conversation on the Black business community in Long Island City!
Held at MoMA PS1, and hosted by MoMA PS1, @LICPartnership, and @DRichardsQNS, the evening will feature a dynamic panel discussion, networking, and guided tours of the exhibition "Ceremonies Out of the Air: Ralph Lemon", showcasing over 60 works by the acclaimed artist whose work explores generosity, mortality, devotion, Blackness, and joy.
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Today, I hosted two immigration strategy roundtables to fight back against Trump’s harmful policies.
At @CUNYLaw in LIC, immigration experts & advocates shared strategies to keep our immigrant neighbors safe.
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Joined @NydiaVelazquez, elected officials, & many organizations from across District 26 for an immigration roundtable @CUNYLaw. We discussed ways the government & community groups can protect our vulnerable immigrant neighbors in response to harmful federal policies.
