Training April 9 by Zoom: Emergency Planning for Undocumented ParentsSee information through below link: Emergency Planning for Undocumented Parents Training April 9

Planning with Parents Training for Advocates Feb 2025 pdf slidesPlanning with Parents Training for Advocates Feb 2025 This is a pdf of presentation slides from a training by Prof. Joe […]

Given recent reporting that raises the specter of a Presidential self-pardon, this unusual but not unprecedented question is in the air.

The place to start is with the Constitutional text itself, which is not […]

Did Donald Trump admit to criminal activity? Generally, sexual touching or contact without a person’s consent is a crime. For example, here are some provisions of New York’s Penal Code that relate to the actions […]

The Annual Equality Conversations at CUNY School of Law typically pair a CUNY Distinguished Professor with a Professor of Law for an interdisciplinary discussion of a topic relevant to the “Liberty, Equality, and […]

Is New York’s Loitering for the Purpose of Engaging in a Prostitution Offense, NY Penal Code § 240.37[2], unconstitutional?  An important new complaint filed in the federal court by The Legal Aid Society in D.H. v […]

The United States Supreme Court hears only small fraction of cases: The Court hears about 80 cases a year, of the approximately 8,000 requests for review filed with the Court each year, flowing from the […]

For academics in the Northern Hemisphere, August is a fulcrum.

It’s depressing: Our summer scholarship project(s) may still be incomplete, the deadlines seeming to be rebukes rather than reasonable […]

Short answer: Probably sooner rather than later.

A Virginia school board has filed a stay application in the United States Supreme Court pending a petition for writ of certiorari to the Fourth Circuit’s opinion […]

The controversial “bathroom statute” in North Carolina, HB2, regulates the proper use of sex-segregated facilities as consistent with one’s “biological sex,” defined as the “physical condition of being male or fem […]

Maybe you’ve heard of Daniel McGowan?  He’s  well known as an environmental activist who lives in Brooklyn and featured prominently in the 2011 documentary, If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front […]