Center for Constitutional Rights

About Center for Constitutional Rights

The Center for Constitutional Rights is a nonprofit legal and educational organization based in New York City and founded in 1966. It works to advance and protect the rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, using litigation, advocacy and strategic communications. The organization was established by lawyers who had represented civil rights movements in the American South.

Its published issue areas include corporate human rights abuses, criminalizing dissent, discriminatory policing, government surveillance, Palestinian solidarity and racial injustice. The organization states that it supports grassroots groups working with communities affected by these issues, alongside its court work. Its website also offers fact sheets, reports and testimony for public use. Its listed office is at 666 Broadway, 7th Floor, New York, NY 10012, and its main telephone line is 212-614-6464.

Practice areas

Areas of work that Center for Constitutional Rights describes on its own website. They describe the organization as a whole, not the practice of any individual attorney listed below.

Organization profile based on its official website and public sources (reviewed October 29, 2026). Attorney list from the New York State Unified Court System registration data. Not affiliated with Center for Constitutional Rights.

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