Center for Constitutional Rights Fellowships

The Center for Constitutional Rights is offering three fellowships: The Government Misconduct and Racial Justice Fellowship, International Human Rights Fellowship, and Guntanamo Global Justice Initiative Fellowship.

About the Center: The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) is a non-profit legal and educational organization dedicated to advancing and protecting the rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Founded in 1966 by attorneys who represented civil rights movements in the South, CCR is committed to the creative use of law as a positive force for social change. CCR seeks highly qualified and committed applicants to apply for a two year Fellowship as part of a newly created Social Justice Institute (SJI).

Government Misconduct and Racial Justice Fellowship:
This SJI Fellow will be part of CCR’s Government Misconduct/Racial Justice (GMRJ) legal team and work alongside a number of staff attorneys. GMRJ attorneys develop creative litigation and non-litigation advocacy projects in areas such as: racial justice; economic and social rights; the government’s criminalization of dissent; mass incarceration; immigrant justice; national security; environmental justice; gender equality and LGBTQ rights. When appropriate, CCR seeks to incorporate international law strategies alongside domestic federal and state law claims. For descriptions of representative cases that are a part of the GMRJ docket, please visit http://www.ccrjustice.org/ourcases and view cases in the areas of Surveillance and Attacks on Dissent, Criminal Justice and Mass Incarceration, Government Abuse of Power, and Racial, Gender, and Economic Justice.

International Human Rights Fellowship:
This SJI Fellow will be part of CCR’s International Human Rights (IHR) legal team and work alongside a number of staff attorneys. Specific focuses have included the integration of international human rights and humanitarian law into claims brought in U.S. courts and pressing the U.S. government and private actors to abide by international law. Substantive areas of specialization will likely include: cases and advocacy against multinational corporations and government officials for serious human rights or humanitarian law violations, international women’s rights and gender justice, and the promotion and protection of economic, social and cultural rights. For descriptions of representative cases that are a part of the IHR docket, please see our International Law and Accountability and Corporate Human Rights Abuses work at http://www.ccrjustice.org/ourcases.

Guantanamo Global Justice Initiative Fellowship:
This SJI Fellow will be part of CCR’s Guantánamo Global Justice Initiative (GGJI) legal team and work alongside a number of staff attorneys. Since 2002, the Center for Constitutional Rights has been at the forefront in challenging extrajudicial detention, torture and abuse in Guantánamo and related domestic and international outposts of the executive branch’s “war on terror.” This Fellow will work with CCR staff to continue and broaden CCR’s efforts – through litigation and advocacy – to challenge executive branch practices premised on expansive conceptions of wartime executive authority, as well as long-standing racism and xenophobia, including indefinite and preventive detention, military commissions, targeted killings, abusive interrogations, and abusive government practices in implementing “war on terror” policies domestically. For descriptions of some representative cases that are a part of the GGJI docket, please see our Illegal Detentions and Guantánamo work at http://www.ccrjustice.org/ourcases.

To learn more and how to apply please visit http://www.ccrjustice.org/jobs.