2020 Scholar-in-Residence, Wolfgang Kaleck leads the first in a series of human rights seminars. Vince Warren, Executive Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) participates.

Kaleck is a human rights attorney at the forefront of the legal fight to hold powerful individuals, corporations, and governments around the world accountable for human rights abuses. He is Founder, General Secretary, and Legal Director of the European Center for Constitutional and Human and Rights (ECCHR). His most recent book is Law Versus Power: Our Global Fight for Human Rights. Warren is a leading expert on racial injustice and discriminatory policing and is the executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights. He oversees the organization’s groundbreaking litigation and advocacy work, using international and domestic law to challenge human rights abuses. The Center for Constitutional Rights is currently challenging the abuse of migrants at the U.S. Southern Border, the Muslim Ban, the torture of prisoners in Abu Ghraib, and the criminalization of transgender people, as well as providing legal and policy support to Black, Brown, and Native organizers across the country.

CLE Credits provided by co-sponsor Community Legal Resource Network at CUNY School of Law: This CLE program is approved for both experienced and newly admitted attorneys. Under Continuing Legal Education regulations, CLE credit will be offered only to those attorneys completing entire sessions; attorneys attending only part of a session are not eligible for partial credit. Attorneys arriving late are welcome to attend the program but will not be eligible for credit.