Critical Voices: Impeachment and Beyond
CUNY School of Law 2 Court Square West, Long Island City, NYThe Sorensen Center and the CUNY Law's Office of Student Affairs host a panel discussion with Atiba Ellis, Ruthann Robson, and B.J. Steiner on the impeachment inquiry against President Trump and its wider implications for democracy.
Critical Voices: Confronting Harm Caused by Multinational Corporations
CUNY School of Law 2 Court Square West, Long Island City, NYFrancisco Ramirez Cuellar, chief counsel for strategic litigation at the National Movement for Victims of Multinational Corporations in Colombia, discusses the impacts of multinational corporations on Afro-Colombian, Indigenous, and Campesino communities and the tactics employed by those communities to confront corporations.
Critical Voices: Resistance Movement in Hong Kong
CUNY School of Law 2 Court Square West, Long Island City, NYSharon Hom, Executive Director of Human Rights in China, leads a discussion about the people’s resistance against the authoritarian regime in Beijing.
Critical Voices: Uprisings & Rights – The Freedom to Assemble
As uprisings in the wake of the murder of George Floyd continue across the United States and around the world, visiting scholar Maina Kiai discusses movement building and the right to assemble.
Critical Voices: Surveillance. Privacy. Civil Liberties.
As authoritarianism rises and surveillance and emergency laws proliferate, 2020 Scholar-in-Residence Wolfgang Kaleck and Edward Snowden discuss civil liberties and the right to privacy.