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July 21, 2021 The Independent

Guantánamo Bay: Inside the World’s Most Notorious Detention Centre as the War on Terror Fades Away

Areas of Study: Constitutional Law, Regulation, and Public Policy; National Security and Privacy; Social Justice and Human Rights
Topics: Matthew Waxman; Faculty Scholarship and Ideas; National Security Law Program

Featured Faculty: Matthew C. Waxman Liviu Librescu Professor of Law

July 19, 2021 NPR

Biden Administration Transfers First Detainee Out of Guantánamo

Areas of Study: Constitutional Law, Regulation, and Public Policy; National Security and Privacy; Social Justice and Human Rights
Topics: Bernard E. Harcourt; Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought; Centers and Programs

Featured Faculty: Bernard E. Harcourt Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science

July 02, 2021 The Washington Post

The Panic Over Critical Race Theory Is an Attempt to Whitewash U.S. History

Areas of Study: Legal History; Social Justice and Human Rights
Topics: Kimberle W. Crenshaw; Faculty Scholarship and Ideas

Featured Faculty: Kimberle W. Crenshaw Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law

June 24, 2021 TODAY

Top Army General Defends Military Studying Critical Race Theory

Areas of Study: Constitutional Law, Regulation, and Public Policy; Social Justice and Human Rights
Topics: Kendall Thomas

Featured Faculty: Kendall Thomas Nash Professor of Law

June 22, 2021 The New York Times

Broadway Advocacy Coalition, the Arts-Based Nonprofit Partner of the Center for Institutional and Social Change, Wins a Special Tony Award

Areas of Study: Leadership; Social Justice and Human Rights
Topics: Susan Sturm; Center for Institutional and Social Change; Centers and Programs

Featured Faculty: Susan P. Sturm George M. Jaffin Professor of Law and Social Responsibility

May 29, 2021 Associated Press

State GOP Lawmakers Try to Limit Teaching About Race, Racism

Areas of Study: Legal History; Social Justice and Human Rights
Topics: Kimberle W. Crenshaw

Featured Faculty: Kimberle W. Crenshaw Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law

May 28, 2021 Gothamist

How George Floyd’s Filmed Murder Has Changed How Palestinians Are Viewed in the Mainstream

Areas of Study: Criminal Justice; Social Justice and Human Rights
Topics: Racial Justice; Kendall Thomas

Featured Faculty: Kendall Thomas Nash Professor of Law

May 21, 2021 The Economist

Is America Irredeemably Racist?

Areas of Study: Legal History; Social Justice and Human Rights
Topics: Kimberle W. Crenshaw; Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies; Centers and Programs; Racial Justice; Faculty Scholarship and Ideas

Featured Faculty: Kimberle W. Crenshaw Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law

May 20, 2021 Los Angeles Times

ICE to Close Georgia Detention Center Where Immigrant Women Alleged Medical Abuse

Areas of Study: Family, Gender, and Sexuality; Social Justice and Human Rights
Topics: Elora Mukherjee; Immigrants' Rights Clinic; Clinics; Experiential Learning

Featured Faculty: Elora Mukherjee Jerome L. Greene Clinical Professor of Law

May 19, 2021 CNN

Critical Race Theory in the Classroom: Understanding the Debate

Areas of Study: Legal History; Social Justice and Human Rights
Topics: Kimberle W. Crenshaw; Centers and Programs; Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies

Featured Faculty: Kimberle W. Crenshaw Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law