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April 14, 2020

News & Announcements

Life After the Death Penalty: Implications for Retentionist States
Presented by the Committees on Capital Punishment of the American Bar Association Section of Civil Rights & Social Justice and of the New York City Bar Association
Monday, August 14, 2017 - 10:00 a.m. at the House of the NYC Bar Association

At the link you will find an important program discussing the circumstances that have led 7 states to stop using the death penalty, & the complete lack of the supposedly "horrible" consequences that capital punishment proponents claim will inevitably result from abolition.  The experiences of these states are crucial – and yet are usually completely ignored.   

December 6, 2017 - How Boomers Can Propel the #MeToo Movement
By Lauren Stiller Rikleen, Former Section Chair

Women's Health Resources Under New Administration Rules

If at First You Don’t Succeed... Try an Executive Order That Allows Health Insurance Companies to Discriminate Against Women
By Janel George, Civil Rights and Equal Opportunity Committee Co-Chair

New Executive Order: Expanding Access to Short-Term Health Plans Is Bad for Consumers and the Individual Market
By Dania Palanker, Kevin Lucia and Emily Curran

Unaffordable Health Care is Inaccessible Health Care: Why Cost Sharing Reductions Matter for Women’s Access to Health Care
By Janel George, Civil Rights and Equal Opportunity Committee Co-Chair

September 6, 2017 - The Resegregation of Jefferson County
Featuring former 1976-79 Council member and longtime Section member U.W. Clemon

Judge JoAnne Kloppenburg Endorses Tim Burns for the Wisconsin Supreme Court
August 21, 2017 - Featuring the Section's Fair and Inpartial Courts Committee Co-Chair, Tim Burns

ABA Urges Supported Decision-Making as Less Restrictive Alternative to Guardianship
August 14, 2017 - Sponsored by the Section's Disability Rights Committee and the Commission on Disability Rights

View the full report  

The State of Criminal Justice 2017
Chapter 22 - CAPITAL PUNISHMENT 
June 2017 - Ron Tabak, Death Penalty Committee Chair

Congratulations to former Section Council Member and Treasurer, Patrick McGlone, on becoming the President of the D.C. Bar Association! June 2017

May 19, 2017 - Section holds successful program on Sanctuary Cities at the National Press Club:

Sanctuary Cities: Legitimate Law Enforcement Policy or Rogue Action?

Click here to watch a recording of the program and access additional materials.

Tim Burns: A 'Better Deal' requires fair courts

May 9, 2017 - Tim Burns, Fair and Impartial Courts Committee Chair

The Baseline Bar
May 9, 2017 - Nadia Ahmad, Environmental Justice Committee Co-chair

Bullying - GPSOLO, Volume 34, Number 2
March/April 2017 - Mario A. Sullivan, Bullyproof Committee Co-chair

Environmental Justice Panel - Howard University School of Law
April 13, 2017 - Moderated by Scott Badenoch, Environmental Justice Committee Co-chair

Hot Topics in Free Speech and Free Press: New Controversies on the Slippery Slope
April 5, 2017 - Moderated by Steve Wermiel, Section Council Member

How the NCAA Could Be the Biggest Hero For LGBT Rights
April 4, 2017 - Lauren Stiller Rikleen, Immediate Past Chair

HOT NEW RESOURCE!

Ending Gender-Based Violence in the World of Work in the United States
March 2017 - Principal Author: Robin Runge, The George Washington University Law School

The American Bar Association’s Section of Civil Rights and Social Justice Rights of Women Committee sponsors Webinar Series on Sexual Privacy as a Fundamental Right - March 2017

A Practical Guide to Representing Victims of Sexual Cyber Harassment Ethically and Effectively (Part 1)

The Legal Landscape - Painting the Big Picture of Sexual Privacy (Part 2)

Download. Watch. Get CLE credit!

Section-sponsored ABA amicus brief filed in Gloucester County School Board v. G.G
March 2, 2017

Muslim Ban, Women’s Rights and “Honor Killings”

March 7, 2017 - Engy Abdelkader, Religious Freedom Co-chair

How To Cover President Trump: 5 News Rules Of Engagement For The Press

Jan. 25, 2017 - Lauren Stiller Rikleen, Immediate Past Chair