Center for Constitutional Rights

Center for Constitutional Rights

Founded	July 1966 by Arthur Kinoy, William Kunstler, Ben Smith and Morton Stavis
Type	Non-profit
Location	New York City, New York, US
Services	Advocacy, litigation, public education
Key people	Vincent Warren, Executive Director Baher Azmy, Legal Director Nadia Ben-Youssef, Advocacy Director Sunyata Altenor, Communications Director[1]
Website	CCRJustice.org

The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR; formerly Law Center for Constitutional Rights) is a progressive non-profit legal advocacy organization based in New York City, New York, in the United States. It was founded in 1966 by lawyers William Kunstler, Arthur Kinoy, Morty Stavis and Ben Smith, particularly to support activists in the implementation of civil rights legislation and to achieve social justice.^[2][3]

CCR has focused on civil liberties and human rights litigation, and activism. Since winning the landmark case in the United States Supreme Court of Rasul v. Bush (2004), establishing the right of detainees at Guantanamo Bay detainment camp to challenge their status in US courts and gain legal representation,^[4] it has provided legal assistance to people imprisoned there and gained release for many who were unlawfully held or proven not to be a risk to security.^{[citation needed]}