NYU Law Latinx Rights Scholarship

Join us at our symposium, "Revitalization for Whom?"—a discussion about the intersection of housing, urban development, policing, and workers’ rights through the lens of gentrification in New York City.

Friday, February 24
11:00 AM – 3:30 PM
Lipton Hall, NYU School of Law

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More information about the symposium, including panel descriptions and panelists: http://blogs.law.nyu.edu/docket/pilc/feb-24-latinx-rights-scholarship-annual-symposium-revitalization-for-whom/28616/

Our scholars and Faculty Director at the 2016 Scholarship Reception

Annual Latinx and the Law Lecture with Iván Espinoza-Madrigal

Had an amazing panel and turnout. Thank you Robyn Mar, Khalil Cumberbatch, Alina Das, Molly Cohen, and Carmen Perez!

On behalf of NYU Law School’s Latino Rights Scholars Program and the Public Interest Law Center, please join us *TOMORROW* for our annual Latinos in the Law Lecture, “Latinos and the Struggle for Civil Rights,” featuring Judge Jenny Rivera of the New York Court of Appeals.

Who: Judge Jenny Rivera of the New York Court of Appeals
What: NYU Law’s Latinos in the Law Lecture (with reception to follow)
When: Wednesday, March 9, 2016, at 5:30pm
Where: Lipton Hall, NYU Law School, 108 West Third St., New York, NY
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Please join us in hearing from this extraordinary alumna of NYU Law. Judge Rivera, appointed to the New York Court of Appeals in 2013, has spent her entire professional career in public service. She clerked for the Honorable Sonia Sotomayor, on the Southern District of New York, and also clerked in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals Pro Se Law Clerk’s Office. She worked for the Legal Aid Society’s Homeless Family Rights Project, the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund (now LatinoJustice PRLDEF), and was appointed by the New York State Attorney General as Special Deputy Attorney General for Civil Rights. Judge Rivera has been an Administrative Law Judge for the New York State Division for Human Rights, and served on the New York City Commission on Human Rights. Prior to her appointment, she was a tenured faculty member of the City University of New York School of Law, where she founded and served as Director of the Law School’s Center on Latino and Latina Rights and Equality.

Judge Rivera’s talk will draw from her incredible experiences and her demonstrated commitment to public service and Latino/a rights.

The Latino Rights Scholars Program is thrilled to welcome the Honorable Jenny Rivera to NYU Law on March 9, 2016. Please join us!

Latinos in the Law Lecture: Judge Jenny Rivera | NYU School of Law The Honorable Jenny Rivera, Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals, was born in New York City in December 1960. On January 15, 2013, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo nominated her to the Court of Appeals, and the New York State Senate confirmed her appointment on February 11, 2013.

Thank you Tomas Lopez from the Brennan Center for kicking off today's conference on Latinos and the 2016 Election!

RSVP for our Thursday, November 5th event at nyulatinoinstitute.org!

Texas is denying US-born infants their birth certificates when immigrant parents lack a visa in their passport, or US government identification. A shockingly clear violation of the 14th amendment.

Immigrants Sue Texas For Denying Birth Certificates To U.S.-Born Children Officials in Texas are making it more difficult for undocumented immigrants to get birth certificates for their children born in the state. The state tightened ID requirements for parents, prompting a number of lawsuits.

Delighted to be at the Hispanic National Bar Foundation's Law Camp and Awards Dinner. Such an amazing group of motivated future leaders in the law!

A powerful story about family reunification, and the sacrifices immigrants routinely endure for the sake of their children's futures.

A Father In California, Kids In El Salvador, And New Hope To Reunite Unaccompanied minors surged across the U.S. southern border last year, fleeing violence in Central America. This year the Obama administration hopes to forestall a new wave with a quiet new program.

Congrats to Cristopher Santos and Luis Angel Reyes Zavalza on your graduation from NYU Law! We are enormously proud of you and excited to see you become attorneys who will advocate for positive change.