City University of New York Law Review

The RSVP is now live for our Spring 2026 Symposium: The City is Ours!

RSVP here: https://forms.office.com/r/1AzULfLUKB
When: April 17th 6-9pm & April 18th 9am-5pm
Where: CUNY School of Law, 2 Court Square W, Long Island City

In the wake of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s historic victory, we hope to build on the years of mutual aid, tenant organizing, and popular mobilization in response to deepening inequality and state inaction that made this moment possible. Through panels and participatory workshops, we have dedicated our symposium to collectively imagining a world in which cities serve as sites of shared governance, material security, and democratic participation.

Panel themes include:

Radical Municipalism: Theory, History, and Law
Mutual Aid and Community Power
Tenant Power: Housing Justice and Unionizing
Radical Municipalism and Economic Democracy
Participatory Democracy: From Budgeting to Neighborhood Assemblies

Look out for more information in the coming weeks about our great panelists and exciting keynote speaker! And join us on April 17 and 18 as we gather scholars, activists, and attorneys at the forefront of this discussion, and share your own voice as we chart a new path forward for NYC!

Congratulations to our new Senior Staff Editors and Staff Editors! We are so proud of the hard work everyone has put in already this semester and looking forward to publishing the Summer 2026 issue together!

Congratulations to our new Senior Staff Editors and Staff Editors! We are looking forward to publishing Volume 29.2 together. 🥳

Hello 2025/26 CUNY Law Review!

We are a few weeks into the semester and it’s time to highlight this wonderful group of students already working hard on the next volume of social justice scholarship to be published at CUNY Law.

STUDENTS AUTHORSHIP INFO SESSION
Saturday 9/14/2024 from 12 to 1 PM on Zoom

The time has come to fulfill your life long dreams of being a student author!

What are the ways being an effective writer could push along your ideas? Legal advocacy? Grassroots organizing campaigns?

Now is the time to grow in legal excellence.

Saturday, September 14, 2024 from 12 to 1:00 PM on Zoom.



The City University of New York Law Review – CUNY Law Review – is an independent, student-run publication devoted to producing public interest scholarship, engaging with the public interest bar, and fostering student excellence in writing, legal analysis, and research.

The City University of New York Law Review is an independent, student-run publication devoted to producing public interest scholarship recognized as one of the leading civil rights journals in the country.

The CUNY Law Review engages with the public interest bar, fosters student excellence in writing, legal analysis, and research, and is published twice-yearly in Winter and Summer.

The journal is free and accessible to the public and is published online through CUNY Central’s Office of Library Services at https://academicworks.cuny.edu/clr/.

Digital archives of the journal are also available at Digital Commons.

In addition, CUNY Law Review continually seeks shorter, more time-sensitive contributions—such as comments on recent federal or state case law, critiques of legislative proposals, and legal analyses of current events—for inclusion in Footnote Forum, a supplement to the traditional journal.

CUNY Law Review is pleased to announce and congratulate the 2024-2025 Editorial Board:

Editor-in-Chief
Lindsey Reynolds

Managing and Digital Editor
Isaiah Yehros

Managing Articles Editor
Jessica Bouchard

Managing Articles Editor
Haley Wen

Managing Articles Editor
Meg Peters

Executive Articles Editor
Bryce Luttenegger

Executive Articles Editor
Sharlene Green

Notes and Comments Editor
Divya Mundackal

Notes and Comments Editor
Sydnei Obando

Public Interest Practitioner Section Editor
Kelsey De Avila

Footnote Forum Editor
Jessica Goldberg

Blog Editor
Marwa Sayed

Did you catch this news? CUNY Law alumna Kim Fong '23 explores this same topic and the legal ramifications in more depth in her recent Law Review article: https://www.cunylawreview.org/new-york-chinatown-megajail-a-jailscraper-rises-in-new-york-citys-skyline-and-casts-a-shadow-over-manhattans-chinatown/

Anger in Chinatown Over a Huge Jail Project: ‘We Are the Dumping Ground’ The demolition of a Manhattan jail complex to make way for a bigger one has damaged a neighboring building and raised concerns about years of dust and disruption.

CUNY Law Review needs your support! Help us reach our fundraising goal so we can continue our work to provide a forum for social justice scholarship. Link to donate: https://www.givegab.com/teams/cuny-law-review

Thank you!

Check out our latest blog post, "How ‘Human Rights Mechanic’ John Boston Empowers Incarcerated Individuals" by Nick Leiber. Read the full article here:

How 'Human Rights Mechanic' John Boston Empowers Incarcerated Individuals | CUNY LAW REVIEW Nick Leiber John Boston is one of America’s leading prisoners’ rights litigators and co-author of the bestselling Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual, which has aided countless incarcerated individuals and attorneys navigating the U.S. civil litigation system. As the former director of … ...

Our Editors-in-Chief share their personal reflections on the blog in support of a free Palestine. They write in their individual capacities, rather than a reflection of the unanimous views of the editorial board or staff editors. Read the full post here: https://www.cunylawreview.org/a-statement-of-reflection-and-solidarity-with-palestinian-liberation/

CUNY Law Review has joined journals across the country to demand compensation for the work we do to publish legal scholarship, and to call on other journals & students to sign on in solidarity. Read the full demand and sign on to support here: https://www.cunylawreview.org/demand-for-compensation-and-call-for-solidarity/