Publications
- January 27, 2012 | from New State Voting Laws II: Protecting The Right To Vote in the Sunshine State-01.27.2012
- January 19, 2012 | from Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Brochure
- October 13, 2011 | from Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Testimony before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary on Arbitration The Lawyers' Committee testified before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary on the treatment of minority workers in the Minnesota employment discrimination case Moua et al. v. Supply Technologies.
- September 16, 2011 | from The Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy Redistricting: Estimating Citizen Voting Age Population When determining how to draw electoral districts in a way that complies with the Voting Rights Act, many jurisdictions will need to consider proportions of citizen voting age population (CVAP). While the US Decennial Census captures basic demographic information about all individuals in the United States, it doesn’t inquire into citizenship status. As such, line drawing officials will need to estimate CVAP through other means. This research brief explains Census Bureau data sources, including the American Community Survey, which estimates CVAP, but has some limitations for redistricting use. The brief then explains a method to use ACS and Census data in conjunction to develop more accurate CVAP estimates that are better for redistricting uses than ACS estimates alone.
- September 08, 2011 | from Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Testimony before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary on New State Voting Laws: Barriers to the Ballot? The Lawyers' Committee testified before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary on the new state voting laws that have been passed by numerous state legislatures that severely restrict access to the ballot.
- July 22, 2011 | from Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Election Protection 2010 Report Election Protection's Report on the 2010 Election provides a comprehensive picture of the problems voters faced at the polls.
- April 28, 2011 | from Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Strategies to Affirmatively Further Fair Housing On April 28, 2011, the Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center (GNOFHAC) and the Lawyers’ Committee released a handbook entitled “Strategies to Affirmatively Further Fair Housing: Proposals for the City of New Orleans Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance (CZO) and Beyond” to address impediments to fair housing in New Orleans. Copies of the handbook were distributed to members and staff of the New Orleans City Planning Commission (CPC). GNOFHAC and the Lawyers' Committee hope that Commission members will adopt the suggestions laid out in the handbook in the development of the new Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance (CZO) in order to ensure a more just, economically integrated, and livable New Orleans.
- March 07, 2011 | from Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law People of African Descent in the United States: Accomplishments and Challenges in Complying with the International Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination In honor of the Year of People of African Descent, the Lawyers’ Committee discussed accomplishments in combating discrimination in the US and challenges to the same.
- February 24, 2011 | from Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Lawyers' Committee's Annual Reports for 2010 The 2010 Annual Reports for the each of our Projects and Initiatives.
- August 02, 2010 | from Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Five Years of Commitment: Providing Legal Assistance in the Gulf Post Hurricane Katrina
