CCR Annual Report 2005 - Center for Constitutional Rights

Entering its 18th year, CCR’s Ella Baker Fellowship Program continues to attract a
dazzling array of the most gifted law students in the country and exemplifies CCR’s
commitment to training the next generation of activist attorneys. In addition to a
rigorous immersion in CCR’s cases, CCR also offers a robust educational and cultural
program, including courtroom tours, luncheon seminars that address the role of
attorneys in progressive movements, and trips to relevant plays and film festivals.
Additionally, each year CCR awards deserving Ella Bakers with a Hiss Fellowship to work
specifically on government misconduct cases and a Caitlin Millspaugh Fellowship for
work in international human rights.
“It was an honor to have the opportunity to work with CCR on the cases that are shaping
our country and our world. Working here for a summer has refined my interests and
further motivated me — and I couldn’t have been surrounded by more committed,
passionate, and inspiring people,” says 2005 Ella Baker Fellow Emi MacLean from
Georgetown Law School.
CCR has long believed
that international law
and its norms are
critical to CCR’s
mission of protecting
the rights of all, and
we have been bold in
applying them to our
legal and political
work. Our
International Scholars
Program, which has hosted students and lawyers from France, Kenya, East Timor,
Australia, England, Scotland, Trinidad, and China, is proof that CCR’s work continues to
be held in high esteem around the world and attracts the finest minds to our cuttingedge
approach to international human rights litigation. These scholars have been
involved in CCR’s critical work around our war crimes litigation and have used the
example of CCR’s work to strengthen public interest legal support and advocacy in their
own countries.
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