What is Amicus?

Amicus’s mission is to supplement and enhance CR-CL’s regular content by providing a platform for internet-based civil rights and civil liberties scholarship. Amicus strives to create a dynamic online forum for debate surrounding these important issues, and to develop a resource to which practitioners, policy makers, and scholars can both look and contribute.

Structure of Amicus

Recent Developments: These articles address recent significant legislation and judicial decisions.

Policy Pieces: These articles present current local and national civil rights and civil liberties issues and put forth policy proposals to address them.

CR-CL Conversations: These articles comprise a series of exchanges and dialogues between scholars and practitioners on certain pressing issues.