The term civil rights gained popularity in the 1950s and \u201960s and has become associated with Martin Luther King, Jr., the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and the March on Washington. One of the striking characteristics of today\u2019s civil rights movement is its breadth and diversity, encompassing LGBTQIA+ groups, disability advocacy, and immigrants\u2019 rights organizations.<\/p>\n
Civil liberties typically fall under the auspices of the First Amendment\u2019s guarantee of freedom of expression, assembly, and religion. Some organizations also consider the right to operate a business or to develop property without government interference a part of civil liberties.<\/p>\n
Recent hot topics in Civil Rights\/Civil Liberties include issues dealing with the right to same-sex marriage, racial profiling, and problems stemming from a focus on national security.<\/p>\n
Civil rights and civil liberties lawyers work in areas of the law that typically fall under the First Amendment\u2019s freedom of expression, assembly, and religion (civil liberties), and under fourteenth amendment\u2019s equal protection clause (civil rights). Civil rights lawyers share a commitment to creating a just society through legal means. To this end, they work on a variety of issues from lobbying for civil rights recognition in the judiciary to litigation-based civil rights advocacy. Civil rights lawyers work for domestic and international non-profit organizations, federal, state, local and international government agencies, and public interest law firms with specialty civil rights practices.<\/p>\n
Civil Rights
\nAdvanced Civil Rights: The Civil Rights Act of 1964, The Frontiers of Civil Rights Enforcement and the Next Fifty years
\nEducation Law: Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
\nEmployment Discrimination<\/p>\n
Topics in LGBT Civil Rights Seminar
\nCivil Rights Statutes and the Supreme Court Seminar<\/p>\n
Appellate Courts Immersion Clinic<\/p>\n
Appellate Litigation Clinic<\/p>\n
Center for Applied Legal Studies (CALS)<\/p>\n
Civil Litigation Clinic<\/p>\n
Civil Rights Clinic<\/p>\n
Racial Equity in Education Law and Policy Clinic<\/p>\n
Rising for Justice<\/p>\n
Center for Asian Law<\/a><\/p>\n Center for Innovations in Community Safety<\/a><\/p>\n Georgetown Center for the Constitution<\/a><\/p>\n Center on Gender Justice and Opportunity<\/a><\/p>\n Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection<\/a><\/p>\n Human Rights Institute<\/a><\/p>\n Workers’ Rights Institute<\/a><\/p>\n Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality<\/a><\/p>\n The term civil rights gained popularity in the 1950s and \u201960s and has become associated with Martin Luther King, Jr., the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and the March on Washington. One […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"parent":745,"menu_order":23,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"class_list":["post-1264","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1264"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34412,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1264\/revisions\/34412"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Helpful Civil. Rights\/Civil Liberties Law Resources<\/h3>\n
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Representative Employers<\/h3>\n
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