The Center serves as a vigorous hub for scholarship, public engagement, and student empowerment focused on sustaining and strengthening constitutional democracies both in the U.S. and abroad. The Center also empowers students as Floersheimer Student Fellows and supports non-partisan election-related efforts through its “Cardozo Votes” initiative.

Our students in the Kwanza Jones and José E. Feliciano Program for Clinical Education advocate for the elderly, immigration rights, people with disabilities, children, victims of abuse, accessibility, and those who were wrongfully incarcerated.

Civil Rights Clinic

Death Penalty and Criminal Defense Clinic

The Freedom Clinic at Perlmutter Center for Legal Justice

Kathryn O. Greenberg Immigration Justice Clinic

As part of the Cardozo Law Institute in Holocaust and Human Rights (CLIHHR), the Benjamin B. Ferencz Human Rights and Atrocity Prevention (HRAP) Clinic provides students with hands-on legal training under the supervision of clinical professors and faculty members. The Clinic adheres to the Institute’s three-part strategy of preventing genocide and mass atrocities, recognizing that it implies protecting populations and rebuilding during and after crisis. The HRAP Clinic trains the next generation of human rights advocates while offering students the opportunity to make a difference.

Cardozo faculty Dare to Question by constantly pushing the boundaries of legal thought through rigorous scholarship, influential research, and dynamic teaching. Ranked No. 34 nationally by the Sisk Study of Faculty Scholarly Impact, Cardozo professors are not only leaders in their fields but also shape the national dialogue on law and justice—evidenced by their frequent citations from peers and judges across the country. Their deep engagement in Cardozo’s vibrant intellectual community ensures that questioning convention and pursuing new ideas are at the heart of both their classrooms and their scholarship.

A key component of our Intellectual Property and Information Law program, ranked #6 by U.S. News, the FAME Center offers exceptional opportunities at the intersection of law and business across the fashion, performing and visual arts, entertainment, sports, industrial design, media, and film and streaming industries. Students gain hands-on experience through clinics such as the Filmmakers Legal Clinic, the Entrepreneurship and Community Business Clinic, and the Patent Diversity Project Clinic.

From conflict resolution to mediation, the Kukin Program is training the next generation of lawyers in service of their clients and society. In addition, the Program is home to the Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution and sponsors an annual symposium on critical issues in domestic and international dispute resolution.