Jules lobel biography

Lobel is President of the Center for Constitutional Rights, a national human and constitutional rights organization headquartered in New York City.
Jules Lobel is Professor of International and Constitutional Law at the University of Pittsburgh Law School.
Born September 8, 1951, in New York, NY; son of Paul and Lena Lobel; married Barbara M. Wolvovitz, September 16, 1984; children: Michael Ari Wolvovitz.

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Jules Lobel

Professor Jules Lobel is the Bessie McKee Walthour Endowed Chair at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law.

Recently, Lobel co-authored the award winning book, Less Safe, Less Free: Why America is Losing the War on Terror (2007) with Professor David Cole, which won the first Roy C. Palmer Civil Liberties Prize for exemplary scholarship exploring the tension between civil liberties and national security. He is also the author of, Success without Victory: Lost Legal Battles and the Long Road to Justice in America (2003), and editor of several books on Civil Rights Litigation as well as the U.S. Constitution.

He has authored numerous articles on international and constitutional law in publications including Yale Law Journal, Harvard International Law Journal, Cornell Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review and Virginia Law Review. Lobel’s article, entitled, Preventive Paradigm and the Perils of Ad Hoc Balancing was selected by Oxford University Press as one of the Top Ten Global Justice Law Review Articles in 2007.

Lobel is the recipient of the Univers

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Center for Constitutional Rights

US nonprofit legal advocacy organization


Founded	July 1966 by Arthur Kinoy, William Kunstler, Ben Smith and Morton Stavis
Type	Non-profit
Location	New York City, New York, US
Services	Advocacy, litigation, public education
Key people	Vincent Warren, Executive Director Donita Judge, Associate Executive Director Baher Azmy, Legal Director Nadia Ben-Youssef, Advocacy Director Sunyata Altenor, Communications Director^[1]
Website	CCRJustice.org

The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR; formerly Law Center for Constitutional Rights) is an American progressive non-profit legal advocacy organization based in New York City. It was founded in 1966 by lawyers William Kunstler, Arthur Kinoy, Morty Stavis and Ben Smith, particularly to support activists in the implementation of civil rights legislation and to pursue social justice causes.^[2]^[3]

CCR has focused on civil liberties and human rights litigation, and activism. Since winning the landmark case in the United State

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Lobel, Jules 1951-

PERSONAL:

Born September 8, 1951, in New York, NY; son of Paul and Lena Lobel; married Barbara M. Wolvovitz, September 16, 1984; children: Michael Ari Wolvovitz. Education:New York University, B.A., 1972; Rutgers University, J.D., 1978.

ADDRESSES:

Office—University of Pittsburgh, School of Law, 3900 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15260. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

Rabinowitz, Boudin, Standard, Krinsky & Lieberman (law firm), New York, NY, associate, 1978-1983; University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, assistant professor, 1983-86, associate professor, 1986-89, professor of law, 1989—. President, South Brooklyn Area Policy Board, l979-1980; consultant to Nicaragua National Assembly, Managua, l985; member, Pittsburgh-San Isidro Sister City Inc., l987-88; member of board of directors, Thomas Merton Center in Pittsburgh, l986, and Center for Constitutional Rights, New York, NY, l988.

MEMBER:

American Society of International Law, World Federalists, Latin American Studies Association, National Lawyers Guild.

AWARDS, HONORS:

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