Paul Chevigny
Paul G. Chevigny is a law professor at New York University.
Paul Chevigny was married to the late Bell Gale Chevigny. His daughters are Katy Chevigny and Blue Chevigny.
Bio
Verbatim from New York University:[1]
- A graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School, Paul G. Chevigny initially devoted his practice and scholarship to studying the social and political problems underlying police abuses. Indeed, prior to joining the New York University School of Law faculty in 1977, Chevigny worked for many years in association with the New York Civil Liberties Union, first as Director of the Police Practices Project and later as a staff attorney, and two of his books, Police Power: Police Abuses in New York City and Cops and Rebels, are considered classics.
- During his time at NYU School of Law, however, Chevigny has expanded his interests considerably. Thus, for example, for the last ten years he studied comparatively the problems of police violence in Third World cities, participating frequently in missions for Human Rights Watch. He was the principal author of three reports (Human Rights in Jamaica, Police Abuses in Brazil, and Police Violence in Argentina); and he prepared a critique for Human Rights Watch of our federal government's failure to control police violence in American cities. He completed a comparative study of police violence in the Americas, Edge of the Knife, in 1995.
- Chevigny's interests also have encompassed the theoretical and practical elements of the first amendment, freedom of expression, which he has analyzed as part of a group of dialogue rights. His 1988 book, More Speech: Dialogue Rights and Modern Liberty, was widely acclaimed. And his book, Gigs: Jazz and the Cabaret Laws in New York City, analyzes the use of local regulations to control the popular arts. Along the way, he has also written articles on topics ranging from anti-trust laws to begging and the first amendment.
- Professor Chevigny's Clinic in International Human Rights has become a popular selection at the Law School. He still enjoys, however, the basic course in Criminal Law, which he teaches first year students.
Not In Our Name
In 2003, Paul Chevigny and Bell Chevigny signed the Not In Our Name "Statement of Conscience".[2] The statement was affiliated with Courage to Resist, Iraq Veterans Against the War, CODEPINK, World Can't Wait -Drive Out the Bush Regime, Longest Walk 2, United for Peace and Justice and the Revolutionary Communist Party.
2002 Socialist Scholars Conference
Paul Chevigny participated in the Socialist Scholars Conference 2002, now known as the Left Forum:
The Imperialism of Human Rights?
- Sponsor: Socialist Scholars Conference
- Chair: Keitha Fine of the Eastern European Cultural Endowment
- Luciana Castellina of Il Manifesto
- Susan Woodward of the CUNY Graduate Center
- Paul Chevigny of the New York University Law School
Chile Emergency Committee
As a representative of the American Civil Liberties Union, Paul Chevigny was listed as a "sponsor" for the Chile Emergency Committee, a full-page ad in the New York Times dated September 23, 1973, p. 9.