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The Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law is a nonpartisan public policy and law institute that focuses on improving the systems of democracy and justice in the United States. Among our core priorities, we fight to protect voting rights, to address the challenge of special interest money in our politics, to end mass incarceration, and to advance Constitutional protections in the fight against terrorism. 

The Center combines the elements of a think tank, a legal advocacy group and a communications hub. Its model for legal and policy change reflects the view that winning in the court of public opinion is a necessary precursor for winning in the court of law. This model of popular constitutional advocacy is congruent with the emerging body of thoughtful scholarship. The Center believes that our democracy, system of self-governance, and legal system all urgently need revitalization and repair. We are committed to helping provide some of the intellectual energy behind that revitalization. In particular, the Center is committed to working on new policy proposals that can help catalyze reform movements and serve as part of a future governing agenda. As traditional arguments are increasingly revealed to be shopworn, these new ideas can help propel the next wave of positive reform and substantive change.