Craig Gurian is Executive Director of the Anti-Discrimination Center. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Law at Fordham Law School where he teaches "Housing Discrimination: History, Demographics, Law, and Remedies" and "Employment Discrimination: Law, Practice, and Policy." Mr. Gurian is also a Scholar-in-Residence at Fordham Law's Stein Center for Law and Ethics.
He was Legal Counsel to a sister civil rights organization in the successful effort to pass a comprehensive Nassau County Fair Housing Law in 2006; was the principal drafter of New York City's Local Civil Rights Restoration Act of 2005; and was the principal drafter for the Commission on Human Rights of the comprehensive 1991 revisions to the NYC Human Rights Law.
Publications:
"Judicial Activism in the Service of Privilege: New York's First Department Makes Special Rules for Special Defendants," 71 Albany Law Rev. 369 (2008). [http://www.albanylawreview.org/articles/ Gurian.Publisher.pdf]
"Using Local and State Legislation to Preserve and Expand the Ability of Fair Housing Organizations to Prosecute the Discrimination They Uncover," Harv. L. & Pol'y Rev. (Online) (October 2007), [http://www.hlpronline.com/Gurian.pdf.]
"A Return to Eyes on the Prize: Litigating Under the Restored New York City Human Rights Law," 33 Fordham Urb. L.J. 255 (2006). [http://www.antibiaslaw.com/Eyes.pdf]
"Adding Insult to Injury: Housing Discrimination Against Survivors of Domestic Violence" (2005).
[http://www.antibiaslaw.com/DVReport.pdf]
"Let Them Rent Cake: George Pataki, Market Ideology, and the Attempt to Dismantle Rent Regulation in New York," 31 Fordham Urb. L.J. 339 (2004). [http://www.antibiaslaw.com/cake.pdf]
"At The Crossroads: Is There Hope for Civil Rights Law Enforcement in New York City?" (2003). [http://www.antibiaslaw.com/crossroads.pdf]
Principal author of "It Is Time To Enforce The Law: A Report on Fulfilling the Promise of the New York City Human Rights Law," 57 The Record 231 (Summer, 2002).
All comments represent Mr. Gurian's individual views, expressed in an individual capacity, and are not intended to convey, and should not be interpreted as conveying, the views of any of the entities referenced above.
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