Ciara Torres-Spelliscy is an attorney with the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law. She earned her B.A. magna cum laude from Harvard in 1997, specializing in Afro-American Studies. She earned her J.D. from Columbia Law School in 2001. Before joining the Brennan Center she worked at the law firm of Arnold & Porter LLP. She is the author of Housing in the Heartland: An Examination of the Hollman v. Cisneros Consent Decree, 17 Nat'l Black L.J. 98-123 (2003), and most recently co-authored along with Ari Weisbard What Albany Could Learn from New York City: A Model of Meaningful Campaign Finance Reform in Action in 1 Albany Gov't L.R. 194 (2008).

Blog Entries by Ciara Torres-Spelliscy

Sexism & the Supreme Court Nominee

Posted May 26, 2009 | 12:31 PM (EST)


When Hillary Clinton was a Presidential candidate, male commentators frequently said she couldn't be elected because she reminded men of their nagging wives.

Now, more than a year later, President Obama has nominated a woman, Judge Sonia Sotomayor, to fill the Supreme Court vacancy created by Justice Souter's retirement. Mindful...

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We Are Not AIG

3 Comments | Posted May 13, 2009 | 10:55 AM (EST)


Last week's TARP stress test results reminded us to ask ourselves: now that the federal taxpayer owns nearly 80% of AIG, are AIG's interests ours? We own a quarter of Citibank; does that mean the bank's desires are now in sync with ours? Is Bank of America -- currently afloat...

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