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The New York City Bar Association (City Bar), founded in 1870, is a voluntary association of lawyers and law students. Since 1896, the organization, formally known as the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, has been headquartered in a landmark building on 44th Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues in Manhattan. Today the City Bar has more than 24,000 members. Its current president, Debra L. Raskin, began her two-year term in May 2014. ==History== (詳細はNew York City. Several of its early officers, including William M. Evarts and Samuel Tilden, were active in seeking the removal of corrupt judges and in leading prosecutions of the notorious Tweed Ring.〔 George Martin, ‘’Causes and Conflicts: The Centennial History of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. New York’’, NY: Fordham University Press, 1997, Chapter 6 〕 It counted many of the country’s most prominent lawyers among its officers, including Elihu Root, Charles Evans Hughes, and Samuel Seabury. By the 1960s, under the leadership of presidents Bernard Botein and Francis T.P. Plimpton, the Association became an increasingly democratic organization, easing restrictions on membership and actively engaging in social issues. The Association hosted Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Chief Justice Earl Warren, among others, and actively campaigned for initiatives such as the Equal Rights Amendment. 〔 Jeffrey B. Morris. ''Making Sure We are True to Our Founders: The Association of the Bar of the City of New York, 1980-1995''. New York, NY: Fordham University Press, 1997, p. 7, 38 〕It also played an important role in two controversial confirmation battles in the United States Supreme Court, over G. Harrold Carswell in 1970 and Robert Bork in 1987. Since the 1980s, it has continued to diversify its membership with active recruitment efforts among women and minorities and to expand its involvement in access to justice initiatives, international human rights, and pro bono representation in many areas, including immigration, AIDS, homelessness, and criminal justice.〔 Morris, ‘’True’’, p. 109 〕 Since 1896, the Association has been housed in its six story landmark building at 42 West 44th Street. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「New York City Bar Association」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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