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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
National Conference on Government Spying

Paul Chevigny was cited by Rep. Larry McDonald of Georgia in the congressional record on January 31, 1977 as being on the steering committee of the National Conference on Government Spying NCGS, which was held at Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago, on January 20-23, 1977. The NCGS was organized by the National Lawyers Guild, which, as Rep. Larry McDonald explained:[3]

“has explicitly stated its support for revolutionary ‘armed struggle’ and terrorism as in the armed occupation of Wounded Knee and in violent prison riots. The NLG International Committee maintains open liaison with terrorist Marxist “liberation movements” such as the Palestine Liberation Organization. The NLG is a member of the Soviet-controlled International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL): the NLG was formed with the assistance of the Comintern in 1936 and was cited as the “foremost legal bulwark of the Communist Party, its fronts and controlled unions.” The NLG now operates as a working coalition of Communist Party, U.S.A. (CPUSA members and supporters, Castroite Communists, Maoist Communists, and various New Left activists.”

Steering Committee

The NCGS steering committee consisted of:

Bob Borosage, Washington, D.C.; NLG activist; codirector of the Center for National Security Studies-CNSS; and trustee of and attorney for the Institute for Policy Studies-IPS.
Len Cavise, Chicago; NLG.
Paul Chevigny, New York; NLG speaker and staff attorney for the New York Civil Liberties Union; author of “Cops and Rebels” and “Police Power.”
Terry Gilbert, Cleveland.
Bill Goodman, Detroit; president of the NLG.
Leonard Grossman, Detroit.
Lance Haddix, Chicago; NLG.
Morton Halperin, Washington, D.C.; director of the joint CNSS/ ACLU Project on National Security and Civil Liberties, funded, as are many ACLU and Fund for Peace/CNSS activities, by the Field Foundation.
David Hamlin, Chicago; Illinois Civil Liberties Union.
Lennox Hinds, New York; National Conference of Black Lawyers-NCBL; NLG; National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression-NAARPR; and the International Association of Democratic Lawyers-IADL-controlled by the U.S.S.R.
Robert C. Howard, Chicago; general counsel of the Better Government Association, a tax-exempt “public interest organization that addresses government misconduct through investigation, public education, and legal action.”
Val R. Klink, president of the Chicago NLG chapter, attorney for the Alliance To End Repression-AER—set up by two CPUSA fronts.
Michael Krinsky, New York; attorney with Rabinowitz, Boudin and Standard; attorney for Cuba, the Marxist Allende government of Chile, and the Socialist Workers Party-SWP.
Ken Lawrence, Jackson, Miss.
Judy Meade, Washington, D.C.; CNSS.
Matt Piers, Chicago.
Ramona Ripston (Mrs. Henry DiSuvero) , Los Angeles; NLG; executive director, ACLU of Southern California; former codirector of the National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee, an identified CPUSA front.
David Rudovsky, Philadelphia; NLG; staff attorney of the NECLC Philadelphia office; attorney for the Institute for Policy Studies.
Franklin Siegel, New York; NLG national office staff.
Howard Simon, Detroit.
Zoharah Simmons, Philadelphia.
Richard Soble, Detroit; NLG and Bill Goodman’s law partner.
Syd Stapleton, New York; member of the Socialist Workers Party National Committee and national secretary of the SWP’s Political Rights Defense Fund PRDF-which raises money and distributes publicity about the SWP’s lawsuits against the FBI and other law enforcement agencies.
Margaret Van Houten, Washington, D.C.; formerly with the Organizing Committee for a Fifth Estate—OC-5- now coordinator of the OC-5 spinoff, the Public Education Project on the Intelligence Community-PEPIC.
Margaret “Peggy” Winter, New York; national staff of the political rights fund.

The National Conference on Government Spying was organized from room 815, 33 North Dearborn, Chicago, Ill. 60602, 312/939-2492, with Paul Bigman as information coordinator. In addition to the NLG, those assisting with conference expenses were the ACLU and the Playboy Foundation which commissioned the conference handbook, a more than 225-page manual-$15-entitled “Pleading, Discovery and Pretrial Procedure for Litigation Against Government Spying,” whose principal authors are Robert C. Howard and Kathleen M. Crowley, general counsel and staff counsel, respectively. of the Better Government Association, a plaintiff in the suit against the Chicago police intelligence unit, ACLU v. Chicago, Civ. Action 75 C 6295 <N.D. Ill., Eastern Div.) which has been consolidated with Alliance To End Repression v. Rochford, 74 C 3268.

The manual gives special acknowledgement to Robert J. Vollen, Richard M. Gutman, Constance Glass, David M. Hamlin, Lois Lipton Kraft, Margaret Winter, and Morton Halperin, and states:

We particularly want to acknowledge the continuous assistance and information exchange with the Political Rights Defense Fund (Socialist Workers Party v. Attorney General) and the Project on National Security and Civil Liberties (which is pursuing several lawsuits).

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.

References
Paul G. Chevigny Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Professor of Law Emeritus (accessed June 11, 2023)
Not In Our Name Statement of Conscience (accessed June 11, 2023)
[1] (accessed on August 31, 2023)