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CONSTITUTIONAL LAW--FOURTH AMENDMENT--FOURTH CIRCUIT HOLDS WARRANTLESS ACCESS OF AERIAL SURVEILLANCE DATA UNCONSTITUTIONAL.--LEADERS OF A BEAUTIFUL STRUGGLE v. BALTIMORE POLICE DEPARTMENT, 2 F.4TH 330 (4TH CIR. 2021) |
135 Harvard Law Review 920 (January, 2022) |
The Fourth Amendment safeguards [t]he right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures. In Carpenter v. United States, the Supreme Court held that the ability to build a comprehensive chronicle of a person's movements over an extended period of time using cell phone... |
2022 |
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| Jordan Blair Woods |
CONVENTIONAL TRAFFIC POLICING IN THE AGE OF AUTOMATED DRIVING |
100 North Carolina Law Review 327 (January, 2022) |
This Article offers a detailed portrait of the potentially negative systemic effects of the growth of autonomous vehicles on racial and economic justice in traffic enforcement and policing involving conventional, human-controlled vehicles. Its contributions are both descriptive and normative. Descriptively, this Article draws on multiple sources... |
2022 |
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| Matthew Clair , Amanda Woog |
COURTS AND THE ABOLITION MOVEMENT |
110 California Law Review 1 (February, 2022) |
This Article theorizes and reimagines the place of courts in the contemporary struggle for the abolition of racialized punitive systems of legal control and exploitation. In the spring and summer of 2020, the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and many other Black and Indigenous people sparked continuous protests against racist police... |
2022 |
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| Matthew A. Gasperetti |
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF THE EFFECTS OF RACIAL BIAS ON CAPITAL SENTENCING DECISIONS |
76 University of Miami Law Review 525 (Winter, 2022) |
Racism has left an indelible stain on American history and remains a powerful social force that continues to shape crime and punishment in the contemporary United States. In this article, I discuss the socio-legal construction of race, explore how racism infected American culture, and trace the racist history of capital punishment from the Colonial... |
2022 |
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| Benjamin Levin |
CRIMINAL LAW EXCEPTIONALISM |
108 Virginia Law Review 1381 (October, 2022) |
For over half a century, U.S. prison populations have ballooned, and criminal codes have expanded. In recent years, a growing awareness of mass incarceration and the harms of criminal law across lines of race and class has led to a backlash of anti-carceral commentary and social movement energy. Academics and activists have adopted a critical... |
2022 |
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| Rick Su , Anthony O'Rourke , Guyora Binder |
DEFUNDING POLICE AGENCIES |
71 Emory Law Journal 1197 (2022) |
This Article contextualizes the police defunding movement and the backlash it has generated. The defunding movement emerged from the work of Black-led activists to reassert democratic control over policing and shift resources to social service agencies and other institutions serving community needs. In reaction, states have enacted anti-defunding... |
2022 |
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| Khiara M. Bridges |
DEPLOYING DEATH |
68 UCLA Law Review 1510 (February, 2022) |
This Article observes that if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, people of color--specifically black people--disproportionately will be impacted by the abortion restrictions that will proliferate in the wake of the decision. In many cases, those forced to terminate unwanted pregnancies under unsafe conditions will be black; some of these... |
2022 |
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| Madalyn K. Wasilczuk |
DEVELOPING POLICE |
70 Buffalo Law Review 271 (January, 2022) |
C1-2Contents Introduction. 273 I. The Social Environment of Policing. 283 A. Duties. 285 B. Discretion. 286 C. Danger. 289 D. Deference. 290 II. Hiring for Harm Reduction. 292 A. Police Hiring. 298 B. Minimum Hiring Ages. 301 C. The History of Minimum Qualifying Age. 303 D. The Effects of Age on Policing. 306 III. Developing Within the Department.... |
2022 |
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| Evan R. Seamone |
DISABILITY COMPENSATION FOR THE PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPACT OF RACE DISCRIMINATION: LESSONS FROM THE BOARD OF VETERANS' APPEALS |
74 Administrative Law Review 309 (Spring, 2022) |
Introduction. 310 II. VA Disability Compensation Framework. 317 III. Research Methodology. 323 A. The Written VA Appellate Decision as the Unit of Analysis. 323 B. Supervised Machine Learning to Classify Discrimination Cases. 326 C. Study Limitations. 327 IV. Study Results. 329 A. General Trends in Outcomes Across Discrimination Cases. 329 B.... |
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| Jamelia Morgan |
DISABILITY, POLICING, AND PUNISHMENT: AN INTERSECTIONAL APPROACH |
75 Oklahoma Law Review 169 (Autumn, 2022) |
Disabled people of color are uniquely vulnerable to policing and punishment. Proponents of police reform and, more recently, police abolition note that disabled people, particularly people with psychiatric disabilities, are vulnerable to citation and arrest. Indeed, data on the high percentages of people in prisons and jails who report having a... |
2022 |
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| Jamelia Morgan |
DISABILITY'S FOURTH AMENDMENT |
122 Columbia Law Review 489 (March, 2022) |
Issues relating to disability are undertheorized in the Supreme Court's Fourth Amendment jurisprudence. Across the lower courts, although disability features prominently in excessive force cases, typically involving individuals with psychiatric disabilities, it features less prominently in other areas of Fourth Amendment doctrine. Similarly,... |
2022 |
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| Rachel Moran |
DOING AWAY WITH DISORDERLY CONDUCT |
63 Boston College Law Review 65 (January, 2022) |
Introduction. 66 I. Overview of Disorderly Conduct Laws. 70 A. Survey of Modern Disorderly Conduct Laws. 71 B. History and Evolution of Disorderly Conduct Laws. 75 II. Constitutional Problems with Disorderly Conduct Laws. 81 A. Facial Unconstitutionality. 81 B. Limiting Constructions to Avoid Facial Unconstitutionality. 85 C. Enabling... |
2022 |
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| Simon Balto, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA, sebalto@wisc.edu, https://doi.org/10.1093/ajlh/njac006, Advance Access Publication Date: 25 March 2022 |
DOUGLAS J. FLOWE, UNCONTROLLABLE BLACKNESS: AFRICAN AMERICAN MEN AND CRIMINALITY IN JIM CROW NEW YORK (CHAPEL HILL: UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS 2020), PP 332, US $29.95 (HARDBACK). ISBN 978-1469655727 |
62 American Journal of Legal History 129 (March, 2022) |
On a steamy August night in 1900, Arthur Harris, a Black migrant from Virginia to New York, stabbed a White plainclothes police officer named Robert Thorpe to death in the Tenderloin district on Manhattan's West Side. Harris was defending his common-law wife May Enoch from Thorpe, who had approached Enoch as she stood outside a saloon waiting for... |
2022 |
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| Sunita Patel |
EMBEDDED HEALTHCARE POLICING |
69 UCLA Law Review 808 (May, 2022) |
Scholars and activists are urging a move away from policing and towards more care-based approaches to social problems and public safety. These debates contest the conventional wisdom about the role and scope of policing and call for shifting resources to systems of care, including medical, mental health, and social work. While scholars and... |
2022 |
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| Stephen Wulff |
FLIPPING THE "NEW PENOLOGY" SCRIPT: POLICE MISCONDUCT INSURANCE, GRASSROOTS ACTIVISM, AND RISK MANAGEMENT-BASED REFORM |
47 Law and Social Inquiry 162 (February, 2022) |
Through a multi-method qualitative case study, I examine the failed 2016 ballot campaign of the Committee for Professional Policing (CfPP), a police accountability group in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In attempting to make Minneapolis the first city nationwide to require police to carry professional liability insurance, the CfPP turned the logic of... |
2022 |
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| Margaret Moore Jackson |
FORCED OUT OF ENFORCEMENT: HOW THE "NO FELONS" RULE HAMSTRINGS FAIR HOUSING |
91 UMKC Law Review 237 (Winter 2022) |
Welcome to fair housing tester training. We're so glad you all could be here today. The trainer is relieved to see ten people adjusting their chairs in the sunlit library community room. Enticing volunteers to explore intermittent, stipend-based work that involves talking to strangers is difficult. Training enough racially diverse testers to do... |
2022 |
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| Khiara M. Bridges |
FOREWORD: RACE IN THE ROBERTS COURT |
136 Harvard Law Review 23 (November, 2022) |
C1-2CONTENTS Introduction. 24 I. Race in the Roberts Court's October 2021 Term: Uncovering Racist Anachronisms. 34 A. Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. 34 1. Eulogy for Roe. 42 2. Race in the Court's Abortion Caselaw, More Generally. 55 B. New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen. 66 1. Gun Control: Liberal Invocations of... |
2022 |
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| Janelle Lamb |
HE SAID. SHE SAID. THE IPHONE SAID. THE USE OF SECRET RECORDINGS IN DOMESTIC VIOLENCE LITIGATION |
110 California Law Review 1095 (June, 2022) |
Trigger Warning: This Note describes graphic scenes of domestic violence. It also discusses child abuse, elder abuse, and sexual assault. This Note explores the use of secret recordings in domestic violence litigation. It is particularly concerned with how the criminalization of domestic violence influences the laws governing the creation and use... |
2022 |
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| Deborah N. Archer |
HOW RACISM PERSISTS IN ITS POWER |
120 Michigan Law Review 957 (April, 2022) |
The Fire Next Time. By James Baldwin. New York: Dial Press. 1963 (Vintage International 1993 ed.). Pp. 110. $13.95. In 2020, the murder of George Floyd at the hands of police officers in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and the ravaging of Black communities occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic and an inequitable public health infrastructure put the violence... |
2022 |
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| Amy P. Lyons |
HOW THE MANY RECENT DEATHS OF MALAYSIAN CITIZENS EXPOSE THE COUNTRY'S CORRUPT POLICE SYSTEM |
25 Human Rights Brief 112 (Spring, 2022) |
The death of Sivabalan Subramaniam, an hour after the Malaysian police arrested him, has sparked national outrage. The police report indicates that Subramaniam died in the custody of police at 12:25 P.M., but the police did not notify Sivabalan's sister that her brother was in critical condition at a hospital until 3:00 P.M. This story is one of... |
2022 |
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| Alex Chohlas-Wood, Marissa Gerchick, Sharad Goel, Aziz Z. Huq, Amy Shoemaker, Ravi Shroff, Keniel Yao |
IDENTIFYING AND MEASURING EXCESSIVE AND DISCRIMINATORY POLICING |
89 University of Chicago Law Review 441 (March, 2022) |
We describe and apply three empirical approaches to identify superfluous police activity, unjustified racially disparate impacts, and limits to regulatory interventions. First, using cost-benefit analysis, we show that traffic and pedestrian stops in Nashville and New York City disproportionately impacted communities of color without achieving... |
2022 |
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| Chris Gottlieb |
IMPROVING RES IPSA LOQUITUR DOCTRINE IN CHILD ABUSE CASES: A STEP TOWARD RACIAL JUSTICE |
25 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 411 (Spring, 2022) |
C1-2Table of Contents I. Introduction. 412 II. Prosecution of Civil Child Abuse: Demographics and Res Ipsa Loquitur Doctrine. 415 III. Spreading the Blame. 418 IV. Unprincipled Use of Res Ipsa Loquitur Doctrine in Child Abuse Cases: New York Example. 420 V. Principled Use of Res Ipsa Loquitur in the Realm of Child Abuse. 429 VI. Holding Partners... |
2022 |
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| Andra Gillespie, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Emory University |
JOHN LEWIS AND THE DURABILITY OF TRANSCENDENT RACE POLITICS |
37 Journal of Law and Religion 55 (January, 2022) |
John Lewis's civil rights activism in the 1960s often obscures the fact that he won elective office as a racially moderate politician. Scholars have long noted the efficacy of using deracialized, or racially transcendent, campaign strategies to get elected, despite normative concerns. These strategies were critical to electing Black governors,... |
2022 |
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| Frank W. Munger, Carroll Seron |
LAW AND THE PERSISTENCE OF RACIAL INEQUALITY IN AMERICA |
66 New York Law School Law Review 175 (2021/2022) |
EDITOR'S NOTE: This article was adapted from Frank W. Munger & Carroll Seron, Race, Law, and Inequality, Fifty Years After the Civil Rights Era, 13 Ann. Rev. L. & Soc. Sci. 331 (2017). In 2020, America was once again required to confront its legacy of racial inequality. Widely viewed videos of police violence against Black Americans, a resurgent... |
2022 |
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| Magda Boutros , Department of Sociology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA |
LEGAL MOBILIZATION AND BRANCHES OF LAW: CONTESTING RACIALIZED POLICING IN FRENCH COURTS |
56 Law and Society Review 623 (December, 2022) |
When activists use the law to promote social change, how does the branch of law (criminal law, civil law, etc.) matter for movement outcomes? To examine this question, the article builds on legal mobilization scholarship, and on a qualitative study comparing three litigation strategies to contest racialized policing in France: mobilizing criminal... |
2022 |
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| Daniel S. Harawa |
LEMONADE: A RACIAL JUSTICE REFRAMING OF THE ROBERTS COURT'S CRIMINAL JURISPRUDENCE |
110 California Law Review 681 (June, 2022) |
The saying goes, when life gives you lemons, make lemonade. When it comes to the Supreme Court's criminal jurisprudence and its relationship to racial (in)equity, progressive scholars often focus on the tartness of the lemons. In particular, they have studied how the Court often ignores race in its criminal decisions, a move that in turn reifies a... |
2022 |
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| Ingrid V. Eagly, Joanna C. Schwartz |
LEXIPOL'S FIGHT AGAINST POLICE REFORM |
97 Indiana Law Journal 1 (Winter, 2022) |
We are in the midst of a critically important moment in police reform. National and local attention is fixed on how to reduce the number of people killed and injured by the police. One approach--which has been recognized for decades to reduce police killings--is to limit police power to use force. This Article is the first to uncover how an... |
2022 |
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| Gregory S. Parks |
MARTIAL ARTS AS A REMEDY FOR RACIALIZED POLICE VIOLENCE |
83 Ohio State Law Journal Online 41 (2022) |
C1-3Table of Contents I. Introduction. 41 II. Race and Police Violence. 42 III. Reducing Police Lethality Through Martial Arts. 46 IV. Conclusion. 52 |
2022 |
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| Ronald J. Coleman |
MEASURING POLICE BODY CAMERA INFRASTRUCTURE |
62 Santa Clara Law Review 273 (2022) |
Police body cameras have been in ascendancy since at least the 2014 deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, and body cameras are poised to play an increasing role in law enforcement following the more recent deaths of George Floyd, Daunte Wright, and others. Indeed, President Biden, himself, has repeatedly called for the passage of the George... |
2022 |
Yes |
| Patrick Sharkey , Alisabeth Marsteller |
NEIGHBORHOOD INEQUALITY AND VIOLENCE IN CHICAGO, 1965-2020 |
89 University of Chicago Law Review 349 (March, 2022) |
This Essay analyzes trends in violence from a spatial perspective, focusing on how changes in the murder rate are experienced by communities and groups of residents within the city of Chicago. The Essay argues that a spatial perspective is essential to understanding the causes and consequences of violence in the United States and begins by... |
2022 |
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| Aziz Z. Huq |
PARTISANSHIP, REMEDIES, AND THE RULE OF LAW |
132 Yale Law Journal Forum 469 (11/15/2022) |
ABSTRACT. This is a response to a Book Review of The Collapse of Constitutional Remedies by Judge Don R. Willett and Aaron Gordon. This response is motivated by several concerns about the accuracy of the Review's description of my book. To begin with, the Review ignores one of the book's two main, interlocking arguments. It addresses the book's... |
2022 |
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| Osagie K. Obasogie , Anna Zaret |
PLAINLY INCOMPETENT: HOW QUALIFIED IMMUNITY BECAME AN EXCULPATORY DOCTRINE OF POLICE EXCESSIVE FORCE |
170 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 407 (January, 2022) |
Recent instances of law enforcement killing community members and ensuing social movements have increased public attention on the issue of police use of force and the lack of officer accountability. Qualified immunity has been central to this discussion because the doctrine is often used to shield officers from civil lawsuits when plaintiffs bring... |
2022 |
Yes |
| Griffin Edwards , Stephen Rushin |
POLICE VEHICLE SEARCHES AND RACIAL PROFILING: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY |
91 Fordham Law Review 1 (October, 2022) |
In 1981, the U.S. Supreme Court held in New York v. Belton that police officers could lawfully search virtually anywhere in a vehicle without a warrant after the arrest of any occupant in the vehicle. Then, in 2009, the Court reversed course in Arizona v. Gant, holding that police could only engage in vehicle searches after such arrests in a... |
2022 |
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| Kristin N. Henning |
POLICING AS TRAUMA |
37-SPG Criminal Justice 42 (Spring, 2022) |
In December 2019, 25 years into my career defending youth accused of crimes in Washington, DC, I got a strange phone call. One of our clients in the Juvenile Justice Clinic at Georgetown Law called to say, I have been in the house all day because the police are waiting for me out front. Kevin lived with his mom in a rented apartment in DC.... |
2022 |
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| Anthony Gregory |
POLICING JIM CROW AMERICA: ENFORCERS' AGENCY AND STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATIONS |
40 Law and History Review 91 (February, 2022) |
These districts are not usually protected by police--rather victimized and tyrannized over by them. No one who does not know can realize what tyranny a low-grade white policeman can exercise in a colored neighborhood. W.E.B. Du Bois Scholars widely agree that law enforcers came to serve white supremacy in the post-Civil War United States. More... |
2022 |
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| Fred O. Smith, Jr. |
POLICING MASS INCARCERATION: PRESUMED GUILTY: HOW THE SUPREME COURT EMPOWERED THE POLICE AND SUBVERTED CIVIL RIGHTS. BY ERWIN CHEMERINSKY. NEW YORK, N.Y.: LIVERIGHT PUBLISHING CORPORATION. 2021. PP. XIII, 362. $27.95 |
135 Harvard Law Review 1853 (May, 2022) |
C1-2CONTENTS Introduction. 1854 I. Mechanisms of Police Empowerment. 1860 A. The Role of Human-Scale Legal Narrative. 1861 B. Doctrinal Choices. 1863 1. Remedies. 1863 2. Constitutional Criminal Procedure. 1866 C. Solutions. 1867 II. Values. 1868 A. Violence. 1870 B. Reliability. 1871 C. Dignitary Interests. 1871 D. Inequality. 1872 III. Mass... |
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| Eisha Jain |
POLICING THE POLITY |
131 Yale Law Journal 1794 (April, 2022) |
The era of Chinese Exclusion left a legacy of race-based deportation. Yet it also had an impact that reached well beyond removal. In a seminal decision, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a law that required people of Chinese descent living in the United States to display a certificate of residence on demand or risk arrest, detention, and possible... |
2022 |
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| Nicholas J. Prendergast |
POLICING, MASCULINITIES, AND JUDICIAL ACKNOWLEDGMENT |
75 Vanderbilt Law Review 997 (April, 2022) |
In the 1980s, the Supreme Court held that courts must consider the totality of the circumstances when deciding the reasonableness of a police officer's conduct in an excessive force suit. To this day, the precise meaning of reasonableness remains elusive. For years, courts around the country have struggled to articulate what police conduct... |
2022 |
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| Marissa Jackson Sow |
PROTECT AND SERVE |
110 California Law Review 743 (June, 2022) |
There exists a substantial body of literature on racism and brutality in policing, police reform and abolition, the militarization of the police, and the relationship of the police to the State and its citizenry. Many theories abound with respect to the relationship between the police and Black people in the United States, and most of these... |
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| Katherine Mims Crocker |
QUALIFIED IMMUNITY, SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY, AND SYSTEMIC REFORM |
71 Duke Law Journal 1701 (May, 2022) |
Qualified immunity has become a central target of the movement for police reform and racial justice since George Floyd's murder. And rightly so. Qualified immunity, which shields government officials from damages for constitutional violations even in many egregious cases, should have no place in federal law. But in critical respects, qualified... |
2022 |
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| Yuvraj Joshi |
RACIAL JUSTICE AND PEACE |
110 Georgetown Law Journal 1325 (June, 2022) |
The United States recently saw the largest racial justice protests in its history. An estimated 15 to 26 million people took to the streets over the police killings of Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, George Floyd, and countless other Black people. This Article explores how these protests and their chants of No Justice! No Peace! should lead us to... |
2022 |
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| Angela Onwuachi-Willig , Anthony V. Alfieri |
RACIAL TRAUMA IN CIVIL RIGHTS REPRESENTATION |
120 Michigan Law Review 1701 (June, 2022) |
Narratives of trauma told by clients and communities of color have inspired an increasing number of civil rights and antiracist lawyers and academics to call for more trauma-informed training for law students and lawyers. These advocates have argued not only for greater trauma-sensitive practices and trauma-centered interventions on behalf of... |
2022 |
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| Lauren Johnson, Cinnamon Pelly, Ebony L. Ruhland, Simone Bess, Jacinda K. Dariotis, Janet Moore |
RECLAIMING SAFETY: PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH, COMMUNITY PERSPECTIVES, AND POSSIBILITIES FOR TRANSFORMATION |
18 Stanford Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties 191 (May, 2022) |
This paper offers the first known interdisciplinary, community-based participatory research study to focus directly on two questions that have drawn increased attention in the wake of global protests over racialized police violence: 1) What is the definition of safety? and 2) How can safety be made equally accessible to all? The study is part of a... |
2022 |
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| Harvey Gee |
REDUCING GUN VIOLENCE WITH SHOTSPOTTER GUNSHOT DETECTION TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNITY-BASED PLANS: WHAT WORKS? |
100 Oregon Law Review 461 (2022) |
Urban violence is better understood as a grievous injury, a gushing wound that demands immediate attention in order to preserve life and limb. [T]he panoptic powers of modern surveillance . imperil our democracy in a way that we've never before seen . It is our responsibility to speak up for ourselves, our civil liberties, and the sort of world... |
2022 |
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| Marbre Stahly-Butts , Amna A. Akbar |
REFORMS FOR RADICALS? AN ABOLITIONIST FRAMEWORK |
68 UCLA Law Review 1544 (February, 2022) |
This Article draws on prison abolitionist organizing, campaigns, and intellectual work around the country to offer a framework for thinking about radical reforms rooted in an abolitionist framework. A radical reform (1) shrinks the system doing harm; (2) relies on modes of political, economic, and social organization that contradict prevailing... |
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| Matthew Spencer |
RESTRUCTURING ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION OPTIONS TO IMPROVE POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY |
13 Alabama Civil Rights & Civil Liberties Law Review 145 (2021-2022) |
I. Introduction. 145 II. Existing Structures of Accountability in Policing. 149 A. Civil Rights Lawsuits under 42 U.S.C. ยง 1983. 149 B. Consent Decrees from the U.S. Department of Justice. 152 C. Police Arbitration. 159 III. Additional Concerns Surrounding Police Self-Regulation. 165 IV. Creative Alternative Solutions to Police Accountability. 169... |
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| Ayesha Bell Hardaway |
RISE OF POLICE UNIONS ON THE BACK OF THE BLACK LIBERATION MOVEMENT |
55 Connecticut Law Review 179 (December, 2022) |
Police unions have garnered the attention of the media and some scholars in recent years. That attention has often focused on exploring the seemingly inexplicable and routine power police unions have to shield problem officers from accountability. This Article shows that police union power did not surreptitiously arrive on the doorsteps of American... |
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| Katherine Macfarlane |
SECTION 1983 DEALMAKING |
97 Tulane Law Review 1 (November, 2022) |
Breonna Taylor was killed in her home during the botched execution of a no-knock warrant. However, any civil rights claims arising from her death would likely fail in court because of qualified immunity, which often shields officers from civil damages, and City of Los Angeles v. Lyons, which blocks reform that might be achieved through injunctive... |
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| A.J. Rael |
SHIFTING THE CULTURE: WHAT THE UNITED STATES CAN LEARN FROM EUROPEAN POLICING PRACTICES |
30 Tulane Journal of International and Comparative Law 195 (Winter, 2022) |
I. Introduction. 195 II. Origins of the Black Lives Matter Movement in the United States. 197 III. Europe's Response to the Black Lives Matter Movement Following the Killing of George Floyd. 198 IV. An Overview and Comparison of Police Brutality in the U.S. and the U.K. 200 V. A Comparison of Policing Practices in the U.S., Norway, and Finland. 205... |
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| Cesar M. Estrada |
SOCIAL MOVEMENT THEORY AND THE ROLE OF QUALIFIED IMMUNITY IN INCREASING POLITICAL VIOLENCE |
36 Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy 347 (2022) |
On April 20, 2021, a Minneapolis jury returned a guilty verdict on three different homicide charges for former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd in May 2020. George Floyd's murder, long down the list of police killings of Black Americans, was not unique in and of itself. In 2020 alone, 1,126 people were killed... |
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