The consensus myth in criminal justice reform

B Levin - Mich. L. Rev., 2018 - HeinOnline
We live in an era of mass incarceration. Since the early 1970s, the criminal justice system
has expanded rapidly, disproportionately affecting poor people of color. 1 A growing chorus …

Imagining the progressive prosecutor

B Levin - Minn. L. Rev., 2020 - HeinOnline
In the lead-up to the 2020 Democratic presidential primary, Sen-ator Kamala Harris's
prosecutorial record became a major source of contention.'Harris-the former San Francisco …

Facial recognition and the fourth amendment

AG Ferguson - Minn. L. Rev., 2020 - HeinOnline
Facial Recognition and the Fourth Amendment Page 1 Article Facial Recognition and the
Fourth Amendment Andrew Guthrie Fergusont Introduction …

What's wrong with police unions?

B Levin - Colum. L. Rev., 2020 - HeinOnline
Union power in the United States has hit a nadir. Less than eleven percent of the labor force
is unionized-a lower percentage than at any point since World War II. 1 Twenty-eight states …

Criminal law exceptionalism

B Levin - Virginia Law Review, 2022 - JSTOR
For over half a century, US prison populations have ballooned, and criminal codes have
expanded. In recent years, a growing awareness of mass incarceration and the harms of …

Mens rea reform and its discontents

B Levin - J. Crim. L. & Criminology, 2019 - HeinOnline
MENS REA REFORM AND ITS DISCONTENTS Page 1 0091-4169/19/10903-0491 THE
JOURNAL OF CRIMINAL LAW & CRIMINOLOGY Vol. 109, No. 3 Copyright © 2019 by Benjamin …

Toward a demosprudence of poverty

M Bell, S Garlock, A Nabavi-Noori - Duke LJ, 2019 - HeinOnline
This Article describes the rift between a due-process-focused jurisprudence on legal-
financial obligations-the centerpiece of the current fight against criminalization of poverty …

De-Democratizing Criminal Law: Rachel Elise Barkow. Prisoners of Politics: Breaking the Cycle of Mass Incarceration. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2019, 304 pp …

B Levin - Criminal Justice Ethics, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Writing twenty years ago, the late Harvard Law professor William Stuntz diagnosed a set of
“pathological politics” at the heart of US criminal law. Stuntz sought to explain why carceral …

Wage theft criminalization

B Levin - UC Davis L. Rev., 2020 - HeinOnline
Theft lies at the heart of capitalism. Bosses, not workers, own and sell the fruits of workers'
labor. Employment contracts aren't entered into freely, as bosses are able to negotiate …

Civil rights ecosystems

JC Schwartz - Mich. L. Rev., 2019 - HeinOnline
CIVIL RIGHTS ECOSYSTEMS Page 1 CIVIL RIGHTS ECOSYSTEMS Joanna C. Schwartz* The
Philadelphia and Houston Police Departments are similarly sized, but over a recent two-year …