An abolitionist horizon for (police) reform

AA Akbar - Calif. L. Rev., 2020 - HeinOnline
" We used to think that if we improved policing we could escape its violence," Rachel
Herzing began. 1 It was November 2014, the fall that Darren Wilson killed Michael Brown …

Police reform through a power lens

J Simonson - Yale LJ, 2020 - HeinOnline
Scholars and reformers have in recent years begun to imagine new and different
configurations for how the state can design policing institutions. These conversations have …

Disbanding police agencies

A O'Rourke, R Su, G Binder - Colum. L. Rev., 2021 - HeinOnline
DISBANDING POLICE AGENCIES Page 1 ESSAY DISBANDING POLICE AGENCIES
Anthony O'Rourke,* Rick Su** & Guyora Binder*** Since the killing of George Floyd, a …

The Place of the Prosecutor in Abolitionist Praxis

C Godsoe - UCLA L. Rev., 2022 - HeinOnline
Progressive prosecutors have been widely hailed as the solution to mass incarceration. This
Article argues, to the contrary, that the legal arm of law enforcement can never be the full …

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 …

Policing and" Bluelining"

A Gruber - Hous. L. Rev., 2020 - HeinOnline
In this Commentary written for the Frankel Lecture symposium on police killings of Black
Americans, I explore the increasingly popular claim that racialized brutality is not a …

Strict Scrutiny & the Black Body

DW Carbado - UCLA L. Rev., 2022 - HeinOnline
When people in law think about strict scrutiny, often they are also thinking about equal
protection law's treatment of race. For more than four decades, scholars have vigorously …

Criminal Justice Expertise

B Levin - Fordham L. Rev., 2021 - HeinOnline
It is a strange time to be writing about experts. This Article is the product of a moment when
expertise occupies a fraught place in US political culture. An impression of widespread …

Does Revlon matter? An empirical and theoretical study

MD Cain, SJ Griffith, RJ Jackson Jr, SD Solomon - Calif. L. Rev., 2020 - HeinOnline
Theoretical Study Page 1 Does Revlon Matter? An Empirical and Theoretical Study Matthew D.
Cain*, Sean J. Griffith**, Robert J. Jackson, Jr.***, and Steven Davidoff Solomon**** We …

Can You Be a Legal Ethics Scholar and Have Guts?

C Godsoe, A Smith, E Yaroshefsky - Geo. J. Legal Ethics, 2022 - HeinOnline
Recent efforts to hold lawyers accountable for their actions-including lawyers who sought to
overturn the 2020 Presidential election based on false evidence, and New York City …