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 …

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 …

Courts and the abolition movement

M Clair, A Woog - Cal. L. Rev., 2022 - HeinOnline
Courts and the Abolition Movement Page 1 Courts and the Abolition Movement Matthew Clair*
& Amanda Woog** This Article theorizes and reimagines the place of courts in the …

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 …

The place of “the people” in criminal procedure

J Simonson - Columbia Law Review, 2019 - JSTOR
The rules and practices of criminal procedure assume a clean separation between the
interests of the public and the interests of the lone defendant who stands accused. Even the …

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 …

Resistance Lawyering

D Farbman - California Law Review, 2019 - JSTOR
This is the story of a group of abolitionist lawyers who devoted themselves to working within
a legal system that they considered to be fundamentally unjust and illegitimate. These …

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 …

The dangerous few: taking seriously prison abolition and its skeptics

TW Frampton - Harv. L. Rev., 2021 - HeinOnline
Prison abolition, in the span of just afew short years, has established a foothold in elite
criminal legal discourse. But the basic question of how abolitionists would address" the …