" 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 …

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 …

Baltimore, Maryland. Buffalo, New York. Cleveland, Ohio. Chicago, Illinois. Cincinnati, Ohio.
Columbus, Ohio. Detroit, Michigan. East Haven, Connecticut. Ferguson, Missouri. Highland …

A growing number of high-profile incidents have recently drawn attention to sex
discrimination in the workplace. Allegations against movie mogul Harvey Weinstein and the …

The American criminal justice system's ills are by now so familiar as scarcely to bear
repeating: unprecedented levels of incarceration, doled out disproportionately across racial …

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 Page 1 ESSAY DISBANDING POLICE AGENCIES
Anthony O'Rourke,* Rick Su** & Guyora Binder*** Since the killing of George Floyd, a …

Far from the marble halls of the US Supreme Court lurks a judicial animal of a completely
different character: the lowly municipal court. City courts in the United States go by a variety …

This Article examines the ways that Whiteness is the norm within the criminal legal system,
including within criminal law commentary. It does so by focusing on the burgeoning area of …

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 …