Topic
Policing
216 published works
ImmigrationProf Blog
Harvard Law Review on Policing Immigrant Communities
The Harvard Law Review's April 2015 Developments in the Law is on policing. It includes a section on "Policing Immigrant Communities," which is authored by student editors of the Review …
Education Law Prof Blog
DOJ’s Ferguson Report Also Finds Policing Problems in Schools by Josh Gupta-Kagan
By Derek Black
With all of the attention on the Department of Justice's report into Ferguson policing, this blog's readers might be interested pages 37 and 38 of that report, which have largely escaped media…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Prez policing task force calls for a “National Crime and Justice Task Force”
Main March 3, 2015Prez policing task force calls for a "National Crime and Justice Task Force"As reported widely (see here and here), the task force appointed in December by President…
Legal Ethics Forum
“McCulloch and Protesters Come to SLU Law”
[Cross-posted from Behavioral Legal Ethics, by Molly J.W. Wilson] Yesterday, [Feb. 20,] Saint Louis University School of Law hosted the student-run Public Law Review symposium, titled The Thin Blue Line:…
Texas Bar Blog
UH Law Center hosts CLE
Legal professionals will speak on grand juries, policing, use of force, and civil rights, among other topics, during a CLE event at the University of Houston Law Center this Friday.…
The Faculty Lounge
Race And The Second Amendment
I signed up to guest at Prawfs this month and - what do you know - I haven't managed to get much momentum going. Today, though, I posted some thoughts…
Sentencing Law and Policy
More great news about declining homicide rates as we close book on 2014
Main January 3, 2015More great news about declining homicide rates as we close book on 2014As reported in this Washington Post piece, headlined "In major cities, murder rates drop precipitously,"…
The Right Coast
6 Ideas for a Cop-Free World | Rolling Stone
But police are not a permanent fixture in society. While law enforcers have existed in one form or another for centuries, the modern police have their roots in the relatively recent rise…
PropertyProf Blog
Police Patrols in Public Housing Projects
Is pubic housing over-regulated and over-policed?:In New York housing projects, police officers can demand identification from people who are hanging out in a public space, like a building lobby. Even…
Civil Rights Law & Policy Blog
“Due Process of Administration: The Problem of Police Accountability”
The title of this post comes from this recent paper by Professors Charles Sabel and William Simon, the abstract of which states: Many contemporary civil rights claims arise from institutional…