Disaggregating the Policing Function
Policing imposes serious and extensive harms, from shootings and nonlethal uses of force, to stops, searches, arrests, and incarceration. And… Continue reading →
2021
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The Radical-Incremental Change Debate, Racial Justice, and the Political Economy of Teachers’ Choice
Radical or incremental change? In this profound moment of racial reckoning, that is the fundamental question that divides those within… Continue reading →
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Are There Really “Plenty of Shapiros Out There”? A Comment on the Courage of Norma L. Shapiro – Part Four – Evans v. Beard: A State Court Sentencing Error Corrected 11 Years Later
The third and final case is Evans v. Beard, a habeas petition brought by William Evans, a state prisoner convicted… Continue reading →
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Are There Really “Plenty of Shapiros Out There”? A Comment on the Courage of Norma L. Shapiro – Part Three – Chadwick v. Janecka: Fourteen Years of Civil Contempt
My second selection is the curious case of Chadwick v. Janecka. Chadwick arose from a bitter state court divorce, commenced… Continue reading →
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Race, Reckoning, Reform, and the Limits of the Law of Democracy
It is a moment of racial reckoning. It is not the first, it will not be the last, and it… Continue reading →
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The Parent Trap: Rebalancing Parallel Enforcement Between Child Protective Services and Law Enforcement
At the intersection of family and criminal law, the logic of parallel enforcement enables the state, in the form of… Continue reading →
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Noncitizens’ Access to Federal District Courts: the Narrowing of § 1252(b)(9) Post-Jennings
When can a noncitizen bring her claims directly before a federal district court? The answer is complicated, due in large… Continue reading →
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Veil Peeking: The Corporation as a Nexus for Regulation
Legal and economic scholarship views the provision of asset partitioning (the separation between the assets of the corporation and its… Continue reading →
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Retributive Expungement
Expungement relief was introduced in the mid-twentieth century to reward and incentivize rehabilitation for arrestees and ex-offenders and to protect… Continue reading →
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The Misunderstood Eleventh Amendment
The Eleventh Amendment might be the most misunderstood amendment to the Constitution. Both its friends and enemies have treated the… Continue reading →