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ArticleVol. 103 · Iss. 2
Policing Children’s Data
In recent years, advances in policing technology have dramatically expanded law enforcement’s ability to access data. This includes children’s data—their photographs, text messages, geolocation…
Nila Bala -
ArticleVol. 103 · Iss. 1
Cliff Running
Professionals must at times make snap judgments that have profound consequences. Does a doctor perform an otherwise forbidden abortion to preserve a patient’s failing…
Dov Fox & William Ortman -
ArticleVol. 101 · Iss. 6
Illegitimate Choices: A Minimalist(?) Approach To Consent And Waiver In Criminal Cases
People suspected or convicted of crimes are constantly confronted with choices that can have significant impact on their liberty interests. They may be asked…
Christopher Slobogin & Kate Weisburd -
ArticleVol. 101 · Iss. 5
Digital Rummaging
The digital world encodes our lives with incriminating clues. How you travel, live, love, and shop are tracked through growing surveillance technologies. Police have…
Andrew Guthrie Ferguson -
ArticleVol. 101 · Iss. 4
Estimating a Face: What Predicting Appearance from DNA Reveals About the Need to Regulate Genetic Investigations
Reliance on flawed forensic disciplines has placed innocent people in prison with alarming frequency. In the past thirty years, forensic science has contributed to…
Allison Durkin -
NoteVol. 101 · Iss. 2
Ditching “DNA on Demand”: A Harms-Centered Approach to Safeguarding Privacy Interests Against DNA Collection and Use by Law Enforcement
In February 2022, news broke that the San Francisco Police Department had used a woman’s DNA collected years prior—as part of a rape examination—to…
Emma Kenny-Pessia -
ArticleVol. 100 · Iss. 5
Of Sinners & Scapegoats: The Economics Of Collective Punishment
Abstract “[I]t is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.” 4 William Blackstone, Commentaries *358. “[I]t is better that ten…
J. Shahar Dillbary & Thomas J. Miceli -
ArticleVol. 100 · Iss. 2
Past-Acts Evidence in Excessive Force Litigation
Abstract Myriad obstacles prevent victims of police violence from vindicating civil claims against the officers who have harmed them and the cities which have…
James Stone -
ArticleVol. 99 · Iss. 5
Procedural Losses and the Pyrrhic Victory of Abolishing Qualified Immunity
Who decides? Failing to consider this simple question could turn attempts to abolish qualified immunity into a Pyrrhic victory. That is because removing qualified…
Adam A. Davidson -
ArticleVol. 99 · Iss. 4
Criminalized Students, Reparations, and the Limits of Prospective Reform
Introduction Criminalization of students occurs when schools refer children to criminal law enforcement for everyday disciplinary infractions—infractions that school administrators and counselors could appropriately…
Amber Baylor -
ArticleVol. 99 · Iss. 1
Crime and the Mythology of Police
ABSTRACT The legal policing literature has espoused one theory of policing after another in an effort to address the frayed relationship between police and…
Shima Baradaran Baughman -
NoteVol. 99 · Iss. 1
An Anti-Conspiracy Theory: How Antitrust Law is Eroding The Constitutional Rights Protection Set Forth In § 1985(3) and § 1983
Introduction In October of 1868, Benjamin F. Randolph, a Black state senator in South Carolina, was shot dead by three white men as he…
Madeleine Denny