Racial innocence is the practice of securing blamelessness for the death-dealing realities of
racial capitalism. This article reviews the legal, social scientific, and reformist mechanisms …

Calls for change to the infrastructure of civil rights enforcement have grown more insistent in
the past several years, attracting support from a wide range of advocates, scholars, and …

This Article examines a counterintuitive phenomenon: cases where claims of police
expertise do not bolster but undercut police authority in court. Assertions of unique insight …

In this Commentary written for the Frankel Lecture symposium on police killings of Black
Americans, I explore the increasingly popular claim that racialized brutality is not a …

Administrative law has a blind spot. It is blackletter doctrine that an agency's failure to
consider the impacts of its conduct can lead to court invalidation of its decision as arbitrary …

The national conversation concerning the resurgence of White supremacy and anti-
Semitism after the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville emerged in the context of …

Recent high-profile killings of unarmed Black people by the police and resulting social
movements have brought renewed attention to the constitutional limits on police use of force …

Excited delirium is often described as a psychiatric illness characterized by a sudden onset
of extreme agitation, confusion, and aggression that can make people irrationally combative …

Unarmed petty theft and burglary can be survival strategies for poor and unhoused
persons.'Living on the streets of Nashville, Tennessee, Alexander Baxter rummaged through …

ABSTRACT This Essay explores how Graham v. Connor and the policies it codified
contribute to multiple and interacting levels of health inequities caused by police violence in …