Strip Searches Deny Prisoners Their Constitutional Rights
In March of 2011, a tactical team at Lincoln Correctional Center in Illinois rounded up and marched 200 handcuffed female prisoners into a gymnasium. Without saying why, guards took groups of four to ten prisoners into one of two adjoining rooms, both of which were...
The Right to Eat Halal Often Stops at the Prison Gate
The U.S. Supreme Court has held that while “prison walls do not form a barrier separating inmates from the protections of the Constitution,” the right to free speech can be curtailed when “legitimate penological concerns” are at stake. The Court’s unwillingness to...
New DOJ Policy Gives Genealogy Website Users Weak Privacy Protections From Law Enforcement
The arrest of the infamous Golden State killer in April 2018 prompted controversy over law enforcement’s use of genealogy databases. The California case ran cold decades ago, but a well-preserved DNA sample was uploaded by detectives into the public database,...
To Protect Women, Legalize Prostitution
Prostitution is a sensitive subject in the United States. Frequently, arguments against prostitution center around concern for the health and safety of women, and those concerns are not unfounded. Prostitution is an incredibly dangerous profession for the (mostly)...
Where the Confrontation Clause Gets it Wrong: Police Brutality Cases
As police officers continue to shoot and kill unarmed civilians, we must examine the disparity between police brutality and police accountability. Too many officers kill unarmed Black people with little to no consequences. One barrier to accountability is gathering...
I just posted episode 399 of @IpseDixitPod, featuring @MikeGentithes of @AkronLaw discussing his article "Suspicionless Witness Stops: The New Racial Profiling," forthcoming in @HarvardCRCL. The stinger for this one is priceless, IMO. https://shows.pippa.io/ipse-dixit/episodes/michael-gentithes-on-suspicionless-witness-stops
Law Students: Submissions are open now for student notes to be published in @HarvardCRCL! If you have a note about civil rights, civil liberties, or advancing justice, to eics.crcl.vol55@gmail.com by *midnight on October 28*. More info here: https://harvardcrcl.org/submit/
"On October 7th, the Supreme Court began its term with the oral argument for Kahler v. Kansas, a case which asks whether a state violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments if it essentially abolishes the insanity defense."
https://harvardcrcl.org/will-history-save-the-insanity-defense/
We can’t wait to publish this incredible article!
Thank you for all the great comments on my paper Suspicionless Witness Stops (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3420816) from colleagues at today’s #LatCrit conference! @GeorgiaStateLaw has been an excellent host for this @AkronLawScholar and @HarvardCRCL contributor.
"In one fell swoop, California lawmakers have disrupted archaic and discriminatory NCAA policies."
https://harvardcrcl.org/california-7-ncaa-0-california-lawmakers-most-recent-touchdown/
“The Supreme Court and lower federal courts have an opportunity to return the reach of the crime of child abuse to the deportability ground’s original purpose. Once the flaws of Matter of Soram are rejected, that realignment is possible.”
https://harvardcrcl.org/what-matter-of-soram-got-wrong-child-abuse-crimes-that-may-trigger-deportation-are-constantly-evolving-and-even-target-good-parents/
Just published an article on the @HarvardCRCL Amicus blog about the danger of lame-duck power grabs in North Carolina, Wisconsin, and around the country. #ncpol #wipolitics https://harvardcrcl.org/legislative-entrenchment-and-lame-duck-state-power-grabs/