Barry Friedman, Brandon Garrett, Christopher Slobogin, Rachel A. Harmon and Tracey L. Meares | April 6, 2017 | Policing
The Policing project is on ALI’s Annual Meeting agenda this year for the first time, specifically, Use of Force. These principles were prioritized because there is an immediate need for guidance on this issue, and many states and police departments are considering...
Barry Friedman, Brandon Garrett, Christopher Slobogin, Rachel A. Harmon and Tracey L. Meares | March 23, 2017 | Policing
The Policing project is on ALI’s Annual Meeting agenda this year for the first time, specifically, Use of Force. These principles were prioritized because there is an immediate need for guidance on this issue, and many states and police departments are considering...
Rachel A. Harmon | February 8, 2017 | Policing
Arrests are the paradigmatic police activity. Though the practice of arrests in the United States, especially arrests involving minority suspects, is under attack, even critics widely assume the power to arrest is essential to policing. As a result, neither...
Rachel A. Harmon | September 15, 2016 | Policing
ABSTRACTThe fight over how to govern the police has become the most controversial legal topic in American politics, yet American lawyers are often are unprepared to participate in the debate. They leave law school knowing next to nothing about the myriad legal rules...