Unshielded: How the Police Can Become Touchable
Vol. 137 No. 3
We’re Americans. — Red Introduction I grew up in upstate New York. My family was poor. We were one of a handful of Black...
Fourth Amendment
Transinstitutional Policing
Vol. 137 No. 3
Abstract Policing has become a permanent fixture within other institutions and occurs in more ways and places than are often recognized. For race-class subjugated...
Policing “Bad” Mothers
Vol. 136 No. 8
Introduction Jessamine Chan’s The School for Good Mothers is not a great book. I don’t mean that in the sense the writer Judith Newman...
United States v. Moore-Bush
First Circuit Divides on Constitutionality of Warrantless Pole-Camera Surveillance of Home's Curtilage.
Vol. 136 No. 4
Tyson v. Sabine
Fifth Circuit Holds that Sexual Assault Perpetrated by Police Is Fourteenth Amendment Violation, Not Fourth Amendment Seizure.
Vol. 136 No. 3
United States v. Johnlouis
Fifth Circuit Delivers a New Law Enforcement Functions Test for Identifying Government Actors.
Vol. 136 No. 3
Egbert v. Boule
Vol. 136 No. 1
Fifty-one years ago, in Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics, the Supreme Court announced a cause of action for...
The Aftermath of Carpenter: An Empirical Study of Fourth Amendment Law, 2018-2021
Vol. 135 No. 7
Fourth Amendment law is in flux. The Supreme Court recently established, in the landmark case Carpenter v. United States, that individuals can retain Fourth...
Policing Mass Incarceration
Vol. 135 No. 7
In Presumed Guilty: How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights, Dean Erwin Chemerinsky issues an indictment of the Supreme Court,...
T.O. v. Fort Bend Independent School District
Fifth Circuit Declines to Extend Fourth Amendment to Bar Corporal Punishment in Public Schools
Vol. 135 No. 7