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Law & Justice, Politics

How Nations Heal

We cannot simply put the past behind us. The framework of transitional justice offers a promising path forward.

Colleen Murphy

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Law & Justice

Law & Justice

We Can End Qualified Immunity Tomorrow

We need not wait for Congress or the Supreme Court to deny police officers qualified immunity when they violate constitutional rights. State attorneys general and city law departments can—and should—lead the charge themselves.

Alex Reinert

Law & Justice

Hold Prosecutors Accountable, Too

In order to achieve lasting change, we must focus on systemic problems across the criminal justice system. That includes holding prosecutors accountable, not just police.

Kate Levine, Joanna Schwartz

Law & Justice, Race

The Pain Just Stays in Your Head

Police brutality is not isolated and exceptional. As Chicago’s decades-long history of police torture illustrates, it is built into the systemic nature of racial violence.

Gili Kliger

Law & Justice

Power over Policing

Reform efforts will fail. Only a power shift to communities can improve public safety.

Jocelyn Simonson

Law & Justice, Philosophy & Religion

Rights in a Pandemic

The COVID-19 crisis creates a conflict not between individual rights and the community, but rather between individual rights themselves—including, above all, the right to health.

Attila Mraz

Law & Justice

The Urgent Need for Civil Justice Reform

We face a surge of civil litigation in the wake of COVID-19—from eviction fights to loan disputes—but the system has languished in dire need of reform for decades.

Daniel Wilf-Townsend

Law & Justice

Let the People Go

States should release from prison far more than the very small percentage of low-level, nonviolent offenders they hold.

Joseph Margulies

Law & Justice, Politics

Abortions Don't Drain Hospital Resources

A doctor's case against COVID-19 abortion bans. 

Daniel Grossman

Law & Justice

Who's in Charge?

It’s easy to interpret the disorder of our COVID-19 response through the lens of unpreparedness or partisanship. But that misses the complex legal structure of emergency governance.

Robert L. Tsai

Law & Justice, Politics

How to Mend Our Broken Electoral Process

We must institute a method of electing a president that is sensitive to the votes of Americans everywhere.

Reed Hundt

Law & Justice, Politics

Impeaching for Imperialism

Beneath Trump’s impeachment lurks a troubling complacency—among Democrats and Republicans alike—with the nature of U.S. imperial power.

Malick Ghachem

Law & Justice, Politics

Designing Better Impeachments

How other countries’ constitutions protect against political free-for-alls.

Aziz Huq, Tom Ginsburg, David Landau

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