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Sarah A. Seo

Sarah A. Seo is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Iowa and author of Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom. She clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

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Before the mass adoption of the car, most communities barely had a police force and citizens shared responsibility for enforcing laws. Then the car changed everything.

Sarah A. Seo

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