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Joanna Schwartz is Professor at UCLA School of Law, where she studies police misconduct and civil rights litigation. Her recent focus has been on qualified immunity, and she has authored several studies that undermine the Supreme Court's various policy justifications for the doctrine. Find her on Twitter at @JCSchwartzProf.
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