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Constitutional Law

Cornell Law Review

2019

Fourth Amendment

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The Endogenous Fourth Amendment: An Empirical Assessment Of How Police Understandings Of Excessive Force Become Constitutional Law, Osagie K. Obasogie, Zachary Newman Jul 2019

The Endogenous Fourth Amendment: An Empirical Assessment Of How Police Understandings Of Excessive Force Become Constitutional Law, Osagie K. Obasogie, Zachary Newman

Cornell Law Review

If the Fourth Amendment is designed to protect citizens from law enforcement abusing its powers, why are so many unarmed Americans killed? Traditional understandings of the Fourth Amendment suggest that it has an exogenous effect on police use of force, Le., that the Fourth Amendment provides the ground rules for how and when law enforcement can use force that police departments turn into use-of-force policies that ostensibly limit police violence. In this Article, we question whether this exogenous understanding of the Fourth Amendment in relation to excessive force claims is accurate by engaging in an empirical assessment of the use-of-force …


Traveling While Hispanic: Border Patrol Immigration Investigatory Stops At Tsa Checkpoints And Hispanic Appearance, Pablo Chapablanco Jul 2019

Traveling While Hispanic: Border Patrol Immigration Investigatory Stops At Tsa Checkpoints And Hispanic Appearance, Pablo Chapablanco

Cornell Law Review

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