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The Federal Government's Role In Local Policing, Farhang Heydari, Barry Friedman, Rachel Harmon
The Federal Government's Role In Local Policing, Farhang Heydari, Barry Friedman, Rachel Harmon
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
For far too long, the federal government has failed to exercise its constitutional authority to mitigate the harms imposed by local policing. Absent federal intervention, though, some harmful aspects of policing will not be addressed effectively, or at all. States and localities often lack the necessary capacity and expertise to change policing, and many states and localities lack the will. This Article argues for federal intervention and describes what that intervention should look like.
The Article begins by describing three paradigmatic areas of local policing that require federal intervention to create real change: excessive use offorce, racial discrimination, and the …
Historicizing The War(S) On Drugs Across National (And Disciplanary) Borders, Sara Mayeux
Historicizing The War(S) On Drugs Across National (And Disciplanary) Borders, Sara Mayeux
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
Notwithstanding the title, The War on Drugs: A History, this illuminating book is not "a" history of "the" War on Drugs but an edited collection with a sampling of new research into the intertwined histories of drug regulation and criminalization, deregulation and decriminalization, both in the United States and around the world. To use the parlance of Jotwell, I like this book a lot.
But I am also writing this Jot because I worry that the title may mislead legal scholars into thinking that this is only a book for historians of criminal law or scholars of the "carceral state." …