Honorable Harry Pregerson Professor of Law, UCLA. Civil rights, police accountability, civil procedure. Author of Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable (2023). Learn more at: joannaschwartz.net
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GEO Group, a private prison company, signed a contract to give ICE use of Delaney Hall and “support services” like security, maintenance, food services, etc. in exchange for over $60 mil/yr
But it is the detainees—not GEO Group—who actually do that work, for free
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The Delaney Hall Strike participants haven’t been convicted of anything—and are still being forced to work for nothing.
Earlier this year, we found that spending on policing has skyrocketed by 40% in less than 10 years.
Keep that in mind the next time someone tries to scapegoat calls to “defund the police.”
Egregious constitutional violations without meaningful accountability are a hallmark of this Trump administration but, of course, are nothing new. Fred Smith & I wrote about civil rights deserts in Mississippi & strategies to address them wherever they exist.
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This Essay was part of a terrific symposium at Harvard last October, "Judicial Review in Jeopardy?", the brain child of @crockeroncourts.bsky.social and Neil Siegel. Check out the pearls of wisdom offered by all the amazing participants, published today in Harvard Law Review. harvardlawreview.org
After a grueling 9 months on the academic job market, I’m thrilled to announce that on July 1, I will start as an Assistant Professor of Law at Harvard Law School! I’m so excited to bring Native American law and legal history to HLS, and I cannot wait to join the incredible faculty there!
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Am I missing something or is this suicide for SSRN? It won't accept already published articles. And authors submitting drafts must agree to the commercial CC license, which means no outlet will publish an article posted on SSRN (because they won't have exclusivity - anyone else can publish it).
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Introduction The current Administration’s detention of individuals in foreign prisons — claiming afterward to have no power over their treatment or return — represents just one example of...
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Breaking: The Supreme Court, Over the Dissent of the 3 Liberal Justices, Allows Alabama to Use Maps that a Lower Court Found to Be Intentionally Discriminating Against Black Voters (Now Updated with Analysis–This is a Significant and Very Bad Ruling) electionlawblog.org?p=156541
@ij.org just put together a fun(?) little flowchart that goes through all the steps someone must take to sue when a federal official violates their rights.
It shouldn't be this difficult.
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So we have to give our articles to AI for free if we want to post on SSRN?!?
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It gets a little more wild each time they say it.
So if every single Black person votes one way, and every single white person votes the opposite way, every election, that's not even RELEVANT to whether voting is "racially polarized"—as long as this durable disagreement is organized into 'parties.'
You can find the 21 pages of order and dissents at this link. In an unsigned opinion, the Supreme Court is allowing Alabama to change its congressional district lines at the last minute to impose a ma...
A right without a remedy is no right at all. But when federal officers violate the Constitution, a slew of unjustified barriers prevent victims from […]
not sure if everyone can access this, but I just learned about some dramatic changes to SSRN from Steve Bainbridge's Substack. This is really bad; SSRN has been how I keep up with scholarship in my field from a variety of researchers
www.stephenbainbridge.com/p/the-social...
New this week: The FBI published data for 2025 police employment a few weeks ago which shows large police departments have started to grow again following near-uniform large drops post-COVID.
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Significant and unwelcome changes to what had been legal academia's major open source scholarly repository and notice system
New police employment data for 2025 released by the FBI a few weeks ago confirms what I already suspected — large police departments are mostly starting to grow again having shrunk considerably after ...
