By HLPR Staff When we talk about “the police,” what do we mean? On February 9, the second day of the 2016 HLPR Symposium, the focus was on the evolution of American policing. Moderated by Christine Cole, Vice President of Community Resources for Justice, the panel featured Milwaukee Chief of Police Edward Flynn and Kara Dansky, founder of 1,000 Arms and former ACLU Senior Counsel. “The police” is not one singular entity, according to Milwaukee Chief of Police Edward Flynn. Chief …
HLPR 2016 Symposium Day 1: Prof. Elizabeth Joh on Big Data and Policing
Panelists: Elizabeth Joh, UC Davis School of Law Professor Thomas Abt, Harvard Kennedy School Adjunct Lecturer and Program in Criminal Justice Senior Research Fellow Vivek Krishnamurthy, Harvard Law School Cyberlaw Clinical Instructor By Ana Choi On Monday, the Harvard Law and Policy Review kicked off its annual symposium featuring the articles in our forthcoming Volume 10.1, with this year’s theme being “Policing in America 50 Years After Miranda.” The opening …
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The Fallibility of Finality
By Michael Admirand and G. Ben Cohen * “We are not final because we are infallible, but we are infallible only because we are final.” [1] Justice Robert Jackson’s famous quote pinpoints the consequences of final judgments in the United States Supreme Court. These consequences are most devastating in the arena of capital punishment, where denial of certiorari or deference to a state is a death sentence. Last year, twenty-seven people were executed after the Court refused to hear further …