Colloquium on the Crisis in Policing
On Friday, June 12, 2020 the University of Chicago Law School convened a Colloquium on the Crisis in Policing. The panel was introduced by Thomas J. Miles, Dean and Clifton R. Musser Professor of Law and Economics, and hosted by and moderated by Richard McAdams, Deputy Dean and Bernard D. Meltzer Professor of Law.
Five speakers presented initial remarks:
- John Rappaport, Assistant Professor of Law, Ludwig and Hilde Wolf Research Scholar
- Craig Futterman, Clinical Professor of Law, Director, Civil Rights and Police Accountability Project
- Sharon Fairley, Professor from Practice
- Claudia Flores, Associate Clinical Professor of Law, Director, International Human Rights Clinic
- Aziz Huq, Frank and Bernice J. Greenberg Professor of Law, Mark Claster Mamolen Teaching Scholar
Additional speakers served as commentators and contributed to answering questions from the audience:
- Herschella Conyers, Clinical Professor of Law, Director, Criminal and Juvenile Justice Clinic
- Mary Anne Case, Arnold I. Shure Professor of Law
- Jonathan Masur, John P. Wilson Professor of Law, David and Celia Hilliard Research Scholar, Director of the Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz Program in Behavioral Law, Finance and Economics
- Alison Siegler, Clinical Professor of Law, Director, Federal Criminal Justice Clinic
- Sonja Starr, Butzel Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School (joining the Law School faculty July 1)
Links to resources discussed or related to the Colloquium:
- Report from the International Human Rights Clinic: “Deadly Discretion: The Failure of Police Use of Force Policies to Meet Fundamental International Human Rights Law and Standards” https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/ihrc/14/. The press release for the report is available here: https://www.law.uchicago.edu/news/new-ihrc-report-largest-us-cities-pol… and a summary is available here: https://lawreviewblog.uchicago.edu/2020/06/09/report-police-use-of-force/
- Alison Siegler & William Admussen, “Discovering Racial Discrimination by the Police,” 115 Northwestern University Law Review (Forthcoming 2020), available at https://ssrn.com/abstract=3548829
- Roland G. Fryer, “An Empirical Analysis of Racial Differences in Police Use of Force,”
- 127:3 Journal of Political Economy 1210 (2019), available at https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/701423?mobileUi=0
- Sonja Starr elaborates on the issues with Heather Mac Donald's work on Twitter.