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Articles in Law & Justice tagged with Crime and Prison

Azadeh Shahshahani

The United States has long supported the repression of Latin American land defenders. The tactics it exported are coming to the Atlanta forest.

David McDermott Hughes

With time running out, jury nullification for civil disobedience is worth the risk.

Will Holub-Moorman

Family policing is deeply unjust. The nuclear family is too.

Sonali Chakravarti

Just as abolitionists fought the Fugitive Slave Act, those resisting the criminalization of reproductive health can employ jury nullification.

Joseph Margulies

Draconian individual punishment distracts from systemic change and reinforces the cruelest and most racist system of incarceration on the planet.

Stuart Schrader

Its illegitimacy goes far beyond the war on drugs.

Stuart Streichler

Amidst the January 6 hearings, the fiftieth anniversary of Nixon’s scandal reminds us that it has only gotten harder to hold presidents accountable.

Matt Nadel
Angel Francisco Breard was executed by Virginia in contempt of a treaty that required his home country to be notified when he was first charged. What difference might it have made if the U.S. had obeyed the law?
Randall L. Kennedy

King could not accomplish what philosophers and theologians also failed to—distinguishing moral from immoral law in a polarized society.

Baher Azmy

The lawless—and ongoing—administration of the prison by four American presidents underwrites the broader democratic crisis we face today.

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