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Tracey L. Meares

Tracey L. Meares, Walton Hale Hamilton Professor of Law at Yale University, is coauthor of Urgent Times.

Articles

Is policing a public good gone bad?
Tracey L. Meares, Vesla M. Weaver

Policing as we know it must be abolished before it can be transformed.

Tracey L. Meares

Forums

The difficult choices surrounding building searches, curfews, anti-loitering provisions, and the like should be made by the individuals with the biggest stake in them.

Dan M. Kahan, Tracey L. Meares

Forum Responses

One takeaway from Glenn Loury’s meditation is the central role of narrativity in our shared civic life. The tragic deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson and Eric Garner in New York City...
Benjamin Justice, Tracey L. Meares
Rights don’t determine their own content. Some institution-meaning some person-must decide whether inner-city curfews, gang-loitering laws, and building searches unreasonably subordinate liberty to order. So who should be empowered to make that...
Dan M. Kahan, Tracey L. Meares

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