Tracey L. Meares

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

Abolish the Police?

Is policing a public good gone bad?

  • Tracey L. Meares
  • Vesla M. Weaver

Policing: A Public Good Gone Bad

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

  • Tracey L. Meares

Meares and Justice Response to Ferguson

Police single out certain citizens as an undesirable class.

  • Tracey L. Meares
  • Benjamin Justice

When Rights Are Wrong — Final Response

Rights don’t determine their own content.

  • Tracey L. Meares
  • Dan M. Kahan

When Rights Are Wrong

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.

  • Tracey L. Meares
  • Dan M. Kahan
with responses from
  • Alan Dershowitz
  • Jean Bethke Elshtain
  • Joel F. Handler
  • Carol S. Steiker
  • Wesley G. Skogan
  • Margaret A. Burnham
  • Franklin E. Zimring
  • Jeremy Waldron
  • Bernard E. Harcourt
  • Anthony Paul Farley
  • Richard H. Pildes
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