Dr. Paula Ioanide is a mother, teacher, scholar, and organizer who strives to counter the social and spiritual ills produced by systemic racism and build […]
Cullen Sweeney on Race and the Justice System
Chief Public Defender, Cullen Sweeney, discusses the role of the Public Defender’s role in advocating for systemic criminal justice reform. We discuss bail reform, race equity, police […]
Eric Herschthal discusses Dr. Rush’s Leprosy Theory of Race
Professor Eric Herschthal discusses his article “The Science of Antislavery in the Early Republic: The Case of Dr. Benjamin Rush.” (article link https://muse.jhu.edu/article/653138) Prof. Herschthal examines […]
Vida Johnson on Police Bias and Misconduct
Professor Vida Johnson discusses two of her articles on police bias. First, we talk about her article, “Bias in Blue: Instructing Jurors to Consider the […]
Laura Bieger on 1619 Project’s Aesthetics as Social Engagement
In this interview, Professor Bieger discusses her essay “The 1619 Project as Aesthetic and Social Practice; or, the Art of the Essay in the Digital […]
Philip Reichel on Slave Patrols Origins of the Police
Professor Reichel discusses his articles “Southern Slave Patrols as a Transitional Police Type” and “The Misplaced Emphasis on Urbanization in Police Development.” He explores the […]
Adam Malka on the Rise of Police and Criminalization of Black Freedom
Professor Malka discusses his book, The Men of Mobtown, which explores how the free black population of the antebellum South came to be controlled and […]
Professor Atiba Ellis on the Courts, Reparations, Truth, and Reconciliation
Professor Ellis discusses his essay Polley V. Ratcliff: A New Way To Address an Original Sin? on a fascinating court case, recently resolved, involving kidnapping, […]
Alexander Reinert on Cruel and Unusual Punishment in the Eighth Amendment
Alex Reinert is the Max Freund Professor Litigation and Advocacy at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. Alex joined the faculty of Cardozo in […]
