By Chris Mansa LaPorte and Hana Porter August 3, 2021 Brown v. Board made it illegal to segregate schools based solely on race, but the promise of racial equity in education remains unfulfilled in many parts of the country, including the largest school district in...
We are thrilled to spotlight our Co-Founder and Legal Innovator, Hansdeep Singh. Hansdeep’s background is in public international law, which consists of the laws of war (humanitarian law), international criminal law, and human rights law. During his legal...
In 1989, Graham v. Connor again tested the possibilities for police accountability at the Supreme Court. The standard of “objectively reasonable” became the benchmark for police decision-making, but as Harbani highlights in her poem, “the question is whether an...
Shannon Marcoux recently graduated from Columbia Law School in New York, where her advocacy has been focused primarily at the intersection of human rights and the environment. She will be heading to Cape Town, South Africa for a fellowship with Natural Justice, an...
The newly launched Dicta poetry exhibit unearths the persistence of injustice and highlights, among other injustices, the lack of genuine desire for police accountability. Two poems in particular, LA v. Lyons and Graham v. Connor, illustrate the legacy of police...
On June 21, 2021, a federal judge dismissed all claims against Federal officials in the Black Lives Matter D.C., et al. v. Trump, et al. case where local and federal law enforcement attacked protestors with clubs, shot them with rubber bullets, and tear-gassed them....
