Book Review
Policing With Less and Less Policing
Daniel Richman Mon, Sep 12, 2022, 10:54 AM
A review of Michelle Wilde Anderson, “The Fight to Save the Town: Reimagining Discarded America” (Simon & Schuster, 2022).
Daniel Richman is the Paul J. Kellner Professor of Law at Columbia Law School.
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The January 6 Project
Actual Knowledge, Willful Blindness, and the Jan. 6 Hearings
Daniel Richman Tue, Jun 21, 2022, 8:01 AM
Proving Trump’s criminal liability might turn on whether the former president actually knew that his claims of widespread fraud were false or believed there to be a “high probability” they were false.
International Law in the U.S. Legal System
Foreign Equities and Informational Restraints on U.S. Prosecutors
Daniel Richman Wed, Jun 1, 2022, 2:01 PM
Recent developments allowing federal criminal enforcers access to foreign evidence without gatekeeping by foreign states will, if not attended to, increase the likelihood of friction when U.S. prosecutions intrude on foreign sovereign interests or sensibilities.
Policing in America
Toward a New Era for Federal and State Oversight of Local Police
Daniel Richman, Sarah Seo Wed, Jun 2, 2021, 10:55 AM
The George Floyd Justice in Policing Act will use federal grants to regulate police departments. Will this be enough to undo a century of policies and practices that have shielded local police from state and federal oversight?
Book Reviews
Partisan Politics and Federal Law Enforcement: The Promise and Corruption of Reconstruction
Daniel Richman Mon, Jul 22, 2019, 3:22 PM
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A review of Charles Lane, ‘Freedom’s Detective: The Secret Service, the Ku Klux Klan and the Man Who Masterminded America’s First War on Terror" (Hanover Square Press, 2019)
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Encryption
Getting Encryption onto the Front Burner
Daniel Richman Thu, Oct 26, 2017, 7:00 AM
I’m happy to be wrong, but I don’t expect the Deputy Attorney General’s recent speech to spark productive engagement in the standoff over encryption.