For decades, it was virtually impossible for a criminal defendant to challenge racial discrimination by the police or prosecutors. This was because in United States v. Armstrong, 517 U.S. 456 (1996), ...

The undercover operations seem like entrapment, but their targets can receive long sentences—sometimes even harsher than those for genuine crimes.

At the Endowed Chair Lecture marking her appointment as the Lillian E. Kraemer Clinical Professor in Public Interest Law, Alison Siegler shared the story of the Freedom Denied project, a seven-year, s...

Freedom Denied How the Culture of Detention Created a Federal Jailing Crisis