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Alexandra Natapoff

@anatapoff.bsky.social
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Harvard law professor, criminal law scholar, author of 'Punishment Without Crime' and 'Snitching,' creator of video casebook CRBW

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Alexandra Natapoff @anatapoff.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
thehill.com/opinion/civi...
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America at 250: A time to speak law to power
Law is one of those places where words and ideas matter.
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Alexandra Natapoff @anatapoff.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Very proud of my colleagues and so happy to be part of this effort.
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Andrew Keen @ajkeen.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
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Is America Unfinished or Just Getting Started?
Episode 2922: Alexandra Natapoff on 250 Years of Justice and Injustice in the United States
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NYU Press @nyupress.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Alexandra Natapoff, the author of "Snitching: Criminal Informants and the Erosion of American Justice," is featured on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver as he discusses police stings and the roles of confidential informants. Watch the full clip here: buff.ly/oXhWJOo @lastweektonight.com
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Alexandra Natapoff @anatapoff.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Happy to share new resource, The Rule of Law Teaching Project w/videos by constitutional law professors from Harvard, Yale, Stanford, NYU & more, RuleofLaw101.org. @leahlitman.bsky.social @profmmurray.bsky.social @jmchacon.bsky.social @richardre.bsky.social Trailer here: youtu.be/ILpR3UMlwOM?...
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Meet the Law Professors in the Rule of Law Teaching Project
YouTube video by Rule of Law 101
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Bernard E. Harcourt @bernardharcourt.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
"May you rest in peace, compadre." Bruno Bosteels has a beautiful essay to Joshua Clover, who we just lost. He ends, with Clover, quoting Marx to Ruge: “And when everything is at an end give me your hand so that we may begin again from the beginning.” Adieu ami! www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/v...
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Value Theory for the End of the World
Poet, communist, cat-lover, teacher, music critic, roadrunner, critical theorist, Marxist: though not necessarily in this order, Joshua Clover was all those things--and more. To me, however, he was fi...
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Jon Hanson @thesituationist.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
From 91 members of Harvard Law School faculty to students: "We share a conviction that our Constitution...was designed to make dissent and debate possible without fear of government punishment. Neither a law school nor a society can properly function amidst such fear." tinyurl.com/letter-to-ou...
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letter-to-our-students.pdf
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Alexandra Natapoff @anatapoff.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
An illuminating analysis from @olatij.bsky.social who has studied Title VI for thirty years.
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Alexandra Natapoff @anatapoff.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Police aren't actually prosecutors as I explain here: bit.ly/3DPbQtR Until this disturbing story from @mulchy.bsky.social I couldn't even think of a jurisdiction that lets police direct-file felonies, only misdemeanors. But police lack absolute immunity so malicious prosecution might be available.
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