Our modest goal in this Introduction is to assemble some baseline empirics concerning both private violence and state coercion to provide a context for the pieces that follow. In so doing, we aim to mitigate the need for “scene setting” by each paper in the Symposium. Readers of the Symposium will find here a synoptic guide to some basic facts about the distribution and extent of criminal violence, as well as socioeconomic conditions and police activity, in Chicago.
Aziz Z. Huq
We describe and apply three empirical approaches to identify superfluous police activity, unjustified racially disparate impacts, and limits to regulatory interventions.
My thanks to the Frank J. Cicero Fund for support and to the editors of the Law Review for their careful editing.
Toward the end of the 1970s, the pioneering scholar and advocate Derrick Bell published two landmark articles. Both reflected critically on the school-desegregation litigation he had pursued as a young NAACP lawyer.
My thanks to the Frank J. Cicero Fund for support, and to the editors of the Law Review for their careful editing.
Thanks to symposium participants for helpful responses and conversations, and to Brent Cooper and other editors at the Review for excellent edits. Support for this work was supplied by the Frank J. Cicero, Jr. Fund.
The act of terrorism and the state of democracy are related in complex, dimly understood ways.
In the wake of World War II, liberal constitutionalism emerged as a default design choice for political systems across Europe and North America. It then diffused more widely across the globe as a whole.
Our thanks to Michael Abramowicz, Joseph Blocher, Mary Anne Case, Justin Driver, Alison LaCroix, Jonathan Masur, Jon Michaels, Douglas NeJaime, Martha Nussbaum, David Pozen, David Schleicher, Paul Schied, Naomi Schoenbaum, Micah Schwartzman, Michael Selmi, Ganesh Sitaraman, Lior Strahilevitz, and Laura Weinrib for thoughtful comments and suggestions. Lael Weinberger, Brent Cooper, and other editors at the Review also supplied useful critical thoughts. We also received helpful feedback from workshops at the George Washington Law School and the University of Chicago Law School. Support for one of us (Huq) was supplied by the Frank J. Cicero, Jr. Fund. Our errors are our responsibility alone.
The Constitution’s separation of powers implies the existence of three distinct and separate branches.
Thanks to Daniel Abebe, Bernard Harcourt, Rick Hills, Trevor Morrison, Eric Posner, and Adrian Vermeule for their insightful and helpful comments, and to Eileen Ho for excellent research assistance. I am especially grateful to Professor Posner for graciously suggesting that I look closely at one of his books. I am pleased to acknowledge the support of the Frank Cicero, Jr Faculty Fund. All errors herein are mine alone.
Volumes
- Volume 90.7November2023
- Volume 90.6October2023
- Volume 90.5September2023
- Volume 90.4June2023
- Volume 90.3May2023
- Volume 90.2March2023
- Volume 90.1January2023
- Volume 89.8December2022
- Volume 89.7November2022
- Volume 89.6October2022
- Volume 89.5September2022
- Volume 89.4June2022
- Volume 89.3May2022
- Volume 89.2March2022
- Volume 89.1January2022
- 84 SpecialNovember2017
- Online 83Presidential Politics and the 113th Justice
- Online 82Grassroots Innovation & Regulatory Adaptation
- 83.4Fall 2016
- 83.3Summer 2016
- 83.2Spring 2016
- 83.1Winter 2016
- 82.4Fall 2015
- 82.3Summer 2015
- 82.2Spring 2015
- 82.1Winter 2015
- 81.4Fall 2014
- 81.3Summer 2014
- 81.2Spring 2014
- 81.1Winter 2014