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A Proposal for Police Reform: Require Effective Accountability Measures in Police Union Contracts as a Condition of Tax-Exempt Status
Brian Mogck
Brian Mogck is a partner in the New York law firm of Walden Macht & Haran LLP. The views expressed are solely his own and do not express the views of the firm, its personnel, or any of its clients.

The author gratefully acknowledges the helpful comments on prior drafts from Derek Borchardt, Daniel Chirlin, Christopher Dioguardi, among other generous readers, and the research assistance of Theodora Danias. All errors are the author’s alone.

In the wake of the May 25 police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, government leaders across the nation are urgently considering reforms that might prevent police brutality.

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Randomization and the Fourth Amendment
Bernard E. Harcourt
Julius Kreeger Professor of Law and Criminology, and Professor and Chair, Department of Political Science, The University of Chicago
Tracey L. Meares
Deputy Dean and Walton Hale Hamilton Professor of Law, Yale Law School

We thank Bruce Ackerman, Heather Gerken, Richard Helmholz, Aziz Huq, Maximo Langer, Daniel Markovits, Jonathan Masur, Richard McAdams, Adam Samaha, David Sklansky, and Carol Steiker for valuable comments on earlier drafts. We are also grateful to faculty workshop participants at Quinnipiac University Law School, The University of Chicago Law School, Vanderbilt University Law School, and Yale Law School, and to the participants at the University of Chicago Criminal Justice Roundtable. For outstanding research assistance, we thank Jacob Gardener, Liza Khan, Sam Lim, Basha Rubin, Nicolas Thompson, and Diana Watral.

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Immigration Detention: Information Gaps and Institutional Barriers to Reform
Alina Das
Assistant Professor of Clinical Law, New York University School of Law

I thank Michael Tan, Nancy Morawetz, and the participants in The University of Chicago Immigration Law and Institutional Design Symposium, held at The University of Chicago Law School on June 15 and 16, 2012, for their insightful comments and suggestions. I am grateful for the excellent research assistance of Anthony Enriquez and Rebecca Fisher, and for the meticulous review by the editors of The University of Chicago Law Review.

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Policing Immigration
Adam B. Cox
Professor of Law, New York University School of Law
Thomas J. Miles
Professor of Law and Walter Mander Research Scholar, The University of Chicago Law School

Thanks to Ahilan Arulanantham, Ingrid Eagly, Stephen Lee, Courtney Oliva, Margo Schlanger, F. Daniel Siciliano, David Sklansky, participants in The University of Chicago Immigration Law and Institutional Design Symposium, held at The University of Chicago Law School on June 15 and 16, 2012, and participants in workshops at the Law and Society Association, Northwestern University School of Law, and the 2012 Conference on Empirical Legal Studies. Many thanks also to Elizabeth Alcocer-Gonzalez, Yotam Barkai, Cynthia Benin, Christopher Heasley, Emily Heasley, Ronnie Hutchinson, Charity Lee, Zachary Mayo, Taylor Meehan, Emily Underwood, and Allison Wilkinson for outstanding research assistance. Adam Cox thanks The Filomen D’Agostino and Max E. Greenberg Research Fund for generous support. Thomas Miles thanks the SNR Denton Fund for generous support.

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Making Mistakes about the Law: Police Mistakes of Law between Qualified Immunity and Lenity
Lael Weinberger
BA 2009, Thomas Edison State University; MA 2013, Northern Illinois University; JD Candidate 2018, The University of Chicago Law School; PhD Candidate, Department of History, The University of Chicago

While patrolling one night in 2014, police officer Jeff Packard noticed a car with a hole in one of its red taillights.

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Big Data and Bad Data: On the Sensitivity of Security Policy to Imperfect Information
James T. Graves
PhD Candidate (Engineering and Public Policy) 2016, Carnegie Mellon University
Alessandro Acquisti
Professor of Information Technology and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
Nicolas Christin
Assistant Research Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University