Topic
Criminal Justice
Policing, prosecution, incarceration, and reform — explored through the lens of constitutional rights, policy, and practice.
31 courses · 27 briefs
The American criminal justice system affects more people than any other area of law. From policing practices and prosecutorial discretion to mass incarceration and sentencing reform, the legal questions in this space carry enormous consequences for individuals, communities, and constitutional rights.
These courses and briefs feature prosecutors, defense attorneys, judges, and legal scholars examining the system from every angle — qualified immunity, bail reform, the neuroscience of criminal behavior, forensic evidence, and the ongoing tension between public safety and civil liberties.
Courses
31 on-demand CLE courses on this topic
58:18Policing the Police
65:50Pseudoscience and Dubious Forensics
65:21Mass Incarceration: Causes and Reforms
1:03:11Legal Deserts: Rural Lawyer Scarcity
1:02:31Targeting a Foreign President
1:03:51Criminal Lab Grown Meat
1:03:23Prosecutorial Discretion – Power & Responsibility
57:48Deadly Force as Self Defense
1:03:46Police Commands & Police Coercion
54 minFree Speech on the Law School Campus
50:29Recusal & the Bounds of Judicial Bias
1:00:39Assisted Reproduction and Parental Rights
64:37A Credibility Gap in Cases of Rape
1:02:33Poor People Science & Wrongful Convictions
47:03Combatting Crypto Money Laundering
30:53Ethics and Batson
29:27Line Prosecutors v. Main Justice
38:26Prosecutorial Discretion – Police Killings and Sexual Abuse
29:50Interpreting Emoji
29:50Qualified Immunity of the Police
30:50The Case for Holistic Defense
30:17Lawyers with Bias
30:29Cyberbullying and the First Amendment
34:08Using Lawyers to Launder Money
30:59Cruelty on the Farm - Food Safety and Animal Welfare
30:30When Lawyers Break the Law
32:17Police Technology - From Body Cameras to Facial Recognition
31:33Individual Liberty in Post-9/11 America
33:25The Criminal's Brain - Neuroscience in the Courtroom
28:47Celebrity Justice & High Profile Defense
56:18Selling Human Organs
Briefs
27 legal briefs on this topic
11:221.1K viewsBUMP STOCKS:GARLAND v.CARGILL
Garland v. Cargill (on Bump Stocks) Explained
Prof. Joseph Blocher · Duke Law School
Why the Supreme Court said a bump stock is not a "machinegun" under federal law, and what Congress can do.
11:0574K viewsFELONGUN BANS:LEGAL?
Are Felon Gun Bans Constitutional?
Prof. Jake Charles · Pepperdine Caruso Law
Civic virtue or dangerousness? How courts weigh lifetime gun bans for people with felony records after Bruen
8:30828 views2ND-CLASSRIGHT?
Is the 2nd Amendment a 2nd Class Right?
Prof. Joseph Blocher · Duke Law School
Do courts give the right to bear arms less respect than other rights? What the record shows.
8:221.3K viewsCOMMANDORREQUEST?
Police Command v. Police Request
Prof. Rachel Harmon · UVA Law
How to tell a police command from a request, why the line blurs, and what happens when you ask which it is.
7:373.8K viewsMUST YOUOBEYPOLICE?
Do you have to comply with police orders?
Prof. Rachel Harmon · UVA Law
Unlawful orders, the right to resist, and why 'comply now, complain later' often leaves no way to complain.
7:333.5K viewsTEXT,HISTORY &TRADITION
Text, History, & Tradition Test
Prof. Joseph Blocher · Duke Law School
How Bruen replaced the two-part framework for gun laws, and why history can be hard to apply
12:4520K viewsNYSRPA v.BRUEN
NYSRPA v. Bruen
Prof. Jake Charles · Pepperdine Caruso Law
How the Supreme Court recognized a right to carry in public and replaced balancing with a history test
3:183.5K viewsSTANDYOURGROUND
What are stand your ground laws?
Prof. Kimberly Kessler Ferzan · Penn Carey Law
Stand-your-ground removes one narrow duty to retreat, but force must still be necessary and proportionate.
2:342.9K viewsTHE DUTYTORETREAT
What is the duty to retreat?
Prof. Kimberly Kessler Ferzan · Penn Carey Law
No retreat for non-deadly force or at home: when the law requires you to walk away before using deadly force.
5:00640 viewsLOSINGSELF-DEFENSERIGHTS
Forfeiting the Right to Self-Defense
Prof. Kimberly Kessler Ferzan · Penn Carey Law
Initial aggressors, provocateurs, and how you can lose, and sometimes regain, the right to defend yourself.
4:54POLICEBRAINSCANS?
Can the Police Require a Brain Scan?
Prof. Emily Murphy · UC Law San Francisco
Cognitive liberty, the Fourth and Fifth Amendments, and why today's fMRI needs a cooperative subject.
3:15859 viewsCANLAWYERSTHREATEN?
Can lawyers use threats in a negotiation?
Prof. Carrie Menkel-Meadow · UC Irvine Law
When threats of criminal charges, bar complaints, or immigration reports cross ethical lines in civil disputes
6:504.2K viewsCAN YOURECORDPOLICE?
Can you record the police?
Prof. Rachel Harmon · UVA Law
The First Amendment right to film police, and when officers can limit it at crime scenes, stops, and arrests.
5:087.3K viewsPOLICEDEADLYFORCE
When can police use deadly force?
Prof. Rachel Harmon · UVA Law
The Fourth Amendment limits on police deadly force under Tennessee v. Garner, and why many states go further.
0:525.7K viewsARRESTEDFOR THEFINGER?
Can you be arrested for giving the finger to police?
Prof. Rachel Harmon · UVA Law
Why the First Amendment protects rude gestures and harsh words aimed at police officers
5:00WHO GETSTHEVENTILATOR?
Forced Triage: Allocating Ventilators and Legal Liability in the COVID Crisis
Prof. I. Glenn Cohen · Harvard Law School
How hospitals ration ventilators in a crisis, and the criminal and malpractice risks doctors and nurses face.
2:52815 viewsSUED FORAN EMOJI?
Can You Be Liable for the Emojis You Use?
Prof. Eric Goldman · Santa Clara Law
Courts read emojis together with words, so a gun emoji or a thumbs-up can carry real legal consequences.
4:228K viewsFIGHTINGREVENGEPORN
Combating Revenge Porn
Eboni K. Williams · Lawyer & TV Host
Criminal laws, protective orders, civil suits, and takedown tools for victims of nonconsensual intimate images
3:435.5K viewsPROSECUTINGCRIMESABROAD
When can the U.S. prosecute crimes committed abroad?
Alex Spiro · Quinn Emanuel
How U.S. criminal law reaches citizens, foreign nationals, and conduct overseas, from bank cases to bribery
3:5414K viewsCAN THEPOLICELIE?
Can the Police Lie to You?
Alex Spiro · Quinn Emanuel
When police may lie in questioning, how courts judge voluntariness, and why false confessions happen.
3:286.9K viewsWHAT ISCRIMINALIMMUNITY?
What is criminal immunity?
Prof. I. Bennett Capers · Fordham Law
Use immunity, transactional immunity, and why prosecutors, not judges, decide who gets a deal
2:22774 viewsCAN APRESIDENTOBSTRUCT?
Can a President "Obstruct Justice?"
Prof. I. Bennett Capers · Fordham Law
What counts as obstruction, why a sitting president is not indicted, and how presidential immunity applies.
1:57634 viewsIMPEACHABLECRIMES?
What crimes can trigger impeachment of the president?
Judge Andrew Napolitano · Former NJ Superior Court Judge
Treason, bribery, and high crimes and misdemeanors: the standard for impeaching presidents and judges.
1:08795 viewsDEPORTATIONASPUNISHMENT?
Can deportation be punishment for crime?
Judge Andrew Napolitano · Former NJ Superior Court Judge
Why deportation is a civil consequence of a conviction rather than part of the criminal sentence.
3:4915K viewsRIGHT TORECORDPOLICE?
Is There a Right to Record the Police?
Prof. Jocelyn Simonson · Brooklyn Law School
Most federal appeals courts now protect filming police in public, but buffer laws and immunity still matter.
2:351K viewsRACE &POLICESTOPS?
Can the police use race when deciding who to stop?
Prof. Daniel Capra · Fordham Law
Why a pretextual traffic stop is valid under the Fourth Amendment whenever the officer has probable cause.
2:39492K viewsMUST YOUANSWERPOLICE?
When must you answer a police officer's question?
Prof. Daniel Capra · Fordham Law
Consensual encounters, Terry stops, ID requests, and searches: what you must do and what you can refuse.
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