UCLA law professor Devon Carbado spoke about the Fourth Amendment which defines “unreasonable searches and seizures” and the power of the police. Politics and Prose Bookstore in Washington,…
608 viewsMorgan Chalfant talked about the debate in Congress over reauthorizing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act expiring at the end of the year.
537 viewsAmy Gajda, professor of law at Tulane University in New Orleans and the author of Seek and Hide: The Tangled History of the Right to Privacy," discussed the historic struggle in the United States…
835 viewsThe Supreme Court heard oral argument in Egbert v. Boule, a case on whether a private citizen can sue a federal agent for First Amendment retaliation claims and Fourth Amendment immigration…
1,212 viewsThe U.S. Supreme Court heard the oral argument in Thompson v. Clark, concerning the favorable termination rule for plaintiffs suing for unconstitutional conviction or imprisonment in cases…
1,261 viewsThe Supreme Court heard oral argument in Wooden v. United States. The case concerns whether offenses committed as part of a single criminal spree, but sequentially in time, were committed…
3,143 viewsLegal experts testified about the Justice Department’s practice of accessing the data of journalists, elected leaders, and private citizens. Microsoft Vice President of Customer Security and Trust Tom Burt…
1,837 viewsColumbia Law School Professor Sarah Seo talked about her book, Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom. In this presentation, Professor Seo focused on a chapter in the…
262 viewsFollowing the end of the Civil War, the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments were passed - each addressing the rights of the formally enslaved. Michael Bellesiles, author of Inventing Equality:…
262 viewsThe Supreme Court heard oral argument in United States v. Gary, a case on criminal law and the scope plain-error review for defendants who plead guilty to firearms possession and whether…
990 viewsThe Supreme Court heard oral argument in Caniglia v. Strom, concerning Fourth Amendment rights and whether police may invoke the “community caretaking” exception to the warrant requirement when conducting a warrantless…
4,949 viewsThe Supreme Court heard oral argument in United States v. Cooley, a case on whether a tribal police officer has authority to detain a non-member on Indian land. The Court on June 1, 2021,…
2,685 viewsThe Supreme Court heard oral argument in Lange v. California, a Fourth Amendment case on whether an officer without a warrant has probable cause to enter a home while pursuing a misdemeanor…
3,355 viewsThe Supreme Court heard oral argument in Brownback v. King, a case on Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) claims from a man wrongfully identified as a criminal suspect and beaten by federal…
2,970 viewsThe Supreme Court heard oral argument in Torres v. Madrid, a case concerning the Fourth Amendment and illegal seizure of a person. Roxanne Torres was driving under the influence of drugs…
3,738 viewsAmerican University lecturer Aaron Bell taught a class about privacy laws and federal surveillance of civil rights leaders. He described the mid-20th century creation of the Counter…
1,352 viewsLaw professors Jeffrey Rosen and Jamil Jaffer talked about the 1967 Supreme Court case Katz v. United States, which concerned Charles Katz, a bookie recorded by the FBI transmitting illegal bets from a…
16,726 viewsProfessors Carolyn Long and Renee Hutchins talked about the 1961 U.S. Supreme Court case Mapp v. Ohio, in which the court applied, via a 5-4 decision, Fourth Amendment protection against…
44,953 viewsThe Supreme Court heard oral argument in Hernandez v. Mesa, a case regarding constitutional protections beyond U.S. boundaries and whether the parents of a Mexican national can sue a border patrol…
1,224 viewsSujit Raman, Justice Department associate deputy attorney general, and former FBI General Counsel James Baker spoke with “The Communicators” while attending the annual “State of the Net”…
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