Joanna C Schwartz, How Governments Pay: Lawsuits, Budgets and Police Reform, UCLA Law Review (forthcoming 2016), available at SSRN. How do lawsuits deter misconduct? That is an issue that Professor Joanna Schwartz has written about before, and her latest article on the topic, How Governments Pay: Lawsuits, Budgets and Police Reform, could not be more timely. Over the past year, our county has witnessed dramatic instances of police abuse and the public is understandably demanding reform. Schwartz’s terrific article explains why civil rights actions may fail to instigate reform, and suggests how insurance contracts, of all things, can play a role in fixing this problem … (more)
[Jack Preis, JOTWELL, 21 January]
First posted 2016-01-21 12:43:46
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