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By Becky Beaupre Gillespie, Director of Content
July 14, 2021
The American Constitution Society’s Chicago Lawyer Chapter will honor Clinical Professor Craig Futterman, the founder and director of the Law School’s Civil Rights and Police Accountability Project and one of the nation’s leading advocates for police reform, with an Abner J. Mikva Award at their annual Legal Legends Luncheon on July 21.
The award recognizes Chicago-area lawyers and judges who have made extraordinary contributions to progressive legal causes. It is named for the late Hon. Abner J. Mikva, ’51, a former congressman, federal judge, White House legal counsel, and University of Chicago Law School professor who was instrumental in ACS’s creation. Mikva taught courses in legislative process at the Law School for many years and served as senior director and director of the Appellate Advocacy Project at the Mandel Legal Aid Clinic.
The promise and perils of digital justice delivery
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Phase 3 of the e-Courts project can harness technology for service delivery without increasing surveillance risks
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Phase 3 of the e-Courts project can harness technology for service delivery without increasing surveillance risks
In popular perception, Indian courts are not associated first with the delivery of justice, but with long delays and difficulties for ordinary litigants. According to data released by the Supreme Court in the June 2020 newsletter of the e-Committee, 3.27 crore cases are pending before Indian courts, of which 85,000 have been pending for over 30 years. Can technology be used to revolutionise India’s courts? Yes, but only when it operates within the constitutional framework of the fundamental rights of citizens. If not, technology will only further exclusion, inequity and surveillance.
Urban Adivasis of Bhopal Left to Struggle as Pandemic Rages Reality check: Negligent government and the fight for survival
Before April, people from oppressed communities and daily wage earners across the country saw the pandemic seemingly fade from their lives. Soon the illusion of getting on with their livelihoods broke, and of course the lockdowns returned to haunt them and their families.
This time the situation is worse. They are more vulnerable than they were during the first wave of infections and lockdowns, as governance has gone down to rags.
The vulnerability of a few such marginalised Adivasi communities residing in Bhopal makes it evident that elected representatives, the wealthy media and all possible bureaucrats have been ignorant or worse, as the pandemic hits these communities hardest.
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Police use of force would be legal only as an absolute last resort, the office of New York Attorney General Letitia James said Friday, endorsing a Democrat-sponsored bill in the state Legislature.
Current New York law allows simple necessity to justify an officer’s use of force, which sets an exceedingly high standard for prosecuting officers for deadly or excessive force, James’ office said in a release.
The Police Accountability Project would require law enforcement to exhaust every other option – such as de-escalation and verbal warnings before resorting to force and would establish new criminal penalties for officers who use excessive force.