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The expert on evidence joins the Columbia Law School faculty as a professor of law.

Andrew Markquart ’12 investigates criminal convictions for miscarriages of justice as the head of the newly created Conviction Integrity Unit of the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office in Minneapolis.

The Justice Department’s approach to a criminal referral from the committee would certainly begin with issues of fact and law, but it would not end with them, the criminal justice professor says.

Professor Sarah A. Seo ’07 explains how the development of police discretionary power in traffic stops gave rise to “driving while Black.”

John C. Coffee, Jr.’s new book blows the whistle on the “crisis in underenforcement.”

Her book on the history of policing and cars illuminates the legal decisions that have led to ‘driving while Black.’

Legal reforms can hold police more accountable for violent acts, but Americans need to acknowledge the nation’s history of racism, the former NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund lawyer says.

Judge Sorokin asks those convicted to acknowledge, if not ameliorate, the harm they caused.

Just because it’s on "CSI" doesn’t mean it’s real. As a strategic litigator for the Innocence Project, Delger works to persuade courts to follow science, not precedent, in considering forensic evidence.

Students argued for a new parole hearing for their client in New York State Supreme Court.