Police Reform, Criminal Law, and Grand Juries with experts Professors Roger Fairfax and Kate Weisburd

Dean Dayna Bowen Matthew is joined by Professors Roger Fairfax and Kate Weisburd to discuss the Black Lives Matter movement, the movement for police reform, and the recent grand jury indictment in the Breonna Taylor case. 

Roger A. Fairfax, Jr. is the Patricia Roberts Harris Research Professor of Law and Founding Director of the Criminal Law and Policy Initiative at GW Law. On this episode, he discusses his work on the issue of grand juries where he talks about his chapter in Angela Davis's book Policing the Black Man and his article "The Grand Jury's Role in the Prosecution of Unjustified Police Killings: Challenges and Solutions," in the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. 

Professor Kate Weisburd, Professor of Law, founded and directed the Youth Defender Clinic at the East Bay Community Law Center. She's done death penalty work in Berkeley, CA, and Atlanta, GA. She will discuss her article "Sentenced to Surveillance: Fourth Amendment Limits on Electronic Monitoring," in The North Carolina Law Review.