Legal Information
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ACLU Know Your Rights: Protesters' RightsThe American Civil Liberties Union provides information about the legal rights of protesters in the U.S.
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Deadly Discretion: The Failure of Police Use of Force Policies to Meet Fundamental International Human Rights Law and StandardsDownload the results from a 2020 study by the University of Chicago Law School International Human Rights Clinic.
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Insurrection Act of 1807The possibility of using the Insurrection Act of 1807 to mobilize the national military in response to protests has been discussed. The original text of the Act is available through HeinOnline. [Use Proxy access off-campus & log in with ULink credentials.]
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The Marshall ProjectA nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization focused on the U.S. criminal justice system. Includes many recent articles on national and regional protests, policing, and the coronavirus.
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Race & the LawUofL Law Library legal research guide with local & national resources.
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Racial Justice in the U.S.Legal research guide from Drake University Law Library.
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Reporters Committee Curfew Order TrackerCurfews instituted across the U.S. are mapped & information is provided about whether they include exceptions for the media.
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Researching the Facts About Police Brutality & Racial Disparity in HeinOnlineThis blog post provides a brief background & information about conducting further research in the HeinOnline database.
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USA: The World is Watching: Mass Violation by U.S. Police of Black Lives Matter Protesters' RightsReport by Amnesty International examining failure to limit the use of force by law enforcement to situations where it is necessary & proportionate to an actual threat. Includes recommendations to federal, state & local authorities to ensure accountability for these violations.
Books
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2018 State of Black Louisville by Call Number: F459.L89 L68 2018ISBN: 9780999883105Publication Date: 2018The State of Black Louisville report is a collection of essays from engaged community members around Louisville, Kentucky. The report depicts how African Americans in Louisville are doing. -
Chokehold by Call Number: HV8141 .B88 2017ISBN: 9781595589057Publication Date: 2017A former federal prosecutor explains how the system really works, and how to disrupt it. -
Crimes That Changed Our World: tragedy, outrage, and reform by Call Number: K5032 .R63 2018ISBN: 9781538102015Publication Date: 2018Can crime make our world safer? Crimes are the worst of humanity's wrongs but, oddly, they sometimes "trigger" improvement in our lives. -
Engines of Liberty: the power of citizen activists to make constitutional law by Call Number: KF384 .C65 2016ISBN: 9780465060900Publication Date: 2016From the national legal director of the ACLU, an essential guidebook for anyone seeking to stand up for fundamental civil liberties and rights. -
Federal Reports on Police Killings by Call Number: HV9950 .F43 2017ISBN: 9781612196541Publication Date: 2017Federal Reports on Police Killings is a collection of the complete reports from the Department of Justice's landmark investigations of police violence in three major American cities. -
Ferguson's Fault Lines: the race quake that rocked a nation by Call Number: HV9956.F47 F47 2016ISBN: 9781634253727Publication Date: 2016In almost every highly publicized case of police using deadly force & killing unarmed individuals, the person killed was an African American male. These incidents have caused dramatic erosion in public confidence in the justice system & America's promise of equal treatment under the law. -
Poverty Law and Legal Activism by Call Number: KF336 .G43 2018ISBN: 9781138556058Publication Date: 2018Linking critical legal thinking to constitutional scholarship and a practical tradition of US lawyering that is orientated around anti-poverty activism, this book offers an original, revisionist account of contemporary jurisprudence, legal theory and legal activism. -
Silenced Stages by Call Number: LC72.2 .L36 2019ISBN: 9781531016029Publication Date: 2019This book discusses incidents that created national publicity at Amherst, Brown, City University of New York, Evergreen, Lewis and Clark, Michigan, Middlebury, New York University, Reed, Seattle, Yale, UC Berkeley, University of Pennsylvania, University of Washington, Vanderbilt, and Wesleyan. -
Speak Freely by Call Number: LC72.2 .W46 2019ISBN: 9780691191522Publication Date: 2019Examining hot-button issues such as trigger warnings, safe spaces, hate speech, disruptive protests, speaker disinvitations, and the use of social media by faculty, Speak Freely describes the dangers of empowering campus censors to limit speech and enforce orthodoxy.
