Monday, January 25, 2021
Innovative Gun Violence Course Generates Novel Journal Issue
The Solomon Center for Health Law & Policy and the Justice Collaboratory have teamed up to publish a groundbreaking special issue of The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics (JLME) devoted to the gun violence epidemic.
Monday, January 4, 2021
Experts Say The Pandemic Coincided With The Largest One-Year Rise In Homicide Rates
NPR / All Things Considered
Walton Hale Hamilton Professor of Law Tracey Meares spoke to NPR’s All Things Considered about reasons for the rise in violent crime during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Sunday, January 3, 2021
Homicides and shootings are on the rise nationwide. Boston is no different.
Boston Globe
Walton Hale Hamilton Professor of Law and Founding Director of The Justice Collaboratory Tracey Meares is quoted in a Boston Globe article about a rise in violent crime in Boston during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Tuesday, December 15, 2020
What Black People Really Think About the Police
The New Republic
Walton Hale Hamilton Professor of Law and Founding Director of The Justice Collaboratory Tracey Meares is quoted in the New Republic about attitudes toward policing within the Black community.
Monday, November 30, 2020
CT hasn’t commuted a single prisoner’s sentence since before the pandemic. Advocates say it’s time to change.
CT Mirror
Clinical Associate Professor of Law Miriam Gohara is quoted in a CT Mirror article about efforts to commute Connecticut prisoners’ sentences due to the COVID-19 crisis and shorten the length of time they spend behind bars.
Tuesday, November 17, 2020
Why Kamala Harris and Joe Biden inspire hope, according to a legal scholar
Fast Company
Justice Collaboratory member and Million Book Project Director Reginald Dwayne Betts ’16 spoke with Fast Company about his optimism for the future.
Saturday, November 7, 2020
Across The Country, Voters Approve More Civilian Oversight For Police
Walton Hale Hamilton Professor of Law Tracey R. Meares was interviewed on NPR about police reform measures that were approved by communities across the country in last week’s election.
Tuesday, October 20, 2020
Kamala Harris, Mass Incarceration and Me — A Commentary by Reginald Dwayne Betts ’16
The New York Times Magazine
Reginald Dwayne Betts ’16 is Director of the Million Book Project, hosted by the Justice Collaboratory at Yale Law School.
Tuesday, October 20, 2020
The Dystopian Police State the Trump Administration Wants
The New York Times
Walton Hale Hamilton Professor of Law and Founding Director of The Justice Collaboratory Tracey L. Meares is quoted in a New York Times commentary about possible changes to policing.
Friday, October 16, 2020
The Complicated Role Of Black Leaders In Shaping The Criminal Justice System
NPR / Code Switch
J. Skelly Wright Professor of Law Professor James Forman Jr., ’92 speaks with NPR’s Code Switch about Sen. Kamala Harris’s past as a prosecutor and his book Locking Up Our Own.