Here are the collected posts for our Balkinization symposium on Joanna Schwartz, Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable (Viking, 2023).
1. Jack Balkin, Introduction to the Symposium.
2. Fred O. Smith, Jr., Shielded: Right Place at the Right Time.
3. Aziz Z. Huq, A Comment on Shielded: How the Police Become Untouchable.
4. Richard H. Fallon, Jr., On Joanna Schwartz’s Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable.
5. Peter H. Schuck, The Absence of Police Unions and Over-Deterrence in Joanna Schwartz’s Shielded.
6. Katherine Mims Crocker, Policing, Stories, Problems, and Solutions.
7. Brandon Hasbrouck, The Untouchables and the Stakes of Abolition.
8. Nancy Leong, Re-Arming the Private Attorney General.
9. Joanna Schwartz, Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.