Articles Featuring Rachel Harmon

Professor Wins Statewide Outstanding Faculty Award
December 21, 2022
Accolades: Professor’s Work on ALI Policing Project Approved
May 25, 2022
Rachel Harmon, Innovative Criminal Law Scholar, Honored With All-University Teaching Award
May 9, 2022
UVA Law Launches New Project on Criminal Justice Reform
July 6, 2021
Accolades: Class of 2021 Breaks Pro Bono Record
June 16, 2021
‘Common Law’ Examines Regulating the Police
April 6, 2021
Harmon’s New Casebook Is First to Look at Law of the Police
March 18, 2021
What the Biden Administration Can Do on Police Reform Without Congress
February 16, 2021
Professor Co-Authors Recommendations for Policing Reform
January 8, 2021
Professor Rachel Harmon Among Coalition Releasing Report on Police Reform
June 10, 2020
Rachel Harmon Looks at Challenges Officials Face in Era of Hostile Audiences
Who Will Check the Police If the Justice Department Doesn't? Rachel Harmon Comments
Why Arrest?
May 2, 2017
Reducing Arrests May Be Answer to Safer Policing, Says Professor Rachel Harmon
February 2, 2017
UVA Law's Criminal Law Faculty Help Shape National Conversation on Justice
July 27, 2016
Rachel Harmon Addresses Federal Programs and the Real Costs of Policing
July 6, 2015
Police Commands & Police Coercion
March 13, 2023
UVA’s Center for Criminal Justice
April 14, 2022
The 2022 Stephen Mastrofski Lecture, Presented by Professor Rachel Harmon
March 8, 2022
UVA To Offer Evidence-based Guidance For Criminal Justice Reform
August 19, 2021
When Can Police Use Deadly Force?
June 11, 2021
The Alternative to Defunding the Police: Increase Funding for Vetting To Keep Racist and Violent Cops Out
June 5, 2021
1990 Vs. 2020: Police Accountability Then Vs. Now and What the Future Holds
May 31, 2021
How Violent Cops Stay in Law Enforcement
May 21, 2021
Former Police Officers Indicted on Civil Rights Charges in George Floyd’s Death
May 7, 2021
Split-Second Decisions: How a Supreme Court Case Shaped Modern Policing
April 25, 2021
What’s Next To Fix Policing in Michigan After the Verdicts in George Floyd’s Murder Trial?
April 25, 2021
Why A Guilty Verdict For Derek Chauvin Doesn’t Change The Reality Of Police Violence
April 20, 2021
What the Supreme Court Got Wrong About Homicides Committed by Cops
April 13, 2021
When Police Kill People, They Are Rarely Prosecuted and Hard To Convict
April 4, 2021
UVA Law Professor Writes Casebook on Policing Laws
March 21, 2021
Op-Ed: What Biden Can Do About Bad Policing
February 16, 2021
UVA Law Professor and Policing Scholar Rachel A. Harmon
December 10, 2020
What Would Society Look Like Without Police? at Zócalo Public Square
December 10, 2020
Policing in America | The Problem & the Moment: Diagnosing the American Penal System
September 18, 2020
Joe Biden Says Donald Trump ‘Proposes Cutting a Half a Billion Dollars of Local Police Support.’
August 23, 2020
Videos of Alleged Police Misconduct Went Viral. Then What Happened?
June 23, 2020
Even if Congress Bans Chokeholds and No-Knock Warrants, Local Police Departments Might Not Comply
June 21, 2020
Rachel Harmon on Policing (Ep. 98)
June 17, 2020
Joe Biden Once Pushed for More Police. Now, He Confronts the Challenge of Police Reform
June 12, 2020
How Federal Dollars Fund Local Police
June 9, 2020
Federal Agents Lacking Insignia in Protests Raise Accountability Concerns
June 6, 2020
When Cops Get Sued, Can Insurers Force Reforms?
May 19, 2019
Batten Hour's Panelists Tackle the Subject of Community Policing on Constitution Day
September 18, 2018
University Police Chief Gibson To Retire; Search for Successor Launched
May 9, 2018
Policing, Protesting, and the Insignificance of Hostile Audiences
November 3, 2017
Proactive Policing and the Legacy of Terry
November 1, 2017
Trump's Remarks to Police Violate His Oath of Office
August 2, 2017
Who Will Check the Police If the Justice Department Doesn't?
May 24, 2017
Can Decriminalizing Marijuana Improve Public Safety in Houston?
February 17, 2017
Q&A with Rachel Harmon
February 7, 2017
Reducing Arrests May Be Answer to Safer Policing, Law Professor Says
February 6, 2017
More Guns, More Fear, More Killings
July 8, 2016
Confession Obtained Legally, Despite Man's Repeated Requests for Lawyer, Judge Says
April 14, 2016
Tamir Rice's Death Resulted From Officer-Created Jeopardy." So Why Were No Officers Indicted?"
December 28, 2015
Why Does America Arrest So Many People - and How Can We Stop It?
October 26, 2015
Was the Shooting of Tamir Rice 'Reasonable'?
October 14, 2015
How the Courts Judge Police Violence Often Leaves Grieving Families Wanting
August 3, 2015
Ferguson, State Officials to be Briefed on DOJ Investigation Today
March 3, 2015
Harmon: Federal Civil Rights Law May Make Bringing Criminal Charges in Eric Garner's Death Difficult
December 5, 2014
Why It's So Difficult to Charge Police Officers Who Kill
December 4, 2014
Federal Civil Rights Charges Unlikely Against Police Officer in Ferguson Shooting
October 31, 2014
Federal Prosecutions Not Easy in Police Shootings
August 26, 2014
11 seek federal judgeship in Roanoke
March 7, 2014
Will the Department of Justice Find Zimmerman Guilty?
August 5, 2013
Civil Rights Charges Against Zimmerman Would Be Difficult, Justice Officials Say
July 15, 2013
Governing Policing: Stop-and-Frisk and Arrest in the 21st Century
May 21, 2012
Danziger Bridge Case Puts 5 New Orleans Cops on Trial in Post-Katrina Shootings, Cover-Up
June 19, 2011
Shock and Ow!
July 1, 2010
NYPD Stop-and-Frisk Tactics Labeled Racist, Abusive at Forum
May 12, 2008