Closing the Courthouse Door to Victims of Police Abuse
A number of Supreme Court doctrines make it difficult for citizens to sue police officers and their government employers.
Erwin Chemerinsky
Erwin Chemerinsky is the Dean of the University of California, Irvine School of Law. He is also UCI Law’s Distinguished Professor of Law and the Raymond Pryke Professor of First Amendment Law. Dean Chemerinsky is the author of the recently published book, Closing the Courthouse Door: How Your Constitutional Rights Became Unenforceable.