What is happening with Louisiana’s indigent defense system is a travesty. See below for Rᴏʙᴇʀᴛ L. Tsᴀɪ’s excellent discussion of the problem👇

Congratulations to Prof. India Thusi, who will be honored with the John Hope Franklin Prize by the Law & Society Association this week. Thusi is being recognized for her work "The Racialized History of Vice Policing," which was published in UCLA Law Review. Read more below.

Toni said the “very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being." She warned against trying to prove worth to those who won't see it, as there "will always be one more thing.”

To my colleagues and friends: thank you for the love and support over this past week. It is an honor to do this work and I do not take my responsibility as a scholar and teacher lightly. My team @NLawCRDJ is incredible and we wanted to take some time to set the record straight...

Now Aaron Tang joins the GBH team for a first look at DEADLOCK, a new special coming this fall featuring a diverse panel of influential figures from legal, political, and cultural spheres delving into complex, ethical dilemmas based on real-life scenarios. #TCA24

It is a good time to remind everyone that prosecutors in California receive nearly a $1 BILLION more than public defenders. Throughout the nation prosecutors receive twice as much funding as defenders. That’s not a fair fight Governor Gavin Newsom sfchronicle.com/opinion/openfo… via San Francisco Chronicle

This month we are spotlighting Nila Bala! Her research focuses on children’s rights and the criminal justice system, as well as emerging technologies. Previously, she developed criminal justice policy for the @PolicingProject and R Street Institute. More at the 🔗 bit.ly/4dTPWT1

Haven't posted on here in a minute, but wanted to tease a promo of a new TV show I've been working on, premiering nationwide on PBS on 9/20! FWIW, my 5 & 8yo kids think I look--and sound--hilarious in this🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ pbs.org/video/preview-…

.@UCDavis Law Professor @aarontanglaw will moderate Deadlock, a new one-hour special from GBH, which will premiere nationwide this Friday via PBS. Check out the preview here ⬇️ pbs.org/video/preview-…

Wow. So grateful for this glowing review of Deadlock from Variety & Brian Steinberg: "TV’s newest political potboiler is more erudite than 'The West Wing' and more intense than '24' — and it’s coming to, of all places, PBS." The show premieres tmrw night! variety.com/2024/tv/news/p…

My article, Universal Public Defense, found a home in Harvard CRCL, vol. 60 (forthcoming 2025). How might mandated UPD, where everyone is req’d to receive a state funded defender regardless of income, change the criminal adjudication system? I welcome comments & feedback 🙏🏾

Professor Chaz Arnett of @UMDlaw uses Afrofuturist works to illuminate the law’s role in reconstituting the relationship between race and technology, identifying harms of AI while imagining how it could serve the interests of radical Black futures. bit.ly/glj-dystopian-…

Exciting convo on “The Role of Public Defenders” CUNY School of Law Mon 10/21 @ 6pm, rsvp at the link: law.cuny.edu/event/burns-ch…

In "Dystopian Dreams, Utopian Nightmares: AI and the Permanence of Racism" The Georgetown Law Journal I argue the hype over generative AI is steeped in utopian appeals to a transhumanist future papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…. Yet such appeals are built on the backs of Black and Brown nightmares 1/4

I’m excited to announce that I've accepted a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of Law at USC Gould Law, starting July 2025! None of this would be possible without my community of mentors, and the colleagues I’ve met along the way. Go Trojans! #USC

Excited to see my job market paper published in The Georgetown Law Journal. I use spatial and qualitative analysis to help rethink the role of police in schools. Many thanks to the faculty who provided invaluable feedback along the way. Paper available here: bit.ly/AllenPapers

Policing Children's Data is forthcoming in Wᴀsʜ. U. L. Rᴇᴠ.! Thank you to the many friends who've helped me with this one.

Washington’s Supreme Court slashes public defender caseload limits washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/06/09/was…

“This is one of the first times that public defenders have been listened to”

A look into the ties between schools, neighborhoods, and school police departments. One of my latest pieces — read it here: