
The Albert Brick Professor in Law
Paul Butler
B.A., Yale; J.D., Harvard
Areas of Expertise:
Phone
Assistant
Noreen Tareque
Office
McDonough Hall 418
Office Hours
Tuesdays & Thursdays 3-4:15pm
Scholarship
Paul Butler, Black Masculinity and the Government, U. Chi. Legal F. 21-40 (2022). [W]
Selected Contributions to Other Publications
Paul Butler, The Problem of State Violence, Daedalus, Winter 2022, at 22-37.
[WWW]Book Chapters & Collected Works
Paul Butler, Terry v. Ohio, in Critical Race Judgments: Rewritten U.S. Court Opinions on Race and the Law 150-158 (Bennett Capers, Devon W. Carbado, R. A. Lenhardt & Angela Onwuachi-Willig eds., New York: Cambridge University Press 2022).
[BOOK]Paul Butler, From “Fuck tha Police” to Defund the Police: A Polemic, with Elements of Pragmatism and Accommodation, Hopefully Not Fatal, As Black People Hope About Encounters with the Police, in Fight the Power: Law and Policy through Hip-Hop Songs 21-37 (Gregory S. Parks & Frank Rudy Cooper eds., New York: Cambridge University Press 2022).
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In The News
"Former President Trump steals the show at CPAC," coverage on MSNBC, March 5, 2023, featuring Professor Paul Butler.
"Is police brutality just part of the job?," an opinion piece by Professor Paul Butler, in The Washington Post, February 17, 2023.
"Tyre Nichols and A New Push for Police Reform," coverage in the Diane Rehm Show, February 2, 2023, featuring Professor Paul Butler.
"Do special police units deter crime or lead to more prosecutions and convictions?," coverage in Capital Radio Public News, January 31, 2023, featuring Professor Paul Butler.