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The Albert Brick Professor in Law
Paul Butler
B.A., Yale; J.D., Harvard
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Phone
Office
McDonough Hall 408
Office Hours
Tuesdays & Thursdays 3:30-4:15pm
Scholarship
Paul Butler, Sisters Gonna Work It Out: Black Women As Reformers and Radicals in the Criminal Legal System, 121 Mich. L. Rev. 1071-1087 (2023)(reviewing Derecka Purnell, Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom (2021) & Progressive Prosecution: Race and Reform in Criminal Justice (Kim Taylor-Thompson & Anthony C. Thompson eds., 2022)). [WWW] [HEIN] [W] [L]
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, 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).
[BOOK]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).
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In The News
"Hunter Biden's federal gun trial: Week 1 recap," coverage in WBUR, June 7, 2024, featuring Professor Paul Butler.
“How a humble civil servant could end up holding ‘extraordinary power’ over Donald Trump,” coverage in The Independent, June 4, 2024, featuring Professor Paul Butler.
"Georgetown law professor reacts to Trump verdict," coverage in KVNF Live, May 30, 2024, featuring Professor Paul Butler.
"Georgetown law professor reacts to Trump verdict," coverage in WUNC, May 30, 2024, featuring Professor Paul Butler.