
The Albert Brick Professor in Law
Paul Butler
B.A., Yale; J.D., Harvard
Areas of Expertise:
Phone
Assistant
Noreen Tareque
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] [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
"Plea deals pose threat to Trump in election case," coverage in Maine Public Radio, October 21, 2023, featuring Professor Paul Butler.
"How the Cash Bail system is stacked against poor Americans" coverage on MSNBC, August 27, 2023, featuring Professor Paul Butler.
"The War on Cities," coverage in The New Yorker, August 4, 2023, featuring Professor Paul Butler.
"Breaking down the stakes of special counsel Jack Smith's historic indictment of Trump," coverage in GPB, June 12, 2023, featuring Professor Paul Butler.