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Present	Associate Professor, Georgia State University College of Law ‐ Center for Access to Justice
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Law, Criminal Law, and Criminal Procedure

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	B.A., magna cum laude, Cornell University
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	J.D., magna cum laude, New York University School of Law
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Catchall Policing and the Fourth Amendment (Nirej Sekhon) Duke Law Journal Online (2022)

American police do a bit of everything. They direct traffic, resolve private disputes, help the sick and injured, and do animal control. Far less frequently than one might think, they make arrests. Americans reflexively call ...

Critical Legal Studies (Nirej Sekhon) Cardozo Law Review and the Police (2022)

Constitutional police regulation is a complex tangle of substantive rights, remedies, and procedural rules. Together, they appear to scaffold a cohesive system of police restraint. Legal scholars tend to focus criticism on specific rules, impelled ...

Representative Defendants (Nirej Sekhon) Ohio State Law Journal (2020)

Everyone except the defendant in a criminal proceeding somehow represents "the people." Prosecutors, judges, and juries are all considered public agents. Defendants in contrast are thought of as parochial, interested in nothing more than saving ...

Police and the Limit of Law (Nirej Sekhon) Columbia Law Review (2019)

For more than fifty years, the problems endemic to municipal policing in the United States--brutality, racial discrimination, corruption, and opacity--have remained remarkably constant. This has occurred notwithstanding the advent of modern constitutional criminal procedure and ...

Dangerous Warrants (Nirej Sekhon) Washington Law Review (2018)

The Supreme Court has cast judicial warrants as the Fourth Amendment gold standard for regulating police discretion. It has embraced a "warrant preference" on the premise that requiring police to obtain advance judicial approval for ...

The Second Amendment in the Street (Nirej Sekhon) Northwestern University Law Review Online (2018)

Commentators have predicted that the Supreme Court’s decisions in District of Columbia v. Heller and McDonald v. City of Chicago could hamper police efforts to seize guns on the street. Many police officers have understood ...

The Chokehold (Nirej Sekhon) University of Louisville Law Review (2018)

Eric Garner's last words, “I can't breathe” became a political slogan for Black Lives Matter. Professor Paul Butler takes it from there in his most recent book, Chokehold. Equal parts exegesis, polemic, and self-help tract, ...

Blue on Black: An Empirical Assessment of Police Shootings (Nirej Sekhon) American Criminal Law Review (2017)

Michael Brown’s 2014 death in Ferguson, Missouri thrust police-officer-involved homicides into the popular consciousness. A series of subsequent officer-involved homicides has kept the issue politically and legally salient. Despite this, official data sources are thin ...

Mass Suppression: Aggregation and the Fourth Amendment (Nirej Sekhon) Georgia Law Review (2017)

The Fourth Amendment's exclusionary rule requires that criminal courts suppress evidence obtained as a result of an unconstitutional search or seizure. The Supreme Court has repeatedly stated that suppression is purely regulatory, not remedial. Its ...

Purpose, Policing, and the Fourth Amendment (Nirej S. Sekhon) Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (2017)

Fourth Amendment cases are replete with references to “purpose.” Typically, these references pertain to the motivations of individual officers and occasionally to those of public institutions. That courts pay attention to purpose is unsurprising. Across ...

Punitive Injunctions (Nirej S. Sekhon) University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law and Social Change (2014)

The Pedagogical Prosecutor (Nirej Sekhon) Seton Hall Law Review (2014)

Complementarity and Post-Coloniality (Nirej S. Sekhon) Emory International Law Review (2013)

The International Criminal Court’s jurisdiction is complementary to that of national criminal jurisdictions. While most agree that complementarity is a cornerstone principle, debate continues as to what precisely it should mean for the ICC’s relationship ...

Redistributive Policing (Nirej S. Sekhon) Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (2011)

Police departments have broad policy-making discretion to arrest some offenders and permit others to engage in criminal misconduct. The way police departments exercise this discretion has harmful distributive consequences. Yet, courts do virtually nothing to ...

Willing Suspects & Docile Defendants: The Contradictory Role of Consent in Criminal Procedure (Nirej S. Sekhon) Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review (2011)

“Consent” is ubiquitous in our criminal justice system. Its centrality highlights the ironic disjuncture between constitutional principle and the day-to-day practice of criminal justice. The Constitution imposes strict restrictions on the State’s ability to investigate ...

Faculty Colloquia, Spring 2010 Series (Royce de Rohan Barondes, Kimberle Crenshaw, Chris Elmendorf, et al.) Colloquia (2010)

Spring 2010 Presenters January 25: Royce Barondes (University of Missouri School of Law), ABA Ratings of Federal District Court Judges and the Likelihood of a Shepard’s Warning Signal February 1: Stephanie Stern (Loyola University Chicago ...

Equality and Identity Hierarchy (Nirej S. Sekhon) New York University Journal of Law & Liberty (2008)

Equal protection scholars have all but abandoned the possibility that a theory of equality might explain Fourteenth Amendment jurisprudence. I develop just such a theory and use it to elucidate the Court’s reasoning in recent ...

Beefeaters (Nirej S. Sekhon) Transition (2003)

Indian food might seem fancy now, but for one brown-skinned boy in the days before multiculturalism, it was a mark of shame, an invitation to a beat-down. Becoming American, he fantasized, could be achieved with ...

Note, A Birthright Rearticulated: The Politics of Bilingual Education (Nirej S. Sekhon) New York University Law Review (1999)

This Note addresses Proposition 227, California's recently enacted voter initiative banning bilingual education in public schools. Nirej Sekhon argues that the proposition functions rhetorically as a racially inflected exhortation to nonwhite peoples in the United ...

A Father's Crusade: The Medical Murder of Ina Raja (Nirej S. Sekhon) Manushi (1997)

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Chicago Police Shooting Data May Reveal New Ways to Reduce Deaths and Racial Disparity (Nirej Sekhon) The Conversation (2016)

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