Join us for a discussion with U.S. District Court Judge Carlton W. Reeves and his former law clerk, Emanuel Powell, on the impact of qualified immunity on police accountability and reform.

At the height of national protests related to the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor in the summer of 2020, Judge Reeves issued a powerful opinion decrying “the harm done to the nation by th[e] manufactured doctrine” of qualified immunity. Join us to learn more about the history of the doctrine, its current role in the national conversation about police violence, and the path forward.

The discussion will be moderated by Tiffany R. Wright, co-director of the Howard University School of Law’s Human and Civil Rights Clinic and member of The Appellate Project’s Board of Directors. Tiffany and a team of appellate lawyers recently secured a summary reversal from the U.S. Supreme Court in Taylor v. Riojas—one of the few times in history that the Court has taken summary action to reverse a lower court’s grant of qualified immunity to law enforcement officers. 

February 9, 2021
5:00 - 6:15pm EST

Watch a recording of the event below