New Scholarship on Qualified Immunity (and Federalism)

Professors Aaron Nielson and Christopher Walker recently published an important new study on qualified immunity: Qualified Immunity and Federalism, 109 Georgetown Law Journal 229 (2020). In this article, the authors argue that scholars, judges, and policymakers have overlooked the doctrine’s important federalism dimensions—in at least three ways. Many of the reasons the U.S. Supreme Court…

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