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Welcome to Professor Zachary D. Kaufman’s database of “Officer Duty to Intervene Laws”: statutes that impose a legal duty upon law enforcement officers to intervene in their fellow officer’s misuse of force. This database一a full description of which is available …
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Welcome to Professor Zachary D. Kaufman’s database of “Bad Samaritan Laws”: statutes that impose a legal duty to assist others in peril through intervening directly (also known as “the duty to rescue”) or notifying authorities (also known as “the duty …
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Through submitting Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to various U.S. government agencies, I have obtained hundreds of previously classified documents that I use in my research and teaching. These documents include 194 declassified and released to me as part …
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Over the years, transitional justice and related human rights issues have featured in many films and documentaries, as well as have been the subject of a number of significant on-line multi-media archives. After discussing examples of this genre that address two …
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