Brandon Hasbrouck has published an exceedingly generous and thought-provoking review of Shielded in the Harvard Law Review. Brandon is an extraordinary writer and thinker - I am so appreciative that he directed those considerable talents to my book. Check it out!
The whole review can be found here: https://harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-137/unshielded-how-the-police-can-become-touchable/
Linda Greenhouse penned a fabulous review of Shielded and The Fear of Too Much Justice, a terrific book written by my mentor and friend Stephen Bright and James Kwak. Greenhouse writes:
"Schwartz maintains that while the concern that ‘public safety will be imperiled by too much oversight’ has always accompanied the desire to hold the police accountable, it is now nearly an unquestioned assumption that lawsuits against the police exact too high a price. . . . But this assumption, Schwartz contends, is a myth that has distorted the civil justice system by persuading judges of the need to insulate the police from accountability."
Check out the full review here: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/09/21/why-arent-cops-held-to-account-shielded-joanna-schwartz/
Here's what the Washington Post had to say about Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable, in Its January 8, 2023 article, "What to Read in 2023":
"In an era of high-profile police misconduct, Schwartz lifts the lid on why cops so often evade accountability. Schwartz, a law professor at UCLA, relies on more than two decades of research to reveal the protections the legal system affords police who ignore the law and violate civil rights. She exposes the biases of Supreme Court decisions and of federal juries, and takes particular aim at qualified immunity, which prevents officers from incurring monetary damages for their abuses."
