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Podcast: In Conversation: An OUP Podcast
Episode: Aziz Z. Huq, "The Collapse of Constitutional Remedies" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Description: Just recently, the Supreme Court rejected an argument by plaintiffs that police officers should no longer be protected by the doctrine of qualified immunity when they shoot or brutalize an innocent civilian. Qualified immunity is but one of several judicial inventions that shields state violence and thwarts the vindication of our rights. But aren't courts supposed to be protectors of individual rights? As Aziz Huq shows in The Collapse of Constitutional Remedies (Oxford UP, 2021), history reveals a much more tangled relationship between the Constitution's system of independent courts and the protection of constitutional rights.While doctrines such as qualified immunity may...