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“Qualified Immunity and Natural Law” by Brandon Paradise

In defense of his direct-action campaign and breaking of Jim Crow laws, Martin Luther King, Jr. cited Saint Thomas Aquinas’s proposition that “an unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal and natural law.” In the same way that King and his fellow fighters in the black freedom struggle faced segregation…

“Redemption and Justice in the Guyger Case” by Brandon Paradise

Mar 19, 2020Canopy ForumSeriesCriminal Justice, March 2020, Paradise, Brandon

This article is part of our “Race, Religion, and Law” series.If you’d like to check out other articles in this series, click here. On September 6, 2018, a 26-year-old black accountant, Botham Jean, was murdered in his own apartment at the hands of a white, off-duty police officer, Amber Guyger. Mistaking Jean’s apartment for her own and…