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A Horizon Beyond Legalism: On Non-Reformist Reforms - LPE Project

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Amna Akbar is the Benjamin N. Berger Professor in Criminal Law at the University of Minnesota Law School. Amna Akbar is the Benjamin N. Berger Professor in Criminal Law at the University of Minnesota Law School. This post kicks off a symposium on non-reformist reforms. ** ** ** At the start of my academic career, I analyzed the shifting ideological and material infrastructure of policing after 9/11. I wrote two articles, published in 2013 and 2015, that explored how the domestic footprint of the so-called war on terror entailed police in the United States marshaling significant resources toward monitoring Muslim communities in the United States. Programs that aimed at “counter-radicalization” and “countering violent extremism” conflated Muslim religious practices and critiques of U.S. empire with terrorism, thereby justifying the brutal surveillance, infiltration, and policing of Muslim communities that compounded long histories of the policing of Black and brown people in the United S

This post kicks off a symposium on non-reformist reforms . ** ** ** At the start of my academic career, I analyzed the shifting ideological and material infrastructure of policing after 9/11. I wrote two articles, published in 2013 and 2015 , that explored how the domestic footprint of the so-called war on terror entailed police in the United States marshaling significant resources toward monitoring Muslim communities in the United States. Programs that aimed at “counter-radicalization” and “countering violent extremism” conflated Muslim religious practices and critiques of U.S. empire with te

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