Joanna Schwartz is Vice Dean for Faculty Development and Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law, and is one of the country's leading experts on police misconduct litigation. She is also an expert on the dynamics of modern civil litigation, and is co-author, with Stephen Yeazell, of a leading casebook, Civil Procedure (9th Edition). Her articles have appeared in the New York University Law Review, the Texas Law Review, the UCLA Law Review, and the Yale Law Journal, among others.
Imagining a World Without Qualified Immunity, Part V
Absent qualified immunity, government indemnification and budgeting would continue to dampen the effect of lawsuits on government decisionmaking—but eliminating the defense could exert other pressures on government to improve.
