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Professor Sean Hill is an Assistant Professor of Law at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. 

Violence is routinely conceived as interpersonal harm that state institutions—whether criminal courts, police, or prisons—have been designed to prevent. Yet criminal cases and statutes that precede and succeed the Civil War illuminate how persons classified as white have been vested with the authority to brutalize and murder non-white people. On this basis, Professor Hill recommends that violence be conceived as a racially-contingent legal right, incorporated into the social contract and enforced through the criminal legal system. Recent statutes immunizing motorists for running over protestors, and prominent incidents of collective white violence, demonstrate how this right persists into modern times.

Professor Hill’s teaching and research lie at the intersection of critical race theory and criminal justice policy. His forthcoming publication in the UCLA Law Review specifically examines bail reform and pretrial risk assessment instruments through a critical race lens. Prior to joining OSU Moritz College of Law, Professor Hill was a Law Research Fellow at Georgetown University Law Center, where he led a seminar on the racial implications of algorithmic risk assessment.

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