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no bull and the aftermath.

The point of qualified immunity is that there's an objective standard of what the clearly

established law is that should be clear to any reasonable officer and to have the adjudication

of it depend apparently so heavily on some of these other factors suggests that it's

not that stable and it's not that objectively verifiable.

I'm Benjamin Whittiss and this is the LawFair podcast March 26, 2021.

Alexander Rayner is the Max Freund professor of litigation and advocacy at the Benjamin

and Cardoza School of Law where he teaches and conducts research and civil procedure

constitutional law and federal courts.

He is the author of a recent article qualified immunity on appeal and empirical assessment

which provides the most comprehensive study so far of the actual way that courts of appeals

have handled qualified immunity cases.

He wrote about it in an article on LawFair entitled unpacking a decade of appellate decisions

on qualified immunity and he joined me recently on LawFair Live to discuss qualified immunity

before a live audience.

We talked about a lot of things.

What is the doctrine and where does it come from?

How do courts handle qualified immunity cases in practice and is it as much of a shield

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