This panel presents an unprecedented opportunity to focus on the use of police deadly force, its racial dimensions, and the effectiveness of current responses and remedies. The panel will address the role of civil and criminal litigation; the role of private attorneys in facilitating police reform, judicial oversight, and the incorporation of community interests/representation; the role of media; legal theoretical constructs that limit effective legal approaches; race and gender identity in narratives of justification for deadly force; root causes of black male vulnerability to police violence including implicit bias, structural marginalization, and police department segregation; international human rights legal implications of systemic police deadly force against black males; recent social science research illuminating the causes of police violence; and the transformation of police culture as a structural remedy for the utilization of excessive force. The Michael Brown tragedy has sparked a renewed and vigorous national conversation about policing and accountability as well as about the political and economic ramifications of police and prosecutorial decisions. That conversation must also take place in our national law professor community.