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# Laura Bondank-Harmon 

Manager of Legal Programs, Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies

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Laura Bondank-Harmon is the manager of legal programs for the Cato Institute’s Project on Criminal Justice and Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies and managing editor of the *Cato Supreme Court Review*. Her areas of interest include the warrant requirement, search and seizure doctrine, police accountability, and coercive plea bargaining. Before joining Cato, she was a trial attorney in Michigan, where she represented clients in both civil and criminal cases.

Bondank-Harmon received her BA from the University of Kansas and her JD from Michigan State University College of Law.

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