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Police Violence And Ferguson: (En)Racing Criminal Procedure, Jeannine Bell

Journal of Legal Education

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Reflections On Ferguson: What’S Wrong With Black People?, Chuck Henson

Missouri Law Review

After Officer Darren Wilson shot and killed Michael Brown on August 9, 2014, it seemed as if it was the summer of 1967 again. The same series of events that happened in Newark and Detroit in 1967 happened in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014. A white man shot and killed a black man. The predominantly black population protested, rioted, and looted. The predominantly white police force was overwhelmed. The governor called out the National Guard and imposed a curfew. When these things happened in the summer of 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson, by Executive Order 11365, established what would become known …

Setting The Stage For Ferguson: Housing Discrimination And Segregation In St. Louis, Rigel C. Oliveri

Missouri Law Review

The history of St. Louis is replete with discriminatory housing laws, policies, and practices: racially restrictive covenants, redlining, blockbusting and white flight, and exclusionary zoning. While these were common in virtually every part of the United States, they were particularly egregious, widespread, and pervasive in industrial Midwestern cities like Chicago, Detroit, and St. Louis – which saw a large influx of blacks migrating from the south at the close of the nineteenth century. In fact, three of the most foundational housing cases originated in St. Louis. When we look closely at these cases – not just the legal principles that …

Ferguson And Police Use Of Deadly Force, Richard Rosenfeld

Missouri Law Review

The killing of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, by Darren Wilson, a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, sparked widespread protests in the St. Louis area and across the nation. Protests and civil unrest resumed after a St. Louis County grand jury declined to indict the police officer.2 Protesters and commentators raised several issues related to the Ferguson incident and police use of deadly force. This Article addresses four of those issues: (1) Why Ferguson? (2) Did the Ferguson killing and ensuing civil unrest increase crime rates in St. Louis? (3) What is known about police use of deadly …

Vox Populi: Robert Mcculloch, Ferguson, And The Roles Of Prosecutors And Grand Juries In High-Profile Cases, Frank O. Bowman Iii

Missouri Law Review

The decisions of St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch during the grand jury investigation of the shooting of Michael Brown by Officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, have been criticized on a variety of grounds. In an article written for a Missouri Law Review symposium on the shooting and its aftermath, titled “‘No, You Stand Up’: Why Prosecutors Should Stop Hiding Behind Grand Juries,” Professor Ben Trachtenberg takes Mr. McCulloch to task for allowing the grand jury to deliberate without making a recommendation about whether charges should be filed. Professor Trachtenberg asserts that, at the close of the evidentiary …

Reverse Broken Windows, Christopher R. Green

Journal of Legal Education

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Moral Shock And Legal Education, Susan A. Bandes

Journal of Legal Education

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Teaching "Ferguson", Chad Flanders

Journal of Legal Education

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Ferguson: Footnote Or Transformative Event?, S. David Mitchell

Missouri Law Review

“Ferguson.” No longer does this name simply represent the geographical boundaries of a city in St. Louis County formed initially by white flight from St. Louis City and that has become increasingly African American over time. It has come to represent so much more.

Facing The Ghost Of Cruikshank In Constitutional Law, Martha T. Mccluskey

Journal of Legal Education

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From The Editors: Ferguson And Its Impact On Legal Education Symposium, Marc Spindelman, Thomas D. Cobb, Kellye Testy, Kate O'Neill

Journal of Legal Education

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Law's Exposure: The Movement And The Legal Academy, Amna A. Akbar

Journal of Legal Education

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The Fire This Time: Black Lives Matter, Abolitionist Pedagogy And The Law, Charles R. Lawrence Iii

Journal of Legal Education

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The Rebellious Law Professor: Combining Cause And Reflective Lawyering, Harold Mcdougall

Journal of Legal Education

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Legal Education And The Legitimation Of Racial Power, Gary Peller

Journal of Legal Education

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Lessons Learned From Ferguson: Ending Abusive Collection Of Criminal Justice Debt, Neil L. Sobol

Faculty Scholarship

On March 4, 2015, the Department of Justice released its scathing report of the Ferguson Police Department calling for “an entire reorientation of law enforcement in Ferguson” and demanding that Ferguson “replace revenue-driven policing with a system grounded in the principles of community policing and police legitimacy, in which people are equally protected and treated with compassion, regardless of race.” Unfortunately, abusive collection of criminal justice debt is not limited to Ferguson. This Article, prepared for a discussion group at the Southeastern Association of Law Schools conference in July 2015, identifies the key findings in the Department of Justice’s report …

Ferguson's Long Term Impact On Public Views About Police, Tammy R. Kochel

Reports

Nearly one year after the shooting of Michael Brown and the unrest that followed in Ferguson, MO, African American residents' perceptions about the legitimacy of police and trust and procedural justice show signs of recovery. These findings derive from a panel study of residents of hot spots of crime in St Louis County, MO, with three waves occurring in the two years preceding the incident, one immediately following the shooting and unrest, and a final set of interviews in summer 2015. Although the immediate effect of the police shooting and handling of unrest contributed to significant declines in trust in …

Does Work Law Have A Future If The Labor Market Does Not?, Noah D. Zatz

Chicago-Kent Law Review

This Essay is based on the 37th Annual Kenneth M. Piper Lecture. It offers a new perspective on the much-discussed “future of work.” That discussion typically highlights changes within the labor market that undermine the employment relationship’s role as the bedrock for work regulation. But might something even deeper be afoot, namely the disintegration of “the labor market” itself? Several recent developments challenge the legal construction of employment as occurring wholly inside a distinctive, and distinctively economic, market sphere. This Essay considers Uber and the relationship between work and “sharing,” Hobby Lobby and the relationship between work and religion, the …

Working With Passion, Effecting Change In A Context Of Uncertainty, Sandra M. Moore

Center for Social Development Research

This CSD Perspective has been adapted from a commencement address given by Sandra M. Moore on May 14, 2015, before the Brown School of Social Work at Washington University.

Baltimore’S Problem, Neal Deroo

Faculty Work Comprehensive List

"What if the problem of racism is not primarily a problem between different groups of people? What if it isn’t primarily about white people and black people? What if racism is not about one group versus another, but rather about all people versus the effects of sin?"

Posting about racism, sin, and reconciliation from In All Things - an online hub committed to the claim that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ has implications for the entire world.

http://inallthings.org/baltimores-problem/

The Values Of Nations: The Fate Of Nations Is Not Predetermined, Daniel Reiher

Senior Honors Theses

The values of a nation are vital for forming the institutions that govern a people and for guiding public policies. This thesis examines the historical institutions and political cultures of several nations and compares them to their geographic (i.e. continental) contemporaries. Particular emphasis is devoted to case-studies of Industrial Revolution Britain, Meiji Restoration Japan, Independent Botswana, and Post-war Asia. This thesis demonstrates a correlation between such institutions as free markets, limited government, and protected personal liberties, with national prosperity. Most importantly, the formation of these institutions was directly affected by the values of the individuals that established them. Values, both …

The University, The Community, And Race, Larry Davis

Center for Social Development Research

The University, the Community, and Race

Siue Spring Symposium: Documenting Ferguson, Shannon Davis, Makiba Foster

University Libraries Presentations

A presentation on Documenting Ferguson for Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville (SIUE)'s annual Spring Symposium, outlining how the project was started, project team members and roles, how to contribute to the collection, how the collection is being used, and next steps for the initiative.

Creating A Just And Inclusive America, Xavier Briggs

Center for Social Development Research

Creating a Just and Inclusive America

Assessing The Initial Impact Of The Michael Brown Shooting And Police And Public Responses To It On St Louis County Residents' Views About Police, Tammy R. Kochel

Reports

A panel survey of nearly four hundred St. Louis County, MO residents both before and after the shooting death of Michael Brown reveal a dramatic impact of that incident and the civil unrest and police handling of the unrest on residents perceptions of police. African American residents, on average, supported the public’s response to the police shooting but disagreed with the police response to the protests, looting and riots that followed, while nonblack residents’ views were just the opposite. Additionally, in the time immediately following the shooting, African American residents’ trust in police procedural justice and perceptions of police legitimacy …

The Daily Gamecock, Monday, March 16, 2015, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

March

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Shooting In Ferguson, Donald Roth

Faculty Work Comprehensive List

"In the past year, the nation’s attention has been repeatedly drawn back and forth from Ferguson to New York City as events in the two cities have had an eerie and disturbing resonance with one another. From an officer-involved death that set off controversy in Ferguson to one in New York, from a no indictment in one city to one in the other, and, now, tragically, the ambush killing of two officers in New York has been echoed in the ambush shooting (thankfully not fatal) of two officers in Ferguson."

Posting about the many problems that face the modern criminal …

Beyond Ferguson: Empowering Low-Income People To Build The Future Of Their Communities, Dorothy Stoneman

Center for Social Development Research

Beyond Ferguson: Empowering Low-Income People to Build the Future of Their Communities

Doj Clears Wilson But Excoriates Ferguson Police, Lauren Carasik

Media Presence

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From Mayberry To Ferguson: The Militarization Of American Policing Equipment, Culture, And Mission, Cadman R. Kiker Iii

Washington and Lee Law Review Online

We are at the dawn of a new era of policing in the United States. In recent months, images of armed police officers patrolling the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, and of a toddler burned by a Georgia SWAT team’s grenade have been indelibly branded into America’s social consciousness. There is a unique bipartisan outcry from Washington in a time otherwise marked by bitter political divides. Politicians and journalists alike are questioning the efficacy of a militaristic police force and the path that led to this shift in the paradigm of policing.

This Essay examines the how and why of police …