Moral Shock and Legal Education

Abstract

This essay is part of a Journal of Legal Education symposium issue on how recent high profile revelations about racially discriminatory policing in Ferguson and elsewhere have affected the way law professors teach, think, write and talk about criminal justice, civil rights, and law in general.

Keywords: criminal procedure, fourth amendment, search and seizure, racial discrimination, policing, profiling, social control, implicit bias, moral outrage, legal pedagogy, moral emotions