Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2021

Abstract

The protests of 2020 have jumpstarted conversations about criminal justice reform in the public and professoriate. Although there have been longstanding demands for reformation and reimagining of the criminal justice system, recent calls have taken on a new urgency. Greater public awareness of racial bias, increasing visual evidence of state-sanctioned killings, and the televised policing of peaceful dissent have forced the public to reckon with a penal state whose brutality was comfortably tolerated. Scholars are publishing op-eds, policy proposals, and articles with rapidity, pointing to different factors and actors that produce the need for reform. However, one input has gone relatively unconsidered: legal education.

Keywords

Criminal justice reform, discrimination, racial inequality, law schools, socialization, law & politics, legal practice

Publication Title

American Criminal Law Review

Publication Citation

58 Am. Crim. L. Rev. 413 (2021)

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