Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and Law Librarianship

Authors

Ronald E. Wheeler, Boston University School of LawFollow

Author granted license

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Summer 2015

ISSN

0023-9283

Publisher

American Association of Law Libraries

Language

en-US

Abstract

Professor Wheeler discusses the police killings of Michael Brown and Eric Garner. He posits that racialized fear is part of what fuels such violence and discusses examples of how racialized fear have impacted his personal life. Wheeler then discusses how and why law librarians can and should be prepared to discuss such events with their law library patrons.

Comments

Boston University School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 16-04

Recommended Citation

Ronald E. Wheeler, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and Law Librarianship , in 107 Law Library Journal 467 (2015).
Available at: https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/132