Shawn Fields

just saw someone sincerely arguing that they need AI bc they don't have "natural" artistic talent and idk how to make you understand that nobody comes by this shit naturally. it's just...work. it's being bad at it for a really, really, really long time. it's intention, pursued over time! wtf!!!

My article, "(Non)police Brutality," is now out in print at Cornell Law Review! I had such a wonderful experience working with this excellent team of editors and am so grateful to them for bringing it to print!
publications.lawschool.cornell.edu/lawreview/20...

As we approach the 20th Anniversary of the Roberts Court, here is my list of the Top Ten Worst Con Law Cases of his Court. Boy was that a hard list to whittle down and no doubt people will disagree with some omissions but the harm to America is truly awful. www.dorfonlaw.org/2025/08/mour...

“States are agents of the federal government”?
*lights syllabus on fire*

Three weeks until the Surfers Point marathon in Ventura. I’ve been at it for eight weeks and finally have a little progress to show for it

Cilantro lime chicken burrito night in San Diego #backyardfeast

Excited that my article “Police Reform as System Justification” has been accepted for publication with the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology @JCLCnlaw @NorthwesternLaw - I can’t wait to work with the criminology editors on this piece!

I’m so honored and beyond humbled to have been voted Professor of the Year and 1L Professor of the Year by our wonderful California Western students. It is such a privilege to teach these amazing future lawyers.

The annual salary for the first pick in the WNBA draft is projected to be less than half my salary as a first year law firm associate in 2007

Happy early birthday to me! Perfect morning for the San Diego Beach and Bay half! 🏃🏅

Hmm, maybe further down?

@rsfry19.bsky.social

Who has two thumbs and decided to submit an article on March 6, just as tons of journals were filling up? 🤦‍♂️

This summer will be the first sustained period in years that I'm not either teaching or moving across the country. I can't decide whether to prioritize reading all the things on my list or writing all the things on my agenda.

Nothing says Monday quite like a pre-Zoom Zoom at 10 before your regularly scheduled Zoom from 10:30-2:30 followed by a post-Zoom Zoom at 4.

I wrote this Op-Ed yesterday for The Hill about Trump's unlawful attempt to weaponize federal spending to intimidate states into compliance with his agenda

thehill.com/opinion/whit...

Book cover alert! The New Public Safety, set for publication on September 2 with the University of California Press.

I am thrilled to be working with The Georgetown Law Journal on my new article, "Searches and Seizures of the Unhoused." Forthcoming later this year, posted to SSRN shortly. Go Hoyas!

I could watch clips of helicopters executing water drops over these fires for hours. Truly remarkable stuff.

All our New Year’s resolution lists are titled Project 2025, right?

Ready

It’s the most wonderful time of the year

Christmas party season is upon us

I cooked a hot dog

I made biscuits

OPINION: The Gaetz Nomination Was Never About Matt Gaetz Trump's former nominee for attorney general was unsuitable, unlikable and unqualified for the job — and that's what made him ideal.

I wrote a thing for HuffPost

www.huffpost.com/entry/shawn-...

Biden Won't Be Remembered as a Transformative Historical Figure | Opinion It didn't have to be this way.

I wrote another thing

www.newsweek.com/biden-wanted...

I did a thing

Opinion: If you voted for Trump, how can you claim to care about women? Reasonable people can disagree about economic policy. Or immigration. Or the level of U.S. involvement in Ukraine and Gaza. But if Donald Trump swayed you on any of these issues, you still had to c…

I wrote a thing

www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2024/11/21/o...