Shawn Fields

Shawn Fields is a professor of law at California Western School of Law in San Diego, where he teaches civil procedure, criminal procedure, criminal law and a research seminar on police practices and reform. Fields’ scholarship focuses on police legitimacy and reform, the Fourth Amendment, racial disparities in the criminal justice system, federal immigration power, sexual violence, the changing nature of self-defense, firearms law and policy, and the intersections among these areas. His book "Neighborhood Watch: Policing White Spaces in America" was published in 2022 with Cambridge University Press.