Weatherspoon Publishes Articles on Racial Profiling

December 16, 2004

When Professor Floyd Weatherspoon published The Devastating Impact of the Justice System on the Status of African-American Males: An Overview Perspective, 23 CAPITAL UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 23 (1994), he described how the justice system negatively impacts African-American males on such issues as arrest, incarceration, discrimination, racial profiling and the death penalty.

Recently, Weatherspoon has published two articles expanding on the seminal article by focusing on racial profiling. They are Racial Profiling of African-American Males: Stopped, Searched and Stripped of Constitutional Protection, JOHN MARSHALL LAW REVIEW (forthcoming) and Ending Racial Profiling of African-Americans in the Selective Enforcement of Laws: In Search of Viable Remedies, 65 UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH LAW REVIEW 4 (2004).

In these articles, Weatherspoon establishes the substantial evidence that racial profiling exists and discusses the ways in which constitutional rights are abridged by racial profiling and enforcement of laws related to travel. The articles review initiatives taken to address the issue of racial profiling and advocate a holistic approach to helping solve the problems that ensue from such practices.

“Various initiatives and remedies may be taken by the government; civil rights, community and law enforcement organizations; and individual citizens to address the issue of racial profiling,” said Weatherspoon. “The remedies I discuss are not an exhaustive list of possible corrective actions, but hopefully the beginning of a dialogue on how to end and prevent racial profiling by law enforcement organizations.”

Weatherspoon’s other article exploring aspects of the justice system on African American males is Remedying Employment Discrimination Against African-American Males: Stereotypical Biases Engender a Case of Race Plus Sex Discrimination, 36 WASHBURN LAW JOURNAL 23 (1996). He is currently working on an article spotlighting the failure of public schools to educate African-American males and a book on the impact of the justice system on African-American males.

Weatherspoon also is the author of two books, African-American Males and the Law: Cases and Materials and Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action: A Sourcebook and other articles in the field of employment discrimination and employment law.

Weatherspoon has been a member of the Capital University Law School faculty since 1989 and is widely considered an expert in the area of labor arbitration, mediation and civil rights. Professor Weatherspoon serves on the American Arbitration Association, Labor and Employment Panel, as a mediator with the Federal District Court, Southern District and is an External Administrative Judge with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Visit Professor Floyd Weatherspoon’s personal Web site which includes links to publications.