Dr. Kerry L. Shipman writes at the intersection of law, justice, behavioral health, education, race, family and leadership. His published work combines scholarship with lived and professional experience—translating complex systems into language that practitioners, families and communities can use. New essays and current commentary are published in Insights, including Revisiting the Reasonable Black Person Standard Seven Years Later.
LinkedIn · November 2023
A first-person account of the courtroom experiences that helped redirect Dr. Shipman’s work toward behavioral health, reentry and community systems.
LinkedIn · May 2025
A reflection on access, mentorship, competition and the responsibility to create opportunity for others after you gain access yourself.
LinkedIn · February 2019
An early public essay centered on parents, schools and the role of family engagement in student success.
Research and professional writing that places Dr. Shipman’s public commentary in a deeper scholarly context.
The Bencher · American Inns of Court · July/August 2019
An article on using legal education beyond the conventional law-firm pathway and the breadth of professional opportunities available to J.D. graduates.
Read at American Inns of Court →
Southern Journal of Policy and Justice · 2019
Legal scholarship examining impartiality, race and the social-science assumptions embedded in criminal-law standards. The article is indexed in Dr. Shipman’s Google Scholar profile and has been cited in later legal writing.
Liberty University · Ph.D. Dissertation
A hermeneutic phenomenological study focused on family support and successful reentry, grounding Dr. Shipman’s work in justice, behavioral health and family-centered system design.
