Law on Trial An Unlikely Insider Reckons with Our Legal System | 728.03 KB
Title: Law on Trial
Author: Shaun Ossei-Owusu
Category: Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Law, Ethics, Legal Profession, Jurisprudence
Language: English | 432 Pages | ISBN: 1324091266
Description:
An insider’s sharp critique of legal education and the legal profession, revealing why the system is far from impartial, starting in law school and extending to the corporate world, government, and public interest organizations.
The law promises justice. Too often, it delivers inequality. This contradiction raises a basic question: Why does a legal system that claims to stand for fairness and equality fail to uphold these ideals over and over?
In Law on Trial, legal scholar and Bronx native Shaun Ossei-Owusu draws on more than a decade of observation and reflection-first as a scholar of inequality, then as a law student, practicing lawyer, and now as an Ivy League law professor-to provide an unvarnished account of the legal system. He reveals that the promise of justice is too often a convenient fiction invoked by lawyers, recited by textbooks, and betrayed in practice.
Street crime gets the fist of the state; white-collar crime…
An insider’s sharp critique of legal education and the legal profession, revealing why the system is far from impartial, starting in law school and extending to the corporate world, government, and public interest organizations.
The law promises justice. Too often, it delivers inequality. This contradiction raises a basic question: Why does a legal system that claims to stand for fairness and equality fail to uphold these ideals over and over?
In Law on Trial, legal scholar and Bronx native Shaun Ossei-Owusu draws on more than a decade of observation and reflection-first as a scholar of inequality, then as a law student, practicing lawyer, and now as an Ivy League law professor-to provide an unvarnished account of the legal system. He reveals that the promise of justice is too often a convenient fiction invoked by lawyers, recited by textbooks, and betrayed in practice.
Street crime gets the fist of the state; white-collar crime…
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