I recently finished "Indefensible: One Lawyer's Journey into the Inferno of American Justice" by David Feige, who worked as a public defender in the Bronx for nearly fifteen years. It is a fascinating account of his work and the stories of the clients he represents. Perhaps my favorite quote from the entire book ...
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Feature Friday: Paralegal Advisory Service Institute
Path to Justice from Penal Reform International on Vimeo. This quarter, I'm interning with the Northwestern University Center on International Human Rights, a legal clinic in the law school. One of our projects is an ...
Beyond Gacaca and Guantanamo: the broader problem of legal injustice
Through my studies in the political science field, I've studied both Guantanamo Bay and the Gacaca process of post-conflict restorative justice in Rwanda in quite a bit of detail. Well, you might ask, what in the world do these two issues have in ...