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When Law Fails: Making Sense of Miscarriages of Justice

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Description for When Law Fails: Making Sense of Miscarriages of Justice Paperback. Discusses why the US legal system makes so many mistakes Editor(s): Ogletree, Charles J., Jr. Series: When Law Fails. Num Pages: 359 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; LNAA; LNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 21. Weight in Grams: 476.

Since 1989, there have been over 200 post-conviction DNA exonerations in the United States. On the surface, the release of innocent people from prison could be seen as a victory for the criminal justice system: the wrong person went to jail, but the mistake was fixed and the accused set free. A closer look at miscarriages of justice, however, reveals that such errors are not aberrations but deeply revealing, common features of our legal system.
The ten original essays in When Law Fails view wrongful convictions not as random mistakes but as organic outcomes of a misshaped larger system ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
359
Condition
New
Series
When Law Fails
Number of Pages
359
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780814740521
SKU
V9780814740521
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About Austin Sarat
Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. (Editor) Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. is the Jesse Climenko Professor of Law and Executive Director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard Law School. He is the author of All Deliberate Speed: Reflections on the First Half-Century of Brown v. Board of Education (WW Norton and Company, 2004) ... Read more

Reviews for When Law Fails: Making Sense of Miscarriages of Justice
The essays are interesting, informative and thought-provoking.
New York Law Journal
Ogletree and Sarat have assembled an outstanding group of contributors for these original essays.
Library Journal
Ogletree and Sarat include some of the best contemporary scholars within the field of law and society in this collection that highlights numerous historical examples of laws failure to ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for When Law Fails: Making Sense of Miscarriages of Justice


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