Fighting Injustice
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.19 (977 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1590310152 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 346 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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"A personal and instructive account by one of America's leading criminal defense lawyers." -- Richard Goldstone,Justice of the Constitutional Court of South AfricaFormer Chief Prosecutor, International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia"No American lawyer has demonstrated more passion for justice." -- Greta Van Susteren, Host of Fox News Channel’sOn the Record with Greta Van Susteren
My view of the Tigar fight kristopher In my first year of law school, the vocal Michael Tigar had a reputation around campus for being strategically dramatic and professionally pragmatic. In Fighting Injustice, however, the paper Tigar mixes history and amusement with quite personal anecdotes to gain the confidence, interest and compassion of his readers. The book is structured chronologically from his life as a child growing up in California through the recent past just before 9/11. He uses his own cases to exe. "Essential reading for young lawyers and law students" according to Steven Paul Ragland. As I read this book, I found myself saying "this is why I went to law school" again and again. As an example of what someone can do with a law degree and a conscience, no one surpasses Michael Tigar. Young lawyers should read this for inspiration. Law students should read this to remind themselves why sitting through four hours of Contracts or Evidence or Federal Courts matters. Activists should read this to relish the victories and learn new approaches. Anyone who has ever . "A Winning Argument" according to Timothy Hallinan. Michael Tigar was one of the 20th century's most successful and influential attorneys, a man who devoted his enormous energy and intelligence to cases that affected the underdogs in the fields of civil rights, citizen's rights, and individual freedoms. Wherever the flashpoints of the late 1960s through the 1980s and even 90s were, Tigar was there, making eloquent and often ingenious arguments on behalf of many who otherwise would have been steamrollered by the sheer weight a
In this book the author describes the battles—both inside and outside the courtroom—that have made him one of the world's most courageous defenders of personal freedoms.