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Why Our Legal System Fails to Do What's Right
Harper
May 2005
On Sale: May 2, 2005
384 pages ISBN: 0060735244 EAN: 9780060735241 Trade Size (reprint)
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Non-Fiction
We are obsessed with watching television shows and feature
films about lawyers, reading legal thrillers, and following
real-life trials. Yet, at the same time, most of us don't
trust lawyers and hold them and the legal system in very low
esteem. In The Myth of Moral Justice, law
professor and novelist Thane Rosenbaum suggests that
this paradox stems from the fact that citizens and the
courts are at odds when it comes to their definitions of
justice. With a lawyer's expertise and a novelist's
sensability, Rosenbaum tackles complicated
philosophical questions about our longing for moral justice.
He also takes a critical look at what our legal system does
to the spirits of those who must come before the law, along
with those who practice within it.
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