Law on Trial: An Unlikely Insider Reckons with Our Legal System

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 S...