How Can You Represent Those People? is the first-ever collection of essays offering a response to the 'Cocktail Party Question' asked of every criminal lawyer. A must-read for anyone interested in race, poverty, crime, punishment, and what makes lawyers tick.

"When I was a criminal defense lawyer I was asked 'The Question' so many times I got sick of it. It takes an essay to fully answer, and this book has fifteen brilliant ones. Some of the essays are laugh-out-loud funny, others deeply moving. Read them all and you'll understand why everyone guilty or innocent, you or me is entitled to a good lawyer." - John Grisham, author of The Runaway Jury

"Defense attorneys may find themselves asking where this book has been all their lives . . . If [one of these essays] were to magically end up on every required reading list in the country, America would be the better for it." - The Champion

"How Can You Represent Those People? is a marvel of different and worthwhile insights that make this volume an important one to anyone with the slightest interest in criminal law." - Marc Bookman, Director of the Atlantic Center for Capital Representation

Autorentext
Barbara Babcock, Stanford Law School, USA Paul Butler, Georgetown Law School, USA Tucker Carrington, The University of Mississippi College of Law, USA Angela J. Davis, American University Washington College of Law, USA Alan M. Dershowitz, Harvard Law School, USA Vida B. Johnson, Georgetown Law School, USA Joseph Margulies, Northwestern University Law School, USA William R. Montross, Jr., Southern Center for Human Rights, USA Ann Roan, National Criminal Defense College and University of Colorado Law School, USA David A. Singleton, Salmon P. Chase College of Law, Northern Kentucky University, USA Meghan Shapiro, Northern Virginia Capital Defender Office, USA Robin Steinberg, Columbia Law School, USA Michael E. Tigar, Duke University School of Law, USA Alice Woolley, University of Calgary, Canada

Inhalt
Preface 1. 'Defending the Guilty' after 30 Years; Barbara Babcock 2. How Can You Prosecute Those People?; Paul Butler 3. How Can You Defend Those People?; Tucker Carrington 4. There but for the Grace of God Go I; Angela J. Davis 5. Why I Defend the Guilty and Innocent Alike; Alan M. Dershowitz 6. Why It's Essential to Represent 'Those People; Monroe H. Freedman 7. Defending Civil Rights; Vida B. Johnson 8. Ruminations on Us and Them; Joseph Margulies 9. Wrecking Life: When the State Seeks to Kill; William R. Montross, Jr. and Meghan Shapiro 10. 'Those People' Are Us; Ann Roan 11. Representing Sex Offenders; David A. Singleton 12. How Can You Not Defend Those People?; Abbe Smith 13. Fair Play; Robin Steinberg 14. Defending . . . Still; Michael E. Tigar 15. Not Only in America: The Necessity of Representing 'Those People' in a Free and Democratic Society; Alice Woolley