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.

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"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

About the authors

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

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Book Title: How Can You Represent Those People?
Editors: Abbe Smith, Monroe H. Freedman
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137311955
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Abbe Smith and Monroe H. Freedman 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-31193-1Published: 16 August 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-137-31194-8Published: 16 August 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-31195-5Published: 13 August 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 228
Topics: Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, Crime and Society, Development Aid, Ethnicity Studies, Law, general, Social Structure, Social Inequality

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