Shaun Ossei-Owusu

Law on Trial (eBook, ePUB)

An Unlikely Insider Reckons with Our Legal System

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A Bronxborn Ivy League professor cracks open the machinery of American law in an unflinching exposé that shows how lawyers fuel a range of inequalities.

The law is supposed to represent fairness, equality, and transparency. Yet in a world where injustice is normalized, many struggle to understand why our legal system fails despite its lofty principles. In Law on Trial, awardwinning legal scholar Shaun OsseiOwusu offers a rare perspective as an insider and a cleareyed critic of its deep, bakedin structural problems. He begins with a tour through American legal education, where some of the seeds of inequality are planted in the emphasis on abstract thinking. He then moves to different corners of the profession where those seeds flourish: elite law firms, government offices, and wellintended publicinterest organizations. At every step, OsseiOwusu confronts some of America's polarizing topicscrime, poverty, and corporate powerand highlights the legal profession's troubling complicity. His defiant dissents challenge liberal and conservative orthodoxy while illuminating how the legal system might move closer to its highest aspirations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2026
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781324091271
• Artikelnr.: 75601389

Autorenporträt

Shaun OsseiOwusu is a professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches and writes about criminal law, civil rights, legal ethics, the welfare state, and the business of law firms. He has held appointments at Princeton, Harvard, and Columbia. He lives in Philadelphia.