{"product_id":"when-law-fails-making-sense-of-miscarriages-of-justice-9780814740521","title":"When Law Fails: Making Sense of Miscarriages of Justice","description":"\u003cp\u003eSince 1989, there have been over 200 post-conviction DNA exonerations in the United States. On the surface, the release of innocent people from prison could be seen as a victory for the criminal justice system: the wrong person went to jail, but the mistake was fixed and the accused set free. A closer look at miscarriages of justice, however, reveals that such errors are not aberrations but deeply revealing, common features of our legal system.\u003cbr\u003eThe ten original essays in \u003cb\u003eWhen Law Fails\u003c\/b\u003e view wrongful convictions not as random mistakes but as organic outcomes of a misshaped larger system that is rife with faulty eyewitness identifications, false confessions, biased juries, and racial discrimination. Distinguished legal thinkers Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., and Austin Sarat have assembled a stellar group of contributors who try to make sense of justice gone wrong and to answer urgent questions. Are miscarriages of justice systemic or symptomatic, or are they mostly idiosyncratic? What are the broader implications of justice gone awry for the ways we think about law? Are there ways of reconceptualizing legal missteps that are particularly useful or illuminating? These instructive essays both address the questions and point the way toward further discussion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhen Law Fails\u003c\/b\u003e reveals the dramatic consequences as well as the daily realities of breakdowns in the law's ability to deliver justice swiftly and fairly, and calls on us to look beyond headline-grabbing exonerations to see how failure is embedded in the legal system itself. Once we are able to recognize miscarriages of justice we will be able to begin to fix our broken legal system.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eContributors: \u003c\/b\u003e Douglas A. Berman, Markus D. Dubber, Mary L. Dudziak, Patricia Ewick, Daniel Givelber, Linda Ross Meyer, Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., Austin Sarat, Jonathan Simon, and Robert Weisberg.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Austin Sarat\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 359\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.04lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.96h x 6.46w x 0.84d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814740521\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/15\/2008 pg. 143\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/13\/2009 pg. 19\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAustin Sarat (Author) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eAustin Sarat\u003c\/b\u003e is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College. He has collaborated with Charles J. Ogletree on numerous works for NYU Press, including \u003ci\u003eRacial Reconciliation and the Healing of a Nation: Beyond Law and Rights\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePunishment in Popular Culture\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWhen Law Fails: Making Sense of Miscarriages of Justice\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Road to Abolition? The Future of Capital Punishment in the United States\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFrom Lynch Mobs to the Killing State: Race and the Death Penalty in America\u003c\/i\u003e. He is also the co-editor of \u003ci\u003eGuns in Law\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Criminals and Enemies, Law's Mistakes\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eReimagining \"To Kill a Mockingbird\" Family, . Community, and the Possibility of Equal Justice under Law\u003c\/i\u003e, and many others. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eCharles J. Ogletree, Jr. (Editor) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eCharles J. Ogletree, Jr. \u003c\/b\u003eis the Jesse Climenko Professor of Law and Executive Director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard Law School. He is the author of All Deliberate Speed: Reflections on the First Half-Century of Brown v. Board of Education (WW Norton and Company, 2004) and Co-Author of From Lynch Mobs to the Killing State: Race and the Death Penalty in America. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40265609576563,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":29.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_7692be83-eca5-4f9a-bcb6-d74b860ea28a.jpg?v=1657721722","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/when-law-fails-making-sense-of-miscarriages-of-justice-9780814740521","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}