The Empire Strikes Back (English, Arthur D. Austin)

Product description Review ""Innocent" is an excellent recommendation to make the next time someone questions the need for further criminal justice reform."-"New York Law Journal","A chilling chronicle of what can happen when the criminal justice system goes awry." -"Publishers Weekly","Christianson succeeds in raising reasonable doubts and questions about the integrity of our criminal justice system. Written with perceptiveness and sympathy for the plight of the wrongly convicted, [Innocent] is an excellent addition to the literature on miscarriages of justice."-"Justicia","This should be required reading for everyone who gives a damn about justice in this country."-Mickey Sherman, CBS News legal analyst From the Back Cover Once dismissed as plodding and superfluous, legal scholarship is increasingly challenging the liberal white male establishment that currently dominates legal education and practice. The result, here vividly recounted by Arthur Austin, has been an uncompromising, take-no-prisoners fight for dominance. The challenge comes from "outsiders", a collection of feminists, critical race theorists, and critical legal studies scholars who rely on unconventional methods such as storytelling to give voice to the underrepresented. In the other, demographically larger camp resides the monolithic Empire, consisting of traditionalists who, having developed an effective form of scholarship, now circle the wagons against the outsider heathens. Neither partisan nor objective, Austin is both respectful and critical of each faction. About the Author Arthur Austin is the Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Jurisprudence at Case Western Reserve University. Read more