Reminder: Reading: Ordinary Injustice: How America Holds Court by A... @ Tue Nov 17 7:30pm – 8:30pm (Queer Things)

more details » Reading: Ordinary Injustice: How America Holds Court by Amy Bach at Booksmith AMY BACH: Ordinary Injustice: How America Holds Court 7:30 PM, The Booksmith, 1644 Haight St., SF. http://www.booksmith.com/ "This is a magnificent work, a crusading call for reform in the tradition of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring or Ralph Nader's Unsafe at Any Speed…This groundbreaking book deserves widespread attention." – Doris Kearns Goodwin Stories of grave injustice are all too familiar: the lawyer who sleeps through a trial, the false confessions, the convictions of the innocent. But less visible failures of justice meted out by America's defective system receive scant attention unless you've personally experienced one. Attorney and journalist Amy Bach spent the last eight years investigating the chronic lapses in courts across America, and offers a wholly original understanding of why justice fails on a daily basis for so many people across the country. Ordinary Injustice goes well beyond one particular injustice, one specific court, or one aspect of the legal system, recounting stories that reveal a deep culture of complicity among prosecutors, defenders, and judges, a complicity that puts the interests of the system above the court's obligation to the people. Amy Bach, a member of the New York Bar, has written on law for The Nation, The American Lawyer, and New York, and has taught legal studies at the University of Rochester. For her work on Ordinary Injustice she received a Soros Foundation Award, a special J. Anthony Lukas citation, and a Radcliffe Fellowship. She is a graduate of Stanford Law School When Tue Nov 17 7:30pm – 8:30pm Pacific Time Calendar Queer Things Who • larrybob@gmail.com - creator

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