Linguistics in pursuit of justice Linguistics life and death Linguistics injustice and inequality Some linguistic and legal consequences of slavery in the United States Linguistic profiling Earwitness testimony and unbiased formulation of auditory line ups Dialect identification and discrimination in the United States Formulating discrimination: dimensions of a historical hardship index Linguistic harassment Linguistic contributions to the advancement of justice Shall we overcome This book is fundamentally about fairness. It also explores some of the ways that linguistics can be employed to promote fairness. The origin of this work owes much to the vision of my mentor William Labov who first came to my attention when I had an opportunity to read his tremendously important and influential article The Logic of Nonstandard English