Sensing Injustice
Subtitle: A Lawyer's Life in the Battle for Change
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
Published: 2021
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 521
ISBN-13: 9781583679234
Subjects: Lawyers; Biography; Civil rights workers; Defense (Criminal procedure); Avocats; Biographies; Défenseurs des droits de l'homme; Défense (Procédure pénale)
Description: ""Sensing Injustice: A Lawyer's Life in the Battle for Change" combines Michael Tigar's wry legal and societal observations with his analysis of landmark civil rights and international justice cases on which he, as an attorney, worked . The result is a narrative that blends law, history, and progressive politics"--
Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
Table of contents: title: Growing up among the myths; title: Berkeley and beyond; title: What was taught, and what was learned; title: Washington; title: unemployment compensation; title: Like a bird on a wire; title: Civil wrongs; title: Draft board days and nights; title: Military justice is to justice . . .; title: Chicago Blues, Seattle Times, Free Angela; title: Connecting life, law, and social change; title: By any means necessary; title: Speech plus; title: Death; title: and that's final; title: Politics not as usual; title: Human and global rights; title: What to do while enjoying Medicare; title: Envoi.