{"id":181540,"date":"2021-03-29T12:00:28","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T11:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=181540"},"modified":"2021-03-23T06:30:35","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T06:30:35","slug":"sensing-injustice-a-lawyers-life-in-the-battle-for-change-free-ebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2021\/03\/sensing-injustice-a-lawyers-life-in-the-battle-for-change-free-ebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Sensing Injustice: A Lawyer\u2019s Life in the Battle for Change (FREE eBook!)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By the time he was 26, Michael Tigar was a legend in legal circles well before he would take on some of the highest-profile cases of his generation. In his first U.S. Supreme Court case\u2014at the age of 28\u2014Tigar won a unanimous victory that freed thousands of Vietnam War resisters from prison. Tigar also led the legal team that secured a judgment against the Pinochet regime for the 1976 murders of Pinochet opponent Orlando Letelier and his colleague Ronni Moffitt in a Washington, DC car bombing. He then worked with the lawyers who prosecuted Pinochet for torture and genocide. A relentless fighter of injustice\u2014not only as a human rights lawyer, but also as a teacher, scholar, journalist, playwright, and comrade\u2014Tigar has been counsel to Angela Davis, Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin (H. Rap Brown), the Chicago Eight, and leaders of the Black Panther Party, to name only a few. It is past time that Michael Tigar wrote his memoir.<\/p>\n

Sensing Injustice: A Lawyer\u2019s Life in the Battle for Change<\/em> is a vibrant literary and legal feat. In it, Tigar weaves powerful legal analysis and wry observation through the story of his remarkable life. The result is a compelling narrative that blends law, history, and progressive politics. This is essential reading for lawyers, for law students, for anyone who aspires to bend the law toward change.<\/p>\n

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No one since Clarence Darrow has been in the middle of more of his generation\u2019s important legal battles than Mike Tigar. His memoir \u2026 is must reading for those who wonder if law can still be exciting, heroic and moral. Tigar proves it is, with wit, high style and great stories.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2014John Keker, partner, Keker & Van Nest; formerly Irangate special prosecutor<\/p>\n

Many go to law school to pursue justice, but Michael Tigar has spent his career doing that, and this entertaining, insightful book tells of his many battles to use the law to make society better. He is a terrific storyteller and one learns a great deal about the United States and the progressive movement and the legal system over the last half century from this book. But most of all, one gets the strong sense of how one person can truly make a difference.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2014Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley School of Law<\/p>\n

Few lives have been as compelling and consequential as that of Michael Tigar. He is a walking encyclopedia of a half century of law, social movements, and history and a master storyteller. Tigar is a hero who has saved lives and is a voice for justice and peace whose life story is mesmerizing.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2014Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author, An Indigenous Peoples\u2019 History of the United States<\/em><\/p>\n

There can have been few attorneys since Clarence Darrow whose tally of <\/em>causes c\u00e9l\u00e8bres can match that of Michael Tigar, sailor, teacher, scholar and warrior. In this reflective memoir they take their places in a long and productive life spent exploring and patrolling the contested terrain between past and present, between practice and principle, and between injustice and justice.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2014Stephen Sedley (Rt. Hon. Sir Stephen Sedley, former Lord Justice of Appeal for England and Wales)<\/p>\n

Michael Tigar tells the story of his lifelong struggle against injustice with wit, clarity, and astounding specificity, drawing on his profound understanding and love of history, literature, and music. I once taught a course on \u2018Law and Social Change.\u2019 If i were teaching today i would assign Bleak House by Charles Dickens and Tigar\u2019s <\/em>Sensing Injustice.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2014Jerry Cohen, retired General Counsel at United Farm Workers (UFW)<\/p>\n

A must-read page turner by the Clarence Darrow of his generation. Tigar was \u2018in the courtroom where it happened\u2019 for blockbuster cases and describes his battles for justice with his signature wit and passion.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2014Patricia Lee Refo, President, American Bar Association<\/p>\n

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Michael E. Tigar<\/span> has worked for over fifty years with movements for social change as a human rights lawyer, law professor, and writer. He has taught at law schools in the United States, France, South Africa, and Japan, and is Emeritus Professor at Duke Law School and American University Washington College of Law. He has authored or coauthored fourteen books, three plays, and scores of articles and essays. His book, <\/em>Law and the Rise of Capitalism, first published by <\/em>Monthly Review Press, has been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, Turkish, and Chinese.<\/em><\/p>\n

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In his first U.S. Supreme Court case\u2014at the age of 28\u2014Tigar won a unanimous victory that freed thousands of Vietnam War resisters from prison. He led the legal team against the Pinochet regime for a 1976 Washington, DC car bombing and prosecuted Pinochet for torture and genocide. Tigar has been counsel to Angela Davis, Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin (H. Rap Brown), the Chicago Eight, and leaders of the Black Panther Party, to name only a few.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":181541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[867,260,651,1240,985,70],"class_list":["post-181540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reviews","tag-anglo-america","tag-history","tag-justice","tag-restorative-justice","tag-social-justice","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}