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Fighting Injustice
In this book the author describes the battles—both inside and outside the courtroom—that have made him one of the world's most courageous defenders of personal freedoms.
346 pages, Hardcover
First published October 25, 2003
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June 19, 2015
Michael Tigar was one of the 20th century's most successful and influential attorneys, a man who devoted his enormous energy and intelligence to cases that affected the underdogs in the fields of civil rights, citizen's rights, and individual freedoms.
Wherever the flashpoints of the late 1960s through the 1980s and even 90s were, Tigar was there, making eloquent and often ingenious arguments on behalf of many who otherwise would have been steamrollered by the sheer weight and inertial energy of the state. He's especially fine in recalling his cases; the section on opposing the draft during the Vietnam War (including one defendant who was the son of Cesar Chavez) relays several cases in relatively short order and is a model of legal story-telling.
Tigar was also involved in the South African ordeal of Nelson Mandela; he survived the courtroom of Judge Julius Hoffman and was named (appropriately, I think) the third-most influential defense attorney of the 20th century, behind Clarence Darrow and Thurgood Marshall, which is good company to be in. As a non-lawyer, I found a few sections of the book in which he lays out relevant case law to be heavy wading at times, but other then that, this is a riveting story, and occasionally very funny -- and the some of the trial sequences are nonpareil.
Wherever the flashpoints of the late 1960s through the 1980s and even 90s were, Tigar was there, making eloquent and often ingenious arguments on behalf of many who otherwise would have been steamrollered by the sheer weight and inertial energy of the state. He's especially fine in recalling his cases; the section on opposing the draft during the Vietnam War (including one defendant who was the son of Cesar Chavez) relays several cases in relatively short order and is a model of legal story-telling.
Tigar was also involved in the South African ordeal of Nelson Mandela; he survived the courtroom of Judge Julius Hoffman and was named (appropriately, I think) the third-most influential defense attorney of the 20th century, behind Clarence Darrow and Thurgood Marshall, which is good company to be in. As a non-lawyer, I found a few sections of the book in which he lays out relevant case law to be heavy wading at times, but other then that, this is a riveting story, and occasionally very funny -- and the some of the trial sequences are nonpareil.
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