Criminal Justice for All
66 Journal of Legal Education 24, 2016
5 Pages Posted: 7 Aug 2016 Last revised: 15 Sep 2016
Date Written: August 4, 2016
Abstract
It is not hyperbolic to assert that our criminal justice system is in crisis. Just as important, this crisis is widely acknowledged outside of the legal academy. We see almost universal agreement throughout scholarly, popular, and political discourse: The criminal justice system needs fixing. This essay, written for a Journal of Legal Education symposium on "The Future of Legal Scholarship" considers the function of scholarship in, first, exposing the limits of criminal law as it operates on the ground and, next, generating a path forward.
Keywords: criminal justice, legal scholarship
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