Description: An insider's sharp critique of legal education and the legal profession, revealing why the system is far from impartial, starting in law school and extending to the corporate world, government, and public interest organizations.
Brief description: Shaun Ossei-Owusu is a professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches and writes about criminal law, civil rights, legal ethics, the welfare state, and the business of law firms. He has held appointments at Princeton, Harvard, and Columbia. He lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Review Quotes: Law On Trial is an incisive, surprising, and deeply insightful account of how lawyers play a key role in sustaining inequality and injustice. Shaun Ossei-Owusu begins with this counterintuitive claim and then takes readers on an unforgettable journey through the training and practice of lawyers from his vantage point as an "unlikely insider"--a young Black Ivy League law professor. He is one of the most important legal scholars of his generation, and the book is both brilliant and highly readable. You'll never think of law the same way again after reading it.--Imani Perry, author of South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation