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For several years legal professions across the world have, to varying degrees, been undergoing dramatic changes as a result of a range of forces such as globalization, diversification and changes in regulation. In many jurisdictions the extent of these transformations have led to a process of professional fragmentation and generated uncertainty at institutional, organisational and individual levels about the nature and future of legal professionalism. As a result legal education is in flux in many of jurisdictions including the United States, the UK and Australia, with further effects in...

Despite the growing number of Asian American and Latino/a law students, many panethnic students still feel as if they do not belong in this elite microcosm, which reflects the racial inequalities in mainstream American society. While in law school, these students--often from immigrant families, and often the first to go to college--have to fight against racialized and gendered stereotypes. In Incidental Racialization, Diana Pan rigorously explores how systemic inequalities are produced and sustained in law schools.

Through interviews with more than 100 law...

Despite the growing number of Asian American and Latino/a law students, many panethnic students still feel as if they do not belong in this elite microcosm, which reflects the racial inequalities in mainstream American society. While in law school, these students--often from immigrant families, and often the first to go to college--have to fight against racialized and gendered stereotypes. In Incidental Racialization, Diana Pan rigorously explores how systemic inequalities are produced and sustained in law schools.

Through interviews with more than 100 law...

It was a travesty to work at six different prisons in three different states and see the same things occur in each of these prisons. Though there has been extensive media coverage about prisons, and though many politicians have made emotional decisions/laws concerning some of the contents in this book, the 'inside truth' has yet to be told.

The things I have witnessed and been subjected to while working inside different prison walls, places me in a position to tell the 'inside truth;' the 'inside truth' about the criminal justice system, that can't be told by others.

It was a travesty to work at six different prisons in three different states and see the same things occur in each of these prisons. Though there has been extensive media coverage about prisons, and though many politicians have made emotional decisions/laws concerning some of the contents in this book, the 'inside truth' has yet to be told.

The things I have witnessed and been subjected to while working inside different prison walls, places me in a position to tell the 'inside truth;' the 'inside truth' about the criminal justice system, that can't be told by others.