How Can You Represent Those People?

How Can You Represent Those People? is the first-ever collection of essays offering a response to the "Cocktail Party Question" asked of every criminal lawyer: how do you represent guilty criminals?

The contributors are a diverse group of prominent lawyers and rising stars, each offering a different — and often very personal— perspective on "the Question." Many share stories — comic and tragic, stirring and heartbreaking — about how it feels to defend people accused of crimes ranging from the "ordinary" to the horrific. This fascinating collection is a must-read for anyone interested in crime, punishment, race, poverty, and the motivations of criminal lawyers.

• Author
• Abbe Smith, Monroe H. Freedman

• Format
• hardcover

• Pages
• 244

• Publisher
• Palgrave Macmillan

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 978-1-137-31193-1

• EAN
• 9781137311931

• Genres
• law

• Release date
• 2013