Hacking The Law

TED Radio Hour

NPR

Social Sciences, Society & Culture, Science, Technology

4.4 • 21.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

We have a vision of justice as blind, impartial, and fair — but in reality, the law often fails those who need it most. This hour, TED speakers explore radical ways to change the legal system. Guests include lawyer and social justice advocate Robin Steinberg, animal rights lawyer Steven Wise, political activist Brett Hennig, and lawyer and social entrepreneur Vivek Maru.

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0:33.0	I'm Guy Ross.
0:38.0	I want to start at the beginning of your career in the 1980s.
0:42.0	You, I guess you started out as a public defender, right?
0:45.0	I did. I became a public defender immediately upon graduating from law school.
0:50.0	And what was the idea behind it you thought,
0:53.0	okay, I'm going to be a public defender and I'm going to help people who are defendants in criminal cases.
0:58.0	That's right.
0:59.0	And I, like, lots of people, had no idea what was going on in our criminal legal system.
1:03.0	In my third-gen law school, I joined the criminal defense clinic,
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