The Myth of Moral Justice: Why Our Legal System Fails to Do What's Right

by Thane Rosenbaum

Book Overview

We are obsessed with watching television shows and feature films about lawyers, reading legal thrillers, and following real-life trials. Yet, at the same time, most of us don't trust lawyers and hold them and the legal system in very low esteem.

In The Myth of Moral Justice, law professor and novelist Thane Rosenbaum suggests that this paradox stems from the fact that citizens and the courts are at odds when...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060735244
• ISBN13: 9780060735241
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

lawyers are humans, too

I have not read this book, but I just finished watching the author give a presentation of it on television. I must disagree with the dissenting review below. The book is about lawyers as human beings who know the difference between morally right and morally wrong but who opt to perform what is ethically allowed by legal parameters. The choice on the part of the persons in charge to pursue the path of least resistance is what is corrupting our justice system. If the lawyer abdicates on his or her moral responsibility towards truth, then in what are we ordinary citizens to believe... upon what are we to depend for the justice we need to struggle? The discomforting question deserves much discussion.

Every lawyer should read it

I agree with the NY Times reviewer - all law students should be required to read this book, but would add that all practicing lawyers should read it too. An excellent and well written book, which just might make lawyers slightly more humane.