Moving the Bar: My Life as a Radical Lawyer

by Michael Ratner

Michael Smith (Introduction)

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Michael Ratner (1943-2016) was one of America's leading human rights lawyers. He worked for more than four decades at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) becoming first the Director of Litigation and then the President of what Alexander Cockburn called "a small band of tigerish people." He was also the President of the National Lawyers Guild.

Ratner handled some of the most significant cases In American history. This book tells why and how he did it.

His last case, which he worked on until he died, was representing truth-telling whistleblower and now political prisoner Julian Assange, the editor of...

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  • ISBN13 9781682193099
  • Publish Date 20 May 2021
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint OR Books
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 366
  • Language English