Her honor : my life on the bench ... what works, what's broken, and how to change it /
Judge Cordell, the first African American woman to sit on the Superior Court of Northern California, knows firsthand how prejudice has permeated our legal system. And yet, she believes in the system. From ending school segregation to legalizing same-sex marriage, its progress relies on legal profess...
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New York :
Celadon Books,
2021
New York, NY : 2021 New York, NY : [2021] |
| Edition: | First Edition |
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Table of Contents:
- Bitten by the judge bug
- Trials and tribulations in juvenile court
- Les enfants terribles : criminal cases
- Making a murderer : the felony murder rule
- Domesticity and its discontents
- Family matters : marriage and divorce
- Where there's a will : court battles over the dearly departed
- Would you be mine? : adoptions
- The name game : name changes
- Juries and judges
- Thank you for your service : jury duty
- Judges for sale : judicial elections
- Bad judges : judicial misconduct
- J'accuse! : judges under attack
- Hot-button Issues
- Bacchus unbound : the drunk driving dilemma
- It's all in your head : mental health cases
- Parsing sentences : judicial discretion
- The art of the plea deal : the plea bargain dilemma
- The fix : ten suggestions for reform
- In my end is my beginning
- Introduction. Bitten by the judge bug
- Trials and tribulations in juvenile court. Les enfants terribles: criminal cases ; Making a murderer: the felony murder rule
- Domesticity and its discontents. Family matters: marriage and divorce ; Where there's a will: court battles over the dearly departed ; Would you be mine?: adoptions ; The name game: name changes
- Juries and judges. Thank you for your service: jury duty ; Judges for sale: judicial elections ; Bad judges: judicial misconduct ; J'accuse!: judges under attack
- Hot-button Issues. Bacchus unbound: the drunk driving dilemma ; It's all in your head: mental health cases ; Parsing sentences: judicial discretion ; The art of the plea deal: the plea bargain dilemma
- Conclusion. The fix: ten suggestions for reform ; In my end is my beginning
- Introduction
- Trials and tribulations in juvenile court
- Domesticity and its discontents
- Juries and judges
- Hot-button Issues
- Conclusion
- Bitten by the judge bug
- Trials and tribulations in juvenile court
- Les enfants terribles : criminal cases
- Making a murderer : the felony murder rule
- Domesticity and its discontents
- Family matters : marriage and divorce
- Where there's a will : court battles over the dearly departed
- Would you be mine? : adoptions
- The name game : name changes
- Juries and judges
- Thank you for your service : jury duty
- Judges for sale : judicial elections
- Bad judges : judicial misconduct
- J'accuse! : judges under attack
- Hot-button Issues
- Bacchus unbound : the drunk driving dilemma
- It's all in your head : mental health cases
- Parsing sentences : judicial discretion
- The art of the plea deal : the plea bargain dilemma
- The fix : ten suggestions for reform
- In my end is my beginning