Women\u27s Rights, Public Defense, and the Chicago World\u27s Fair

Women were an important part of the great public meetings held in connection with the Chicago World\u27s Fair. One of these Congresses, as they were called, was devoted to the achievements of nineteenth century women, and brought together suffragists, club women, society ladies, and activists of all stripes from around the world. The Congress of Jurisprudence and Law Reform featured two American women lawyers holding their own on a platform with leading professors, judges and advocates. With an extraordinary speech based largely on her own experience in the courts, Clara Foltz launched the public defender movement

Women\u27s Rights, Public Defense, and the Chicago World\u27s Fair

Women were an important part of the great public meetings held in connection with the Chicago World\u27s Fair. One of these Congresses, as they were called, was devoted to the achievements of nineteenth century women, and brought together suffragists, club women, society ladies, and activists of all stripes from around the world. The Congress of Jurisprudence and Law Reform featured two American women lawyers holding their own on a platform with leading professors, judges and advocates. With an extraordinary speech based largely on her own experience in the courts, Clara Foltz launched the public defender movement

Defending the Guilty

How can you defend a person you know is guilty? I have answered that question hundreds of times, never to my inquirer\u27s satisfaction, and therefore never to my own. In recent years, I have more or less given up, abandoning the high-flown explanations of my youth, and resorting to a rather peevish: Well, it\u27s not for everybody. Criminal defense work takes a peculiar mind-set, heart-set, soul-set. While I still believe this, the mind-set might at least be more accessible through a better effort at explanation. First we will examine the nature of the question, then the possible answers. We must know, too, of whom the question is asked and what characterizes the attitudes held by the criminal defender. Moreover, the lawyer\u27s discipline requires that we consider whether the right question is being asked. Finally, we look to the answer provided by the life of the most famous criminal defense lawyer of all: Clarence Darrow

Defending the Guilty

How can you defend a person you know is guilty? I have answered that question hundreds of times, never to my inquirer\u27s satisfaction, and therefore never to my own. In recent years, I have more or less given up, abandoning the high-flown explanations of my youth, and resorting to a rather peevish: Well, it\u27s not for everybody. Criminal defense work takes a peculiar mind-set, heart-set, soul-set. While I still believe this, the mind-set might at least be more accessible through a better effort at explanation. First we will examine the nature of the question, then the possible answers. We must know, too, of whom the question is asked and what characterizes the attitudes held by the criminal defender. Moreover, the lawyer\u27s discipline requires that we consider whether the right question is being asked. Finally, we look to the answer provided by the life of the most famous criminal defense lawyer of all: Clarence Darrow

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