Moving the Bar: My Life as a Radical Lawyer

Written By Madelyn S

OR Books: Moving the Bar: My Life as a Radical Lawyer by Michael Ratner

“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.”

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Additional reading:

Moving the Bar: My Life as a Radical Lawyer on bookshop.org

Democracy Now, May 30, 2016: From Attica to Assange, Attorney Michael Ratner Remembered as Social Justice Champion

theAnalysis.news: Michael Ratner on Reality Asserts Itself

Madelyn S
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