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How The Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect The Powerful

By ASI | Nov 02 2011

On 2 November 2011, the Arab Studies Institute co-sponored a book talk featuring Glen Greenwald with the UCLA School of Law’s Critical Race Studies Program, the David J. Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy, the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies. In countless instances over recent years, prominent political and media figures have insisted that serious crimes by the most powerful should be overlooked— either in the name of the common good, or in the name of a warped conception of fairness according to which those with the greatest power are the most entitled to deference and understanding. In discussing his most recent book, With Liberty and Justice for Some, Glenn Greenwald argues that this is a profound distortion of the United States' constitutional commitments to equality and accountability.