Stephen Bright’s relentless pursuit of equal justice is at the center of Professor Robert Tsai’s most recent book. For nearly forty years, Bright led the Southern Center for Human Rights, a nonprofit that provided legal aid to incarcerated people and worked to improve conditions within the justice system. Among other things, Bright argued four death penalty cases at the Supreme Court and won each of them.
As Tsai discusses with Associate Dean Rodger Citron, the story of these four cases illustrates inequalities in the legal system and legal strategies for combatting them. The discussion illuminates how race, economics, and politics influence the operation of the criminal justice system when the stakes are at their highest – that is, when the defendant’s life literally depends upon the outcome.
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Learn more about Robert Tsai
Robert Tsai is a professor of law at Boston University School of Law, where he teaches courses in constitutional law, democratic reform, and individual rights. Professor Tsai is the author of four books, including Demand the Impossible (available at Demand the Impossible: One Lawyer’s Pursuit of Equal Justice for All: Tsai, Robert L.: 9780393867831: Amazon.com: Books.) Professor Tsai has been named a ’24-’25 Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellow at the University Center for Human Values at Princeston University, where he will spend the year working on a new book project entitled, “Reasoning from Injustice.”
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