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 illustrate 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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