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Sara Mayeux

Sara is an assistant professor of law at Vanderbilt Law School, where she researches and writes about criminal law and procedure, constitutional law, and American legal history. From 2009-12, she ran the Prison Law Blog. Follow her here.
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Reimagining the Public Defender

For the poor, who are disproportionately people of color, the criminal justice system in the United States is essentially a plea-and-probation system.
by Sarah A. Seo via New York Review of Books on November 11, 2021
A courtroom in Milwaukee, 1930.

How Did We End Up With Our Current Public Defender System?

Without a more fundamental transformation of criminal law, public defenders often provide only a limited form of equality and fairness before the law.
by Matthew Clair via The Nation on December 14, 2020
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