About the Author

Amy Bach

Amy Bach, a member of the New York bar, has written on law for The Nation, The American Lawyer, and New York magazine, among other publications. For her work in progress on Ordinary Injustice, Bach received a Soros Media Fellowship, a special J. Anthony Lukas citation, and a Radcliffe Fellowship. She was a Knight Foundation Journalism Fellow at Yale Law School. And she is a graduate of Stanford Law School. She lives in Rochester, New York, She lives in Rochester, New York where she has founded an organization called Measures for Justice to act on her book's conclusion and create a Justice index to measure delivery of basic legal services in counties across America.  In the fall, she will be a Visiting Professor teaching criminal law at the University of Buffalo law school.

 

Her seminar on the book, "Courts, Communities and Injustice," explored the book's basic concepts.


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“The very people who have helped perpetrate ordinary injustice met with me repeatedly, for countless hours to talk about their roles and answer questions they might well have preferred to ignore. In their transparency, we can see the outline for change.”