Alexandra Natapoff- “America Unfinished.”
Alexandra Natapoff is an award-winning legal scholar, criminal justice expert, and former federal public defender whose work exposes the human cost of an unequal justice system. Her research and writing examine criminal courts, plea bargaining, wrongful convictions, public defense, race, and inequality giving voice to people too often overlooked by the law.
A Guggenheim Fellow, member of the American Law Institute, and graduate of Yale University and Stanford Law School, Professor Natapoff has testified before Congress, helped shape legislation, and influenced legal and public conversations across the nation.
Today, we discuss her new book, America Unfinished: 250 Years of Law and Governance, an essay from Harvard Law School faculty which she co- authored with Guy Charles,
You see, America Unfinished challenges us to confront the distance between America’s promises and its realities—and reminds us that accountability, unity, and shared responsibility are not optional. In a nation at risk of becoming divided by power and politics, America’s future depends on our willingness to listen, work together, before division and unchecked power take from us the very democracy we still have the chance to save.
