Articles by Michael E. Tigar
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Sensing Injustice: A Lawyer’s Life in the Battle for Change (FREE eBook!)
Michael E. Tigar | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
In his first U.S. Supreme Court case—at the age of 28—Tigar won a unanimous victory that freed thousands of Vietnam War resisters from prison. He led the legal team against the Pinochet regime for a 1976 Washington, DC car bombing and prosecuted Pinochet for torture and genocide. Tigar has been counsel to Angela Davis, Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin (H. Rap Brown), the Chicago Eight, and leaders of the Black Panther Party, to name only a few.
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Mythologies of State and Monopoly Power
Michael E. Tigar | Monthly Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
The “Justice Department” appears, by its very nature and practice, to appropriate “justice” as the exclusive property of the federal government. In his brilliantly acerbic collection of essays, Tigar reveals, deconstructs, and eviscerates mythologies surrounding the U.S. criminal justice system, racism, free expression, workers’ rights, and international human rights.
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