Ray Brescia is the Associate Dean for Research & Intellectual Life and the Hon. Harold R. Tyler Professor in Law & Technology at Albany Law School. He is the author of Lawyer Nation: The Past, Present, and Future of the American Legal Profession and The Future of Change: How Technology Shapes Social Revolutions; and editor of Crisis Lawyering: Effective Legal Advocacy in Emergency Situations; and How Cities Will Save the World: Urban Innovation in the Face of Population Flows, Climate Change, and Economic Inequality.
"""Americans have long been ruled by lawyers, good and bad, even as that profession has become increasingly alienated from its own work. Unfairness and dysfunction haunt the legal world, as critical legal services have grown tragically inaccessible for those who need it most. In this surprisingly hopeful book, a dedicated public interest scholar and lawyer looks backwards and forward to unpack the historical strands that caused this breakdown, but also map an institutional path whereby our legal profession can better honor its ideals of professionalism, access and inclusion."" * Harold Hongju Koh, Sterling Professor of International Law and former Dean, Yale Law School; former Legal Adviser and Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, U.S. State Department *"