It's not a static set of words on a piece of paper. So after listening to this podcast, I think you'll have a better understanding of what the law actually is. And as a public defender, she started seeing the cracks and the faultlines, the injustices and the contradictions in our system of criminal justice. In talking to her, I think you'll have a better understanding of why a law professor who studies criminal law would support someone who's breaking those criminal laws because Hadar actually started out as a public defender. I'm someone who's been arrested for breaking or allegedly breaking, the criminal laws of this nation, maybe a couple dozen times. And yet, she's also a huge supporter of mine. She's been called one of the most important commentators in criminal justice and criminal law in this nation. She's been a fellow at Harvard Law School.
And, in many ways, Hadar and I are strange bedfellows. And our guest today is UC Hastings law professor Hadar Aviram. Welcome to The Green Pill, the podcast about how huge individual changes can lead to huge social change. And we've had a little bit of a hiatus, many of you know that I ran for mayor and lost terribly, I have an entire podcast aboutWayne Hsiung 0:00 Hey there, this is Wayne Hsiung and you're listening to The Green Pill, a podcast about how big personal changes can lead to big social changes. Identity Crisis: The 2016 Presidential Campaign and the Battle for the Meaning of America - John Sides, Michael Tesler, and Lynn Vavreck (2018) Just Babies: The Origins of Good And Evil - Paul Bloom (2014) Hadar's first book (2015) - Cheap On Crime Recession: Era Politics and the Transformation of American Punishment Hadar's book (2019) - The Legal Process and the Promise of Justice Hadar's most recent book (2020) - Yesterday's Monsters: The Manson Family Cases and the Illusion of Parole “There is no one thing that is a magic bullet that is going to fix the horrors that we're seeing in American streets.” How do we solve this? Well, there may be no magic bullet, but Wayne and Hadar reveal some key steps we can take-as individuals, as societies-to move us in the right direction. In this episode, Wayne and Hadar talk about the national reckoning over police brutality and racism the culture of toxic masculinity permeating police departments the science behind pervasive implicit bias and tribalistic tendencies that develop in the first few years of our lives and the moral licensing that helps us justify our bad behavior. Prior to her illustrious career as one of the world's premier scholars and media commentators on criminal justice, Hadar worked in the trenches as a public defender in Israel.
Hadar specializes in criminal justice and civil rights from a socio-legal perspective. in Jurisprudence and Social Policy from UC Berkeley, where she studied as a Fulbright Fellow and a Regents Intern. She holds law and criminology degrees from Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a Ph.D. Hadar Aviram-legal scholar, author, and human and animal rights activist-is the Thomas Miller Professor at UC Hastings College of the Law.