AuthorChats

Hosted by criminal defense lawyer Elizabeth Kelley, AuthorChats features in-depth interviews with writers about their recent works.  In this episode, she talks with Wesley M. Oliver, Professor of Law at Duquesne University, about his book The Prohibition Era and Policing.  As Kenneth W. Mack, Professor of Law at Harvard University notes: "Wesley Oliver's The Prohibition Era and Policing places him firmly within the wonderful new body of historical work that shows us how Prohibition continues to shape American law, governance, and society.  Oliver does what historians do best -- demonstrates how our present circumstances are profoundly shaped by our past, and how we might imagine a better future.  Oliver believes that Americans deserve a more effective and more accountabe criminal justice system, and uses history to help us see our present system as both contingent and changeable."  http://www.elizabethkelleylaw.com