LawTalk Ep. 17 - Just Pursuit: A Book Talk with Laura Coates

On this episode of LawTalk, Just Pursuit: A Book Talk with Laura Coates discusses her new book Just Pursuit: A Black Prosecutor’s Fight for Fairness as it details and reflects on her time as a prosecutor with first hand experiences in the U.S. justice system and its impacts on communities of color. Laura Coates ‘05 is a CNN senior legal analyst, SiriusXM host, and adjunct professor at the George Washington University School of Law. Coates also served as Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Columbia and a Trial Attorney in the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, specializing in the enforcement of voting rights throughout the United States This lecture was recorded on February 3, 2022. Subscribe to the Minnesota Law podcast feed on SoundCloud, or via your preferred podcast network, for more LawTalk episodes, as well as other podcast content produced by Minnesota Law. Learn more about the University of Minnesota Law School by visiting law.umn.edu and following Minnesota Law on Twitter twitter.com/UofMNLawSchool. Find a transcript of this podcast at: https://z.umn.edu/Ep17Transcript