The book is constructed around four ripped-from-the-headlines case studies, involving "recent cases of perjury by people at the pinnacle of their fields": Martha Stewart, Lewis Libby, Barry Bonds and Bernard Madoff.
The emerging professional classes have hardly been averse to hate speech, as can be seen in another recent headline case of antisemitism in Hungarian politics, involving Marton Gyongyosi, shadow spokesman on foreign policy for the far-right Jobbik party.
As I listened to dozens of the biggest-name legal consiglieri last week discuss a number of ripped-from-the-headline case studies about outrageous behavior by chief executives, directors and Wall Street investment banks caught up in self-dealing, blatant conflict of interests and other chicanery, a question occurred to me: Why do we so rarely blame the supposedly holier-than-thou lawyers?
"While this may be the latest big headline case, singling out people by race, ethnicity, religion or other protected characteristic is not a new phenomenon". .
Barely a day has passed in recent months without newspaper headlines revealing case after case of police corruption and negligence, including drug abuse, extortion, bribery, sexual assault, false reports, hazing of fellow officers and cover-ups.
As headline cases emerge daily, there remains the difficult legal question of whether rules can be changed retrospectively.
There had not been a lot of headline cases before that to make people sit up and take notice".
"What people look to is success in the very big headline cases, and inevitably Libor comes to mind," Mr. Green, 59, said in an interview this month.
With its blaring, sexually charged headlines, the case immediately drew immense media attention and won Ms. Knox sudden — and unwanted — notoriety.
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