from what it means to really believe women in a court of law not just the court of public opinion to mistaken identity cases when you have a blink moment do something about it. even to my time in the voting rights section, civil rights division, about what the so-called post racial u.s. looks like when you're monitoring elections and the clawing back of voting rights. all of it is in this brand new book and it is time for people to really have a conversation and vicariously experience it and understand with empathy and an eye toward reform what it could mean if the pursuit of justice was finally caught, wolf. >> in very personal terms why was it so important for you to share these stories? >> i didn't want to have just a legal textbook you could find in a law school classroom. it was important for people to understand me as the actual vehicle of the story telling. i think of it as a form of activism and really helping people understand this is not meant to be a legal chronicle. it is meant to be an opportunity to have an eye toward what justice really looks like in