1. Professor of Law, Director of the Criminal Defense & Prisoner Advocacy Clinic, Co-Director of the E Barrett Prettyman Fellowship Program, Georgetown University Law Center, USA. With thanks to Sophia Heller and Jose Canto for helpful research assistance and Ilene Seidman and Tucker Carrington for helpful conversations. My friend and co-author Monroe Freedman, the first legal scholar to criticise Atticus Finch, tried to talk me out of writing this essay. But I love him anyway. See Monroe H Freedman...