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Insights on Legal System Challenges

Dr. Cary Fraser was interviewed via email about his work in law and international politics. He communicates with colleagues through email and conversation. Clear communication in his field promotes dialogue across issues and perspectives. A recurring theme he sees is the inability of courts to address inadequacies in the justice system. The legal system has become more polarized over 10 years, raising questions about institutional bias. Widely used methods like plea bargains have undermined justice. His understanding of the legal system helped him represent himself successfully in a case of mistaken identity.

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Insights on Legal System Challenges

Dr. Cary Fraser was interviewed via email about his work in law and international politics. He communicates with colleagues through email and conversation. Clear communication in his field promotes dialogue across issues and perspectives. A recurring theme he sees is the inability of courts to address inadequacies in the justice system. The legal system has become more polarized over 10 years, raising questions about institutional bias. Widely used methods like plea bargains have undermined justice. His understanding of the legal system helped him represent himself successfully in a case of mistaken identity.

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Interview 1- Dr.

Cary Fraser

1. How do you communicate with colleagues? By e-mail and personal conversation.


2. How does clear communication within your field help/ influence your work? It promotes
a dialogue across issues/ topics and opens ways of understanding the variety of
perspectives that inform the study of law and international politics.
3. What is a recurring theme you see within the legal system? The inability of courts to
address the inadequacies of the justice system.
4. How has the system changed over the past 10 years? There has been increasing
partisan/ideological polarization which has raised questions about the potential for the
institutionalization of bias.
5. What are a few widely methods used in the legal system for justice? What would you
reform? The discretionary authority that has accrued to prosecutors - by way of the plea
bargain system - has undermined justice in both principle and practice.
6. How has your level of understanding of the legal system helped you in your professional
life? Personal life? I have represented myself in court in a case where a false driver’s
license was issued in my name. After several offences were committed by the person(s)
using that driver’s licence a warrant was delivered to my home address. I had to go to
court where I presented evidence of my absence from the country when some of these
offences were committed.

I did the interview via email and sent him the google document with the above questions and his
answers are in the red text. I only contacted him via email because his dialect is a little hard to
understand in person. Dr. Fraser is my professor for Diversity, Justice, and Public Affairs (PS
3888) and I chose him because he has an expansive knowledge on the American Legal System.
Since I will be studying the American Legal System for the next two years of my undergraduate
studies and then the three years after while I am in Law School. I would consider Dr. Fraser as
an expert in this field and I trust his judgement and expertise on the subject.

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