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Sadakat Kadri

Sadakat Kadri is a barrister at London's Doughty Street Chambers, and a writer whose work is published in journals, broadsheets, textbooks and collections of legal essays. He is the author of The Trial: A History from Socrates to O.J. Simpson (HarperCollins, 2005).

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