Hadar Aviram—legal scholar, author, and human and animal rights activist—is the Thomas Miller Professor at UC Hastings College of the Law. She holds law and criminology degrees from Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a Ph.D. in Jurisprudence and Social Policy from UC Berkeley, where she studied as a Fulbright Fellow and a Regents Intern. Hadar specializes in criminal justice and civil rights from a socio-legal perspective. Prior to her illustrious career as one of the world's premier scholars and media commentators on criminal justice, Hadar worked in the trenches as a public defender in Israel.

In this episode, Wayne and Hadar talk about the national reckoning over police brutality and racism; the culture of toxic masculinity permeating police departments; the science behind pervasive implicit bias and tribalistic tendencies that develop in the first few years of our lives; and the moral licensing that helps us justify our bad behavior. How do we solve this? Well, there may be no magic bullet, but Wayne and Hadar reveal some key steps we can take—as individuals, as societies—to move us in the right direction.

“There is no one thing that is a magic bullet that is going to fix the horrors that we're seeing in American streets.”

“We're all marinating in stereotypes.”

Judge Richard Posner

Hadar's most recent book (2020) - Yesterday's Monsters: The Manson Family Cases and the Illusion of Parole

Hadar's book (2019) - The Legal Process and the Promise of Justice

Hadar's first book (2015) - Cheap On Crime Recession: Era Politics and the Transformation of American Punishment

Just Babies: The Origins of Good And Evil - Paul Bloom (2014)

Identity Crisis: The 2016 Presidential Campaign and the Battle for the Meaning of America - John Sides, Michael Tesler, and Lynn Vavreck (2018)

Music by Moby: Everything That Rises