We tend to believe that a system of laws is there to protect us. But what happens when the law fails to deliver justice?

The largest verdict for environmental damages in history will forever be quite tainted. Bloomberg Businessweek Senior Writer Paul Barrett discusses, "Law of the Jungle: The $19 Billion Legal Battle Over Oil in the Rain Forest and the Lawyer Who'd Stop at Nothing to Win," now out in paperback.

And then, perhaps the greatest symbol of a legal system designed without women is the agunah crisis, in which women are stuck in Orthodox Jewish marriages if their husbands refuse to give them divorces. Susan Aranoff has been an advocate on the issue for three decades, and is the co-author of "The Wed-Locked Agunot: Orthodox Jewish Women Chained to Dead Marriages."