Prosecutor as Moral Agent: Gerry Bradley’s Early Years in the Manhattan DA’s Office

Join co-hosts Hadley Arkes and Gerry Bradley for the first of something we expect to become a regular feature on Natural Law Moment, a look back into the lives of Profs. Arkes and Bradley before became the storied teachers they would become.

This latest episode focuses on how young Gerry Bradley was thrust into the rough and tumble world of the law as a young prosecutor in the Manhattan District Attorney’s office in the early 1980s. The conversation explores how the practice of law as a young prosecutor in the New York of that era was an education like none other, with the sordid business of prostitution, drugs, and homicide providing regular fodder for the work of young Bradley well before be entered academia to become a professor of criminal procedure. Arkes and Bradley delve into how moral decisions infuse the work of a prosecutor along with all those entrusted to maintain law and order in the city.

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