Must read: Media lawyer Dario Milo talks about 'To kill a mockingbird'
The book that had the greatest impact on me was: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.At the time I read it I was:At high school.It made me realise:It helped me decide to study law.In a few words, it is about:Atticus Finch, a white lawyer in the American South circa the 1930s who defends a black man wrongly accused of rape. It is narrated by the lawyer'ssix-year-old daughter Scout.I recommend it because:It is a must for various reasons: Lee's writing, the themes of racial injustice and prejudice, and the importance and yet tragic limitations of law and legal systems.I still go back to it when:Sadly, I don't. There's too much else to read.At the moment I'm reading:Far too many legal cases, Deon Meyer's Cobra and Stephen Hawking's Universe in a Nutshell (after watching the movie The Theory of Everything)...
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