{"product_id":"justice-in-baghdad-leslie-cayer-ohta-9798993910437","title":"Justice in Baghdad: A Memoir of Law, Service, and Integrity","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAt sixty-six, after thirty-two years as a federal prosecutor, Leslie Cayer Ohta volunteered for a year inside a war zone.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2011, the Justice Department put out a call for experienced attorneys willing to deploy to post-war Baghdad. Decades into a federal career, with every reason to stay home, Leslie raised her hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eJustice in Baghdad\u003c\/em\u003e is the account of the year that followed: teaching constitutional law to Iraqi police cadets, coaching law students through the world's largest international moot court competition, and documenting the detention of children - some as young as eight - prosecuted for terrorism without a lawyer in the room.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe lived inside the most expensive embassy compound ever built, where Americans dined as if on a cruise ship while the country outside came apart. She sat at coalition tables where everyone understood the leverage was theoretical and the money would flow regardless. She saw what a single security breach cost the Iraqi interpreters who had trusted her country. And in a surgeon forced to hide her own name to stay alive, she glimpsed the price the war exacted from the very people trying to rebuild.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeslie had spent three decades at the Department of Justice because she believed the rule of law was worth the work - in courtrooms and, as it turned out, in war zones. \u003cem\u003eJustice in Baghdad\u003c\/em\u003e is her clear-eyed reckoning with service, integrity, and the distance between the democracy America preaches and the one it builds - a memoir for anyone who has ever wondered what it actually takes to do the right thing inside an imperfect institution.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Leslie Cayer Ohta\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798993910437\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Summit Press Publishers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/26\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 244\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.63lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.55d","brand":"Leslie Cayer Ohta","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49097373286655,"sku":"9798993910437","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/justice-in-baghdad-leslie-cayer-ohta-9798993910437","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}