If you follow SSRN or any site featuring legal academics, you cannot help but notice that "scholarly" articles essentially always favor the defense. Of course, some of them are thoughtful, and some essentially unhinged, see, e.g., here and here.
But one way or the other, they inevitably favor the defense.
Why?
The answer is pretty straightforward. Of 61 practice areas examined, law professors were the most liberal, beating out, among others, civil rights lawyers, class action lawyers, environmental lawyers and, yes, public defenders.
Courtesy of TaxProfBlog.
Here is the breakdown by practice area:
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