Amy Bach (born 1968)[1] is an American a journalist, attorney, and author of Ordinary Injustice: How America Holds Court, for which she won the 2010 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award.
Bach was the recipient of an Echoing Green Fellowship in 2011 and earned her Juris Doctor from Stanford Law School in 1998.
[5][7] She has also received fellowships from Soros Media, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and a special J. Anthony Lucas citation.
[12][13] Bach, who spent eight years investigating the failure of the courts, and utilizing her background as an attorney and journalist, wrote her book, Ordinary Justice, which was published in 2009.
[7][3] In 2010, part of an essay, published in The Crime Report, and adapted from a lecture in February 2010, Bach recalled:[10] "Many did not realize that their behavior had devastating consequences for ordinary peoples' lives.
[4] Bach is married to John Markman, a doctor at the University of Rochester Medical Center.