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Search - The Lament of the Single Practitioner: Essays on the Law

The Lament of the Single Practitioner Essays on the Law
Author: Mordecai Rosenfield

An introduction: the four-minute mile — [Pt.] I. Some personal experiences. Mom should have been a senator ; The lament of the single practitioner ; Hold that line! ; Guilt by (bar) association ; The Rosenfeld years ; The law as minor league ; Jingle bells and the Supreme Court ; Genesis, chapter 22-a respectful dissent ; The law and Pete Reiser ... more »; A minor character ; Purim then and now ; A two-week vacation

[Pt.] II. Supreme Court decisions. The quality of mercy ; Waiting ; No hall of fame niche for ERA ruling ; Some impressions of the law ; Odysseus and Mrs. Phinpathya ; Paradise lost ; A prayerful concurrence ; How "Cap" Weinberger got his nickname ; The law's pitch is wide ; Sodom and the constitution ; McCleskey v. Kempt

[Pt.] III. Supreme Court justices. Cowardly lions ; Harmony on the Supreme Court ; A personal choice for the Supreme Court ; Mr. Justice Scalia and myrrh ; The spirit of Gunning Bedford

[Pt.] IV. Some modern trials. Jean Harris and Orestes ; Abscam and Tyrescam compared ; Birnam Wood and General Groves ; Gulliver's visit to Foley Square ; Claus von Bulow and Shelly Levene ; A sign of the times ; Afterthoughts on the Goetz case

[Pt.] V. The difficulty of justice. Time and the law ; In praise of the tentative ; Out, damned spot! ; Ode to the good ol' days ; Sizing up the law ; An unexpected potential counter-revolutionary ; Some thoughts of Liam O'Flaherty ; Achilles' shield, and ours

[Pt.] VI. Law school. Thoughts prompted by a book review ; Professor James remembered ; About a dreamer ; Yalelawschool: a primitive culture discovered ; Form and substance

[Pt.] VII. American history and the law. The "key to the continent" of yesteryear ; At least George III balanced the budget ; The attorney general's dilemma ; The old federalism ; The Commerce Clause and Abraham Lincoln ; Judge Bork and the foreign trade decicit ; Post-postmortem

[Pt.] VIII. The law distorted. Reduction ad absurdum ; Of Tennessee and dinosaurs ; In plain English, a bad amendment ; The government and sex ; The city council and the Great Sanhedrin ; In the name of the law ; Gramm-Rudman and serendipity

[Pt.] IX. Public scandals. Sisyphus and Ivan Boesky ; The Tower report-a classical view ; A vain gift

[Pt.] X. Parables and analogies. A not so cloistered life ; Strike four ; The laws of heaven and Earth ; The law from Yavapai Point ; A material improvement in criminal law ; A law library parable ; Pennzoil-Texaco case-a classical view

ISBN-13: 9780820310664
ISBN-10: 0820310662
Publication Date: 1988
Pages: 256
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Publisher: Univ of Georgia Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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