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A Tribute To Jerry Israel: A Friend With A Messy Office, Debra A. Livingston
A Tribute To Jerry Israel: A Friend With A Messy Office, Debra A. Livingston
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My legal education began with Jerry Israel.
During the fall of 1977, I was assigned to his section of Criminal Law. From the very first day of class, Jerry made it clear to us that the problems of crime and punishment were at once profoundly important and elusively difficult. Jerry taught from judicial opinions in the classic Socratic mode. Each day we were forced to grapple with the perplexing manner in which the language of precedent, so comforting when first encountered in the frame of an opinion, turned to quicksilver when tested against new cases, real or hypothetical.