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Foreword: The Life, Work & Legacy Of Felix Frankfurter, The Justice Known As “Ff”, Rodger D. Citron Jan 2024

Foreword: The Life, Work & Legacy Of Felix Frankfurter, The Justice Known As “Ff”, Rodger D. Citron

Touro Law Review

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Felix Frankfurter: Liberal Lawyer, Conservative Justice, Jed S. Rakoff Jan 2024

Felix Frankfurter: Liberal Lawyer, Conservative Justice, Jed S. Rakoff

Touro Law Review

The Hon. Jed S. Rakoff gave the first presentation at the conference, providing an introduction to Justice Felix Frankfurter by describing some of his accomplishments and situating his tenure on the Supreme Court in the context of the Court’s historically conservative orientation.


Felix Frankfurter, Collector Of People, John Q. Barrett Jan 2024

Felix Frankfurter, Collector Of People, John Q. Barrett

Touro Law Review

Felix Frankfurter engaged, intensely, with people—they were the treasures that he hunted down, evaluated, and collected. This essay, written on the great occasion of Brad Snyder’s Frankfurter biography, considers some of Frankfurter’s most treasured people. One group is people who made Frankfurter, including Frankfurter himself, Henry L. Stimson, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Another group is Justice Frankfurter’s three great U.S. Supreme Court colleagues: Justices Hugo L. Black, Robert H. Jackson, and William O. Douglas. A third group is biographers who Frankfurter admired and pushed: Harlan Buddington Phillips, Mark DeWolfe Howe, Jr., McGeorge Bundy, Alexander Bickel, Andrew L. Kaufman, and Philip …


The Law Professor As Public Intellectual: Felix Frankfurter And The Public And Its Government, R. B. Bernstein Jan 2024

The Law Professor As Public Intellectual: Felix Frankfurter And The Public And Its Government, R. B. Bernstein

Touro Law Review

Professor R.B. Bernstein was a legal historian with a J.D. from Harvard Law School who taught at the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at City College of New York and New York Law School. He presented the paper below on Professor Felix Frankfurter’s The Public and Its Government, published in 1930. A little more than two months after the conference, sadly, Professor Bernstein passed. His brother Steven Bernstein provided the Touro Law Review with the draft of the paper that Professor Bernstein was preparing to submit for publication. We have added footnotes and made only minor revisions. …


Leon D. Lazer: The Giant Among Us, Howard Glickstein Jan 2018

Leon D. Lazer: The Giant Among Us, Howard Glickstein

Touro Law Review

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Leon Lazer (1921-2018), Jeffrey B. Morris Jan 2018

Leon Lazer (1921-2018), Jeffrey B. Morris

Touro Law Review

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Ode To Judge Leon D. Lazer, Martin A. Schwartz Jan 2018

Ode To Judge Leon D. Lazer, Martin A. Schwartz

Touro Law Review

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Cardozo, Andrew L. Kaufman Jan 2018

Cardozo, Andrew L. Kaufman

Touro Law Review

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The Nature Of The Judicial Process: The Enduring Significance Of A Legal Classic, Joel K. Goldstein Jan 2018

The Nature Of The Judicial Process: The Enduring Significance Of A Legal Classic, Joel K. Goldstein

Touro Law Review

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A Tribute To Judge Lazer, Eileen Kaufman Jan 2018

A Tribute To Judge Lazer, Eileen Kaufman

Touro Law Review

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A Tribute To Leon Lazer, Rena C. Seplowitz Jan 2018

A Tribute To Leon Lazer, Rena C. Seplowitz

Touro Law Review

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Judge Levine: A Survey Of His Most Influential Court Of Appeals Decisions - 1993-2002, Jean D'Alessandro Apr 2015

Judge Levine: A Survey Of His Most Influential Court Of Appeals Decisions - 1993-2002, Jean D'Alessandro

Touro Law Review

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A Tribute To Judge Lazer, Rena C. Seplowitz Jul 2012

A Tribute To Judge Lazer, Rena C. Seplowitz

Touro Law Review

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Leon Lazer: The Giant Among Us, Howard Glickstein Jul 2012

Leon Lazer: The Giant Among Us, Howard Glickstein

Touro Law Review

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Getting It Right, Eileen Kaufman Jan 2012

Getting It Right, Eileen Kaufman

Touro Law Review

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On The Occasion Of Leon Lazer’S 90th Birthday, Jeffrey B. Morris Jan 2012

On The Occasion Of Leon Lazer’S 90th Birthday, Jeffrey B. Morris

Touro Law Review

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A Demanding Boss, Rodger D. Citron Jan 2012

A Demanding Boss, Rodger D. Citron

Touro Law Review

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Ode To Judge Leon D. Lazer, Martin A. Schwartz Jan 2012

Ode To Judge Leon D. Lazer, Martin A. Schwartz

Touro Law Review

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Reflections On Way Paving Jewish Justices And Jewish Women, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Jan 1998

Reflections On Way Paving Jewish Justices And Jewish Women, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Touro Law Review

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