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2009

New York Law School

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Fighting For The City In Context: William Nelson And The Legal History Of New York, William P. Lapiana Jan 2009

Fighting For The City In Context: William Nelson And The Legal History Of New York, William P. Lapiana

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Professor Ross Sandler has contributed a full review of Fighting for the City to this symposium issue. This short comment is meant to supplement that review by emphasizing topics that are of particular interest to an historian of the American legal profession, and of American legal education in particular and New York City in general. It is also meant to draw some connections between Fighting for the City and two of Professor William Nelson's other works: In Pursuit of Right and Justice, his biography of Edward Weinfeld, a lawyer and judge of the District Court for theSouthern District of New …