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The Folklore Of Legal Biography, Mark Fenster
The Folklore Of Legal Biography, Mark Fenster
Michigan Law Review
Spencer Weber Waller's Thurman Arnold: A Biography faces the problem of making this life stand out, and this Review seeks both to evaluate his rendering-which it does in Part II, after providing more details of the raw materials of Arnold's life in Part I-and to use Arnold's ideas to reflect on the endeavor of the legal biography. Although other works bearing on Arnold's life have been available,' Waller's competent, readable chronicle will provide an authoritative source of information and satisfy the desires of general readers interested in accomplished legal lives and seeking a straightforward account of Arnold's career. But Waller's …
Herbert Hart Elucidated, A. W. Brian Simpson
Herbert Hart Elucidated, A. W. Brian Simpson
Michigan Law Review
There are a number of good biographies of judges, but very few of individual legal academics; indeed, so far as American legal academics are concerned, the only one of note that comes to mind is William Twining's life of Karl Llewellyn. Llewellyn was, of course, a major figure in the evolution of American law, and his unusual life was a further advantage for his biographer. In this biography, Nicola Lace has taken as her subject an English academic who also had an unusual career, one whose contribution was principally not to the evolution of the English legal system but to …
King: Melville Weston Fuller, Chief Justice Of The United States 1888-1910., Louis P. Haller
King: Melville Weston Fuller, Chief Justice Of The United States 1888-1910., Louis P. Haller
Michigan Law Review
A Review of MELVILLE WESTON FULLER, CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE UNITED STATES 1888-1910. By Willard L. King.
Isaacs: Oath Of Devotion, Michigan Law Review
Isaacs: Oath Of Devotion, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
A Review of OATH OF DEVOTION By Julius Isaacs
Frank: Mr. Justice Black: The Man And His Opinions, Michigan Law Review
Frank: Mr. Justice Black: The Man And His Opinions, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
A Review of MR. JUSTICE BLACK: THE MAN AND HIS OPINIONS By John P. Frank.
Law Books Of The Year (1943-44), Hobart R. Coffey
Law Books Of The Year (1943-44), Hobart R. Coffey
Michigan Law Review
Contrary to my inclination and somewhat against my better judgment I have been prevailed upon by the editor to repeat the experiment begun last year, viz., to produce a sort of running account of some of the more important legal publications which have appeared in the last twelve months. It goes almost without saying that a competent review of a single serious work requires both considerable time and space. An adequate critical review of fifty or sixty works would be quite out of the question for anyone who had anything else to do. In my comments on the books which …
Review: Edward Coke, Oracle Of The Law
Review: Edward Coke, Oracle Of The Law
Michigan Law Review
A Review of EDWARD COKE, ORACLE OF THE LAW By Hastings Lyon and Herman Block.