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The Oral Component Of Appellate Work, T. W. Wakeling
The Oral Component Of Appellate Work, T. W. Wakeling
Dalhousie Law Journal
Anyone who haunts the courtrooms of North America will find advocates of uneven quality. 1 There are master craftsmen but alongside them labour colleagues blessed with skills which escape the observer's scrutiny. Unfortunately, the latter category has been the subject of considerable attention lately with the result there is the impression about that poor advocates have cornered a disproportionate share of the market. Even Canadian and American judges have felt it necessary to question the competence of some practioners. Chief Justice Burger directed his serious charges at the trial lawyers but the appellate bar, the subject of this study, has …
Voltaire And The Cowboy: The Letters Of Thurman Arnold, Susan Sherwin
Voltaire And The Cowboy: The Letters Of Thurman Arnold, Susan Sherwin
Dalhousie Law Journal
Who was Thurman Arnold? A flamboyant character from Laramie, Wyoming, who first achieved national prominence in the late 1930s when, at that time a professor at the Yale Law School, he published his brilliant and provocative The Folklore of Capitalism. A man equally at home in the world of action and the world of ideas, who went on to become, successively, Franklin D. Roosevelt's man in charge of trust-busting, a judge on a federal circuit court of appeal and senior partner in a firm of corporation lawyers in Washington but did not cease stirring people up by public speeches, articles …