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The Law Clerk Proxy Wars: Secrecy, Accountability, And Ideology In The Supreme Court, Carolyn Shapiro
The Law Clerk Proxy Wars: Secrecy, Accountability, And Ideology In The Supreme Court, Carolyn Shapiro
All Faculty Scholarship
This piece provides an in-depth review and analysis of two recent books about Supreme Court law clerks, Courtiers of the Marble Palace: The Rise and Influence of the Supreme Court Law Clerk, by Todd C. Peppers, and Sorcerers’ Apprentices: 100 Years of Law Clerks at the United States Supreme Court, by Artemus Ward and David L. Weiden. In addition, the essay addresses a question so obvious that it is rarely asked – why is there so much curiosity about Supreme Court law clerks in the first place? In the essay, I analyze a widespread concern – and one discussed in …
Book Review Of The Yale Biographical Dictionary Of American Law, By Roger K. Newman, John Henry Schlegel
Book Review Of The Yale Biographical Dictionary Of American Law, By Roger K. Newman, John Henry Schlegel
Journal of Legal Education
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Book Review Of Lawyers In The Dock: Learning From Attorney Disciplinary Proceedings, By Richard L. Abel, Eli Wald
Journal of Legal Education
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Review Of Outlawed Pigs: Law, Religion, And Culture In Israel, Pnina Lahav
Review Of Outlawed Pigs: Law, Religion, And Culture In Israel, Pnina Lahav
Faculty Scholarship
In "Safe Treyf' (http://soc.qc.cuny.edu/Staff/levine/SAFE-TREYF.pdf), Gaye Tuchman and Harry G. Levine explain how Chinese Food helped New York Jews overcome the Jewish Taboo on eating pork. Chinese Food "disguises the tabooed ingredients by cutting, chopping, and mincing them.... [It] could be adopted by rebellious Jews because the forbidden substances were so disguised that dishes did not reflexively repulse and so undermine their ability to rebel." Daphne Barak-Erez, a professor at the faculty of law at Tel Aviv University, has written a fine book in which she looks at the history of the pork taboo-but from the perspective of Israeli Jews.
This …
Breve Recensão: "Il Nuovo Diritto Societario" [Book Review: "New Italian Company Law"], Bruno Ferreira
Breve Recensão: "Il Nuovo Diritto Societario" [Book Review: "New Italian Company Law"], Bruno Ferreira
Bruno Ferreira
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Shining The Bright Light On Police Interrogation In America, Mark A. Godsey
Shining The Bright Light On Police Interrogation In America, Mark A. Godsey
Faculty Articles and Other Publications
This article reviews Richard A. Leo’s book 'Police Interrogation and American Justice.' Prior to entering legal academia, Leo served as an associate professor of psychology and criminology, and performed groundbreaking empirical research into how police interrogators obtain confessions and how their interrogation techniques affect suspects. His body of work shines the bright light on police interrogation in American today. Leo depicts the values and structure of interrogation in a way that few, outside of the actual subjects/victims of interrogation, fully understand. Although I do not agree with all of his conclusions and proposed reforms, his work convincingly raises a point …
Book Review, Richard B. Collins
Book Review Of Charles E. Connerly's “The Most Segregated City In America: City Planning And Civil Rights In Birmingham", Richard H. Chused
Book Review Of Charles E. Connerly's “The Most Segregated City In America: City Planning And Civil Rights In Birmingham", Richard H. Chused
Other Publications
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