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The Paradox Of Justice John Paul Stevens, Sonja R. West, Dahlia Lithwick

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In the days following Justice John Paul Stevens’s death last year, numerous tributes and remembrances immediately poured forth. Former clerks, journalists, and legal scholars all grasped for the perfect words to capture the man and the justice we had just lost.

Yet many readers of these tributes and homages might have begun to wonder whether they were actually all talking about the same person. Because, taken together, the various portraits appeared to be full of contradictions. In one piece, for example, Justice Stevens is described as a frequent lone dissenter, while in another he is praised for his consensusbuilding leadership. …

Justice Stevens, The Writer, Sonja R. West

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In any discussion about United States Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, you're likely to hear him labeled in a variety of ways--as a brilliant “judge's judge,” the highly successful leader of the Court's more liberal wing, the prolific “maverick,” and a shrewd questioner from the bench. You might also hear him described simply as a polite and humble Midwesterner, bow-tie aficionado and diehard Cubs fan. Yet while Justice Stevens is and was all of these things, there is another important title he richly deserves yet often does not receive--Justice Stevens, the excellent writer.

This essay strives to close that …

Tribute To Sam Davis: A Georgia Perspective, Ronald L. Carlson

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Sam Davis had a twenty-seven year history at Georgia, commencing in 1970. After a distinguished record as a student at the University of Mississippi School of Law, he joined the Georgia law faculty. Sam moved through the academic ranks, ultimately becoming Allen Post Professor of Law. Along the way he served, at various times, as Assistant Dean, as Associate Dean, and he was for a time the University's Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs. In 1997 he took over as Dean at the University of Mississippi School of Law. This article comments on his life and professional career, with some …

One Of The Perfect People, Ann Puckett

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This Article eulogizes Nancy P. Johnson.

Gabriel Wilner Tribute, Rebecca H. White

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

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In Memoriam: Gabriel Wilner, Michel Waelbroeck

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

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Dean Wilner Memorial Article, Patrick Latham

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

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A Richness Of Life: Tribute To Dean Gabriel M. Wilner, Terry Smith Labat

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

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In Memory Of Gabriel M. Wilner, Kenneth Klein

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

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Fondly Remembering Gabe Wilner, Walter Hellerstein

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

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A Tribute To Dean Gabriel Wilner, Porter Elliott

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

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Dedication Piece: Professor Gabriel Wilner, 1938-2010, Kevin Conboy

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

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Tribute To Gabriel Wilner, Anne Burnett

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

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Tribute To Gabriel M. Wilner - Foreword, C. Donald Johnson

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

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Judge Bell And Professional Courage, Larry D. Thompson

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This article eulogizes Judge Griffin B. Bell, with an emphasis on the importance of professional standards in the legal field.

Representing Saddam Hussein: The Importance Of Being Ramsey Clark, Lonnie T. Brown, Jr.

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This article examines the professional life of former United States Attorney General Ramsey Clark in an effort to understand the many controversial representations and causes that he has undertaken during his post-government career. I do so through the vehicle of perhaps his most perplexing client choice - deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Although Hussein had other competent attorneys prepared and willing to represent him, Ramsey Clark nevertheless felt compelled to volunteer his services to the defense team. Why would he do so, and was his decision an ethically proper one under the circumstances?

These are the specific questions that this …

On The Passing Of My Friend, Dick Wellman, Paul M. Kurtz

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Writing the introduction to a symposium in memory of a friend is a great honor, of course, and one that I seized immediately, for fear that the Editor in Chief might change his mind.

Lyman Ray Patterson: Scholar And Gentle Man, Paul M. Kurtz

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The University of Georgia School of Law community and the legal academy lost a dear friend, an outstanding scholar, and a wonderful colleague and teacher when Ray Patterson died after a long career and a short illness in November 2003.

In Memoriam: Vaughn Charles Ball (1915-1985), C. Ronald Ellington

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Vaughn C. Ball was the Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb Professor of Law at the University of Georgia School of Law from 1974 until his retirement in 1983. Vaughn's death on December 2, 1985, deprived those of us who were fortunate to know him well of a wonderful colleague whose keen mind, wry humor, and engaging wit added sparkle to any conversation.

Mason Ladd--In Memoriam, Ronald L. Carlson

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Mason Ladd's life in the law of evidence will never be stilled. The contributions are too thoughtful, too productive, too filled with impact for that ever to happen. In the galaxy of great figures that includes Wigmore, Clearly, Morgan, Maguire, Weinstein, McCormick, Louisell, and others, Dean Ladd's star shone brightly. The mix of insight, humor, and good will that he brought to teaching and scholarly writing is unmatched. The influence of Mason Ladd is perhaps best summarized by this tribute: You can lose a man like Dean Ladd by your own death, but not by his.

Judge Lewis R. Morgan: A Partisan Retrospective, Robert D. Brussack

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Professor Brussack first presented his tribute to Judge Morgan at a gathering of Judge Morgan's colleagues and former law clerks on October 20, 1978, at the University of Georgia School of Law.

A Dean's-Eye View Of Thomas F. Green, Jr., Lindsey Cowen

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Whatever success in attaining excellence has been achieved over the forty years of Tom's service to legal education has occurred largely because he has kept his eye on the ultimate goal. Happily he has demanded no less of us who have been associated with him in the task.

A Tribute To Professor D. Meade Feild, R. Perry Sentell, Jr.

Georgia Law Review

T HE members of the Editorial Board pay me high honor in requesting that I contribute a few lines to this issue so appropriately dedicated to Professor David Meade Feid on the occasion of his retirement from teaching in the Law School. Professor Feid is a man of so many interesting facets, however, that one is awed by under- taking to meet such a request. Because attempting to write about him is a little like grasping at the wind (and, more practically, because I shall no doubt have to debate with him each statement that I make), I wish simply …

D. Meade Feild, Sidney 0. Smith, Jr.

Georgia Law Review

In the post World-War II invasion of the University of Georgia by returning veterans, the Law School received over 500 of the most mature, most critical, and most independent of the group. Truly the years of 1945-50 were exciting ones at Athens and those days of crowded classrooms, split sessions, and twelve months' operation produced a large number of graduates to fill the great need in the legal profession existing at the time. Many of that group now hold positions of leadership and responsibility (for better or worse!) in the bar, the courts, and government of the state. All were …

David Meade Feild - A Personal Reminiscence, Edward E. Dorsey

Georgia Law Review

I FIRST met Meade Feild when I was a member of the Mercer University Law School Freshman Class of 1989. That class quickly made a reputation at the School as being a "good" class, and it is not immodest to say that the years have proved this evaluation to have been solid and accurate. We were all children of the depression, and not one of us was at law school without some sacrifice. We had seen, and were to see, hard times and bad times, but this is not to say that we were hard- bitten or in any way …

The Three Faces Of Meade, Wylie H. Davis

Georgia Law Review

Y OUTH and middle-ager, I have known David Meade Feild for nigh-on thirty years. But since my first encounter with him in 1939 at Mercer University-as one of his naive freshman law students -my aggregate daily association with him has been a mere three years. Even this all-too-short span has been fragmented by events into three very different time and experience phases. My impressions of Professor Feild and his impact on me bring to mind a fabled phenomenon of human observation and reporting aptly described by a former col- league: The process is remindful of [three] blind men feeling the …

Some Personal Observations About Professor David Meade Feild, Edward W. Killorin

Georgia Law Review

IT is fitting that this Review should dedicate an issue to a man who is at his prime in a great career as Law Professor, rather than wait until all comments must be post mortem. It should not always be left for historians to distinguish the superlative. The D. Meade Feild I know would never permit an institutional convention such as "retirement for age" to end his career. It is heartening to learn that he will continue to preside over law classes after taking a change of venue from the Athens Division to the Macon Division of the Middle District …