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All Rise: The Prospects And Challenges Of Lower Federal Judicial Biography, Charles L. Zelden

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Charles Zelden’s essay, “All Rise: The Prospects and Challenges of Lower Federal Judicial Biography,” picks up where Kobrick concluded. Zelden laments the paucity of biographies of lower-federal-court judges, while nonetheless 12. See Funk, infra ch. 2. 13. See Hall, infra ch. 3. 14. See Grisinger, infra ch. 4. 15. See Kobrick, infra ch. 5. 5 Approaches to Federal Judicial History Federal Judicial Center appreciating the challenges that routinely face these biographers. Historically speaking, Zelden writes, lower federal judges “are generally not well known, the importance of their work is not self-evident, their papers are often scattered or fragmentary or thin, …