Showing posts with label Justice Douglas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Justice Douglas. Show all posts
Sunday, December 27, 2015

Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life - Carol Sklenicka

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Go back to the year 2000 with me, if you please.  I'm in Wilmette, IL at my parent's house, home on break from school out east, g...
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Saturday, January 25, 2014

Lawyer Boy: A Case Study on Growing Up - Rick Lax (2008)

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"Write what you know." That is the advice most writing teachers give.  Or at least that was the popular wisdom back in the lat...
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Tuesday, August 13, 2013

How Judges Think - Richard A. Posner (2007)

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Oeuvre rule: I have read dozens of judicial opinions by Judge Posner of the 7th Circuit and almost every one of them has been a good read...
Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Wild Bill: The Legend and Life of William O. Douglas - Bruce Allen Murphy

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Justice Douglas is my favorite Supreme Court justice, ever.  Justice Stevens is #2, and Justice Brandeis might be #3.  (Brennan, Marshall,...
Saturday, March 16, 2013

Disrobed: The New Battle Plan to Break the Left's Stranglehold on the Courts - Mark W. Smith (incomplete)

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Note: This is Not the "Disrobed" Written by Judge Block, and I Would Much Rather Read that One by Jack Knorps Perhaps the...
Saturday, February 23, 2013

Points of Rebellion - William O. Douglas

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Justice Douglas is my favorite Supreme Court justice.  Law school is extremely boring at times, but any class that features Supreme Court ...