Recent New Yorker Profiles of Breyer and Kennedy
Jeffrey Toobin covers legal issues for The New Yorker. In addition to its wonderful cartoons, the magazine publishes some excellent profiles, articles, and fiction.
Recently, Toobin published two profiles of Supreme Court justices that give insight to Constitutional Modes of Interpretation, chapter 12:
SWING SHIFT
How Anthony Kennedy’s passion for foreign law could change the Supreme Court.
and
BREYER’S BIG IDEA
The Justice’s vision for a progressive revival on the Supreme Court.
Consider printing them for reading over the Thanksgiving break. For me? No, for you. Students always want to know what they should read in preparation for law school. Anything and everything. Be well rounded, know what's going on in the world, not just in a "headline" sense, but undercurrents of debates and positions.
Recently, Toobin published two profiles of Supreme Court justices that give insight to Constitutional Modes of Interpretation, chapter 12:
SWING SHIFT
How Anthony Kennedy’s passion for foreign law could change the Supreme Court.
and
BREYER’S BIG IDEA
The Justice’s vision for a progressive revival on the Supreme Court.
Consider printing them for reading over the Thanksgiving break. For me? No, for you. Students always want to know what they should read in preparation for law school. Anything and everything. Be well rounded, know what's going on in the world, not just in a "headline" sense, but undercurrents of debates and positions.
posted by pauleparker at 8:54 AM
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For a humorous component to a legal reading list, you might want to check out the decision in Zangrado v. Sipula, 2000 Pa. Super. 196 (available on Lexis-Nexis). The entire decision is written in rhyming verse and includes lines such as:
"So while counsel raises issues that are worthy and well taken/
in the end we find the effort to apply them here's mistaken./
We must conclude the issues raised do not warrant a new trial/
and all that we may offer now is this respectful rhymed denial."
-Ben H.
"poetry slammer?
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