Summary
Many readers are quick to dismiss reference books as dry, dull stuff - and all too often, unfortunately, they are right. But certainly not in the case of this marvelous, multifaceted pointilliste portrait of the good, the bad and the ugly faces of American jurisprudence through the centuries.
Expertly edited by Roger K. Newman, a longtime author on the law and professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, it hones in not only on the expected luminaries (John Marshall, John Jay, Oliver Wendell Holmes) but on all manner of lesser-known characters who have made their contribution in different ways to the evolution of legal theory and practice in this country.See the full content of this document
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Giving All the Lawyers Their Due
Sometimes this book even answers questions that many might have had. How many of those who visit or even pass by the Criminal Court Building in downtown Los Angeles know anything about the woman for whom it is named, Clara Shortridge Foltz?
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