Results for “National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform”

and in some cases it is impossible to convict guilty defendants without violating the Constitution.

judges and defense attorneys are aware of Rule IV.

tells us much about the man and his relationship to his law clerks

he always introduced us and encouraged us to sit on part of the discussion. Knowing that I was interested in Israel

the 1963-64 term was among the most significant and innovative in the history of the American judiciary

an Eisenhower mistake. They didn’t know he would be so liberal. Eisenhower regarded Warren and Brennan as his worst mistakes.”

if I promised to keep it a secret until Goldberg and Marshall were both dead. I promised.

and he told me that Marshall had sought his advice about a therapist and that the Goldberg story was well known among his close circle of friends.

first in Brookline and a year later in Cambridge.

the two “best” teachers were reputed to be Clark Byse and Ben Kaplan. I wanted to learn from the best

I tended to spend an enormous number of hours preparing for each class. I stayed up the night before planning my questions and strategies and got to the law school at 7:00 am before each class. Naturally I parked in the first available slot in the parking lot. Several days int...

” but to teach his students how “to ask the right questions and bring to bear the right information for the right purpose.” In short

and because I was teaching criminal law. I had a lot of freedom since no one really cared about criminal law at Harvard. Our students were unlikely to become criminal lawyers in those days. In fact

that I was the only assistant professor ever to turn down an invitation to speak at that club and that it was important for untenured faculty to present their work there because several of the members served on the Harvard Board of Overseers that had to approve all tenure decisio...

accountability and public discourse. What is needed