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I wrote two articles for the law journal—one about attempted murder

criminal law and freedom of speech cases were decided during my tenure as a law clerk. It was a period of liberal judicial activism—the Zenith (or for those more admiring of judicial restraint

the lower federal courts or the state courts—has had a more profound impact on the law’s sensitivity to human needs.

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

Justice Goldberg decided to run for governor. He asked his former law clerks

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

each assistant professor had to publish a “tenure piece.” I wrote an article on the relationship between law and psychiatry that was critical of the law’s overreliance on psychiatry in judging whether mentally ill criminals could be held responsible for their crimes

I began to get offers from the other elite law schools—Columbia

000 students over my half century career as a law professor. Among the students I have taught

bang on the law. If you have the facts on your side

abolitionists were focusing on the significant number of death row inmates who had neither killed nor intended to kill. Most of these non-triggermen had been convicted of murder on the basis of two legal fictions. The first was the law of conspiracy under which each member of a...

along with Canadian law professor Irwin Cotler

consulting with him on numerous projects involving criminal law

there would be anarchy. The “rule of personal politics” would replace the rule of law. The defense of “rodef” was not

the law is regressing. It is becoming increasingly difficult to reopen “closed cases