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A Man Against the Machine
In the fall of 1967, during argument in the death-penalty case of William Maxwell before the Eighth Circuit, Judge Harry Blackmun jotted down his assessment of...
Bringing the Law to Life
Shackled by the wrist and ankle to two other boys, Paul could only watch as floodwaters caused by Hurricane Katrina began rising in his New Orleans...
Bryan Stevenson’s Death-Defying Acts
Stevenson arrives late, apologizing. A fundraising appointment uptown dragged on longer than expected and, he intimates with a sigh, could have gone better. We walk from...
Caught by Good Intentions
Jane Spinak ’79, Edward Ross Aranow Clinical Professor of Law, Columbia Law School. Director of the Multidisciplinary Center of Excellence in Child and Family Advocacy. Former...
Dean’s Discourse
Let me begin with an overall culture question: Now that you are at least fourth on everyone’s lists of top law schools, you don’t have the...
A Chat with Rita Hauser
You are a prominent New York Republican, as was your father. He was very active in the party and close to Governors Dewey and Rockefeller. People...
Life Lessons of the Chief Judge
When our fabulous dean invited me to deliver the keynote address, he said it would allow me to give “a retrospective of over two decades” of...
A Justice for All
When he was a first-year student, Annual Survey editor Eric Feder ’07 read Breyer’s dissent in U.S. v. Morrison— that Congress, not the judiciary, determines the...
