A Backhanded View of the Law: Irreverent Essays on Justice - Hardcover

Rosenfeld, Mordecai

9780918024909: A Backhanded View of the Law: Irreverent Essays on Justice

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ISBN 10: 0918024900 ISBN 13: 9780918024909

Publisher: Ox Bow Pr, 1991

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From Publishers Weekly:

Many of these delightful, short essays by wise and funny corporate lawyer and legal scholar Rosenfeld ( The Lament of the Single Practitioner ) originally appeared in the New York Law Journal , for which the author is a columnist. Except for the mordant pieces concerning criteria for selection of Supreme Court justices, comparing posh, 1000-member law firms with Abraham Lincoln's practice and considering the morality of the Persian Gulf war, the author provides gentle, astutearen't the mordant pieces also astute?/reviewer thinks not.gs commentary on the absurdities of our justice system and its practitioners, whom he accuses of venerating "hoary precedents" as their guide rather than simple justice. In a deceptively casual, chatty style, Rosenfeld draws on history, literature, sports, nature and his own life and career to drive home his points about the law and the human condition.
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From Library Journal:

More essays on law and the legal process from the clever pen of attorney-writer Rosenfeld ( The Lament of the Single Practitioner, Univ. of Georgia Pr., 1988). Covering a wide range of subjects (including personal reminiscences such as "My First Case" and reflections on judges, law schools, and law in literature), the author offers equal doses of wit, wisdom, and outrageous opinion no matter where a reader chooses to dip into this sprightly collection. Even the titles of the essays are entertaining: "Garbage, the Law, and Tennessee Williams"; "A Concise History of Haberdashery and the Law." Though originally written for an audience of lawyers (having appeared first in the New York Law Journal ) , these pieces deserve a wider audience. Recommended for public and academic libraries.
- Frank G. Houdek, Southern Illinois Univ. Law Lib., Carbondale
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