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Fairchild Professor of Law Andrew L. Kaufman took more than 40 years to complete his magnum opus on former Supreme Court Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo...
...this week, the painstaking effort he devoted to the project has paid off, as his book Cardozo, was named the best law book of 1999 by Scribes, the American Society of Writers on Legal Subjects...
...page book, which was published last year by the Harvard University Press, has been widely praised as the definitive biography on Cardozo, a progressive justice who voted to affirm the New Deal programs on which the court was deeply divided...
...knew I was interested in judicial biography and he asked me if I was interested in writing about Cardozo, because he thought it was time," Kaufman said. Kaufman had been working as a legal clerk to Frankfurter at the time...
Kaufman had written essays and law review articles--including some on Cardozo--in the past, but Cardozo was his first full-scale biography, and Kaufman said the genre posed new challenges...