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Storming the Court By Brandt Goldstein Out Now Scribner...
...book, “Storming the Court,” attorney Brandt Goldstein skillfully weaves together two parallel narratives. The first is the compelling story of an idealistic group of Yale law students and their professor who fought to get the Haitian refugees into America. Goldstein intersperses this story with an account of the harrowing journey of Yvonne Pascal, a young pro-democracy activist who escaped torture in her homeland only to find herself fenced in on Guantánamo. “Storming the Court” is a fascinating legal drama—a sort of modern...
These often confusing legal maneuverings are unavoidably integral to the plot. But Goldstein, himself a graduate of Yale Law, explains each of the procedures in layman’s terms, and he avoids getting bogged down in the technicalities of the process. Instead, he infuses the narrative with dialogue and glimpses into the minds of the lawyers and students. These insights are built upon interviews with nearly all of the key participants—Goldstein notes that he formally sat down with Koh 27 times and Pascal 34 times. The character-centered thrust of the book and the easy language...
...Goldstein read the citation and wrote him an e-mail, starting a dialogue which has continued ever since...
After the graduate proseminar, Pinker’s girlfriend, Rebecca Goldstein, a visiting philosophy professor at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn., and a well-known scholar herself, picks him up for a book party hosted by advice columnist Margo Howard of “Dear Prudence” fame...