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...judges, lawyers and law professors from more than 60 non-Communist countries does not really expect to reform the world. But it is convinced that publicizing any infraction of the rule of law serves an immediate and practical purpose. The presence and protest of a commission jurist at the 1960 "trial" of deposed Democrats in Turkey transformed that mob-ringed Roman circus overnight into an orderly judicial proceeding. And the glare of the commission's carefully documented study, Spain and the Rule of Law, eventually persuaded once furious Spanish officials to discuss incommunicado detentions and denial of the right...
...confusion leads him to doubt his capacity to love at all. But his wrestlings with his fateful judgment on the innocent man who murdered the hangman lead him to self-discovery and belated decisiveness. He emerges no longer just his father's son, no longer the boy jurist his mother "called Judge, when she felt I had done something egregiously stupid, which was, come to think of it, often...
...naval code, which cleared the decks for U.S. victory at Midway. When he graduated from Yale Law School in 1949, he was again No. 1 in his class and editor in chief of the Law Journal. After he clerked for Supreme Court Justice Stanley Reed, even that usually restrained jurist marked Manning as "exceptionally brilliant...
Shnayerson found writing this week's cover story on Justice Black a demanding intellectual experience. Washington Reporter Simmons Fentress found it equally demanding, partly because he had a chance to play tennis with the formidably spry jurist. As for Shnayerson, who came to THE LAW six months ago, after being TIME'S education writer for five years, he has always been fascinated by jurisprudence. When he and his wife Lydia travel abroad, they make a point of visiting courtrooms in every country. "Before we were married," he recalls, "I used to take her on dates to night court...
...girls were eliminated in my class at University of Washington Law, because they just could not bring themselves to argue a rape case," recalls Mary Sanders, who herself has given up practice and is now chief law librarian for the attorney general of California. Another handicap, recalls a male jurist, is that "the men in law school study together, drink coffee together, share their notes, ideas and problems, while the women have to bear the burden as loners...