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...considered to be "temporarily unsound of mind," thereby exonerating him of legal responsibility for any crimes committed when drunk. As a result, Japan's tipsy tipplers break store windows, kick dents in car fenders, insult passing women, even commit murder, without fear of lawsuit or punishment. (One jurist estimates that an average of ten murderers a year go scot-free because...
Archie Cox served as clerk to famed Jurist Learned Hand after graduating from Harvard Law School, wandered between private practice and Government work (including tours as an attorney with the Justice and Labor Departments) before joining the Harvard faculty in 1945. A brilliant, ever-questioning teacher of labor law, Cox took time off in 1952 to serve as chairman of Harry Truman's Wage Stabilization Board but resigned in protest after four months when Truman overruled one of his wage recommendations. After the labor bill battle he became a Kennedy enthusiast, took leave from his Harvard chair (the Royall...
...under challenge by Europe's new rulers, and Cardinal Bellarmine earned the enmity of ecclesiastical conservatives (notably Pope Sixtus V) by maintaining that papal jurisdiction over heads of state was only indirect and spiritual-the position generally accepted today. On the other hand, in opposition to the Scottish jurist Barclay, he denied the divine right of kings, for which one of his books, De potestate papae, was publicly burned by the Parlement of Paris...
Felix Frankfurter Reminisces, recorded in talks with Dr. Harlan B. Phillips. Off the bench, the famed jurist is a refreshing, verbally wicked man who rambles on about Presidents, Cabinet members, journalists, as well as about life and law, both of which he loves...
Felix Frankfurter Reminisces, recorded in talks with Dr. Harlan B. Phillips. A great jurist's informal recollections make for a stimulating source of Americana...