Word: kurland
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Criminal-law experts are unsurprised by the seemingly liberal thrust of the decision. "I would have been surprised if they had gone the other way," says University of Chicago Law Professor Philip Kurland. The right of everyone to an effective defense is endorsed by virtually all political factions, notes Yale Kamisar of the University of Michigan Law School. "People dig in their heels only when protections are extended that appear to handcuff police search and confession procedures...
...appointment of Sandra Day O'Connor by President Reagan in 1981, many experts have begun to discern a rightward tilt. "There is a trend, but it is a slow oozing, a step-by-step process, and not a leap," says University of Chicago Law School Professor Philip Kurland. Agrees A.E. Dick Howard, a professor of law at the University of Virginia: "The 1984 Burger Court may be the conservative counterpart of the 1962 Warren Court-the year it turned the corner. A swing to the right has been in the works for a decade, but the momentum has quickened...
...Norman Kurland, director of adult learning services at the New York City department of education, "The real challenge is teaching students how to find information and how to use it to solve problems." Says Marc Tucker, director of the Carnegie Corporation's project on information technology and education: "What a marvelous thing it would be if kids and teachers could use computers to answer a whole bunch of 'what if questions: What if the Black Death had spread half as fast? What if there had been a quarter as much money in circulation in 1475? What...
...Justices' unpredictable attitudes, however, can lead to considerable confusion. Lengthy multiple-opinion decisions have become frequent. Says University of Chicago Constitutional Expert Philip Kurland: "Every lawyer searches for something he likes, and there is something for everyone. They have everything but the kitchen sink in them." Many blame the sheer number of cases the Justices tackle each year. Says University of Chicago Law Professor Dennis Hutchinson: "They are so busy and so overworked, they cannot talk so much to each other. So they usually wind up speaking to each other in print...
Some observers think Reagan may pick a crony, White House Counsellor Edwin Meese, Deputy Secretary of State William Clark. Others predict that he will select an academic like Yale's Robert Bork or Chicago's Philip Kurland. The nation's lower courts offer Reagan such conservatives as Dallin Oaks of the Utah Supreme Court and Malcolm Wilkey, an old friend of Chief Justice Warren Burger's who sits on the U.S. Court of Appeals...