Word: kurlander
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...personality? Several law professors discount Burger in favor of Black, 83, who shaped much of the court's doctrine during the Warren era. "He is the only man whose philosophy will appeal to a majority of old and new members," says the University of Chicago's Philip Kurland. Others believe that Justice Brennan will lead the court in certain areas, such as free speech. Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz predicts great influence in some cases for Justice John Marshall Harlan, the Warren court's most frequent dissenter against the use of judicial solutions for social problems...
...self-serving as his comments may have been, Fortas accurately believed that a battle would have damaged the balance of the three branches of Government. Some in Washington already believed that the Administration had pushed too hard to dislodge Fortas. Philip Kurland, a Supreme Court scholar at the University of Chicago, suspected a "planned operation to dump him." Tennessee's Democratic Senator Albert Gore called for a congressional investigation to determine if the Republicans had used unreleased information to force Fortas to resign. Still, objections paled beside Fortas' admitted and gross indiscretion. In any case, regardless...
...also charge sloppy legal draftsmanship in many decisions that have not so much outraged as confused. The Justices, notes Yale Scholar Alexander Bickel, have yet to come up with a workable definition of obscenity. The decisions curbing police abuses have been almost as murky, says Chicago Law Professor Philip Kurland. "After Escobedo," he quips, "you need Miranda, and after Miranda, we will need maybe twelve more decisions...
Only 25%. After 19 years at Yale and many visiting professorships, Gilmore yielded to the blandishments of Chicago. "We were after him for ten years," says Colleague Kurland. Gilmore sees to it that teaching and writing stay on opposite sides of the law-school coin. "For me, the difference between teaching and writing is the difference between playing music and composing it. I think I'd go to seed in six months without teaching...
...Says Kurland: "There is a revelation of problems an ordinary student doesn't know exist. Grant is a master of the Socratic method, superb in dialogue." He characteristically makes a point by bashing down his glasses so hard that they sometimes break. There is some disagreement about his low, deep voice; Kurland says it has the "sort of cadence and vibrancy of a Welsh poet." Students call Gilmore "the Grunt" because of his habit of harrumphing, and talking into his mustache. One wisecracks that "it's been claimed that he only educates 25% of his students; the rest...