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...Jordan Kurland, a spokesman for the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), said yesterday his group has declined to take an official position on the legislation and is still examining the question...
...providing redress for the poor. The court generally opposes judicial activism, favoring legislative settlement of conflicts. This year, at least, it has made no real landmark decisions, and law professors tend to judge it harshly. "The court is without leadership." says the University of Chicago's Philip Kurland. "It's run by a five-man center" (Stewart, White, Blackmun, Powell and Stevens). The University of Virginia's A.E. Dick Howard agrees: "None of the central five has an overriding judicial philosophy. They decide cases as they come." Adds Yale's Bruce Ackerman: "A sweeping moral vision...
...become powerful influences in government and business as well as law. If they carry with them the virtues that Burke commended, it is largely due to the men and women who have taught them. Some such figures are already legends-Paul Freund of Harvard, for example, or Philip Kurland of Chicago. But among the generation now in midcareer, there are also a remarkable number of gifted law professors: brilliant scholars, provocative teachers, concerned public servants, ardent advocates-often all combined in one impressive individual. With the counsel of judges and lawyers, students and teachers, TIME has selected ten outstanding ones...
...ancient print shop was running overtime to keep up with the last-minute flood of opinions, estimated at 1,000 pages' worth. The pressure may in part explain generally poor reviews of the court's work. "As a whole," said the University of Chicago's Phillip Kurland, "this year's opinions have not been those a law professor would find deserving of a good grade. I'd probably flunk them...
...pursued with industry as well as effrontery." Many years later, as a Supreme Court Justice, Brandeis, in a famous dissent protesting the wiretapping of a bootlegger, sought to establish an individual's right to be let alone. This is a cause that has not gotten very far. Philip Kurland, the distinguished law professor at the University of Chicago, has concluded to his own dismay: "The constitutional right of privacy, in Brandeis' sense of a right to be let alone, will always be a minimal and never a major source in constitutional law." This is due, Kurland emphasized...