Word: legalism
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...constitutional law? CRS: After law school, I worked for the Office of Legal Counsel in the Department of Justice, which focused on constitutional questions. I also clerked for Thurgood Marshall and Benjamin Kaplan. Originally, constitutional law was the glamor field of law teaching. I thought that it would be really great if I had a chance to get involved in an area that helped define the nation’s understanding of itself and possibly make a contribution. [...] It was endlessly exciting and an area in which if you figure something out you could help the system and that would...
...What is the most pressing legal issue facing the U.S. today? CRS: One very pressing constitutional question is the authority of the president to act on his own. Under what circumstances can the president act unilaterally? We don’t know the answer to this. In terms of individual rights there are two obviously pressing questions—the question of discrimination on the basis of disability on the constitutional side and in the interpretation of Americans with Disabilities Act, and the question of discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. In terms of the horizon, the rights...
...What is your favorite book that you have authored? CRS: I have two favorites. One is called “Legal Reasoning and Political Conflict” from 1996 and the other is “Why Societies Need Dissent” from 2003. But I recently completed two books and I am under contract to do four more so I hope that I will like one of those six better...
...disasters, infectious diseases, climate change, terrorism and nuclear proliferation. There are common questions that cut across these issues—how do humans actually think about risk? When do our thoughts go into the long term, that is, when do we consider the future? How can we get our legal institutions to focus on the long term rather than the short term? Those are very general questions. There are also some particular questions like, ‘Is there a way to reduce the number of Americans who die in the workplace?’ One of the reasons...
...when the day does come that these students can take a legal sip of the substance they study, they won’t forget who taught them to appreciate the facts of fermentation...