{"id":50450,"date":"2016-09-30T11:27:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T16:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.findlaw-admin.com\/ability-legal\/supreme\/legal-commentary\/book-reviews-by-title-2.html"},"modified":"2016-09-30T11:27:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T16:27:00","slug":"book-reviews-by-title-2","status":"publish","type":"supreme","link":"https:\/\/supreme.findlaw.com\/legal-commentary\/book-reviews-by-title-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Book Reviews By Title"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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ANTHONY DWORKIN<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HUMAN RIGHTS REALISM:
A REVIEW OF MICHAEL IGNATIEFF’S RECENT BOOK, HUMAN RIGHTS AS POLITICS AND IDOLATRY<\/u><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\nFindLaw book reviewer and journalist Anthony Dworkin reviews human rights \nwriter Michael Ignatieff’s recent book. As Dworkin explains, Ignatieff’s \nbook advocates a political conception of human rights — and criticizes those \nwho see human rights as a “secular religion” to be imposed on others. \nNevertheless, Ignatieff advocates that, despite cultural differences, an \n“irreducible minimum” of freedoms must be honored by all cultures.\n<\/span>
\n\nFriday, Oct. 19, 2001<\/span>
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ROSS DAVIES<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
BROWN, SMITH, AND THE IMPORTANCE OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS “DOORKEEPERS”:
A REVIEW OF THURGOOD MARSHALL’S COLLECTED WRITINGS<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\nFindLaw book reviewer and editor of The Green Bag: An Entertaining Journal of \nLaw Ross Davies assesses a recently published collection of Thurgood \nMarshall’s collected writings, edited by Mark Tushnet. Davies finds \nimportant wisdom, in particular, in Marshall’s reminiscences — and notes \nthat the book is instructive in explaining, among other things, why Marshall \nthought his greatest victory was not Brown v. Board of Education, but rather \na lesser known civil rights case. <\/span>
\n\nFriday, Oct. 12, 2001<\/span>
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TREVOR MORRISON<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
A NEW WORLD ORDER? A REVIEW OF HARDT AND NEGRI’S EMPIRE<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\nFindLaw book reviewer and attorney Trevor Morrison discusses Michael Hardt\n\nand Antonio Negri’s claims, in their recent book Empire, that a new world\n\norder of global markets and international institutions is emerging, and that\n\nthose oppressed by the order must find ways to overcome it. Morrison is\n\nskeptical of both the authors’ account of American constitutionalism, and\n\ntheir apparent endorsement of Islamic fundamentalism as a revolutionary way\n\nto resist the new global Empire.<\/span>
\n\nFriday, Oct. 05, 2001<\/span>
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PAUL FINKELMAN<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
AN IMPORTANT STUDY OF THE HISTORY AND LAW OF THE ABORTION RIGHTS CONTROVERSY:
A REVIEW OF HULL AND HOFFER’S NEW BOOK ON ROE V. WADE<\/i><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\nFindLaw book reviewer, University of Tulsa law professor, and author Paul \nFinkelman reviews an important recent book on Roe v. Wade. Finkelman \ndiscusses the book’s surprising factual material on abortion throughout \nhistory and the genesis of abortion bans, and comments on the evolution of \nthe case law that resulted in Roe.\n\n<\/span>
\nFriday, Sept. 28, 2001<\/span>
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DAVID C. LUNDSGAARD<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
RICHARD POSNER’S TWO CENTS ABOUT FLORIDA 2000:
A REVIEW OF “BREAKING THE DEADLOCK”<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\nFindLaw guest columnist and attorney David Lundsgaard weighs in on judge and \nauthor Richard Posner’s book on the Bush\/Gore election and its legal \naftermath. A self-described Posner fan, Lundsgaard offers both criticism and \npraise for the judge’s latest.\n\n<\/span>
\nFriday, Sept. 14, 2001<\/span>
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RUSSELL D. COVEY<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
REVENGE EXPLAINED — AND JUSTIFIED?:
A REVIEW OF PETER FRENCH’S “THE VIRTUES OF VENGEANCE”<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\nFindLaw book reviewer and attorney Russell Covey discusses ethics professor \nPeter French’s recent work “The Virtues of Vengeance.” In the course of \nexamining French’s views on vigilanteism, Covey also comments on related \nissues raised by Supreme Court death penalty cases, past and future.\n\n<\/span>
\nFriday, Sept. 7, 2001<\/span>
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JOANNE MARINER<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
WAR CRIMINALS AND CONVICTS:
\nA REVIEW OF STEVEN RATNER AND JASON ABRAMS’S “ACCOUNTABILITY FOR HUMAN RIGHTS ATROCITIES IN INTERNATIONAL LAW: BEYOND THE NUREMBERG LEGACY”<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\nHuman rights advocate and attorney Joanne Mariner reviews Steven Ratner and \nJason Abrams’s recent book “Accountability for Human Rights Atrocities in \nInternational Law: Beyond The Nuremberg Legacy,” which touches on issues \nranging from the trend towards accountability rather than impunity for human \nrights abuses; \nto the incoherence of the international legal regime for accountability when \nviewed \nas a whole; to the various different mechanisms, both civil and criminal, \nfor \npunishing human rights violations.\n\n<\/span>
\nFriday, Aug. 31, 2001<\/span>
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SETH BLOOM<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MURDER IN THE HAMPTONS:\n A REVIEW OF NANCY GEARY’S MYSTERY, “MISFORTUNE”<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\nFindLaw book reviewer Seth Bloom assesses former prosecutor Nancy Geary’s \nnew murder mystery, Misfortune — a novel about the killing of a prominent \nsocialite and member of the Hamptons elite, as investigated by her Assistant \nD.A. stepdaughter.\n\n<\/span>
\nFriday, Aug. 24, 2001<\/span>
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SAM WILLIAMSON<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
PROOF AND HISTORY:\n A REVIEW OF D.D. GUTTENPLAN’S “THE HOLOCAUST ON TRIAL”<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\nLaw clerk and former Marine Sam Williamson weighs in on the merits and flaws\nof D.D. Guttenplan’s “The Holocaust on Trial.” Guttenplan’s book chronicles\nthe courtroom battle that arose when historian David Irving sued Professor\nDeborah Lipstadt for labelling him a Holocaust denier. Guttenplan also\nexplains\nthe larger political and historical backdrop that gave the trial a broader\nsignificance.\n\n<\/span>
\nFriday, Aug. 17, 2001<\/span>
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LAURA HODES<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
VINCENT BUGLIOSI V. THE FIVE JUSTICES OF THE BUSH V. GORE\n\t\t MAJORITY: A REVIEW OF THE BETRAYAL OF AMERICA<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\nAttorney Laura Hodes weighs in on Vincent Bugliosi’s recent election book, The Betrayal of America. In the book, the well-known trial lawyer slams the five majority justices in Bush v. Gore, and critiques the performance of David Boies and the rest of the Gore legal team, suggesting alternative tactics that should have been used.\n\n<\/span>
\nFriday, Aug. 10, 2001<\/span>
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