FindLaw book reviewer and attorney Roger Clegg weighs in on economist Glenn
Loury's recent book on the sources of racial inequality -- including stigma
-- and how to address them. While finding Loury's book provocative, Clegg
takes issue with Loury on law, economics, and how inequality should be
remedied.
Friday, Mar. 01, 2002
FindLaw book reviewer and attorney Mark Zaid assesses former Los Alamos
scientist Wen Ho Lee's personal account of the government's accusations of
espionage against him, and their ultimate resolution. Zaid also discusses
the various civil suits that have arisen from the accusations against Lee --
including one in which Lee is the plaintiff, another in which he is the
defendant, and a third in which a colleague of Lee's (represented by Zaid) is
having difficulty getting clearance for a book containing material
exculpating Lee.
Friday, Feb. 22, 2002
FindLaw book reviewer, attorney, and author Elaine Cassel assesses a new
essay collection compiled by the editor and managing editor of Foreign Affairs,
James F. Hoge, Jr., and Gideon Rose. In the collection, top experts
ranging from former government and military leaders to journalists and
scholars look at September 11 from a host of perspectives, each of which
affords different insights relating to the basic questions of how and why the
attacks happened.
Friday, Feb. 15, 2002
FindLaw book reviewer and attorney Laura Hodes reviews Brad Meltzer's latest
thriller, The Millionaires, which concerns two basically good brothers who
take a single step outside the law, stealing money that is there for the
taking, and then find themselves on the run. Hodes finds the novel
impressive both in its suspenseful plotting and the serious issues -- about
technology, privacy, and crime detection -- it raises along the way. Hodes
also interviewed Meltzer about the book for this site.
Friday, Feb. 08, 2002
FindLaw book reviewer and attorney David Lundsgaard reviews a recent Theodore
Roosevelt biography by Louis Auchincloss, which is part of a new series of
"essay-length meditations" on American Presidents edited by Arthur
Schlesinger, Jr.. Lundsgaard takes issue with some aspects of Auchincloss's
evaluation of Roosevelt -- particular his downplaying of Roosevelt's racism
-- but finds the biography impressively panoramic despite its brevity.
Friday, Feb. 01, 2002
FindLaw book reviewer, attorney, and Green Bag editor Ross Davies weighs in
on James Ely's recent book chronicling the relationship between railroads and
American law. As Davies explains, Ely's book discusses more than just legal
developments, spanning social and cultural developments as well, providing a
full model of an American legal revolution.
Friday, Jan. 25, 2002
FindLaw book reviewer and attorney Russell Covey assesses Legal Lynching: The
Death Penalty and America's Future, by the Reverend Jesse Jackson,
Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. and Bruce Shapiro. Covey explains that the
book is a bid to form a new, stronger anti-death penalty coalition, but finds
its real-life stories of miscarriages of justice in death penalty cases more
persuasive than its familiar anti-death penalty arguments.
Friday, Jan. 18, 2002
FindLaw book reviewer and attorney Sam Williamson evaluates Stack and Sway, a
recent book on the controversial practice of jury consulting. The book --
which Williamson finds flawed but in some respects useful -- discusses the
use of consultants both to frame opening and closing arguments ("sway") and
to select juries ("stack"). Among other points, the authors identify twelve
factors which they claim predict whether jury consultants are likely to be
effective in a given case.
Friday, Jan. 11, 2002
FindLaw book reviewer and attorney Matthew Herrington assesses Judge Richard
Posner's new book, Public Intellectuals: A Study of Decline. Herrington takes
strong issue with Posner's use of empirical data to examine a
less-than-objective subject -- the claimed decline in the value of public
intellectuals' contributions to public debate -- but finds much to praise in
the book as well.
Friday, Jan. 04, 2002
FindLaw book reviewer, former Writ editor, and attorney Rodger Citron reviews
a recent work that surveys conspiracy theories from Roswell to the grassy
knoll, and from "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" to the rise of the
Antichrist. Citron discusses, among other points, the post-September 11
significance of our combined fondness for, and skepticism towards, conspiracy
theories.
Friday, Dec. 28, 2001
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