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A brief political-existential essay, "Essere giudice" addresses the basic theme of the judge faced with the challenges of modernity, without any preceptive or pedagogical pretence. It is divided into ten chapters, each of which tries to answer a question: "Why is one a judge?" "Where is one a judge?" "When is one a judge?" "How long is one a judge?" "With whom is one a judge?" "With what means is one a judge?" "For whom is one a judge?" "How is one a judge?" "In what functions is one a judge?" and finally "Who is a judge?". It is up to the reader to determine whether the answers found by Francesco Caso have any value, if only for the fact that they have been attempted, perhaps for the first time.
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When clan leader Garrett MacNamara's dead body is found on the road after a herd of cows has escaped, it is assumed that he tried to prevent the cows escaping and got squashed. As dictated by the clan's Brehon law, Mara investigates the death as a matter of routine and finds it may not have been an accident after all.
Women judges --- Women as judges --- Judges
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The Business Valuation Bench Book by William J. Morrison and Jay E. Fishman serves as a comprehensive guide for legal professionals, particularly lawyers and judges, who need to understand business valuation principles and practices. The book covers various valuation methods, including income, asset-based, and market approaches, and provides insights into factors influencing business value. It aims to equip readers with the knowledge required to assess the worth of business enterprises and intangible assets in legal contexts. The authors, both seasoned experts in business valuation, offer their expertise through detailed explanations and practical examples. The book is intended for legal professionals involved in litigation, valuation, and insolvency cases, providing essential tools for accurate valuation assessments in court proceedings.
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This is the first full biography of Justice Leah Ward Sears. In 1992 Sears became the first woman and youngest justice to sit on the Supreme Court of Georgia. In 2005 she became the first African American woman to serve as chief justice of any state supreme court in the country. This book explores her childhood in a career military family; her education; her early work as an attorney; her rise through Georgia's city, county, and state court systems; and her various pursuits after leaving the supreme court in 2009, when she transitioned into a life that was no less active or public.As the biography recounts Sears's life and career, it is filled with instances of how Sears made her own luck by demonstrating a sharpness of mind and sagacious insight, a capacity for grueling hard work, and a relentless drive to succeed. Sears also maintained a strict devotion to judicial independence and the rule of law, which led to decisions that would surprise conservatives and liberals alike, earned the friendship of figures as diverse as Ambassador Andrew Young and Justice Clarence Thomas, and solidified a reputation that would land her on the short list of replacements for two retiring U.S. Supreme Court justices.As a woman, an African American, a lawyer, and a judge, Sears has known successes as well as setbacks. Justice Leah Ward Sears shows that despite political targeting, the death of her beloved father, a painful divorce, and a brother's suicide, she has persevered and prevailed.
Judges --- African American judges --- Women judges --- Sears, Leah Ward,
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Henry Friendly is frequently grouped with Oliver Wendell Holmes, Louis Brandeis, Benjamin Cardozo, and Learned Hand as the best American jurists of the twentieth century. In this first, comprehensive biography of Friendly, David M. Dorsen opens a unique window onto how a judge of this caliber thinks and decides cases, and how Friendly lived his life.During his time on the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (1959-1986), Judge Friendly was revered as a conservative who exemplified the tradition of judicial restraint. But he demonstrated remarkable creativity in circumventing precedent and formulating new rules in multiple areas of the law. Henry Friendly, Greatest Judge of His Era describes the inner workings of Friendly's chambers and his craftsmanship in writing opinions. His articles on habeas corpus, the Fourth Amendment, self-incrimination, and the reach of the state are still cited by the Supreme Court. Dorsen draws on extensive research, employing private memoranda between the judges and interviews with all fifty-one of Friendly's law clerks-a veritable Who's Who that includes Chief Justice John R. Roberts, Jr., six other federal judges, and seventeen professors at Harvard, Yale, Stanford, and elsewhere. In his Foreword, Judge Richard Posner writes: "David Dorsen has produced the most illuminating, the most useful, judicial biography that I have ever read . . . We learn more about the American judiciary at its best than we can learn from any other . . . Some of what I've learned has already induced me to make certain changes in my judicial practice."
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How could the man who presided over so many controversial Supreme Court decisions and led such a notable political career seem to be, and be regarded as, a person of quite modest presence and abilities? White, a former law clerk to Warren, goes back to Warren's roots in Progressivism to demonstrate the underlying consistencies beneath the apparent paradoxes of the man's career.
Judges --- Warren, Earl,
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