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I have been writing about the law and justice for half a century. My first published law review piece appeared in 1960 as a student note in the Yale Law [...]

SCALIA SPEAKS Reflections on Law, Faith, and Life Well Lived By Antonin Scalia Edited by Christopher J. Scalia and Edward Whelan432 pp. Crown Forum. $30. I loved arguing with Justice [...]

Six 'opinions' written by legal scholars revisit 'The Case of the Speluncean Explorers' as mock appeals court judges. Three scholars vote to affirm the conviction of the group of fictional explorers for killing one of their own to avoid starvation. Two of the affirming opinions stress the 'plain meaning' of the statute, while third focuses on the issue of self-defense. One of the opinions favoring reversal finds justification by necessity, a second opinion finds that no law was violated, and the final opinion challenges the concept of mid-20th Century legal reasoning.

Having been the first person in my family to go to college, I knew almost nothing about being a lawyer when I entered Yale Law School in 1959. Although I [...]

A journalist did not feel vindicated when it was announced that famed journalist Mike Barnicle had finally resigned from the Boston Globe. Barnicle, who is a proven fabricator and plagiarist, had once concocted a racist quote and attributed the remarks to the journalist.

Alan Dershowitz argues that a conspiracy has been plotted by the art thieves claiming to have found the stolen masterpieces and the Boston Herald as represented by reporter Tom Mashberg. Mashberg's lawyer Harvey Silverglate refutes the accusations and points out that his client was only an intermediary.

A small-town criminal defense lawyer in No Hope, Arkansas, seeks the meaning of a mysterious saying of her attorney grandmother: 'Mit ein hinten ken min nit tantsn oyf tsvey chasinehs.' She is also trying to resolve her affair with the town's only other lawyer, and she receives an anonymous death threat over the Internet. Eventually she finds its meaning by chance, and tracks down the source of the threat, only to be left with another saying: 'Zol tzu vaksin vi a tsibila, mit kop in drerd un di fees fakert.'

People who contract an STD from someone who fails to disclose the infection are likely to win in a lawsuit, but they may have to face some problems. These problems include having to reveal their sexual history and being accused of transmitting the disease.

WHAT FOLLOWS is material provoked by the publication of the essay 'In Search of Anti-Semitism: What Christians Provoke What Jews? Why? By Doing What?--And Vice Versa.' The essay was in [...]