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Benjamin N. Cardozo Professor of Law, St. John's University.
Robert H. Jackson biographer.
Constitutional Law, Criminal Procedure, Legal History, Nuremberg, SCOTUS.
Iran-Contra & DOJ alum.
Wisconsin native.
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Hi, Greg!
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From the #JacksonList archive, here are essays about Ben Ferencz.
thejacksonlist.com?s=Ferencz
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Cling to the fact that Jackson never spent a day in college—that’s a fact.
And maybe it helps your belief system to know that he attended law school for just one year, between two years as a law office apprentice?
So sorry!
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Here’s a lecture I gave in 2017 on some of this:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Nfgm...
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Yup—Mezei; Knauff.
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Imagine if he’d gone to college!
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Agree—I got to read a draft, which was excellent.
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It happens—heck, he voted for Harding in 1920.
What tipped you in?
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He did complete law school. But Albany Law School denied him the degree/diploma because he was only age 20. Details here:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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No.
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Paul Clement tells Judge Dale Ho that "all roads here...lead to dismissal with prejudice" of Eric Adams's prosecution, contra Trump DOJ's wishes.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Well, anti-intellectual and intolerant—not what a university should be about.
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Well, a bad sound bite. And windsurfing and being a rich stiff.
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If you’re in business and need revenue, don’t sell Alito anything on credit!
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I went dormant on posting. But too many sane people gave stayed there, & active. So I’ve resumed posting there (duplicates of what I post here, to fewer). And I’m jabbing over there those who should hear from more than Muskovites.
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5/5: Excellent, loyal, unfaltering legal representation for the client—that was and is every lawyer’s job.
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4/5: Acheson said that Burling’s greatest interest, outside of family, was C&B. “He was interested in everybody in it.” And he was most interested in whether its lawyers were “interested in their clients”—he wanted to know that each lawyer in the firm was “doing a lawyer’s job for a client…”
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3/5: More than forty years later, in 1966, Mr. Burling died at age 96. At a memorial service for him in the Washington Cathedral, Dean Acheson, by then a former U.S. Secretary of State, delivered one of the eulogies.
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2/5: As their law practice succeeded and the firm grew, Ned Burling was the partner who hired younger men to join them. In the firm’s third year, he hired a lawyer named Dean Acheson.
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Me, not thee.
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He’s not well.
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Yes.
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She’s often been super. Her 2024 election night commentary was, in fast company, particularly standout great. This is a loss for the public. I wish her well.