ATTORNEY GENERAL WILLIAM BARR, THE MUELLER REPORT, AND THE PROBLEM OF TRUTH
ATTORNEY GENERAL WILLIAM BARR, THE MUELLER REPORT, AND THE PROBLEM OF TRUTH
By Joel Levin
When we set out to assess the American judicial system, we typically do it piecemeal, decision by decision, aiming our focus first at individual judges, then courts, then the role of judges in our system generally. If we could only fix any one particularly problematic thing, we could rest easy.
Yet almost all the usual nostrums and platitudes, the varieties of political slogans, and commonplace wisdom about American judges and the American judicial system turn out to be problematic. Not only are they not fixes, but they are also often demonstrably bad and give us little clue as to how we could do better.
About the Author
Joel Levin
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For four decades, Joel Levin has been a commercial litigator and civil rights advocate, university teacher and author. His four books include How Judges Reason; Revolutions, Institutions, Law; Tort Wars; and The Radov Chronicles. His play, Marrano Justice, is an historical drama (with music) based on the life of Justice Benjamin Cardozo. He is presently working on Another Way of Seeing Things: Sephardics and the Creation of the Modern World. He received his B.A. and M.A. at the University of Chicago, his J.D. at Boston University, and his doctorate at the University of Oxford. In addition to founding two high-tech companies, he has taught law and philosophy in Russia, Canada and a number of American universities, including, since 1982, Case Western Reserve.
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