September 13 marks the 44th anniversary of the publication of University of Chicago professor Milton Friedman’s article, ‘A Friedman Doctrine – The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase…
US Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer has offered students considering law as a career some excellent advice which I would extend it to undergrads thinking of business courses.…
A civil liberties lawyers is a Cassandra. Unlike Chicken Little, though, the Trojan prophet’s sky did fall. Harvey Silverglate, has served in this role for almost half…
Whitey Bulger got it right. His trial has been ‘a sham’. Bulger so characterised the proceedings preceding his meaningless sentencing to Judge Denise Casper who wanted to…
‘John Masters is now an almost forgotten novelist… A figure of quiet authority, he receives, in James Salter’s memoir Burning the Days (1997), the finest compliment a man…
Good judges are, in my experience, much more common than bad ones. But as in any profession, exceptional judges are rare. When one leaves the bench, it’s a…
Like spectators at a Vatican conclave, only those devoted to fashion in uniforms stuck around for the end of Boston College vs. Notre Dame. The God (Awful) Bowl…