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Martin Krygier (UNSW): Four Puzzles about the Rule of Law: Why, What, Where? And Who Cares? From Amsterdam Law Forum, a special issue on the future of legal education. An interview with Stanford's Larry Kramer on the law school revolution. From First Things, in ordinary times, or in earlier days, when the judges were more clear-headed, the case of Christian Legal Society v. Martinez would have been, as they say, a “slam dunk”. A review of "The Autonomy of Technology: Do Courts Control Technology or Do They Just Legitimize its Social Acceptance?" by Jennifer Chandler. A review of Keeping Faith with the Constitution by Goodwin Liu, Pamela Karlan, and Christopher Schroeder and The Living Constitution by David Strauss. From Bookforum, Michael
Henry James, Raymond Chandler, Thomas Pynchon, J. K. Rowling, Franz Kafka: As a new anthology shows, no writer is too sacred for parody. Eric Ormsby considers highlights in the history of literary ridicule.
If you're looking for an exra-bleak holiday-weekend book, try Simenon's spiky psychological thriller Red Lights (1955), which opens on the Friday evening