SELECTED ESSAYS and ARTICLES

LEGAL WRITING

“Your Own Style”
California Lawyer, August 2014, pp.26-27.
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LEGAL HISTORY

“The Country Lawyer Remembered”
58 The American Scholar 283 (1989).
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The Correspondence of Henry Friendly and Richard A. Posner 1982-86
51 J. Am. Legal History 395 (2011).
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LAW AND HISTORY

Eat your Heart Out
California Lawyer, June 2004, pp. 27-30.
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Law and Literature
27 Legal Studies Forum 109-129 (2003)

“Shakespeare in the Law”
67 Connecticut Bar Journal 317 (1993).
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“Corrington’s Lawyer as Moralist”
in John William Corrington: Southern Man of Letters, William Mills, ed.,
University of Central Arkansas Press (1994).

“The Autobiographical Lawyer”
19 Journal of the Legal Profession 165 (1994-95)

“Trouble in Paradise: Wall Street Lawyers in the Fiction of Louis Auchincloss
12 Journal of Contemporary Law 243 (1987)

“Hearing the Judicial Voices”
61 Connecticut Bar Journal 155 (1987).

“Style and Justice Holmes”
60 Connecticut Bar Journal 251 (1986),
reprinted in 6 Delaware Lawyer 54 (1987).
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“The Tale of the Text: The Figurative Prose Style of Connecticut Supreme Court Justice Leo Parskey”
18 Connecticut Law Review 459 (1986).

“The Opinion as Essay, The Judge as Essayist: Some Observations on Legal Writing”
10 Journal of the Legal Profession 139 (1985)

“Law-Literature Criticism: Charting a Desirable Course with Billy Budd”
34 Journal of Legal Education 702 (1984).

“A Novelist’s Knowing Look at the Law: Short Stories by John William Corrington”
69 American Bar Association Journal 1706 (1983).

“Will the Defendant Please Rise”
59 Virginia Quarterly Review 523 (1983).

 

LITERARY CRITICISM

“A Different Thomas Deloney: Thomas of Reading Reconsidered”
18 Renaissance and Reformation 197 (1982).

“Thomas Wolfe’s Success as Short Novelist: Structure and Theme in A Portrait of Bascom Hawke”
13 Southern Literary Journal 21 (1980),
reprinted in Phillipson, ed., Critical Essays on Thomas Wolfe 257
(Boston: G.K. Hall, 1985).

Wishing for More: Philip Larkins Novels
22 Critique 5 (1980)

“The Voices of Misery and Despair in the Fiction of James Alan McPherson”
42 Arizona Quarterly 37 (1986),
reprinted in Contemporary Literary Criticism, vol. 77, Draper, ed.
(Detroit: Gale Research, Inc. 1993.

Samuel Johnson and the Law
23 The New Rambler 2 (1982).