Scott Martelle profiles Scott Turow in anticipation of Turow’s forthcoming novel, Innocent. The article, which appeared in the L.A. Times, is available here.
Turow has penned eight works of fiction and two works of nonfiction. He continues to practice law at Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal, LLP, in Chicago.
Having held the Copenhaver Chair at West Virginia University College of Law for two semesters, Michael Blumenthal will remain in Morgantown for another academic year. Blumenthal is a lawyer, poet, novelist, essayist, memoirist, and translator. See my article about Blumenthal here.
Professor James R. Elkins, editor of The Legal Studies Forum, was instrumental in bringing Blumenthal from Old Dominion University, where Blumenthal held an endowed chair, to West Virgina University.
Stanley Fish writes about The First Amendment and Kittens.
These articles express my frustrations about, and ambivalence toward, the tourist spectacles at Moundsville Penitentiary:
This article, or review, appeared in the Times Literary Supplement last week. Charles Nicholl, the author, addresses the continuing Shakespeare authorship debate. Justice Stevens, who recently announced his retirement, has rendered his own opinion on the matter. Will Shakespeare become part of Stevens’s legacy?
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