Anton Pavlovich Chekov was a leading Russian playwright and master of modern stories, who captured the literary world’s imagination in the late 19th and early 20th century. “In the Court” is one of his finest works published in 1886. The story is a satire on the Russian judiciary. Anton Chekov, as is true to his…
Arthur T. Vanderbilt (July 7, 1888 – June 16, 1957) was the first Chief Justice of New Jersey Supreme Court from 1948 to 1957, the first Chief Justice under the revamped New Jersey court system established by the Constitution of 1947, in which the Supreme Court replaced the old court of Errors and Appeals as…
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Urban A. Lavery, in his essay “The Language of The Law” deals with the defects especially in legal writing and the lack of proper methodologies for lawyers to refer to, if they find any difficulties in legal language. The ability of the lawyer to confuse others has been the subject of proverbs (कहावत). In spite…
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Felix Frankfurter (November 15, 1882-February 22, 1965) was an American lawyer, professor, and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He served on the Supreme Court from 1939 to 1962, and was a noted advocate of judicial restraint* in the judgments of the Court. Frankfurter was born…
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