In Justice Accused, Professor Robert Cover, of the Yale Law School, has produced an interesting combination of legal history and jurisprudential analysis. As legal history the book is excellent. The analysis of the judicial role does not...
Lillian Faderman’s scrupulous mining of the original documents and court transcripts of a scandalous 1810 Edinburgh trial in which two mistresses of a fashionable girls’ boarding school sued a wealthy matron for besmirching their names and...
