Word: casebook
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...affair with a bright Southern civil rights lawyer (Meryl Streep) or remain faithful to his equally bright and attractive wife (Barbara Harris)? Should he pursue his presidential ambitions or spend more time at home with his increasingly estranged kids? Not only do these dilemmas have the aura of the casebook about them, but they are also resolved perfunctorily and predictably...
...Print Casebook 2 cited the calligraphic design of the mural, which is located in the middle-level corridor linking the Pusey Library with the Widener stack, as "evocative of the tradition of literature and history which the library represents...
...that the teacher advised her to become a lawyer. She was the driving force behind California's Family Law Act of 1969, which first established the principle of no-fault divorce. She teaches courses in family law, sex discrimination (she and Ruth Ginsburg collaborated on a widely used casebook on the subject), and joins with Berkeley Anthropologist Laura Nader in a seminar on anthropology and the law. Often mentioned as a candidate to become the first woman Supreme Court Justice, Kay believes that law school should turn out students who are "able to separate the relevant from the irrelevant...
Bruce Howard, another first year law student, describes Irons's research methods by recalling the only time he has seen Irons hissed in class. A professor asked if anyone knew where a case had taken place--the casebook, which only gave the appeal, didn't mention it. But Irons had been the only student to go back to the original, just because the case interested him. He knew the answer...
...exposition of a theme Truffaut himself explored in The Wild Child (1970). Truffaut's film was full of compassion and intelligence, a scrupulous study of freedom and the sometimes questionable requirements of the "civilizing process." Every Man, a prizewinner at this year's Cannes Festival, is a casebook of insensitivity. Every character is vigorously and grossly caricatured. The short supply of ideas is presented with all the insight of a caption in Ripley's Believe...