Wednesday, May 24, 2023

C.J. John Roberts, introduced by Elena Kagan, at the ALI 100th

 


Judge Henry Friendly, late of the Second Circuit, was the sort of guy whose biographer, David Dayen, showing no hint of embarrassment, sub-titled his book  Greatest Judge of His Era.  As former Dean of the law school in Cambridge , Massachusetts Elena Kagan's tribute to John Roberts on his receipt of the American Law Institute's highest honor - The Henry Friendly Award - fell short of Dayen's encomium.  But it's generosity is best understood as an example of two scorpions set in the same cage - lethal weapons barred by the rules - constrained by the need to work together for the foreseeable future.  The Chief Justice's acceptance speech is tolerably self-celebratory, for the `thank you for telling me I am a giant ' genre.

Austin Sarat, the eminent Amherst College writer on law, society and religion, takes  a critical view here at Justia.

Video below.

- GWC

https://t.co/LwmzyQ8lpd

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