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.
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