Writing Legal Lives: Biography, Memoir and the Law

All are welcome to this one-day event, co-sponsored by the Touro Law Review, exploring how personal narratives shape our understanding of law, justice, and ethics across history and culture.

Featuring:

• Kai Bird on his forthcoming biography of Roy Cohn (American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn and the World He Made)
• Judge and Yale Law Professor Guido Calabresi in conversation of Professor Norman Silbur on the oral history of his life
• Judge David Tatel on his memoir Vision: A Memoir of Blindness and Justice
• Brenda Wineapple on her study of the Scopres trial (Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation)
• Judge Gary Stein on his biography Justice for Sale: Graft, Greed, and a Crooked Federal Judge in 1930s Gotham
• Professor Asma Bint Shafiq on her biogrpahy A Social Justice Lawyer in Bangladesh: The Pioneering Work of Salma Sobhan
• Professor John Q. Bartlett on his biography of Supreme Court Justice and Nuremberg prosecutor Robert Black

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Host or Publisher Biography and Memoir Program, CUNY Graduate Center