Барретт Преттиман-младший0.0 Winner of the Mystery Writers of America Award for the Best Fact Crime Book of 1961. Six crimes were committed that demanded the death penalty, and six condemned men made final appeals for their lives to the United States Supreme Court. Their case histories make up the major part of this dramatic and important book. The roles of the participants - the criminals, the police, the lawyers and the Justices of the Supreme Court - are examined in depth. The author goes beyond the mere chronicling of true events. His book provides a knowledge of the workings of American courts and gives clearer insight into one of our most important challenges - the pursuit of justice. E. Barrett Prettyman, Jr. served as Justice Jackson’s final law clerk during the October Terms of 1953 and 1954 and, upon the Justice’s death, clerked for Justices Felix Frankfurter and John M. Harlan, successively. A graduate of Yale University and the University of Virginia School of Law, where he was Decisions Editor of the Virginia Law Review, Moot Court winner and best Law Review Note winner, Prettyman joined the Washington law firm of Hogan & Hartson following his Supreme Court Law Clerkship. He then became Special Assistant to the Attorney General and to the White House during the Kennedy Administration. Following his government service, Prettyman returned to his former law firm as a partner. Prettyman served as Inspector General of the District of Columbia. He was the first President of the District of Columbia Bar and President of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers, the PEN/Faulkner Foundation and the D.C. Bar Foundation and is Vice President of the Supreme Court Historical Society. In 2007, The American Lawyer selected Prettyman as one of the 2007 Lifetime Achievers and featured him in the September 2007 issue. Prettyman has argued 19 cases in the Supreme Court, serves as Chair of the Supreme Court Judicial Fellows Commission, and is “of counsel” to Hogan & Hartson.
Хелен Ширли Томас0.0 Felix Frankfurter, a most controversial figure in American judicial history. This volume is the first extended treatment of Justice Frankfurter's political performance. It portrays the influence, which he, both as a teacher and jurist, has exerted in the growth of the public law over the past fifty years.
