Address

Stevens, John Paul, Texas Law Review

This evening I plan to say a few words about four exceptionally fine lawyers with ties to both The University of Texas School of Law and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on which I served from 1970 until 1975. I plan also to make a brief comment on the scope of a common law rule that masquerades as an unwritten rule of constitutional law in the opinions of a number of creative Supreme Court Justices.

The first lawyer, Leon Green, was not only a Texas graduate but also taught a Torts course at Texas at both the beginning and the end of his long career as a law professor. Leon Green was the Dean of the Northwestern School of Law when I was a member of the first …

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Publication information: Article title: Address. Contributors: Stevens, John Paul - Author. Journal title: Texas Law Review. Volume: 91. Issue: 1 Publication date: November 1, 2012. Page number: 1+. © University of Texas, Austin, School of Law Publications, Inc. Dec 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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