http://www.abajournal.com/news/ en Copyright 2013 2013-06-18T18:44:45-06:00 http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/in_upcoming_memoir_sotomayor_tells_how_fear_of_early_death_affected_motherh/ A new memoir by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, scheduled for publication in January, explains a primary reason she opted not to have children: a fear of early death. Sotomayor has struggled with diabetes since childhood, and she says the fear of dying early was a big factor in her decision against… ABA Journal, The Modern Law Library, Careers, Women in the Law, Judiciary, Law in Popular Culture, Personal Lives, U.S. Supreme Court Tue, 11 Dec 2012 08:04:52 -0600 41987.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/michael_connelly_wins_2012_harper_lee_prize_for_legal_fiction/ Michael Connelly's legal thriller The Fifth Witness has been named the winner of the 2nd Annual Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction. The Fifth Witness, which debuted at No. 1 on the New York Times Best Seller List, features a… ABA Journal, The Modern Law Library, Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction, Law in Popular Culture Tue, 17 Jul 2012 16:55:29 -0500 39735.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/what_if_lincoln_had_lived_and_faced_impeachment_law_prof_imagines_possibili/ Yale Law School professor Stephen Carter imagines President Lincoln surviving an assassin’s bullet and facing impeachment in a new legal thriller. The protagonist is not the president who ended slavery, but is instead an aspiring lawyer who is a law clerk on Lincoln’s legal team, according to the ABA Journal, The Modern Law Library, Law in Popular Culture, Law Professors, Legal History Thu, 12 Jul 2012 06:00:34 -0500 39648.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/scalia_and_garner_release_567_page_tome_on_legal_writing/ The operative sentence in the 567-page book by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and writing professional Bryan A. Garner is this: “Our approach is … prescribing what, in our view, courts ought to do with operative language.” It’s the nature of that operative language that so thoroughly defines Scalia’s… ABA Journal, The Modern Law Library, Constitutional Law, Legal Theory, U.S. Supreme Court Tue, 19 Jun 2012 12:04:59 -0500 39330.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/30_lawyers_pick_30_books_every_lawyer_should_read/ ABA Journal, The Modern Law Library, Business of Law, Celebrities, Law Firms, Law in Popular Culture, Legal Ethics, Legal History, Legal Theory, Features Mon, 01 Aug 2011 04:00:16 -0500 34026.abajournal.com