The Law in Literature Ephraim london

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In this delightful, wide-ranging collection Ephraim London has summoned a dazzling array of playwrights, novelists and storytellers to testify to the fact that law. far from being a dry, forbidding subject, partakes of as much drama and excitement as anything in lif or literature. Here are stories of Chekhov, Galsworthy, Faulkner, Harte and Benchley; plays by Mortimer, Rattigan, Gilbert and Sullivan; excerpts from the novels of Rabelias, Dickens, Balzac and Wouk, and much more. Ephraim S. London was an American attorney and law professor specializing in constitutional law who established a reputation as a defender of free speech and civil liberties. He taught constitutional law at the New York University School of Law, his alma mater. He wrote The World of Law, a textbook that was widely used in law schools. He was also the author of The Law as Literature.