At the end of the day, perhaps the best argument against capital punishment may be that it is an issue beyond the limited capacity of government to get things right.

There cannot be any greater challenge to the law than trying to adjudicate mass crimes like war crimes.

I am a law student in my first year at the law, and there are many moments when I am simply a mess.

As a defense lawyer, he refused to condemn his clients. Everyone else in the system-the cops, the prosecutors, the juries and judges-would take care of that; they didn't need his help.

I cannot think of a day in my life when the library didn’t exert a potent attraction for me, offering a sense of the specialness of each individual’s curiosity and his or her quest to satisfy it.

Postmodernism cost literature its audience.

The prosecutor, who is supposed to carry the burden of proof, really is an author.