I tend to write in the mornings.

People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller.

Basbanes makes you love books.

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.

The law, for all its failings, has a noble goal - to make the little bit of life that people can actually control more just. We can't end disease or natural disasters, but we can devise rules for our dealings with one another that fairly weigh the rights and needs of everyone, and which, therefore, reflect our best vision of ourselves.

The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.

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