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INSIDER'S ACCOUNT OF JUSTICE HUGO BLACK
PUBLISHED BY UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS LAW LIBRARY
AUSTIN, TEXAS -- An insider's look at one of America's greatest
Supreme Court justices has been published by the the Jamail Center
for Legal Research, University of Texas at Austin, as the second
volume in its Tarlton Law Library Legal History Series.
"Inside Justice Hugo L. Black: The Letters", is by John P. Frank, who
began his distinguished legal career as Justice Black's law clerk in
1942. Frank drew on his file of 25 years' correspondence with Justice
Black, and his notes on their conversations over the years.
Justice Black's son, Hugo L. Black, Jr., said in his foreword to
"Inside Justice Black" that "This little collection shows the trust
and respect of each for the character and intellect and learning of
the other -- the kind of trust and respect that sparks unreserved
dialogues for truth."
Justice Hugo L. Black was one of the most influential jurists of the
20th century, and has a place on almost any list of the all-time top
ten Supreme Court Justices. He is best remembered for his defense of
civil liberties. "Much of our Constitution today is Black's
constitution," writes Frank.
Based on their conversations and letters, Frank paints an intimate
portrait of Justice Black the family man, the mentor, the jurist, and
the civil libertarian. Frank describes Black's relationships with his
colleagues on the Supreme Court, including the "feud" between Black
and Justice Robert A. Jackson that allegedly arose when Jackson was
passed over for the Chief Justiceship in 1946.
John P. Frank has been named several times as one of the 100 most
influential lawyers in America by the National Law Journal. A noted
attorney and scholar, he has authored a dozen books on constitutional
law and legal history, and has taught in the law schools at Indiana
University and Yale. He assisted the NAACP in Brown v. Board of
Education and was the lead attorney in the landmark Miranda v.
Arizona case.
The editor of the Tarlton Law Library Legal History Series is Michael
Widener, Archivist/Rare Books Librarian at the Jamail Center for
Legal Research.
The publication can be ordered via the Jamail Center's publications
website, at <http://www.law.utexas.edu/pubs/order.htm>, or by
contacting the Publications Coordinator (Publications Coordinator,
Jamail Center for Legal Research,University of Texas School of Law,
727 East 26th St., Austin, TX 78705-3224; phone 512/471-7726; fax
512/471-0243).
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Tarlton Law Library Legal History Series, No. 2:
Frank, John P. INSIDE JUSTICE HUGO L. BLACK: THE LETTERS. Austin,
Tex.: Jamail Center for Legal Research, 2000. 102 pages. ISBN:
0-935630-54-6. Price: $20.00