A Voice for Justice: Writings of David Schuman by Schuman, Sharon

A Voice for Justice: Writings of David Schuman (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780870711107)

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A Voice for Justice: Writings of David Schuman by Schuman, Sharon

A Voice for Justice: Writings of David Schuman

$24.95
A Voice for Justice: Writings of David Schuman by Schuman, Sharon

A Voice for Justice: Writings of David Schuman

$24.95
Format: Paperback
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As an educator, speaker, deputy attorney general, and judge, David Schuman was known for his ability to clarify difficult legal concepts. According to James Egan, chief judge of the Oregon Court of Appeals, he was the "intellectual giant of our generation." A Voice for Justice reveals how David Schuman's unique jurisprudence came to be.

His friends and associates knew that Oregon Supreme Court Justice Hans Linde convinced Schuman to turn to the Oregon Constitution rather than the federal one to protect individual rights. But even some of Schuman's closest friends were unaware of his fiction, which provides a window into his deep capacity for empathy and casts new light on his ability to write elegant, sometimes funny, judicial opinions. His legal thinking also had deep roots in literature and political theory.

Schuman's 672 judicial opinions are not just brilliant, but written so that anyone can understand them. Like Ruth Bader Ginsburg, he knew there was nothing to gain by communicating only to specialists. He wanted citizens to be able to make up their own minds about important issues.

A Voice for Justice brings together for the first time writings that span over fifty years. Lawyers and laypeople alike will appreciate Schuman's lucid, engaging observations, which are highly relevant to our current anxieties about institutional racism and democracy under stress. The short stories, speeches, op-eds, articles, legal opinions, and dissents selected for this volume constitute a call to action for everyone to become voices for justice.



Author: Sharon Schuman
ISBN-10: 0870711105
ISBN-13: 9780870711107
Publisher: Oregon State University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/20/2021
Pages: 232
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.98w x 0.87d
By Sharon Schuman
By Sharon Schuman
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David Schuman was a graduate of Stanford University, the University of Chicago, and the University of Oregon Law School. He served as judicial clerk to the Honorable Hans Linde of the Oregon Supreme Court. He joined the University of Oregon Law faculty in 1987 but left to serve as Oregon's Deputy Attorney General. After a brief return to teaching in 2001, he was appointed to serve on the Oregon Court of Appeals. He retired from the bench in 2014 and returned to teaching until his death in 2019.

Sharon J. Schuman earned degrees in English from Stanford University, San Francisco State University, and the University of Chicago. She taught literature at Deep Springs College, Willamette University, and the University of Oregon. Author of Freedom and Dialogue in a Polarized World, she gives presentations and workshops about cultivating dialogic freedom to reduce polarization. She and David were married for 51 years.

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