Green Bag is engaged in a commendable project of finding the best legal writing in a variety of categories - judicial opinions, law review articles, books, and so on. What is surprising to me is how many of the nominated works I've read and whose inclusion I agree with. At any rate, I think all the included Kozinski opinions are worth reading for sheer entertainment value (I sometimes find Kozinski's writing style to be a little precious, but the guy was really on a roll last year), as is Lingle v. Chevron U.S.A., a surprisingly lucid and forcefully argued opinion by Sandra Day O'Connor.
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I'm not a lawyer, but I do very much admire well-written legal opinions. In the best instances--that is, when they leave behind the recitations of case law and speak with a passion based on deeply-held constitutional principles--they are even stirring.
All this is a long way of saying: thanks for the link.
Posted by: John B. | January 13, 2006 at 07:46 AM