Charles Fried
Charles Fried
Charles Fried is an American jurist and lawyer. He served as United States Solicitor General under President Ronald Reagan from 1985 to 1989. He is a professor at Harvard Law School and has been a visiting professor at Columbia Law School...
law people outcomes
If only people who are ideologically committed to a particular outcome argued to the courts, the law would be worse off.
best business court cure designed help hide lives misleading people possible profession stretch sure
The profession is designed to help the court by making sure that the best possible arguments - not misleading arguments, not arguments that stretch a point, not arguments that hide precedents - but that the best possible arguments are presented, ... That's the business we're in. It's very much like if you were a doctor. Do you only cure people who, when they're cured, will lead their lives as you were going to lead them?
enormous
It's a big tree, but it has ramified and exfoliated, ... would be an enormous disruption.