Volume 1. 1932-1982 -- volume 2. 1983-2022. Finzi-Contini and Del Vecchio -- Minerbi and Calabresi -- Anti-fascist Jews in dark times -- Departure and arrival -- Out of place -- Our wartime -- Postwar dilemmas -- Graspingan education -- Embracing catholicismat the old palace -- A law student at mid-century -- Justice Black -- Law through an economic lens -- Courtship -- Deep structures in the law -- Subterfuges and tragic choices -- Teaching Aware -- Judicial sunset -- To be a dean -- The dean's new day -- Independence -- Restoring the law school building -- Almost a justice : Robert Bork -- Conflict, community, and confidence : the wall -- Clarence, Anita, Catharine, Jack -- and Yale -- Bill wants him -- Joining the Second Circuit -- The Tort Law opinions of a torts professor -- The anti-discrimination law reasoning of an outsider -- The analytical reasoning of a behavioral economist -- The immigration law decisions of an immigrant -- Calabresian complexities and the value of dialogue -- An egalitarian believer's First Amendment -- Craft, independence, and ideology -- Giustizia e Liberte' recollected : bad laws and injustices -- CODA -- Explanations in the garden.
Summary:
"My behavior is not a Yankee's behavior. It just is not, no matter what. My family was Italian, and different from most other Italian immigrants. We did not need to melt in. We did not need to assimilate, because of who we were and what we came from. While other people were painting themselves red, white, and blue, we talked Italian, absorbed our family's history, and thought of ourselves as being what we always were. In the deepest sense, I was never taught to be a Yankee, which is a fact that comes out in any number of the things that I do and try to accomplish. Some people have the feeling that what I write and say is too subtle, or perhaps manipulative; or that I behave a bit outlandishly; but those people do not put what I do in the context of Italy, in the context of that very old, very subtle, very complicated society, which I come from"-- Provided by publisher.
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