Law Practice,
Judges and Judiciary
Mar. 26, 2008
Stylish Shortcuts
William F. Buckley Jr.'s fudged insights on the tort system fostered misunderstandings about government, the courts and the law.
Robert L. Bastian Jr.
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Whittier Law School
William F. Buckley Jr., as I remember through reading his columns in National Review and listening to his conversations and debates on "Firing Line," rhetorically wielded the concept of a well-functioning tort system the way Albert Einstein used the cosmological constant. It was a fudge.
Einstein knew he had not worked out the constant's justification or implications. But it was a convenient, if slightly scientifically embarrassing, shortcut - an ea...
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