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Complete article: http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1205146044670
In Series of Videos, Supreme Court Justices Make Their Case
Justices' candid observations and pet peeves spill forth in legal writing guru Bryan Garner's video interviews
Tony MauroLegal TimesMarch 11, 2008
They are raw and unvarnished, like what might happen if you turned a videocam on yourself in your garage and started talking.
But the collection of videos on LawProse.org were shot at the Supreme Court and they star eight of the nine justices speaking passionately, sarcastically, angrily, into the camera as they answer questions about brief writing, oral advocacy and their own love-hate relationships with the written word.
Their interviewer, legal writing guru Bryan Garner, quietly posted the eight videos on the Web site in January. Garner has interviewed dozens of judges, lawyers and writers over the years, seeking video clips for use in his profitable legal writing seminars. But he realized the interviews with the justices, conducted a year ago or more, were a unique treasure that he should not profit from, so he put them up without restriction, editing, fee or fanfare.
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For her part, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg learned writing from the great Vladimir Nabokov at Cornell. Asked by Garner if she had stayed in contact with Nabokov after college, she smiles and says, "Not after he wrote 'Lolita' and he made a huge success and went off to Switzerland to catch butterflies."
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