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1(1961) N.Y.S.B.J. 419, 423.] Layfolk
and lawyers may overlook the
effort and the agony that go into
the preparation of a judgment.
Judge Irvine R. Kaufman of the
United States Court of Appeal put
the issue succinctly: "There is an
agony, no less severe, because it is
intellectual rather than physical, in
dealing with problems that have no
neat r eso l u t i ons, t h at
de fy
precision, that mock f i na l i t y ".
[(1970) 45 N.Y. U.L. Rev. 716.] It is
an agony that the judges cannot
pass.
Boswell, in the ardour of ambition
for literary fame, regretted to Dr.
Johnson that an eminent judge had
no literary ability and therefore
would leave no perpetual monu-
ment of himself to posterity. "Alas,
Sir" (said Johnson), " wh a t mass of
confusion should we have, if every
Bishop and every Judge, every
lawyer, physician and Divine, were
to write books". Professor Casey is
too young for your reviewer to
suggest that
Constitutional
Law in
Ireland
is the author's perpetual
monument of himself to posterity.
But Professor Casey's book can
most usefully be added to the library
of any law maker, law declarer,
practitioner and law student.
Eamonn G. Hall
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