'The Arrogance of Certainty': Trust, Confidentiality, and the Supreme Court
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1998Author
Drahozal, Christopher R.
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The University of Kansas School of Law
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Article
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This article reviews Edward P. Lazarus, Closed Chambers (Time Books 1998). In Closed Chambers, Lazarus recounts stories from his term as a Supreme Court law clerk from the perspectives of what he calls a “journalist-historian” as well as a “participant” and an “eyewitness.’” But it is precisely because Lazarus was a participant and an eyewitness to a number of the events in his book that it is improper for him to act as a “journalist-historian.” As a former law clerk to a United States Supreme Court Justice, Lazarus owes duties to his Justice and to the institution itself. One of those duties is to maintain the Court's confidences. Writing a book about the cases decided during one's time at the Court, as Lazarus has done, constitutes a profound breach of the obligations of a former clerk.
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Christopher R. Drahozal, 'The Arrogance of Certainty': Trust, Confidentiality, and the Supreme Court, 47 KAN. L. REV. 121 (1998).
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