I’m Ellen Swain. I’ve made my living off crime for years. Once I stopped dating juvenile delinquents, I started representing them in court. I’ve worked as a lifeguard, a law professor, a playwright, a newspaper reporter and a judicial law clerk. I’m revising my first crime novel and writing a book to help students with learning differences navigate law school. I am equally interested in saints, sages and sociopaths. Beauty and darkness.
What factors into a judge’s decision or a justice at the U.S. Supreme Court? In his book, How Judge’s Think, Richard Posner, a justice & law professor pulls back the curtain. A link to my book review appears in the Vermont Bar Journal: http://content.yudu.com/A1v0ib/VBAJournalFall2011/resources/40.htm
Book Review of The Reflective Counselor: Daily Meditations for Lawyers by F. Gregory Coffey & Maureen C. Kessler, American Bar Association, 2008. Review appeared in Fall, 2009 Issue of the Vermont Bar Journal. http://www.vtbar.org/images/journal/journalarticles/fall2009/BookReviews.pdf
I’m Ellen Swain. I’ve made my living off crime for years. Once I stopped dating juvenile delinquents, I started representing them in court. I’ve worked as a lifeguard, a law professor, a playwright, a newspaper reporter and a judicial law clerk. I’m revising my first crime novel and writing a book to help students with learning differences navigate law school. I am equally interested in saints, sages and sociopaths. Beauty and darkness. Humor and tragedy. Read about it on my blog here: Murder, Wonder & Amazement. On Twitter: @ellensv. Contact Me at eswain.sf[at]gmail.com.
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