Washburn Law Journal
Editor's Note
Volume 39, No. 2 (Winter 2000)
The second issue of the Washburn Law Journal provides unique perspective and insight into the development of the law and the effect it has on the lawyers who litigate the cases. The lead article written by Edward J. Larson entitled Tales of Death: Storytelling in the Physician Assisted Suicide Litigation, explores how the stories of litigants influence the fabric of the law. More specifically, the article focuses on how both the defendants' and the plaintiffs' personal stories of triumph and tragedy affected the decisions of the courts in Vacco v. Quill and Washington v. Glucksburg. Mr. Larson is this year's Foulston & Siefkin lecturer.
The final three pieces focus on the often untold stories of the lawyers who litigate these cases. In Brown v. Board of Education: Concluding Unfinished Business, Richard E. Jones provides an account of his role in the most momentous civil rights cases in our history--Brown v. Board of Education. Next, in A Discrete and Insular Minority, Kirk Lowry recounts his client's struggles in Murphy v. United Parcel Service, Inc., one of the trilogy of ADA cases decided last term by the United States Supreme Court. Finally, Professor Bruce Levine, in Conversations, reflects on his career in the law and how people in this profession including his students have influenced his life and what he hopes he has passed on to each of them.
B.R.M.
