Piero Calamandrei

Eulogy of Judges Piero Calamandrei

Originally published: Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1946. viii [new preface], [viii], 88 pp. With a New Preface by Jacob A. Stein, Partner, Stein, Mitchell & Mezines LLP, Washington, DC. Reprint of the first American edition. First published in Italian in 1936, this is a collection of maxims, anecdotes and observations on the nature of law and justice by a professor of legal procedure at the University of Florence. Some chapters are: On the Faith of Judges, The Prime Requisite of Lawyers; On Etiquette (Or Discretion) in The Court; On the Relationship Between the Lawyer and the Truth, or on the Necessary Partisanship of the Lawyer. With a new preface by Jacob A. Stein, prominent Washington D. C. trial lawyer and author of Legal Spectator & More (2003) and other titles.