Suppose that while browsing in the bookstore you run across a book called Great Left-handed Jurists in American History. Or maybe Great Bald Jurists in American History. These books will no doubt strike you as odd. What sense do these criteria make as a way of selecting legal figures for study? What does left-handedness, or baldness, have to do with jurisprudence, or with law?
The book I just finished reading has a different principle of selection, and a different title: Great Christian Jurists in American History.
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