In Print Law School alumni have written and published books on a wide variety of topics in recent months. If you have written a new book and want to tell us about it, please mail all pertinent information to UVA Lawyer, 580 Massie Road, Charlottesville, VA 22903; fax it to 434/296-4838; or e-mail it to lawalum@virginia.edu.
The latest collection of short stories by Auchincloss "map a vivid New York century, a world of social privilege, through a series of engaging personal accounts," according to publisher Houghton Mifflin. "The story 'All That May Become a Man' focuses on a son's failure to meet the expectations of his adventurer father, a war hero. … In 'The Justice Clerk' a Wall Street tax attorney recalls his days of disillusionment as a young Washington law clerk." Raised in New York City, Auchincloss has published more than fifty critically acclaimed volumes of fiction, history, biography, and literary criticism, in addition to practicing law for forty years. His first novel, The Indifferent Children, was published in 1947.
Sapphire's Grave starts in 1749 in Sierra Leone, when slavers capture a fiercely strong woman and force her onto a slave ship. On the journey to the Americas, she becomes known for her unrelenting will. When she arrives in the New World she gives birth to Sapphire, who is strong and defiant like her mother. Follow the lives of Sapphire and her descendants where, writes Doubleday, "Gurley-Highgate not only creates a poignant and engrossing saga of black women in America, she brilliantly illuminates the meaning of roots and the links between women and their female ancestors." The author practices law in Detroit; this first novel will be in bookstores in January.
Amateur sleuth Shep Harrington, the protagonist in the first of the Shep Harrington SmallTown Mysteries, Lonesome Song, is a disbarred and divorced attorney. He lost his wife and his career after spending three years in prison for a white-collar crime he didn't commit. The distrustful Harrington returns to his mother's hometown in rural Virginia and finds a local-boy-turned-country- star dead by alleged suicide. Harrington doesn't buy suicide as the cause of death, but no one outside of a small circle of the singer's friends seems to care. The answers lie in the town's past, a past most people would rather not talk about. Elliott Light is writing the second in the series now, and practices law with Roberts, Abokhair, and Mardula in Reston, VA. The second book in the series, Chain Thinking, is due out in 2003. See www.smalltownmysteries.com for more on the SmallTown Mysteries. Nonfiction
"Bernstein shows that much of the culture that surrounds American football, both good and bad, has its roots in the Ivy League. The college fight song is an Ivy League creation (Yale's was written by Cole Porter), as are the marching bands that play them. With their long winning streaks and impressive victories, Ivy teams started a national obsession with football … But football was almost abolished early on because of violence in Ivy games, and it took President Theodore Roosevelt to mediate disagreements about rough play in order for football to remain a college sport. … Although Ivy League football and its ancient rivalries have disappeared from big-time sports by their own accord, their legacy remains with every snap of the ball," according to Penn Press. Bernstein, a journalist and lawyer, draws a weekly comic strip about lawyers in the New York Law Journal and San Francisco Recorder. |
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Choice of Law for American Courts:
A Multilateralist Method (Contributions in Legal Studies) In his book, Fruehwald says the state of American choice-of-law today lies somewhere between disarray and chaos. He advocates a method for determining what law should govern conflict that is both forum- and content-neutral and that respects the rights of individuals and states. The book earned Fruehwald the Stessin Prize, awarded annually by Hofstra University to non-tenured faculty scholars. The author is a legal writing instructor at Hofstra University School of Law.
Perkins has written possibly the only
book that explores the legal and business sides of the professional
wrestling industry. "Pro wrestling has evolved over
the past twenty years, from its blue collar 'wrasslin' roots,
to unprecedented levels of success and exposure in the mainstream
media," says the publisher. "Professional wrestling
is perhaps the most intriguing, controversial, and misunderstood
form of sports entertainment today." Perkins is a corporate
and sports law attorney in Richmond. The book is available
now at www.1stbooks.com.
An autobiography that follows Sanders's early years in Princeton, Marine Corps service during World War II, general staff service of the occupation government in Berlin, and law practice in West Virginia. The book chronicles a life and comes complete with a rural lawyer's reflections on family life, civil rights, and environmental concerns. This title, as well as most of Sanders's eleven titles on the history and settlement of families and areas in Virginia and West Virginia, are available at www.mcclainprinting.com.
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Manhattan
Monologues
Sapphire's
Grave
Lonesome
Song
Football:
The Ivy League Origins of an American Obsession
"In
the coldest reaches of northern Minnesota, a group of women
endured a shocking degree of sexual harassment-until one
of them stepped forward and sued the company that had turned
a blind eye to their pleas for help. Jenson vs. Eveleth
Mines, the first sexual harassment class action in America,
permanently changed the legal landscape as well as the lives
of the women who fought the battle. Clara Bingham and Laura
Leedy Gansler take readers on a fascinating, page-turning
journey, the roller-coaster ride … shows us that Class
Action is not just one woman's story, it's every woman's
legacy," says Doubleday. Laura Leedy Gansler specializes
in alternative dispute resolution and securities law. Clara
Bingham is a former White House correspondent for Newsweek
and wrote Women On the Hill: Challenging the Culture of
Congress. 
Moore
and Turner state "it is critically important for Americans
to look back and reassess what really happened in Vietnam."
The volume features lessons contributed by senior diplomats,
retired military officers, experts on Vietnamese Communism,
and senior scholars of history, political science, and law,
according to the publisher. "Various myths that continue
to influence American thinking about Vietnam are corrected;
the idea that the U.S. military and CIA were intentionally
engaged in 'war crimes' is laid to rest; and military legal
experts address the tragic realities of My Lai and measures
taken to prevent reoccurrence." Turner co-founded and
is Associate Director of the Center for National Security
Law at the Law School, where Moore is the Walter L. Brown
Professor of Law, as well as the Center's Director. The
book is available at 
