Title: Impressive Legal Lady, Lacking Legal Prose
Product review: O'Connor writes with her usual clarity and simplicity, which makes her thoughts and theories very easy to follow. The prose is not especially moving, but Supreme Court Justices are chosen for the quality of their reasoning and not for their artistic or literary talents.Lawyers, judges, and law grads will find large chunks of this book to be basic rehashes of things that were pounded into their skulls over three years of con law, civ pro, and so on. But it is still interesting to see what a Supreme Court Justice picks as the noteworthy events and aspects of our justice system. It would have been nice to have more of O'Connor's views and analysis instead of historical fact presented with little or no comment. Presumably this was done to make the discussion more accessible to lay people.Mildly interesting, but overall disappointing for a reader already familiar with the US court system.
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