![]() ![]() Three days later, I finished the book, dazed and awed. ![]() It is the one indispensable book.” As an obedient law student, I marched to Harvard Square, bought a Penguin Classics edition of BLEAK HOUSE, and started to read. Anyone engaged with law should read BLEAK HOUSE. He raised his hands like Moses getting ready to part the Red Sea in “The Ten Commandments” and proclaimed, “All of you should read BLEAK HOUSE. Then he demanded, “How may of you have read BLEAK HOUSE?” Only a handful of students raised their hands I was not among them. ![]() He looked at his 150 confused students and repeated, with emphasis, “Jarndyce and Jarndyce,” hoping to jog our memories. In passing, he mentioned “a real Jarndyce and Jarndyce situation.” Suddenly the spell broke, and he was aware of it. Miller, was stalking the lecture hall, discussing an issue of complex litigation, holding us in rapt attention. The grand master of procedure, Professor Arthur R. The first time that I encountered Charles Dickens’s BLEAK HOUSE was in the spring of 1978, in my first-year civil procedure course at Harvard Law School. ![]() Bernstein, Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Law, New York Law School. By Charles Dickens, (edited by George Ford and Sylvere Monod). ![]()
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