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13 Conn. L. Rev. 651 (1980-1981)
The Poor's Right to Equal Access to the Courts

handle is hein.journals/conlr13 and id is 665 raw text is: CONNECTICUT LAW REVIEW VOLUmE 13 SUMMER 1981 NUMBER 4 THE POORS RIGHT TO EQUAL ACCESS TO THE COURTS* by Jack B. Weinstein** It is a great honor to receive this award from this distinguished law review. Some years ago when I appeared here to speak with your predecessors on local rule making, suggestions of students and faculty added greatly to my understanding of the issues.' Once again, my wife and I are most appreciative recipients of your generosity. As a former editor of your sister law review at Columbia, I re- member well how critical student editors can be of the works of oth- ers. In the course of years, I have had further contact With editors of various reviews to which I have submitted pieces from time to time. Although no one ever quite put it to me this way, I have often sus- pected from their communications that those editing my work have felt about my drafts much as the eighteenth century wit felt about Gibbon's Decline and Fall when he suggested that there could be no better exercise for a schoolboy than to turn a page of it into English.2 In short, I have known the sting of that marvelous creature, the law review: now, after some years, I am privileged to taste of its honey. It is sweet indeed and well worth the wait. To this moment I do not know how I came--quite undeservedly * Delivered at the ceremony honoring Judge Jack B. Weinstein as the recipient of the 1981 Connecticut Law Review Award, April 22, 1981. ** Chief United States District Judge, Eastern District of New York; Adjunct Professor of Law, Columbia University. My law clerks, Emily M. Altman and James H. Lehmann were most helpful in gather- ing materials for this speech. 1. J. WFNsTEN, REFORMt OF COURT RULE-MAKING PROCEDURES (1977). 2. THE OxOIRD BOOK OF LrrERARY ANECDOTES 132 (J. Sutherland ed. 1975).

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