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37 Touro L. Rev. 1945 (2021-2022)
Robert Cover's Love of Stories: A Rumination on His Wanting to Discuss the Brothers Karamazov with Me across Five Conversations during the Last Five Years of His Life, with an Application to the Chauvin Murder Trial of 2021

handle is hein.journals/touro37 and id is 1977 raw text is: ROBERT COVER'S LOVE OF STORIES: A RUMINATION ON HIS WANTING TO DiscUss THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV wrIi ME ACROSS FIVE CONVERSATIONS DURING THE LAST FIVE YEARS OF HIS LIFE, WITH AN APPLICATION TO THE CHAUVIN MURDER TRIAL OF 2021 Richard Weisberg* ABSTRACT The field of Law and Literature, perhaps more than any other area of legal studies, has been touched deeply by Robert Cover's life and work.' My interactions with Bob over the last half dozen years of * Richard H. Weisberg, Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Pittsburgh Law School and Floersheimer Chair Emeritus, Cardozo Law School. I would like to acknowledge the excellent assistance of the Touro Law Review editors and the hospitality of the faculty and the editors in welcoming my wife and myself in person to this symposium. Approaches taken by others at this Conference were not to the contrary. Professor Chin reported that a google search linking Robert Cover and Law and Literature yields many more hits than does any other scholarly connection to his work; and Professor Scharffs attempt to implicate Bob in the death of Law and Literature was first narrowed by him at the Conference to the Law as Literature-the move to interpretation within the discipline-and then further restricted to Bob's uneasiness with theories that insufficiently grasp the potential real-world consequences of judicial language. References in this paper to Law and Literature solely involve what otherwise might schematically be called Law in Literature, namely stories about law. The schematic division of the field is usually attributed to Robert Weisberg (no relation). See, e.g., Robert Weisberg, The Law-Literature Enterprise, 1 YALE J.L. & HUMAN. 1 (1989). Further and briefly at the outset, Robert Cover's skepticism about the Law as Literature never implicated even that whole sub- discipline, as he clearly linked himself familialy to the whole field. See infra Appendix, Illustration 5, for the first few paragraphs of his last, posthumously published article. He would have very much admired, I think, KENT GREENAWALT, 1945

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