Jerold Auerbach (born 1936) is an American historian and professor emeritus of history at Wellesley College. His work principally addresses the modern history of the legal profession, Native Americans, and Israel and the Jewish people.

Auerbach earned the B.A. at Oberlin College and the Ph.D. at Columbia University in 1965.[1] He taught at Queens College and at Brandeis University before joining the Wellesley faculty in 1971.[1]

Writing in the Harvard Law Review, Judge Charles Edward Wyzanski, Jr., described Auerbach's Unequal Justice (1976) as having, "a cogency built on careful scholarship not impaired by fanaticism."[2] Not all reviews were as complimentary. Yale Law School professor Joseph W. Bishop, writing in Commentary, accused Auerbach of having "marred his argument by suggestion of the false, suppression of the true, distortion of his adversaries' arguments, and the frequent use of half-truth and sometimes simple untruth".[3] A New York Times book review by Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz was more favorable.[4]

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References

  1. ^ a b "Jerold Auerbach (faculty page)". Wellesley.edu. Retrieved October 1, 2015.
  2. ^ a b Wyzanski, Charles (November 1976). "Unequal Justice: Lawyers and Social Change in Modern America". Harvard Law Review. 90 (1): 283. doi:10.2307/1340307. JSTOR 1340307.
  3. ^ Bishop, Joseph W. "Unequal Justice, by Jerold S. Auerbach". Commentary Magazine: Archive. Commentary. Retrieved July 11, 2020.
  4. ^ Dershowitz, Alan. "Unequal Justice (1/25/1976)". The New York Times. Retrieved August 28, 2021.
  5. ^ Klein, Morton (Summer 2011). "Hebron Jews Memory and Conflict in the Land of Israel". Middle East Quarterly. 18 (3). Retrieved October 1, 2015.
  6. ^ Steele, Eric (Winter 1984). "Book Review: Morality, Legality, and Dispute Processing: Auerbach's "Justice Without Law?"". American Bar Foundation Research Journal. 9 (1): 189. JSTOR 828308.
  7. ^ Schwartz, Paul (Spring 1983). "Justice without Law? (book review)". Yale Law & Policy Review. 1 (2): 426. JSTOR 40239150.
  8. ^ "Unequal Justice. By Jerold S. Auerbach. Oxford University Press, New York 1976. Pp. 395" (PDF).
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