The Judge

"...Although the book is primarily about the administration of justice through law in England, the issues and arguments are generally equally applicable to the American system. The author demonstrates a thorough familiarity with American and Continental judicial systems in the frequent comparisons he invokes. Indeed, the book goes to the heart of the issues that are the central concern of American Jurisprudence". - Philip B. Kurland, University of Chicago Law School. Patrick Arthur Devlin, Baron Devlin, PC (25 November 1905 - 9 August 1992) was a British lawyer, judge and jurist. He wrote a report on Britain's involvement in Nyasaland in 1959. In 1985 he became the first British judge to write a book about a case he had presided over, the 1957 trial of suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams.