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Reflections on the Fifth Amendment

In April I published an article entitled ”Problems of the Fifth Amendment” in the Fordham Law Review, a magazine of the legal profession. Among other things, the article took issue with a thesis advanced by Dean Erwin N. Griswold of the Harvard Law School in his pamphlet “The Fifth Amendment Today.” The article went unnoticed by the general public and most of the profession for a number of months, but after this period of incubation became the subject of comment and exposition by Time, the Saturday Evening Post, Fulton Lewis, Jr., and other publications and commentators.

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Reflections on the Fifth Amendment

In April I published an article entitled ”Problems of the Fifth Amendment” in the Fordham Law Review, a magazine of the legal profession. Among other things, the article took issue with a thesis advanced by Dean Erwin N. Griswold of the Harvard Law School in his pamphlet “The Fifth Amendment Today.” The article went unnoticed by the general public and most of the profession for a number of months, but after this period of incubation became the subject of comment and exposition by Time, the Saturday Evening Post, Fulton Lewis, Jr., and other publications and commentators.