Book Review: The Sense of Injustice

Man\u27s ancient struggle against injustice has produced a great varietyof works - tracts contagious in their passion, treatises profound in insight,and textbooks that bravely try to teach the unteachable andunscrew the inscrutable. Professor Cahn\u27s little volume falls into noneof these categories. It is something that is half-prose and half-poetry.Perhaps its best place on a shelf of law books would be between Pollock\u27sThe Genius of the Common Law and Cardozo\u27s Law and Literature.It is a vivid account of what happens in a man\u27s heart when heseeks to right an injustice. It is studded with piquant phrases nicelyturned, with quotations from the world\u27s great books, and with novelanalogies calculated to stimulate, alike, the tired student and the jadedlawyer. But the flavor of the book is more easily conveyed by excerptsthan by description