These reminiscences focus on the eleven years, from 1972 to 1983, that Frank M. Coffin of Maine was the Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. While Coffin’s judicial career extended over more than forty years, I chose this period because it was a time when his influence over the court’s work was at its peak, as well as because he himself later singled it out as a “judicial Garden of Eden,” during which the First Circuit enjoyed its status as the last remaining three-judge federal court of appeals in the nation
Judge Coffin is an inspiration on so many levels for all of us. But just at this very moment in my o...
Judge Coffin had adopted the University of Maine School of Law as if it were his own. He was a commi...
Early in his judicial career, Judge Coffin proffered the concept of “workability” as one of the core...
These reminiscences focus on the eleven years, from 1972 to 1983, that Frank M. Coffin of Maine was ...
The Editorial Board and Staff of Volume 43 of the Maine Law Review enthusiastically dedicate this is...
The Editorial Board and Staff of Volume 43 of the Maine Law Review enthusiastically dedicate this is...
In December 1980, when I became a First Circuit judge, the United States Court of Appeals was compos...
The Editorial Board and Staff of Volume 43 of the Maine Law Review enthusiastically dedicate this is...
In his memoir, Life and Times in the Three Branches, Judge Coffin recounts the history of the instit...
The Editorial Board and Staff of Volume 43 of the Maine Law Review enthusiastically dedicate this is...
Judge Coffin, a former Chief Justice of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, a ...
What do you do when your judicial hero, the author of two important books on appellate judging, was ...
The Authors of this Article are engaged in a separate project to publish the full collection of law-...
Becoming Judge Coffin\u27s law clerk must be the most fortunate of conclusions to a legal education....
The following remarks were delivered on October 13, 1992, on the occasion of the first Frank M. Coff...
Judge Coffin is an inspiration on so many levels for all of us. But just at this very moment in my o...
Judge Coffin had adopted the University of Maine School of Law as if it were his own. He was a commi...
Early in his judicial career, Judge Coffin proffered the concept of “workability” as one of the core...
These reminiscences focus on the eleven years, from 1972 to 1983, that Frank M. Coffin of Maine was ...
The Editorial Board and Staff of Volume 43 of the Maine Law Review enthusiastically dedicate this is...
The Editorial Board and Staff of Volume 43 of the Maine Law Review enthusiastically dedicate this is...
In December 1980, when I became a First Circuit judge, the United States Court of Appeals was compos...
The Editorial Board and Staff of Volume 43 of the Maine Law Review enthusiastically dedicate this is...
In his memoir, Life and Times in the Three Branches, Judge Coffin recounts the history of the instit...
The Editorial Board and Staff of Volume 43 of the Maine Law Review enthusiastically dedicate this is...
Judge Coffin, a former Chief Justice of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, a ...
What do you do when your judicial hero, the author of two important books on appellate judging, was ...
The Authors of this Article are engaged in a separate project to publish the full collection of law-...
Becoming Judge Coffin\u27s law clerk must be the most fortunate of conclusions to a legal education....
The following remarks were delivered on October 13, 1992, on the occasion of the first Frank M. Coff...
Judge Coffin is an inspiration on so many levels for all of us. But just at this very moment in my o...
Judge Coffin had adopted the University of Maine School of Law as if it were his own. He was a commi...
Early in his judicial career, Judge Coffin proffered the concept of “workability” as one of the core...