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About the Author
Joel Cohen is a highly respected white collar criminal defense lawyer in New York. He was, for 10 years previously, a prosecutor with the New York State Special Prosecutor's Office and then with the U.S. Justice Department's Organized Crime & Racketeering Section in the Eastern District of New York. He resides in New York City, NY.
Reviews
In Blindfolds Off: Judges on How They Decide (American Bar Association), Joel Cohen doggedly strips the veil from the bloodless effigy of justice in 13 remarkably revealing interviews with federal jurists from New York and elsewhere. Mr. Cohen tactfully but tenaciously demonstrates his skills as a white-collar criminal defense lawyer with Stroock & Stroock & Lavan in a Q.-and-A. format punctuated by rare insight into the brainstorming process behind the proverbial blindfold. -- Sam Roberts The New York Times Blindfolds Off is a surprising, fascinating and unusually candid examination of what judges think-told in their own words. -- Jeffrey Toobin, author of The Nine and The Oath The New Yorker Joel Cohen's brilliant book Blindfolds Off is an essential guide to one of the best kept secrets of our legal system: namely that it is we the public, rather than the judges, who are wearing the blindfolds. Judges make their decisions in secret, and the processes they use to decide are also secret. This book, which exposes these secrets, is an essential tool of democracy, visibility and accountability. -- Alan M. Dershowitz, professor, Harvard Law School; author of Taking the Stand: My Life in the Law For every lawyer, law student and even judge who wonders what judges really think when deciding a case, this book will be a revelation. Cohen is a skillful and dogged interlocutor and his judges are surprisingly candid and realistic. Blindfolds Off gives you the opportunity to listen in on judicial thinking in one high profile case after another. -- Dahlia Lithwick, Senior Editor, slate.com Slate Blindfolds Off takes a revealing and fascinating look at what judges bring to their cases and how they decide them. In no-holds-barred interviews-cross-examinations might be a better term-of federal judges about significant and highly controversial cases that came before them, the role of the judiciary is explored in an engaging and arresting manner. -- Floyd Abrams, Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP
Book Information
ISBN 9781627226790
Author Joel Cohen
Format Paperback
Page Count 339
Imprint American Bar Association
Publisher American Bar Association