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THE ADVENTURE OF THE
NORWOOD BUILDER
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introduction by Andrew Jay Peck
and annotations by
Hadar Aviram, Cattleya M. Concepcion,
Joshua Cumby, Geoffrey B. Fehling,
Clifford S. Goldfarb, Robert M. Jarvis,
Guy Marriott, Ira Brad Matetsky,
Albert M. Rosenblatt, and
Julia Rosenblatt
“It  is  proverbially  a  mistake    
for  a  judge  to  give  his  reasons,    
but  I  have  analysed  mine    
if  only  to  show  .  .  .    
that  I  really  have  taken    
some  trouble  in  the  matter.”  
A.  Conan  Doyle,*  
How  I  Made  My  List,  
STRAND  MAGAZINE,  
June  1927,  at  611,  612  

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*Arthur  Conan  Doyle  (1859-­‐‑1930)  —  physician,  writer,  entrepreneur  (see  Jon  Lellen-­‐‑
berg,  Daniel  Stashower  &  Charles  Foley,  Arthur  Conan  Doyle:  A  Life  in  Letters  (2007);  
Daniel  Stashower,  Teller  of  Tales:  The  Life  of  Arthur  Conan  Doyle  (1999)),  and  literary  
agent  (see  William  S.  Baring-­‐‑Gould,  Sherlock  Holmes  of  Baker  Street:  A  Life  of  the  
World’s  First  Consulting  Detective  (1962);  cf.  Mrs.  Bradshaw’s  Handbook  6  (2014)).
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ABLES OF ONTENTS
Preface  ....................................................................................................................  3  
Recommended  Reading  .....................................................................................  16  
Call  for  Annotations:  “The  Reigate  Puzzle”  ...................................................  20  
READER
OF EXEMPLARY LEGAL WRITING 2014
✯ OPINIONS FOR THE COURT ✯
FRANK H. EASTERBROOK
National Organization for Women, Inc. v. Scheidler
750 F.3d 696 (7th Cir. 2014) ...................................................... 287
NEIL M. GORSUCH
Yellowbear v. Lampert, 741 F.3d 48 (10th Cir. 2014) ............................ 203
RICHARD A. POSNER
Baskin v. Bogan, 766 F.3d 648 (7th Cir. 2014) ................................... 356
JOHN G. ROBERTS, JR.
Riley v. California, 134 S.Ct. 2473 (2014) ........................................ 423
DIANE P. WOOD
Empress Casino Joliet Corp. v. Johnston, 763 F.3d 723 (7th Cir. 2014) ......... 451
✯ CONCURRENCES, DISSENTS, ETC. ✯
EMILIO M. GARZA
Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, 758 F.3d 633 (5th Cir. 2014) ........... 263
RICHARD C. TALLMAN
Henry v. Ryan, 766 F.3d 1059 (9th Cir. 2014) ................................... 503
DON R. WILLETT
El-Ali v. State, 428 S.W.3d 824 (Tex. 2014) ..................................... 109
✯ BOOKS ✯
JOAN BISKUPIC
Breaking In: The Rise of Sonia Sotomayor and the Politics of Justice
(Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2014) ...................... 173
BRYAN A. GARNER
Black’s Law Dictionary (10th edition) (Thomson Reuters 2014) ............... 295
LAURENCE TRIBE AND JOSHUA MATZ
Uncertain Justice: The Roberts Court and the Constitution
(Henry Holt and Co. 2014) ......................................................... 385
GREEN BAG ALMANAC & READER 2015
✯ LONG ARTICLES ✯
TOBY J. HEYTENS
Reassignment, 66 Stanford Law Review 1 (2014) ................................ 513
ANDREW NORRIS
A Maelstrom of International Law and Intrigue:
The Remarkable Voyage of the S.S. City of Flint
54 American Journal of Legal History 73 (2014) ................................ 311
✯ NEWS & EDITORIAL ✯
DAVID COLE
Can Privacy Be Saved?, New York Review of Books (March 6, 2014) ......... 471
LINDA GREENHOUSE
With All Due Deference, New York Times (July 23, 2014) ...................... 245
ADAM LIPTAK
The Polarized Court, New York Times (May 10, 2014) .......................... 163
✯ MISCELLANY ✯
DREW JUSTICE
Response to Government’s Motion in Limine Two, State v. Powell
(Cir. Ct. Williamson County, Tenn. [2013]) (No. I-CR-086639-B) ........ 347
JON R. MUTH AND PATRICK M. JAICOMO
Amicus Curiae Brief of the Students of Father Gabriel Richard
High School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, People v. Carp
852 N.W.2d 801 (Mich. 2014), 2014 WL 814722 ............................ 481
ILYA SHAPIRO
Brief of Amici Curiae Cato Institute and P.J. O’Rourke in
Support of Petitioners, Susan B. Anthony List v. Driehaus
134 S.Ct. 2334 (2014), 2014 WL 880942 ....................................... 229
ALMANAC
OF USEFUL & ENTERTAINING TIDBITS
LAST YEAR & THIS YEAR
The  Year  2014  in  Language  &  Writing,  featuring  The  Most  Mortifying  
Solecisms  in  2014  Law  Reviews,  by  Bryan  A.  Garner  ...............................  21  
The  Year  in  Law,  by  Gregory  F.  Jacob  &  Rakesh  Kilaru  .....................................  40  
A  Term  in  the  Life  of  the  Supreme  Court,  by  Tony  Mauro  ............................  79  
A  Year  of  Lowering  the  Bar,  by  Kevin  Underhill  ..............................................  88  
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TABLES OF CONTENTS
The  Year  2015  
January  .........................................................................................................  105  
February  .......................................................................................................  169  
March  ...........................................................................................................  199  
April  ..............................................................................................................  241  
May  ...............................................................................................................  283  
June  ...............................................................................................................  307  
July  ................................................................................................................  345  
August  ..........................................................................................................  381  
September  ....................................................................................................  421  
October  .........................................................................................................  449  
November  ....................................................................................................  479  
December.  ....................................................................................................  511  
USEFUL & ENTERTAINING TIDBITS:
SHERLOCKIANA
The  Sherlockian  Atlas  (1952),  by  Julian  Wolff  ...........................................  passim  
Scenes  from  a  Young  Lawyer’s  Salvation:  The  Geography  and    
Scenery  of  a  Sherlock  Holmes  Mystery,    
by  Ross  E.  Davies  &  Cattleya  M.  Concepcion  ..................................................  1  
The  Adventure  of  the  Norwood  Builder:  A  Lawyerly  Annotated  Edition,    
by  Arthur  Conan  Doyle  ................................................................................  116  
Introduction:  The  Dating  of  “The  Adventure  of  the  Norwood  Builder,”  
 by  Andrew  Jay  Peck  ...............................................................................  119  
annotations  by  Hadar  Aviram,  Cattleya  M.  Concepcion,  Joshua  Cumby,    
Ross  E.  Davies,  Geoffrey  B.  Fehling,  Clifford  S.  Goldfarb,  Robert  M.  Jarvis,  
Guy  Marriott,  Ira  Brad  Matetsky,  Albert  M.  Rosenblatt  &    
Julia  Rosenblatt  ..................................................................................  123-­‐‑162  
An  Embarrassing  Mis-­‐‑Conanization  ..............................................................  168  
The  Adventure  of  the  Norwood  Builder  (MS.  excerpts  1903),    
by  Arthur  Conan  Doyle  ................................................................................  192  
introduction  by  Jon  Lellenberg  ......................................................................  192  
A  Postcard  from  London  .................................................................................  198  
The  Adventure  of  the  Norwood  Builder:  First  U.S.  Printing  (1903)  
by  A.  Conan  Doyle  ........................................................................................  220  
Letter  to  the  Green  Bag,  by  Ilya  Shapiro  ...........................................................  228  
The  Adventure  of  the  Norwood  Builder:  First  U.K.  Printing  (1903)  
by  A.  Conan  Doyle  ........................................................................................  248  
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