INDEX
A
Adirondack Mountains, 186–191, 229, 234
Agnew, Spiro, 142
Alaska pipeline as abstraction, 136
court of appeals and, 100–101, 137
Exxon Valdez disaster and, 142, 201
Kramer and, 103
U.S. Supreme Court and, 137–138
“The Shallowest Man,” 237
Alpert, Richard. See Ram Dass Alyeska case. See Alaska pipeline American Bar Association, 149, 173, 193
American Council of Learned
Amsterdam, Tony, 74
Angels in America (Kushner), 241
antiapartheid struggle, 102
Armies of the Night, The (Mailer), 44
Arnold, Thurman, 29–30, 38, 46, 47, 78
Arnold & Porter
Folklore of Capitalism, The, 29
hiring committee of, 37–38, 86
politically controversial clients of, 27–28, 55
pro bono work of, 23, 41–42, 47, 49
routine business of, 11–12, 25–26, 33–34, 41, 50, 54, 64
arts
Nathan Cummings Foundation and, 213, 215–216
Aspen Institute, 105
assertiveness workshops, 119–120
Asylums (Goffman), 17
authority challenging of, 76, 115–116
CUNY Law School and, 171–172, 177
lawyer humor and, 177
B
Baez, Joan, 182
balanced life celebrating success and, 100
CLASP and, 85
CUNY Law School and, 178
family life and, 34, 35–36, 85
meditation and, 227
practice of wisdom and, 6, 7, 258, 259
Balancing the Scales of Justice, 137
Bazelon, David, 12–13, 14, 15, 19, 20, 21
Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, 267n.3. See also Mental Health Law Project
Berkeley Repertory Theater, 239
Boudin, Leonard, 45
Brooklyn Museum of Art, 216
Brower, David, 91–95, 97, 109, 111
Buddhism
Goleman on, 222
Jewish spirituality and, 220–221
right livelihood and, 6
Burnett, Grove, 229
Burns, Haywood, 200
Bush, George W., 105, 201, 246
Bush, Mirabai, 226
Compassion in Action, 223
C
California, subculture of, 113–114, 126
Campaign GM, 101
canoeing
CLASP retreats and, 123
exploring with, 253
meditation compared to, 182
reading currents and, 131–132, 147–148
releasing tension with, 177, 183
Canoe in the Rapids (Homer), 182
Cardozo, Benjamin, 246
Caroline or Change (Kushner), 239
Carson, Rachel, 101
Silent Spring, 58
Center for Contemplative Mind in Society, 226-227, 241, 251, 259
Center for Law and Social Policy. See CLASP (Center for Law and Social Policy)
change, constancy of. See also impermanence practice of wisdom and, 6
rivers and, 130
Children’s Defense Fund, 90
Cincinnati Museum of Contemporary Arts, 215
civil liberties, defense of, 57
civil rights
CLASP students and, 87
foundations’ support for, 71
mental illness and. See mental health and illness for racial minorities, 14
Civil Rights Act of 1964, 47
civil rights movement, 30–32, 44, 53, 57, 83, 212, 218
clarity of vision cultivation of, 136
meditation and, 227
paradoxes and, 68
practice of wisdom and, 6
vision quest and, 194
CLASP (Center for Law and Social Policy)
assessment of, 105
board of trustees, 62–64, 72, 73–74, 77
clinical legal education, 64–65, 67–70, 74–77, 86, 87, 88–90, 113–115
consciousness, community and, 78, 120, 122–127
corporate responsibility issues and, 101–102
dispersal of lawyers from, 136–137
environmental issues and, 72, 84, 91, 92–101, 105, 141, 218
foundations and, 55, 58–59, 61, 62, 64, 70–72, 77, 104, 210
Arthur Goldberg and, 63–64, 72, 95
interconnection and, 111
mental health issues and, 83–84, 89, 91
nonhierarchical approach of, 87, 103, 112, 115, 119–120
paradoxes of, 68
polarized thinking and, 107, 111, 120, 236
salaries and, 85
student program, 64–65, 67–70, 72, 74–77, 85–91, 113–115, 126–127, 145
successes of, 99–100, 107, 110, 245
yoga classes and, 126–127, 234
clinical legal education (CLASP) evaluation of, 75–76
experimental nature of, 89–90, 114–115
law schools’ interest in, 64–65, 67–70, 74–77, 88–89, 113
Cohen, Saul challenge to autonomy of CUNY
commitments of, 158
official residence of, 155
relationship with, 160, 161, 176–177, 182
search for CUNY Law School dean and, 144–145
vision for CUNY Law School, 158, 163
community
CUNY Law School and, 151, 171, 172, 174, 176
compassion
in legal analysis, 27
practice of wisdom and, 7, 232, 256, 259
social justice and, 207
Compassionate Action Working Group. See Wisdom Party consciousness, 112, 113, 227. See also meditation consciousness-raising workshops, 119–120
CORE (Congress of Racial
corporate law practice legal education and, 24, 57–58, 76
pro bono matters and, 33, 41–43, 46–47
public interest law contrasted with, 103
routine business of, 11–12, 25–26, 33–34, 50
corporate responsibility issues, 55, 101–102
Council for Public Interest Law, 137
Cowan, Geoffrey, 60, 81, 86, 137
Crown-Zellerbach Corporation, 31, 46–47
culture wars, 215
Cummings, Nathan, 209, 214. See also Nathan Cummings Foundation Cummings family, 209, 210–214, 215, 218, 220, 233
CUNY Law School accreditation of, 173, 193
challenges of leadership, 160–162, 173, 175–180, 191–192, 198–199, 211, 214, 245, 253
community and, 151, 171, 172, 174, 176
facilities for, 145, 158, 168, 179, 186, 213
faculty of, 149–150, 163–164, 168, 171, 172, 175, 176, 177, 185, 191, 193, 201
honorary degree recipients and, 173–174, 191
public interest law and, 143–149, 151–152, 153, 156, 158, 163, 165–166, 167, 170, 171, 176, 245
students of, 152, 159, 165, 166–171, 174, 175, 176, 177, 183, 185, 191, 193, 199–200
D
Dalai Lama, 1–3, 207, 220, 238
Democratic Convention of 1968, 53
Demos, 216
draft law. See Selective Service Law Reporter
Dred Scott decision, 170
Dubos, René, 101
E
emotional intelligence, 119, 222
Emotional Intelligence (Goleman), 222
Encounters with the Archdruid (McPhee), 91
environmental advocacy and law Alaska pipeline and, 92–101, 105, 141, 201
CLASP and, 72, 84, 91, 92–101, 105, 141, 218
Nathan Cummings Foundation and, 213, 216–218, 219, 222, 227–232, 234, 235
Environmental Defense Fund, 90, 101, 141
Etiquette of Illness, The (Susan)
Halpern), 255
ex-great-man syndrome, 72, 240
Exxon Valdez disaster, 142, 201
F
Fanghetto, Italy, 127–129, 190–191
fears, acknowledging of, 188–189
feminism, 44, 87, 121, 169, 219
Folklore of Capitalism, The (Arnold), 29
Ford Foundation, 56, 71, 212, 213
foundations. See also philanthro-phy; Nathan Cummings Foundation Brooklyn Museum of Art and, 216
CLASP and, 55, 58–59, 61, 62, 64, 70–72, 77, 104, 210
corporate model for, 234
entrepreneurial ability and, 24
flattery and money, 213, 214, 217, 224, 239–240
interconnections and, 216
Nielson on, 213
public interest law and, 137
social justice and, 55, 71, 77, 90, 210–211
types of work styles and, 210
Free Southern Theater, 31
Friedman, Gary, 248
Friends of the Earth, 95
Furness, Betty, 101
G
Gandhi, Mohandis, 207
Gay Men’s Health Crisis, 171
Georgetown Law School, 138
Giuliani, Rudy, 216
Goffman, Erving
Asylums, 17
Rouse case and, 18
Goldberg, Arthur, 63–64, 72, 95
Goldstein, Joseph, 223, 229–231, 232
Emotional Intelligence, 222
Goodman, Paul, 44
How Can I Help?, 223
Greening of America, The (Reich), 50
guided visualizations, 140–141
H
Halpern, Bob (son), 186, 190, 191
Halpern, Hon. Philip (father)
Halpern, Susan (wife) Asian trip, 200–201
on career turning point, 49, 50, 51
on CUNY Law School, 160
Etiquette of Illness, The, 255
meditation and, 182, 202–205, 238, 255
Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and, 236–238, 239, 254–256
social work career of, 148
West Virginia cabin and, 129–130
Harvard Law School, 64–65, 67–70, 71
Healing and the Mind (Moyers), 226
health system. See also mental health and illness human subjects and, 102, 247
Nathan Cummings Foundation and, 213–214, 222–223, 225–226, 234, 236–237
stem cell research and, 246–249
Healy, Tim (President, Georgetown University), 146–148, 167, 175, 176
Higginbotham, Hon. Leon, 173–174
Holtzoff, Alexander, 19, 20, 21–22, 23
Homer, Winslow, Canoe in the Rapids, 182
How Can I Help? (Ram Dass & Gorman), 223
humanistic psychology seminar
I
Illich, Ivan, 44
impermanence
practice of wisdom and, 6, 232
inner explorations. See also meditation medicine wheel, 194–196, 198–199, 241, 254–255
Nathan Cummings Foundation and, 222, 233–234
practice of wisdom and, 5
process of, 4
skeptical voice, 193, 194, 196
inner knowing, 36
Insight Meditation Society, 223
insights sharing of, 5
solitude and, 135
taking wider view and, 109
Winter Quest and, 187
Institute for Policy Studies, 43–45, 71
Institute for Public Representation, 138
Institute of Medicine, 247
interbeing, 228
interconnection
Buddhism and, 205
CLASP and, 111
environmental advocacy and, 227–228, 230, 231
foundations and, 216
natural world and, 4–5, 191, 192, 193, 203, 228–230
practice of wisdom and, 6, 232
Interior Department, 93, 95, 97–98, 99, 100, 141–142
J
Jastrab, Joseph, 186–190, 193–198
Jew in the Lotus, The (Kamenetz), 220
Jewish Healing Center, 219
Jewish life program, Nathan
Cummings Foundation, 213, 218–219, 221
Jewish meditation, 219, 233, 242
Jewish philanthropy, 218, 219, 221
Jewish Renewal communities, 219
Jewish spirituality, 213, 219–222
Johnson, Lyndon, 29, 30, 45, 46, 71, 83
K
Kamenetz, Rodger, The Jew in the Lotus, 220
Katz, Stan, 167
Kesey, Ken, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, 10, 17
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 48, 53, 202, 207
Kolleck, Teddy, 214
Kornfield, Jack, 223
Kramer, Victor, 27–28, 37, 103–104, 138
Angels in America, 241
Caroline or Change, 239
L
Laing, R. D., 10
Lawyers Constitutional Defense
leadership
CLASP and, 76, 78, 84, 85, 115–116
CUNY Law School and, 185
development of, 84
new generation of, 105
Tavistock conference on, 116–119
legal analysis compassion in, 27
legal education. See also clinical legal education; CUNY Law School; and other specific law schools corporate law practice and, 24, 57–58, 76
Ford Foundation and, 71
mental health and illness issues and, 14–15
personal/professional integration and, 112
public interest law and, 75, 143–144
social justice and, 24, 56, 65
Legal Services program, 58
Lerner, Michael, 219
Long Island Expressway, 153–154, 191
Lowell, Robert, 44
M
Mailer, Norman, 44
The Armies of the Night, 44
Mandela, Nelson, 207
Manes, Donald, 155–157, 160, 164, 165
Mapplethorpe, Robert, 215
marriage balanced life and, 35–36
feminist movement and, 121–122
Marshall, Thurgood, 14, 23, 54
Mathiessen, Peter, 228
McPhee, John, Encounters with the Archdruid, 91
medicine wheel, 194–196, 198–199, 241, 254–255
meditation. See also inner exploration beginning meditation, 181–183, 231
cultivation of wisdom and, 4, 6
daily practice, 4, 189, 192, 199, 202, 203, 206, 227, 231, 253
environmental advocacy and, 227–232
Goleman on, 222
interbeing and, 228
Jewish meditation, 219, 233, 242
Jewish spirituality and, 220
for lawyers, 227, 241, 242–245, 246
Nathan Cummings Foundation and, 231, 232–233, 234
retreats, 202–207, 228, 229–232, 241, 242–245, 246, 253
mental health and illness Bazelon’s work on, 12–14
legal advocacy and, 9–11, 15–16, 17, 22–24, 89, 91, 102–103, 247
rights of mentally ill, 23, 55
right to treatment litigation and, 24
treatment for, 10, 13, 15, 16, 17–18, 21, 22
Mental Health Law Project (Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law), 102, 179
mental hospitals, conditions of, 10, 13, 14, 16–18, 19, 102, 247
mental institutions, constitutional protections and, 22, 24
mental retardation right to public education and, 91
right to treatment and, 24, 102
scientific experiments and, 102, 247
Merton, Thomas, 257
mind-body approaches, 223, 225–226, 234
Mineral Leasing Act of 1926, 97, 98
Mississippi Freedom Summer, 30
Moore, James William, 56
Moorman, Jim, 59, 91–92, 94, 96–98, 99, 136–137
Healing and the Mind, 226
Muir, John, 91
Murphy, Joe, 155, 159–160, 162, 164
music improvisation workshop, 183–185
N
NAACP, 57
NAACP Legal Defense and
Nathan Cummings Foundation. See also foundations; philosophy arts and, 209, 213, 215–216
Dalai Lama meeting and, 2
environmental advocacy and, 209, 213, 216–218, 219, 222, 227–232, 234, 235
health system and, 209, 213–214, 222–223, 225–226, 234, 236–237
inner exploration and, 222, 233–234
Jewish life and, 209, 213, 218–219, 221
Jewish spirituality and, 213, 219–222
meditation and, 231, 232–233, 234
program areas of, 209, 211, 213–214
program development, 215–216, 221, 252–253
program evaluation and, 235–236
social justice and, 210–211, 212, 221, 236, 253
National Environmental Policy
National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice, 108
National Religious Partnership for the Environment, 222
National Women’s Law Center, 120
National Women’s Liberation
Front, 121
Native American traditions, 193–198, 199
Natural Resources Defense
natural world, connection to, 4–5, 191, 192, 193, 203, 228–230
New World Foundation, 71
New York Central Park, 252
New York City, 153–154, 252–253
New York University Law School, 150, 154
Nhat Hanh, Thich, 202–207, 228, 238
Nielson, Waldemar, 213
Nixon, Richard, 57–58, 71, 83, 84, 85, 91, 95, 99, 123, 149
nonadversarial dispute resolution, 248
nonjudgmental attention, 184
northwesters, 242
northwest passage, 241–242, 254–255
O
oil companies, 92–101, 105, 107, 110–111, 142, 244–245
oil spills, 93
old-boy network, 68
Omega Institute, 183–185, 202–203
Omer-Man, Jonathan, 219
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Kesey), 10, 17
P
philanthropy. See also foundations; Nathan Cummings Foundation corporate sector distinguished from, 235
philanthropy (continued)
corporate-type decision processes and, 234
exchange relationship and, 212
Jewish philanthropy, 218, 219, 221
Phillips, Channing, 101
Porter, Paul, 25, 28, 29–30, 38, 48, 77–78, 79
poverty law, 57, 137, 144, 171
practice of wisdom activist engagement integrated with, 5–6, 7, 206–207, 248–250
balanced life and, 6, 7, 258, 259
children and, 35
compassion and, 7, 232, 256, 259
CUNY Law School and, 172
essential nature of, 1
northwest passage and, 241, 242
as ongoing process, 236
public interest law and, 258–259
social transformation and, 214
transformative potential of, 259
yoga classes and, 127
present moment, 230
pro bono matters, 23, 33, 41–43, 46–47, 49
Project on Corporate Responsibility, 101
public interest law. See also environmental advocacy and law; mental health and illness Asian trip and, 200–201
backlash and, 142
Carnegie Foundation programs, 179
CLASP and, 56, 75, 86, 88, 145
corporate law practice contrasted with, 103
creativity of, 90
CUNY Law School and, 143–149, 151–152, 153, 156, 158, 163, 165–166, 167, 170, 171, 176, 245
establishment of, 141
expansion of, 137
framework of, 104
legal education and, 75, 143–144
practice of wisdom and, 258–259
public interest law firms awarding attorney’s fees for, 137–138
balanced advocacy and, 73
coalition of, 137
conservatives’ network of, 142, 149
establishment of, 104
membership organizations and, 141
Q
R
Rabbi Michael Lerner, 219
Compassion in Action, 223
How Can I Help?, 223
Raskin case, 46
Reagan, Ronald, 16, 105, 142, 149, 201
Reich, Charles, 50
The Greening of America, 50
retirement, northwest passage, 241–242
retreats
environmental advocacy and, 228, 229–232
for lawyers, 241, 242–245, 246
right livelihood, 6
Rockefeller Brothers Fund, 77
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 29, 78
Rouse, Charles, 11, 13, 15–19, 21, 22
Rouse case
court of appeals and, 22
hearing before Holtzoff, 19–22
practices of mental hospitals, 15–17, 18, 19–20, 22
public policy challenges and, 25
public service and, 49
social justice and, 24
treatment of patients and, 16–17, 18, 21, 22, 247
Russian Jews, 219
S
St. Elizabeths Hospital, 15–18
Salzberg, Sharon, 223
Salzburg Seminar in American
Studies, 105
San Francisco Zen Center, 242
Schachter, Zalman, 219
Schlesinger, Arthur, 66
Selective Service Law Reporter, 42–43, 54, 71
Selective Service System, 41–43
“Shallowest Man, The” (Allen), 237
shallowness crisis, 132–135, 256
shareholder activism, 102
Silent Spring (Carson), 58
Simplicity Manufacturing, 36–37
Siu, Ralph
connection with totality, 178, 192
CUNY Law School and, 160–162, 177–178
natural rhythms and, 110
Thich Nhat Hanh compared to, 206
nonconfrontational style of, 108
on outcome measures, 235
reflection on stages of life, 195
on taking wider view, 109, 178
visualization of mind as still pond, 110, 111, 194
Sky Farm Hermitage, 257
Sobol, Dick, 83
social entrepreneurs abilities of, 24, 85
identification of, 84
values of, 84
social justice activist lawyers and, 53, 54–55
Demos and, 216
legal education and, 24, 56, 65
Nathan Cummings Foundation and, 210–211, 212, 221, 236, 253
social transformation, 207, 214
Society of American Law Teachers, 174
Sorensen, Ruth Cummings, 211
Spirit Rock Meditation Center, 242–245, 246
spirituality. See also inner exploration; meditation Jewish spirituality, 213, 219–222
Nathan Cummings Foundation and, 221–222, 236
spiritual quest and, 54
Spock, Benjamin, 45
Stanford Law School, 74, 113–114, 126, 138
Stendl-Rast, Brother David, 257
Stern, Phil, 47
Stern Family Fund, 71
success trap, 184
Sullivan, Leon, 102
Sullivan & Cromwell, 27
Sullivan Principles, 102
Surface Transportation Policy
Project, 218
Szasz, Thomas, 10
T
Terris, Bruce
CLASP and, 59, 61, 63, 65, 67–68, 69
environmental law firm of, 137
Tikkun (magazine), 219
Tobacco Institute, 33
transportation policy, 217–218, 235
U
Udall, Stuart, 72
understanding, limits of, 6
United States Information Agency, 200–201
University of California, Berkeley,
University of Michigan Law
University of Pennsylvania Law
U.S. Supreme Court
draft law and, 42
V
Vallecitos Mountain Refuge, 229–231, 243
values
CUNY Law School and, 151
environmental challenges and, 227
of social entrepreneurs, 84
Vietnam War
Thurman Arnold and, 46
CLASP students and, 87
Institute for Policy Studies and, 44, 45
legal support for draft resistance, 41–43
perspective on, 123
resistance to, 53
Yale Law School and, 76
Voice of America, 137
W
War on Poverty, 83
Warren, Earl, 73
Watt, James, 149
Weil, Simone, 257
white male advantage, 172
Williams, Barbara, 92
wisdom. See also practice of wisdom cultivation of, 2–3, 6, 35, 68, 112, 136, 232
expression of, 206
lack of academic interest in, 267n.1
medicine wheel and, 198
social transformation and, 207, 214
Wisdom Party, 224–225, 226, 228
Women’s Law Project, 120
women’s liberation movement, 119, 121–122
work, meaning in, 32–33, 85, 133
Y
Yale Law School
Bazelon and, 12
CLASP and, 74
corporate law practice and, 24, 57–58
Goldstein and, 76
sabbatical and, 200
Z