Comment to read

Comments can quickly be buried on a busy blog like this one, so sometimes I like to highlight them.

Today, I received a comment supplementing my Labor Day book review of "Labor Law Stories," apparently from one of the authors, Dennis Nolan.

I had never done a book review before (at least not since "book reports" in school decades ago!) It is quite a formidable task. I had been reading into this book periodically since mid-summer, and there was so much I could have said it was difficult to boil it down to an appropriate length. I also did not want to dwell on a particular chapter in detail at the expense of the others.

This comment begins:

To follow up on your point about understanding how court decisions "are the culmination of numerous lawyering and judging choices," many of the chapters in Labor Law Stories demonstrate the contingent nature of what we now view as established and almost inevitable law.

The comment continues with an excellent illustration from the author's chapter, really helping to fill out the review.