A Theology of Justice: Some Reflections on Milner Ball's Non-Religious Practice of Belief

Authors

• Stephen Wizner, Yale Law School

Publication Date

2007

Abstract

For the past twenty years, during the first weekend in March, law students, law teachers, and public interest lawyers have gathered in the snowy woods of rural New Hampshire for a public interest retreat. The annual event is dedicated to the memory and legacy of Robert Cover, a beloved law professor, brilliant legal scholar, and committed social activist who died in 1986 at the age of forty-two. Robert Cover and Milner Ball were close friends and intellectual fellow travelers. They shared not only an academic interest in the inter-relationships between law, theology, and literature, but also a passionate commitment to the struggle for social justice, to which Bob felt, and Milner feels, called by Biblical stories. During the 1985-86 academic year, shortly before his untimely death that summer, Bob drafted and circulated a memorandum in which he proposed an annual "Law Student Conference for Social Change."' In it Bob expressed his belief that law can be a call to public service, social change, and community.

Recommended Citation

Wizner, Stephen (2007) "A Theology of Justice: Some Reflections on Milner Ball's Non-Religious Practice of Belief," Georgia Law Review: Vol. 41: No. 3, Article 15.
Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/glr/vol41/iss3/15