Bruce K. Gould Book Award 

Wednesday, November 13, 2024 - 6-9 p.m.
Touro University • 3 Times Square • New York, NY 10036

About the Book:

The "moving, thoughtful, and inspiring memoir" (Bryan Stevenson, author of Just Mercy) by one of America’s most accomplished public servants and legal thinkers—who spent years denying and working around his blindness, before finally embracing it as an essential part of his identity.
David Tatel has served nearly 30 years on America’s second highest court, the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, where many of our most crucial cases are resolved—or teed up for the Supreme Court. He has championed equal justice for his entire adult life; decided landmark environmental and voting cases; and embodied the ideal of what a great judge should be. Yet he has been blind for the past 50 of his 80-plus years.
Initially, he depended upon aides to read texts to him, and more recently, a suite of hi-tech solutions has allowed him to listen to reams of documents at high speeds. At first, he tried to hide his deteriorating vision, and for years, he denied that it had any impact on his career. Only recently, partly thanks to his first-ever guide dog, Vixen, has he come to fully accept his blindness and the role it's played in his personal and professional lives. His story of fighting for justice over many decades, with and without eyesight, is an inspiration to us all.

About the Award:

The Bruce K. Gould Book Award is presented annually to the author of an outstanding publication related to the law, legal profession or legal system. The award is named for its benefactor Bruce K. Gould, an alumnus of Touro Law Center, class of 1984. Mr. Gould was a principal in Gould Publications, a family-owned publishing company in Florida specializing in law books and treatises for legal and law enforcement communities. The business was started in 1953 by Mr. Gould’s father and mother and over the years has grown to be one of the leading statutory law book publishers in the country until the publishing assets were acquired in December 2004. Mr. Gould is a founding member and second president of Touro Law Center’s Alumni Association, an active member of Touro Law Center’s Board of Governors, was Chairman of the Law Center’s Capital Campaign Committee and in 1994, endowed the Law Center’s First Faculty Chair.
The award has become known as one of the most prestigious awards of its kind. Since 1991, it has been presented to many notable recipients.
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Previous Bruce K. Gould Book Award Recipients:
2023 Jason Greenblatt, In the Path of Abraham
   
2022 Senator Joseph Lieberman, The Centrist Solution: How We Made Government Work and Can Make it Work Again
   
2021 Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Antitrust: Taking on Monopoly Power From the Gilded Age to the Digital Age
   
2020 Thane Rosenbaum, Saving Free Speech...from Itself
   
2019 John Grisham,  The Rooster Bar
   
2018 Bret StephensAmerican in Retreat: The New Isolationism and the Coming Global Disorder
   
2015 Michael B. OrenAlly: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide
   
2013 Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, My Beloved World
   
2011 Charles Fried & Gregory Fried, Because It Is Wrong
   
2010 Kenneth Gormley, The Death of American Virtue: Clinton Vs. Starr
   
2009 Bob Woodward, The War Within: A Secret White House History 2006 - 2008
   
2008 Christopher J. Dodd, Letters from Nuremberg: My Father’s Narrative of a Quest for Justice
   
2005 David Boies, Esq.Courting Justice:  From NY Yankees v. Major League Baseball to Bush v. Gore 1997-2000
   
2004 Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, The Majesty of the Law: Reflections of a Supreme Court Justice
   
2003 Stuart Eizenstat, Imperfect Justice: Looted Assets, Slave Labor and the Unfinished Business of World War II
   
2002 Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., Vernon Can Read! A Memoir
   
2001 Alan M. Dershowitz, The Genesis of Justice, Ten Stories of Biblical Injustice That Led to the Ten Commandments and Modern Law
   
2000 Barry Scheck, Peter Neufeld, and Jim Dwyer, Actual Innocence: Five Days to Execution and Other Dispatches from the Wrongly Convicted
   
1999 Kenneth Gormley, Archibald Cox: Conscience of a Nation
   
1998 Anita Hill, Speaking Truth to Power
   
1997 Robert L. Shapiro, The Search for Justice, A Defense Attorney's Brief on the O.J. Simpson Case
   
1996 The Honorable Marvin E. Frankel, Faith and Freedom: Religious Liberty in America
   
1995 Jack Greenberg, Crusaders in the Courts: How a Dedicated Band of Lawyers Fought for the Civil Rights Revolution
   
1994 David Margolick, Undue Influence: The Epic Battle for the Johnson & Johnson Fortune
   
1993 Telford Taylor, The Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials
   
1992 Patricia Williams, The Alchemy of Race and Rights: Diary of a Law Professor
   
1991 The Honorable Daniel Patrick Moynihan, On the Law of Nations
   
1991 Mordecai Rosenfeld, The Lament of the Single Practitioner-Essays on the Law

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