Some Kind of Hearing

Abstract

It was particularly affecting to be invited to give the Owen J. Roberts lecture at this law school, of which my father-in-law, Chief Justice Horace Stern of Pennsylvania, was a distinguished graduate, a part-time teacher and a long-time trustee.The honor accorded me is even greater in that this is the hundredth anniversary of Justice Roberts' birth.Although I did not have the good fortune to know the Justice more than casually, I accept the eloquent characterization by Chief Justice Stern who knew him so well: With Owen Roberts integrity was never a problem but an instinct.He was utterly devoid of arrogance, of pretension, of intrigue, of corroding ambitions.He was modest and simple, as all truly great men are modest and simple, and his lovely, radiant smile was the outward expression of the warm friendliness in his heart.

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