The Legal Reader

Ordinarily, the announcement by a law professor that he is not completing the second volume of the third edition of his book would not even merit a yawn.

But when that professor is Harvard Law School's liberal lion Laurence Tribe, the book is his famed treatise "American Constitutional Law" and he announces his decision in a letter to a Supreme Court justice, legal academics are left gasping in surprise and reaching deep for the appropriate metaphor.

"It's like Michael Jordan leaving basketball at the top of his game," says Ross Davies of George Mason University School of Law.

Details here from Tony Mauro of Legal Times, via Law.com.