by Jack Gohn | Mar 12, 2009 | The Close Up
Easter 2006 Abraham and Isaac: Deciding About Sacrifice I start with a quote from Bob Dylan that makes light of a horrible dilemma: Oh God said to Abraham, “Kill me a son” Abe says, “Man, you must be puttin’ me on” God say,... by Jack Gohn | Mar 12, 2009 | The Close Up
To Be A Lawyer and A Believer: A Two-Part Series Part 2: Believer Originally Published in the Maryland Daily Record Last time I wrote about the impact of religious belief on the professional lives of lawyers, from the perspective of one who professes to... by Jack Gohn | Mar 12, 2009 | The Close Up
To Be A Lawyer and a Believer: A Two-Part Series Part 1: Lawyer Originally Published in the Maryland Daily Record After we leave our places of worship, we lawyers don’t usually talk about our faith much. There are lots of reasons why. Maybe the biggest... by Jack Gohn | Jan 2, 2009 | Literary Writings, The Close Up
The Peter Bell Phenomenon In the midst of graduate school at Hopkins, I discovered that I had one set of reasons for being there, and my professors had an altogether different set of reasons for asking me to be there. My dissertation, on the novelist Kingsley Amis,... by Jack Gohn | Jan 2, 2009 | Literary Writings, The Close Up
Richard II: Shakespeare’s Legal Brief This paper, produced as a term paper in an independent study course in law school, was published in the Georgetown Law Journal in 1982. To my great pleasure, other scholars still cite it from time to time. Let me again...
I lived in London and Vienna before coming to the United States, and grew up mainly in Ann Arbor. I was writing plays and stories as early as grade school. My undergraduate years at the University of Pennsylvania, where I first reviewed theater, for the college paper, were succeeded by graduate study at the Johns Hopkins University, where I earned a doctorate in English Literature.