ANOTHER SIDE OF BOB DYLAN.(law professor Michael Perlin uses Bob Dylan lyrics for article titles)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 18-NOV-02

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Among the empty-handed painters and seasick sailors who will be going

to see Bob Dylan perform this week at Madison Square Garden is a fifty-six-year-old New York Law School professor named Michael Perlin, who has written a dozen books and more than a hundred and fifty articles on mental-disability law. For the past six years, he has named almost all of his articles after Dylan lyrics--see " 'What's Good Is Bad, What's Bad Is Good, You'll Find Out When You Reach the Top, You're on the Bottom': Are the Americans with Disabilities Act (and Olmstead v. L.C.) Anything More than 'Idiot Wind'?" (University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform, Fall 2001-Winter 2002). Perlin believes that Dylanhas had a lot to say about the...

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