The Common Law, a Cold War Thriller’s Plot, and a Story’s Interstices

How Studying the Common Law Helps Fill in the Gaps in a Cold War Thriller’s PlotThe small marina at the US Army’s recreation center on the Wannsee

One role of a common law judge is to fill in the interstices left by elected representatives and statutory law, or so I was taught while studying the law. The idea is that it is impossible to think of every factual and legal circumstance prior to their happening and as a result gaps naturally occur in our codified law. When those gaps are exposed in ...