My father Howard Phillips has posted on his blog the obituary of Professor Harold J. Berman, the polymath legal scholar and author of the seminal treatise Law and Revolution which I have on many occasions quoted and referenced during the Witherspoon School of Law and Public Policy. The book was first recommended to me for its fascinating content by Dr. R.J. Rushdoony who appreciated the helpful commentary Berman provides on Christianity and the common law. Professor Berman was a man of many talents, but most do not realize that he was also a student of the Russian language. According to the New York Times, his “language training, served him well in Moscow in 1958, in the first case he ever argued. Representing the estate of Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, he sought to extract royalties from the Soviet state on millions of Conan Doyle books sold in the Soviet Union. Winning in a Moscow city court, he later lost the case on appeal to a higher Russian Federation court.” Click here to read the rest