Shortlisted · Reedsy contest #338
A professor enters a restricted library collection and finds a book of unsettling cases. The more closely he reads, the harder it becomes to keep moral judgment at a comfortable distance.
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Professor Jebediah Habl is looking for a reference. Behind a locked gate in Columbia’s law library, he discovers a volume whose cases refuse to keep legal success and moral worth neatly aligned. What begins as an academic inquiry becomes a more personal confrontation with the explanations people use to justify the lives they lead.
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