Bruce K. Gould Book Award: Judge David Tatel
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Touro University and Touro Law Center present the Bruce K. Gould Book Award to the honorable David S. Tatel for his memoir Vision: A Memoir of Blindness and Justice.
About the Book
The "moving, thoughtful, and inspiring memoir" (Bryan Stevenson, author of Just Mercy) by one of America’s most accomplished public servants and legal thinkers—who spent years denying and working around his blindness, before finally embracing it as an essential part of his identity.
David Tatel has served nearly 30 years on America’s second highest court, the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, where many of our most crucial cases are resolved—or teed up for the Supreme Court. He has championed equal justice for his entire adult life; decided landmark environmental and voting cases; and embodied the ideal of what a great judge should be. Yet he has been blind for the past 50 of his 80-plus years.
Initially, he depended upon aides to read texts to him, and more recently, a suite of hi-tech solutions has allowed him to listen to reams of documents at high speeds. At first, he tried to hide his deteriorating vision, and for years, he denied that it had any impact on his career. Only recently, partly thanks to his first-ever guide dog, Vixen, has he come to fully accept his blindness and the role it's played in his personal and professional lives. His story of fighting for justice over many decades, with and without eyesight, is an inspiration to us all.
The Bruce K. Gould Book Award
The Bruce K. Gould Book Award is presented annually to the author of an outstanding publication related to the law, legal profession or legal system. The award is named for Bruce Gould, Touro Law Class of 1984. Mr. Gould is a founding member of Touro Law’s Alumni Association, a member of Touro Law’s Board of Governors, and currently is the Chair of Touro University’s Board of Governors. The Gould Award has become known as one of the most prestigious awards of its kind. Since 1993, it has been presented to many notable recipients, including Supreme Court Justices, U.S. Senators, Ambassadors, and Award Winning Authors.
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