Arthur J. Jacobson is Max Freund Professor of Litigation and Advocacy at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, and coauthor of "The Longest Night: Polemics and Perspectives on Election 2000 "(California, 2002). Bernhard Schlink is Professor of Public Law and Legal Philosophy at Humboldt Universitat zu Berlin. His novel, "The Reader "(trans. 1999), has won critical acclaim in German and in English.