José A. Cabranes, U.S. Circuit Judge for the Second Circuit, Portrait Dedication [54:48-59:33]

24 hours a day and 365 days a year the city subway cars safely stop at 468 passenger stations and as any strap hanger knows, many times in between, depositing writers of all classes and descriptions in homes, workplaces, ball parks, and every other destination imaginable. The subway is an indelible feature of the city's culture. Its legend and lore fascinate locals and visitors alike. And he goes on to recount how it subways are celebrated in literature and musical comedy. Even quoting the well-known lines from the Leonard Bernstein show, the Bronx is up the batteries down and the people ride in a hole in the ground. Who but a New Yorker would inject those delicious remarks into the federal reporter. Now there's another strain. It has been alluded to today but not illustrated. And that is a strain of his heritage. That is the Jewish strain or perhaps the Yiddish strain. Encountering a case that tickled his fancy, he decided to craft a eloquent footnote explaining that this case was an example of Hutzpah. And he wrote in this footnote, Hutzpah is a legal term of art you didn't know that. Is a legal term of art analytically similar to unclean hands but being the careful scholar that he is adding though not necessarily co-terminus with that concept as understood in chanceary. He then illustrated the point. First he mentioned actually a case of mine in which a former New York state senator while serving a sentence for selling stolen bonds to the second New Haven bank here in New Haven sued the bank for negligence contending that if the teller had checked the day's list of stolen bonds that day the bonds would not have been accepted and he would not have been convicted. Judge Cabrana's continues with his exegesis on the word mentioning the case of an individual quoting an individual who after being mauled by the 450 pounds Siberian tiger he had been raising inside his fifth floor apartment sued the city and the police who entered the apartment to save the animal for doing so without a warrant. So this is a man of broad heritage covers many faces. Indeed I think it's fair to say he is a man of universal heritage and not only do these frivolous examples that I've called your attention illustrate that but his career and his writings both in the scholarly academic world and in his opinions illustrate that too. He has taught and written widely on international law and international human rights. He is rightly rightly regarded as a scholar in those fields. So Jose it's totally fitting that generations of Yale law students will see this painting in the reading room the Yale Law of the Alumni Room of the Yale Law School where you will gaze down on them and they will take justifiable inspiration from you. I congratulate you on this wonderful event. Thank you Judge Newman. Next up is another judge who also requires little introduction especially in these halls where he has served as a member of the faculty for almost half a century. He has also served our country with great distinction as a circuit judge on the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit since 1981 and as its chief judge from 1997 to 2000 as the chair of the Executive Committee of the Judicial Conference and as a member of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Court of Appeals. I think a court that has somehow managed issue only two opinions and its entire existence but that's okay. The latter two by appointment of the Chief Justice of the United States and please welcome the Honorable Ralph Winter.