Book Review:
Murray Richtel, Reviewing Norman Dorsen & Leon Friedman’s Disorder in the Court: Report of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Special Committee on Courtroom Conduct, 53 TEXAS L . REV. 188 (1974).
 

Abstract:
Disorder in the Court is a systematic attempt to analyze the causes and scope of the problem of courtroom disruption. The most significant finding of the book is that there is no serious problem of disruption in American courts, and that the well-publicized disorder of the Chicago conspiracy trial and the New York Black Panther trial were not representative of any trend. The book attempts to define the proper roles of participants in trials, reexamine legal rules governing the conduct of participants, appraise proposals for change, and consider the relationship of stresses in society to courtroom disorder. Professor Richtel argues that the strength of the book is in its collection of data and as a reference work; the weakness of Disorder in the Court is its attempt at in-depth analysis of that data.