He appears to have no interest in legal philosophy per se; rather, he divides judges, as he divides most others, into the categories of friend and foe.
But they won't get him for too long, as he divides his life between Dublin, Derry, where his wife lectures at the University of Ulster, and Manchester.
Today, as he divides his time between Atlanta, New York and Curaçao where BCD is incorporated Mr van Vlissingen, who describes himself as "half American", seems to have finally escaped his family and his European roots.Far from it.
As a teenager he divided his spare hours between the beach and his rock band, much to the irritation of his father, a professional jazzman.
Sometimes he divided himself as he wrote to report on his own condition: "A great joy it is to me to see myself in a good disposition to business," he remarked on the first day of March 1666, having found himself guilty of backsliding with a woman on the last day of February.
In "Layla," as in "Dido," he divides the movement style, too.
Possessed of a sharp mind and tongue, rare intellectual honesty and an ego as big as the pyramids of Teotihuacán, he divides opinion.
A dapper Southerner, renowned almost as much for his sparkling literary allusions as for his acute thinking, he divides his time among Austin, Tex.; New York, where he teaches law at Columbia and Londonn, where he has lectured in war studies.
If he or his wife were really hurt, or if he felt genuine concern that the joke, as he complained, "divides the country", then he should say only that.
