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1992

In Tribute: Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall

A Tribute to Thurgood Marshall - William J. Brennan, Jr.
Thurgood Marshall: The Influence of a Raconteur - Sandra Day O’Connor
Reflections on Justice Marshall - Robert L. Carter
The Noblest Roman of Them All: A Tribute to Thurgood Marshall - Louis F. Claiborne
The Privilege of Clerking for Thurgood Marshall - Susan Low Bloch
John Marshall Harlan I and a Color-Blind Constitution: The Frankfurter-Harlan II Conversations - Liva Baker
Chief Justice Taney and the Shadow of Dred Scott - Robert L. Stern, William Paterson, Charles F. Hickox III and Andrew C. Laviano
President Washington’s Appointments to the Supreme Court - Brooks D. Simpson
Robert H. Jackson: "Solicitor General for Life" - E. Barrett Prettyman, Jr.
The Supreme Court Fleet - James B. O’Hara
Potter Stewart " The Unpredictable Vote
The Judicial Bookshelf - D. Grier Stephenson, Jr.
The Judicial Bookshelf–Continued - Michael H. Cardozo


1993

Editorial Foreword - Melvin I. Urofsky
A Tribute to Byron R. White - William H. Rehnquist
On Greatness and Constitutional Vision: Justice Byron R. White - Rex E. Lee
Writing Supreme Court History - Mark Tushnet
Brown v. Board of Education
Revisited - Herbert Brownell
Louis Brandeis: Lawyer and Judge - Philippa Strum
Dennis v. United States
: Great Cases or Cold War Relic? - Michael Belknap
The Appointment of John McLean to the Supreme Court - Michael A. Kahn
Suits Against States - Maeva Marcus and Natalie Wexler
The Judicial Bookshelf - D. Grier Stephenson, Jr.


1994

Editorial Foreword - Melvin I. Urofsky
A Tribute to Justice Harry A. Blackmun - William H. Rehnquist
The Justice Who Grew - Harold Hongju Koh
Writing Supreme Court Biography: A Single Lens View of a Nine-Sided Image - Stephen J. Wermeil
Freedom of Speech, 1919 and 1994: Justice Holmes after Seventy-Five Years - Richard Polenberg
The Nineteenth Annual Lecture: Dissenting Opinions - Antonin Scalia
David Josiah Brewer: A Conservative Justice Reconsidered - Joseph Gordon Hylton
The Cherokee Cases of the 1830s - Jill Norgren
"Hooted Down the Page of History" Reconsidering the Greatness of Chief Justice Taney - Paul Finkelman
The Supreme Court and Impartial Justice: The View from the 1790s - Robert P. Frankel, Jr.
In Black and White: Chinese in the Mississippi Delta - Jeannie Rhee
Learned Hand, The Man and Judge: A Review Essay - David W. Levy
Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr.: A Biography: A Review Essay - Norman Dorsen
The Judicial Bookshelf - D. Grier Stephenson, Jr.


1995

Introduction

Editorial Foreword - Melvin I. Urofsky
Eulogy for Warren E. Burger - J. Michael Luttig
Canadian Justice: Celebrating Differences and Sharing Problems - Claire L’Heureux-Dube

Articles .

Gladly Wolde He Teche: Students, Canon, and Supreme Court History - William M. Wiecek
Divided Loyalties: Justice William Johnson and the Rise of Disunion in South Carolina, 1822-1834 - Timothy S. Huebner
Lochner v. New York
: Rehabilitated and Revised, but Still Reviled - Paul Kens
Judge Learned Hand: The Man, the Myth, the Biography - Gerald Gunther
Legitimating Liberalism: the New Deal Image-makers and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. - I Scott Messinger

Documents .

John Marshall’s Supreme Court Practice: A Letter Comes to Light - James C. Brandow
The Court Diary of Justice William O. Douglas - Preface by Sheldon S. Cohen
Introduction by Philip E. Urofsky
Diary edited by Philip E. Urofsky

Memoirs .

Clerking for Harlan Fiske Stone - Milton C. Handler
Reminiscences of the Solicitor General’s Office - Robert L. Stern

In Retrospect .

The Business of the Supreme Court Revisited - John Paul Jones

Book Reviews .

Justice George Sutherland and the Status Quo: A Biographical and Review essay - Gary C. Leedes
Hugo L. Black and the Challenges of Judicial Biography - R. B. Bernstein
The Judicial Bookshelf - D. Grier Stephenson, Jr.


1996 Vol. I

The Supreme Court and World War II

Introduction - Leon Silverman
The Court at War and the War at the Court - Melvin I. Urofsky
Property Rights and the Supreme Court in World War II - James W. Ely, Jr.
The Supreme Court and Racial Equality during World War II - Mary L. Dudziak
The Cramer Treason Case - J. Woodford Howard, Jr.
The Saboteur’s Case - David J. Danelski
The First Amendment and World War II - Tony A. Freyer
Justice Jackson and the Nuremburg Trails - Dennis J. Hutchinson


1996 Vol. II

Introduction - Melvin I. Urofsky
The Appellate Committee and the Supreme Court: Anglo-American Comparisons - Lord Woolf
The Story-Holmes Seat - Harry A. Blackmun

Symposium on Documentary Editing and the Early Court

Documentary Editing and the Jay Court: Opening New Lines of Inquiry - Ene Sirvet and R.B. Bernstein
John Jay, Judicial Independence, and Advising Coordinate Branches - Ene Sirvet and R.B. Bernstein
John Marshall and His Papers - Charles F. Hobson
John Marshall and the Fairfax Litigation: The Background of Martin v. Hunter’s Lessee - Charles F. Hobson
Documenting Judicial History: The Supreme Court of the United States, 1789-1800 - Maeva Marcus
Georgia v. Brailsford - Maeva Marcus

Articles

Oliver Ellsworth - William R. Casto
Cardozo and the Criminal Law: Palko v. Connecticut Reconsidered - Richard Polenberg
Appealing Supreme Court Decisions: Constitutional Amendments as Checks on Judicial Review - David E. Kyvig
The Fuller Court and Takings Jurisprudence - James W. Ely, Jr.
The Demise of an "Extraordinary Criminal Procedure": Klopfer v. North Carolina and the Incorporation of the Sixth Amendment’s Speedy Trail Provision -
Joseph Mosnier

In Retrospect

The Supreme Court in United States History: A New Appreciation - Michael Allan Wolfe

Book Reviews

The Judicial Bookshelf - D. Grier Stephenson, Jr.


1997 Vol. 1

The Supreme Court and the New Deal

Introduction - Melvin I. Urofsky
Dawn of the Conservative Era - Paul Kens
The Court in the Progressive Era - Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.
The Return of the Four Horsemen - Hadley P. Arkes
The Nine Justices Respond to the 1937 Crisis - William E. Leuchtemburg, Jr.
Chief Justice Hughes’ Letter on Court-Packing - Richard D. Friedman
The New Deal Court in the 1940s: Its Constitutional Legacy - David P. Currie
Bibliographic Essay - David P. Currie


1997 Vol. II

Introduction - Melvin I. Urofsky
The High Court of Australia - Michael Hudson McHugh
The Virtue of Defeat: Plessy v. Ferguson in Retrospect - Clarence Thomas
In the Shadow of the Chief: The Role of the Senior Associate Justice - Sandra L. Wood
William Paterson and the National Jurisprudence: Two Draft Opinions on the Sedition Law of 1798 and the Federal Common Law - William James Hull Hoffer
Prigg v. Pennsylvania
: Understanding Joseph Story’s Pro-Slavery Nationalism - Paul Finkelman
Abraham Lincoln’s Appointments to the Supreme Court: A Master Politician at his Craft - Michael A. Kahn
Advocates at Cross-Purposes: The Briefs on Behalf of Zoning in the Supreme Court - Garrett Power
"Compelled by Conscientious Duty": Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty Co. as Romance - Michael Allan Wolf
"Dear Mr. Justice": Public Correspondence with Memebers of the Supreme Court - John W. Johnson
Personal Rights, Public Wrongs: The Gaines Case and the Beginning of the End of Segregation - Kevin M. Kruse
In Retrospect: The Life of John Marshall Revisited - Alexander Wohl

Book Reviews

Review of Mark V. Tushnet, Making Civil Rights Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1936-1961 and Making Constitutional Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1961-1991 - Elizabeth Garrett
The Judicial Bookshelf - D. Grier Stephenson, Jr.


1998 Vol. 1

The Chief Justices

Introduction - Melvin I. Urofsky
Chief Justice John Marshall (1801-1835) - Herbert A. Johnson
Out of the Shadow: Roger Brooke Taney as Chief Justice - James B. O’Hara
Melville Fuller Reconsidered - James W. Ely, Jr.
Judicial Management and Judicial Disinterest: The Achievements and Perils of Chief Justice William Howard Taft - Robert Post
The Hughes Court and Constitutional Consultation - Barry Cushman
Chief Justice Earl Warren: Super Chief in Action - Bernard Schwartz
Hail to the Chief: A Bibliographical Essay on Six Chief Justices of the United States - John B. Taylor


1998 Vol. 2

Introduction - Melvin I. Urofsky
Letter to the Editor - Milton C. Handler
"Presenting the case of the United States As It Should Be": The Solicitor General in Historical Context - Seth P. Waxman
Constitutional Change in the United Kingdom: British Solutions to Universal Problems - Alexander Andrew Mackay Irvine
Supreme Court Law Clerk, 1957-1958, A Reminiscence - Alan C. Kohn
Wheaton v. Greenleaf
: A (Story) Tale of Three Reporters - Stephen R. McAllister
Race, Marriage, and the Supreme Court from Pace v. Alabama (1883) to Loving v. Virginia (1967) - Peter Wallenstein
Anitrust and Baseball: Stealing Holmes - Kevin D. McDonald
Justice Levi Woodbury: A Reputational Study - William Bader and Roy M. Mersky
Beyond the Bottom Line: The Value of Judicial Biography - Melvin I. Urofsky
The Judicial Bookshelf - D. Grier Stephenson


Volume 24: Issue 1, March 1999

Introduction - Melvin I. Urofsky
The First Fifty Years of the Supreme Court of Israel - Haim H. Cohen
Before It Was Merely Difficult: Belva Lockwood’s Life in Law and Politics - Jill Norgren
Lucile Lomen: The First Woman to Clerk at the Supreme Court - David J. Danelski
Justice Henry Baldwin’s Lost Opinion in Worcester v. Georgia - Lyndsey G. Robertson
Chief Justice John Marshall Harlan’s Last Campaign: Georgia, Jackson, and the Cherokee Cases - R. Kent Newmyer
Two Asian Laundry Cases - David E. Bernstein
Ohio v. the Bank: An Historical Examination of Osborn v. The Bank of the United States - Patricia L. Franz
The Judicial Bookshelf - D. Grier Stephenson


Volume 24: Issue 2, July 1999

The Supreme Court and African-Americans

Introduction - Melvin I. Urofsky
Post-Plessy, Pre-Brown: "Logical Exactness" in enforcing Equal Rights - Andrew Kull
A Time to Lose - Paul E. Wilson
If…. - Jack Greenberg
African-American Rights After Brown - Gerald N. Rosenberg
A Half-Century of Presidential Race Inititiatives: Some Reflections - John Hope Franklin


Volume 24; Issue 3, December 1999

Introduction - Melvin I. Urofsky
George Washington’s Appointments to the Supreme Court - Maeva Marcus
Remembering Great Ladies: Supreme Court Wives’ Stories - Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Laura W. Brill
One Hundred and Twenty-Five Years after Slaughterhouse: Where’s the Beef? - Jonathon Lurie
Re-hearing "Fighting Words": Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire in Retrospect - Shawn Francis Peters
Before Brown: The Racial Integration of American Higher Education - David W. Levy

Book Reviews

Taking Decisions Seriously, a Review of Rethinking the New Deal Court: The Structure of a Constitutional Revolution - Richard D. Friedman
Prophet or Example: A Review of The Republic According to John Marshall Harlan - Tony A. Freyer
The Judicial Bookshelf - D. Grier Stephenson


Volume 25, Issue 1, March 2000

Introduction - Melvin I. Urofsky
Admiralty Law and Neutrality Policy in the 1790s: An Example of Judicial , Legislative, and Executive Cooperation - Elliott Ashkenazi
The Jacksonian Origins of Chase Court Activism - Mark A. Graber
"The Defendant Has Seemed to Live a Charmed Life": Hopt v. Utah:Territorial Justice, The Supreme Court of the United States, and the Late Nineteenth Century Death Penalty Jurisprudence - Sidney L. Herring and Kathryn Swedlow
Justice Harlan’s "Great Betrayal"? A Reconsideration of Cumming v. Richmond County Board of Education - C. Ellen Connally
Plessy
versus Lochner: The Berea College Case - David E. Bernstein
The Judicial Bookshelf - D. Grier Stephenson


Volume 25; Issue 2, July 2000

The Supreme Court and Free Speech

Introduction - Melvin I. Urofsky
The Origins and Foundations of the First Amendment and the Alien and Sedition Acts - Murray Dry
Free Speech: The Lost Years - David M. Rabban
The Clear and Present Danger Test - Douglas Laycock
Issue: The Clear and Present Danger Test - Walter Berns and Philippa Strum
Free Expression in the Warren and Burger Courts - Lilian R. BeVier


Volume 25: Issue 3, November 2000

Introduction - Melvin I. Urofsky
The Cherokee Indians and the Supreme Court - Stephen Breyer
The Religion of a Jurist: Justice David J. Brewer and the Christian Nation - Linda Przybyszewski
The Naturalization of Douglas Clyde Macintosh, Alien Theologian - Ronald B. Flowers
Calvin Coolidge and the Supreme Court - Russell Fowler
The Tenth Justice: The Retirement of William O. Douglas - Artemus Ward
The Judicial Bookshelf - D. Grier Stephenson


Volume 26, Issue 1, March 2001

Introduction - Melvin I. Urofsky
Citators Beware: Stylistic Variations in Different Publisher’s Versions of Early Supreme Court Opinions - Jon O. Newman
The Role of the Supreme Court Reporter in History - Frank D. Wagner
Conscience in the Court, 1931-1946: Religion as Duty and Choice - Jeffrey M. Anderson
Felix Frankfurter, Incorporation and the Willie Francis Case - William M. Wiecek
Women Advocates Before the Court - Clare Cushman
Revivifying Political Science: Lucas A. Powe, Jr., on the Warren Court - Melvin I. Urofsky


Volume 26: Issue 2, July 2001

Foreword - Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Introduction - Linda Przybyszewski
Some Memories of a Long Life 1854-1911 - Malvina Harlan Shanklin


Volume 26: Issue 3, November 2001

Introduction - Melvin I. Urofsky
The Helderberg Advocate
: A Public-Nuisance Prosecution a Century before Near v. Minnesota - Ralph Frasca
Just What the Doctor Ordered: The Harrison Anto-Narcotic Act, the Supreme Court and the Federal Regulation of Medical Practice, 1915-1919 - Kurt Hohenstein
Brandeis, Erie, and the New Deal "Constitutional Revolution" - Edward A. Purcell, Jr.
The Judicial Bookshelf - D. Grier Stephenson
Race, Education and the Courts: A Review of James T. Patterson’s Brown v. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy - Gregory Nelson Hite


Volume 27: Issue, 1, March 2002

Introduction - Melvin I. Urofsky
The Supreme Court in the Nineteenth Century - William H. Rehnquist
The Clerk, the Thief, His Life as a Baker: Ashton Embry and the Supreme Court Leak Scandal - John B. Owens
Human Dignity and the Claim of Meaning: Athenian Tragic Drama and Supreme Court opinions - James Boyd White
The Judicial Bookshelf - D. Grier Stephenson
Review of Edward A. Purcell, Jr., Brandeis and the Progressive Constitution: Erie, the Judicial Power, and the Politics of Federal Courts in Twentieth-Century America


Volume 27: Issue 2, July 2002

Introduction - Melvin I. Urofsky
Error of Appeal? Navigating Review Under the Supreme Court’s Admiralty Jurisdiction, 1789-1800 - Robert Feikema Karachuk
A Falling Out: The Relationship Between Oliver Wendell Holmes and Theodore Roosevelt - Richard H. Wagner
John Marshall Harlan II, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court 1955-1971: Remembrances by His Law Clerks - Norman Dorsen and Amelia Ames Newcomb, editors
The History of the Per Curiam Opinion: Consensus and Individual Expression on the Supreme Court - Laura Krugman Ray
The Judicial Bookshelf - D. Grier Stephenson


Volume 27: Issue 3, November 2002

Chief Justice John Marshall: 200th Anniversary

Editor’s Note
Remarks on the 200th Anniversary of the Accession of John Marshall as Chief Justice - Louis H. Pollak
The Supreme Court Before John Marshall - Robert Lowry Clinton
Marbury v. Madison
and the Establishment of Judicial Autonomy - William E. Nelson
John Marshall and the Creation of a National Government - Michael W. McConnell
John Marshall’s Associate Justices - Henry J. Abraham
Remembering the Great Chief Justice - Charles F. Hobson


Volume 28; Issue 1, March 2003

Before Marbury: Hylton v. United States and the Origins of Judicial Review - Robert P. Frankel, Jr.
The Mormon Question: Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America - Sarah Barringer Gordon
General Yamashita and Justice Rutledge - John M. Ferren
The Battle For Brown’s Legitimacy - Jeffrey Hockett
The Judicial Bookshelf - D. Grier Stephenson, Jr.


Volume 28; Issue 2, 2003

“A More Perfect Union”: Abelman v. Booth and the Culmination of Federal Sovereignty - Michael J.C. Taylor
Presidents as Supreme Court Advocates: before and After the White House - Allen Sharp
Wilson, Brandeis, and the Supreme Court Nomination - Melvin I. Urofsky
William Howard Taft and the Importance of Unanimity - Sandra Day O’Connor
The Buddha and the Bumblebee: The Saga of Stanley Reed and Felix Frankfurter - John D. Fassett
The Exception That Defines the Rule: Marshall’s Marbury Strategy and the Development of Supreme Court Doctrine - Scott E. Lemieux


Volume 28; Issue 2, 2003

Civil Liberties in Wartime - Geoffrey R. Stone
Military Curfew, Race-Based Internment, and Mr. Justice Rutledge - John M. Ferren
The Supreme Court in Times of Hot and Cold War” Learning from the Sounds of Silence for a War on Terrorism - Douglas W. Kmiec
Alarm Bells from the Past: The Troubling History of American Military Commissions - Michael R. Belknap
The Supreme Court, Separation of Powers, and the Protection of Individual Rights during periods of War or National Security Emergency - Robert F. Turner
Property Rights versus “Public Necessity”: A Perspective on Emergency Powers and the Supreme Court - Harry N. Scheiber
Judicial Bookshelf - D. Grier Stephenson, Jr.


Volume 29; Issue 1, 2004

Introduction - Paul Kens
Personal Reminiscences of Early Days in California, With Other Sketches - Stephen J. Field


Volume 29; Issue 2, 2004

Unlikely Abolitionist: William Cushing and the Struggle Against Slavery - Harry Downs
“Jehovah Will Provide”: Lillian Gobitas and Freedom of Religion
To Sit or Not to Sit: The Supreme Court of the United States and the Civil Rights Movement in the Upper South - Peter Wallenstein
History in Journalism and Journalism in History: Anthony Lewis and the Watergate Crisis - Pnina Lahav
Writing the First Draft of History: Anthony Lewis as Supreme Court Correspondent - L.A. Powe., Jr.
The Journalist as Historian: Anthony Lewis, Civil Liberties, and the Supreme Court - Philippa Strum
Judicial Bookshelf - D. Grier Stephenson, Jr.


Volume 29; Issue 3, 2004

The Supreme Court and the Interstate Slave Trade: A Study in Evasion, Anarchy, and Extremism - David L. Lightner
A New Right to Property: Civil War Confiscation in the Reconstruction of the Supreme Court - Daniel W. Hamilton
Justices Seeking the Presidency - Allen Sharp
A Voice From Behind the Bench: Recollections of a Supreme Court Page: Interview with Frank Lyman - Darryl Gonzalez
Some Personal Reminiscences and What They Meant For Me - Harry A. Blackmun
(Re)Introducing Wiley Rutledge - L.A. Powe, Jr.
Judicial Bookshelf - D. Grier Stephenson, Jr.


Volume 30; Issue 1, 2005

Supreme Court Advocacy in the Early Nineteenth Century - David C. Frederick
Ex-Justice Campbell: The Case of the Creative Advocate - Jonathan Lurie
Louis D. Brandeis: Advocate Before and on the Bench - Melvin I. Urofsky
Women as Supreme Court Advocates, 1879-1979 - Mary L. Clark
Oral Advocacy and the Re-emergence of a Supreme Court Bar - John G. Roberts, Jr.


Volume 30; Issue 2, 2005

“The Story of the Attempted Assassination of Justice Field by a Former Associate on the Supreme Bench of California” - George C. Gorham



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