The Annotated Bibliography: A
116 of 5159 works · revised October 26, 2026
By author, the way the By Author PDF is ordered. What the notes and access labels mean is on the bibliography’s front page.
Abbott, Lawrence F. “John Marshall and Constitution Day.” Outlook 135 (September 26, 1923): 131-132.
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Abbott, Lawrence F. “John Marshall, the Democrat.” In Twelve Great Modernists, by Lawrence F. Abbott, 125-147. New York: Doubleday, Page, 1927.
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Abe Fortas Papers (MS 858). New Haven: Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library, 1935–1983.
The papers, at Yale: 100.75 linear feet in 204 boxes covering the law professor, the New Dealer, the Arnold & Porter partner, the presidential adviser, the justice, and the patron of music, with an unpublished typescript among the writings.
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Abraham, Henry J. Justices, Presidents, and Senators: A History of the U.S. Supreme Court Appointments from Washington to Bush II. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008.
The standard history of the appointments, nomination by nomination from Washington to Bush II: why each was picked, what the Senate did about it, and whether the justice repaid the president's expectations. Began life as Justices and Presidents in 1974; the fifth edition adds Roberts and Alito, and this site's failed-nominations page walks ground Abraham mapped first.
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Abraham, Henry J. “John Marshall Harlan: A Justice Neglected.” Virginia Law Review 41 (November 1955): 871-892.
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Abraham, Henry J. “John Marshall Harlan: The Justice and the Man.” Kentucky Law Journal 46 (Spring 1958): 448-475.
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Abraham, Henry J. “John Marshall’s Associate Justices.” Journal of Supreme Court History 27, no. 3 (2002): 286–292.
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Abraham, Henry J. “President Jefferson's Three Appointments to the Supreme Court of the United States: 1804, 1807, and 1807.” Journal of Supreme Court History 31, no. 2 (2006): 141–154.
The fullest modern account of Jefferson's three appointments — Johnson, Livingston, Todd — and what the president hoped each would do to Marshall's Court.
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Abraham, Henry J., and Bruce Allen Murphy. “The Influence of Sitting and Retired Justices on Presidential Supreme Court Nominations.” Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly 3 (Winter 1976): 37-63.
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Abraham, Henry J., and Edward M. Goldberg. “A Note on the Appointment of Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States.” American Bar Association Journal 46 (February 1960): 147-150, 219-222.
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Abrams, Douglas E. “Justice Jackson and the Second Flag-Salute Case: Reason and Passion in Opinion-Writing.” Journal of Supreme Court History 36, no. 1 (2011): 30–47.
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Abrams, Douglas E. “The Little League Champions Benched by Jim Crow in 1955: Resistance and Reform after Brown v. Board of Education.” Journal of Supreme Court History 38, no. 1 (2013): 51–62.
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Abrams, Richard M. “Brandeis and the New Haven-Boston & Maine Merger Battle Revisited.” Business History Review 36 (Winter 1962): 408-430.
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Abrams, Richard. “The Reputation of Felix Frankfurter.” American Bar Foundation Research Journal 1985 (Summer 1985): 639-652.
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Acheson, Dean G. “Felix Frankfurter.” Harvard Law Review 76 (November 1962): 14-16.
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Acheson, Dean G. “Mr. Justice Brandeis.” Harvard Law Review 55 (December 1941): 191-192.
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Acheson, Dean G. “Mr. Justice Cardozo and Problems of Government.” Michigan Law Review 37 (February 1939): 513-539.
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Acheson, Dean G. “Roger Brooke Taney: Notes upon Judicial Self-Restraint.” Illinois Law Review 31 (February 1937): 705-717.
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Ackerman, Bruce, Charles Fried, Norman Dorsen, et al. “Centennial Conference in Honor of Justice John Marshall Harlan.” New York Law School Law Review 36, no. 1. 1991.
The major collective assessment of Harlan — Ackerman's 'Common Law Constitution of John Marshall Harlan' and Fried's 'Conservatism of Justice Harlan' are the landmark essays, with contributions from his clerks and critics.
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Ackerman, Bruce. “Transformative Appointments.” Harvard Law Review 101 (April 1988): 1164.
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Adams, Arlin M. “Justice John Marshall Harlan and the Antitrust Laws.” Record of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York 32 (May/June 1977): 269-338.
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Adams, Charles F., and Solomon Lincoln. “Tribute to Horace Gray.” Massachusetts Historical Society Proceedings 16 (1902): 251-268.
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Adams, Edward B. “Oliver Wendell Holmes.” Green Bag 15 (January 1903): 1-9.
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Adams, Henry. “Yazoo and Judge Chase.” In John Randolph, by Henry Adams, 123-153. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1882.
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Adams, James T. “John Marshall.” American Scholar 1 (May 1932): 261-264.
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Adams, Randolph. “The Legal Theories of James Wilson.” University of Pennsylvania Law Review 68 (June 1920): 337-355.
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Adams, Rodney, Jr. “No Outside Work: Supreme Court Justices.” Alabama Lawyer 9 (October 1948): 468-469.
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Adams, Samuel B. “Roger Brooke Taney.” Georgia Bar Association Reports 48 (1931): 262-274.
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Adams, William H. “John Marshall.” Vermont Bar Association Proceedings 49 (1955): 16.
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Adler, Jonathan H., ed. Business and the Roberts Court. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.
Whether the Roberts Court is a pro-business Court, tested by empirical and doctrinal chapters on securities, antitrust, labour, preemption, environmental regulation, class actions and commercial speech, in a volume edited by Jonathan Adler; Oxford, July 2016, 354 pages. Not read.
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Adler, Sheldon S. “Toward a Constitutional Theory of Individuality: The Privacy Opinions of Justice Douglas.” Yale Law Journal 87 (July 1978): 1579-1600.
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Adler, Stephen. “Live Wire on the D.C. Circuit.” American Lawyer 7 (March 1985): 86.
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Adrian, Leonard E. “Mr. Justice Roberts and the Constitutional Revolution of 1937.” Ph.D. diss., University of Notre Dame, 1967.
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Aichele, Gary J. “Self-Preference, Competition and the Rule of Force: The Holmesian Legacy.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1988: 11–17.
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Ainsworth, Scott H., and John Anthony Maltese. “National Grange Influence on the Supreme Court Confirmation of Stanley Matthews.” Social Science History 20, no. 1 (1996): 41–62.
The dedicated study of the closest confirmation in Supreme Court history — 24 to 23, in 1881, after the Grange and anti-railroad forces nearly sank the corporate lawyer Matthews.
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Aitchison, Clyde B. “Justice Holmes and the Development of Administrative Law.” George Washington Law Review 1 (January 1933): 165-171.
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Albert J. Beveridge Collection of John Marshall Papers — Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1776-1844.
Not Marshall's papers but the ones Beveridge gathered to write about him: 300 items in seven containers, 2.8 linear feet, 1776 to 1844 with the bulk from 1795.
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Aldave, Barbara B. “Brennan: Embattled Defender of Liberalism.” National Law Journal 2 (February 18, 1980): 22.
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Alexander, De Alva Stanwood. A Political History of the State of New York, vol. 1 (1774–1832). New York: Henry Holt, 1906.
The standard party history of the state, which Dunne's bibliography says 'cannot be written without some mention of him' and 'will contain occasional references': the Clintons, Livingstons, Burr and Hamilton through the elections that Brockholst's family helped decide.
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Alexander, Jack. “Mr. Justice from Jersey.” Saturday Evening Post 230 (September 28, 1957): 25, 128-130, 132-133.
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Alexander, Jordan. “Striving for Civil Rights: Senator Edward W. Brooke, President Richard Nixon’s ‘Southern Strategy’ and the Supreme Court.” Journal of Supreme Court History 46, no. 2 (2020): 206–228.
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Alexander, Lucien H. James Wilson, Patriot, and the Wilson Doctrine. New York: n.p., 1906.
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Alexander, Raymond P. “Louis Dembitz Brandeis: The End of an Era.” National Bar Journal 1 (October 1941): 143-146.
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Alito, Samuel A. Jr. “The Origin of the Baseball Antitrust Exemption: Federal Baseball Club of Baltimore, Inc. v. National League of Professional Baseball.” Journal of Supreme Court History 34, no. 2 (2009): 183–195.
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Allen, Arthur M. “The Opinions of Mr. Justice Hughes.” Columbia Law Review 16 (November 1916): 565-584.
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Allen, Austin. "Jacksonian Jurisprudence and the Obscurity of John Catron." Vanderbilt Law Review 62, no. 2 (2009): 491–518.
From the 2009 Vanderbilt symposium — printed immediately ahead of Finkelman's McLean piece — the clearest short account of the man, the career, and the reasons for the obscurity.
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Allen, Austin. Origins of the Dred Scott Case: Jacksonian Jurisprudence and the Supreme Court, 1837-1857. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2006.
Austin Allen's account of what the Taney Court had built before 1857: a body of doctrine he calls Jacksonian jurisprudence that protected slavery, balanced federal power against state sovereignty, promoted economic development and underpinned an emerging corporate order all at once.
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Allen, Francis A. “Chief Justice Vinson and the Theory of Constitutional Government: A Tentative Appraisal.” Northwestern University Law Review 49 (1954): 3.
The appraisal at the head of the Northwestern memorial number, by the professor (then at Harvard) who had been Vinson's law clerk for two years, and the one Kurland's review of 1954 names as the counterweight to his own low estimate: 'Professor Francis A. Allen who served Vinson so well as a law clerk for two years has recently written an evaluation of his Chief's legal thought.'
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Allen, Francis A. “Mr. Justice Holmes and 'The Life of the Mind.'” Boston University Law Review 52 (Winter 1972): 229-235.
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Allen, Francis A. “Mr. Justice Holmes: Criminal Law.” University of Chicago Law Review 31 (Winter 1964): 257-262.
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Allen, James, ed. Democracy and Finance: Addresses and Public Statements of William O. Douglas. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1940.
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Allen, Richard B. “The Supreme Court Is a Lot of Laughs, on the Stage, at Least.” American Bar Association Journal 64 (May 1978): 672.
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Allman, Redmond J. “Variation in the Number of Associate Justices on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1801 to 1869.” Ph.D. diss., University of Notre Dame, 1955.
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Allman, Redmond J. “Variation in the Number of Associate Justices on the Supreme Court of the United States.” Confluence 3 (December 1953): 22-36.
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Alschuler, Albert W. Law Without Values: The Life, Work, and Legacy of Justice Holmes. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.
The case against Holmes, argued in full.
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Alsop, Joseph, and Turner Catledge. The 168 Days. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1938.
The court-packing fight as two newspapermen wrote it up the next year: the 168 days from Roosevelt's message of February 5, 1937 to the Senate's 70–20 vote of July 22 sending the bill back to committee, still cited by the historians of the crisis.
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Altfeld, Michael F., and Harold J. Spaeth. “Measuring Influence on the U.S. Supreme Court.” Jurimetrics Journal 24 (Spring 1984): 236-247.
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Altschuler, Bruce E. “A Look Back at the Steel Seizure Case.” Journal of Supreme Court History 33, no. 3 (2008): 341–352.
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“American Lawyers Mourn the Passing of Mr. Justice Jackson.” American Bar Association Journal 40 (November 1954): 970-972.
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Amestoy, Jeffrey L. “The Supreme Court Argument that Saved the Union: Richard Henry Dana, Jr., and the Prize Cases.” Journal of Supreme Court History 35, no. 1 (2010): 10–24.
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Amsterdam, Anthony G. “The Genius of Justice William O. Douglas.” Beverly Hills Bar Association Journal 12 (May/June 1978): 114-117.
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Anastaplo, George. “Mr. Justice Black, His Generous Common Sense, and the Bar Admission Cases.” Southwestern University Law Review 9 (1977): 977-1048.
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Anderson, D. I. Public Speeches of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1961.
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Anderson, Dice R. “The Teacher of Jefferson and Marshall.” South Atlantic Quarterly 15 (October 1916): 327-343.
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Anderson, Donald F. William Howard Taft: A Conservative's Conception of the Presidency. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1973.
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Anderson, Jeffrey M. “Conscience in the Court, 1931-1946: Religion as Duty and Choice.” Journal of Supreme Court History 26, no. 1 (2001): 25–52.
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Anderson, Judith I. “A Mountain of Misery: An Intimate History of William Howard Taft.” Ph.D. diss., University of California, Los Angeles, 1973.
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Anderson, Judith Icke. William Howard Taft: An Intimate History. New York: W. W. Norton, 1981.
The psychological and personal life — a candid portrait of Taft's marriage, his ambition (much of it Nellie's), and the weight, literal and figurative, he carried through public life.
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Andrews, James D. “James Wilson and His Relation to Jurisprudence and Constitutional Law.” University of Pennsylvania Law Review 49 (December 1901): 708-728.
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Angelillo, Joseph. “The ‘Unrepentant Secessionist’: The Nomination of L.Q.C. Lamar and the Retreat from Reconstruction.” Journal of Supreme Court History 46, no. 1 (2021): 42–61.
The only substantial Lamar scholarship since Murphy's 1973 biography — and a sharper-eyed one: the 1888 confirmation of a Confederate drafter of Mississippi's secession ordinance read as a milestone in the North's retreat from Reconstruction, not merely the reconciliation JFK celebrated.
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Annis, David Leslie. "Mr. Bushrod Washington: Supreme Court Justice on the Marshall Court." Ph.D. diss., University of Notre Dame, 1974.
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Ares, Charles E. “Mr. Justice Douglas.” Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 11 (Spring 1976): 229-242.
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Ariens, Michael S. “A Thrice-Told Tale, or Felix the Cat.” Harvard Law Review 107 (1994): 620.
The unsettling rejoinder: Ariens's argument that Frankfurter shaped — perhaps invented — the Roberts memorandum narrative to serve his own account of 1937.
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Arkes, Hadley. The Return of George Sutherland: Restoring a Jurisprudence of Natural Rights. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994.
The natural-law philosopher Hadley Arkes's provocative rehabilitation of the leading 'Four Horseman' — an argument that Sutherland's jurisprudence of natural rights deserves revival, not scorn.
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Arkes, Hadley. “A Return to the Four Horsemen.” Journal of Supreme Court History 22, no. 1 (1997): 33–54.
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Armstrong, Michael J. “A Barometer of Freedom of the Press: The Opinions of Mr. Justice White.” Pepperdine Law Review 8 (December 1980): 157-187.
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Armstrong, Walter P. “Books of Interest to the Supreme Court Members: What Do the Justices Read?” American Bar Association Journal 35 (April 1949): 295-298.
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Armstrong, Walter P. “Louis D. Brandeis: Lawyer and Jurist.” American Bar Association Journal 32 (October 1946): 649-652.
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Armstrong, Walter P. “Mr. Justice Black.” Tennessee Law Review 20 (April 1949): 638-643.
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Armstrong, Walter P. “Mr. Justice Douglas on Stare Decisis: A Condensation of the Eighth Cardozo Lecture.” American Bar Association Journal 35 (July 1949): 541-544.
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Armstrong, Walter P. “The Rehabilitation of Roger Brooke Taney.” Kansas Bar Association Journal 5 (August 1936): 13-22.
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Arnold, Richard S. “A Remembrance: Mr. Justice Brennan October Term 1960.” Journal of Supreme Court History 16 (1991): 5–8.
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Arnold, Richard S., Harold H. Koh, Donald P. Lay and Karen N. Moore. “Dedication to Justice Harry A. Blackmun.” Hamline Law Review 8, no. 1 (January 1985).
Chief Judge Donald Lay's survey of the eleven Eighth Circuit years is the reason to want it — that is the stretch Greenhouse treats thinnest — and Harold Koh's fifty-four pages on the equal protection of aliens is the longest thing in it.
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Arnold, Thurman W. “Mr. Justice Murphy.” Harvard Law Review 63 (December 1949): 289-293.
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Aronson, Moses J. Cardozo's Doctrine of Sociological Jurisprudence. New York: n.p., 1938.
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Aronson, Moses J. “Democracy in Action: The Brandeis Way.” Journal of Social Philosophy 4 (January 1939): 151-161.
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Aronson, Moses J. “Mr. Justice Stone and the Spirit of the Common Law.” Cornell Law Quarterly 25 (June 1940): 489-509.
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Arthur J. Goldberg Papers — Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1793–1995.
The Library's collection, 78,000 items in 296 containers and 120.7 linear feet, of which the Court is one series among many: the finding aid says 'the Supreme Court File represents Goldberg's tenure as an associate justice on the Court from 1962 to 1965,' with a case file of 'draft opinions, memoranda, and notes,' and adds that 'additional Supreme Court files of Goldberg are in the Northwestern University School of Law Library.'
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“As a Friend Sees Justice Brandeis.” Literary Digest 53 (July 1, 1916): 28.
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Asch, Sidney H. The Supreme Court and Its Great Justices. New York: Arco, 1971.
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Ash, Michael. “The Growth of Justice Black's Philosophy on Freedom of Speech: 1962-1966.” Wisconsin Law Review 1967 (Fall 1967): 840-862.
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Ashby, John B. “Supreme Court Appointments since 1937.” Ph.D. diss., University of Notre Dame, 1972.
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Ashe, Samuel A., ed. Biographical History of North Carolina from Colonial Times to the Present. Greensboro, NC: C. L. Van Noppen, 1905–17.
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Ashkenazi, Elliott. “Admiralty Law and Neutrality Policy in the 1790s: An Example of Judicial, Legislative, and Executive Cooperation.” Journal of Supreme Court History 25, no. 1 (2000): 3–16.
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Association of the Bar of the City of New York. Chief Justice Waite. New York: Association of the Bar of the City of New York, 1890.
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Atkins, Burton M., and Terry Sloope. “The 'New' Hugo Black and the Warren Court.” Polity 18 (Summer 1986): 621-637.
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Atkinson, David N. Leaving the Bench: Supreme Court Justices at the End. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1999.
The study of how justices leave — death, resignation, decline, denial — and the book that gives this site its mortal-court thread.
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Atkinson, David N. “American Constitutionalism under Stress: Mr. Justice Burton's Response to National Security Issues.” Houston Law Review 9 (November 1971): 271-288.
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Atkinson, David N. “Bowing to the Inevitable: Supreme Court Deaths and Resignations, 1789-1864.” Arizona State Law Journal 1982 (1982): 615-640.
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Atkinson, David N. “From New Deal Liberal to Supreme Court Conservative: The Metamorphosis of Justice Sherman Minton.” Washington University Law Quarterly 1975: 361-394.
The puzzle Friedman and Israel's chapter set out, taken up as a question in role theory: the repository's abstract promises 'his development from politician to jurist' and 'a theory of judicial role' to explain the justice.
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Atkinson, David N. “Justice Harold H. Burton and the Work of the Supreme Court.” Cleveland State Law Review 27 (1978): 69-83.
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Atkinson, David N. “Justice Sherman Minton and Behavior Patterns Inside the Supreme Court.” Northwestern University Law Review 69 (November/December 1974): 716-738.
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Atkinson, David N. “Justice Sherman Minton and the Balance of Liberty.” Indiana Law Journal 50 (Fall 1974): 34-59.
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Atkinson, David N. “Justice Sherman Minton and the Protection of Minority Rights.” Washington and Lee Law Review 34 (1977): 97-117.
The race cases read whole, twenty years after the retirement, by the political scientist who made Minton his subject: Barrows, Terry, the conference of December 12, 1953 as Ulmer recovered it from the justices' notes, and the line the record draws, that he 'generally protected minority interests from irrational discrimination only when there was clear and persuasive evidence of direct state action.'
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Atkinson, David N. “Minor Supreme Court Justices: Their Characteristics and Importance.” Florida State University Law Review 3 (Summer 1975): 348-359.
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Atkinson, David N. “Mr. Justice Cardozo on the Supreme Court: State and Federal Taxation.” Houston Law Review 5 (October 1967): 254-273.
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Atkinson, David N. “Mr. Justice Cardozo: A Common Law Judge on a Public Law Court.” California Western Law Review 17 (Winter 1981): 257-285.
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Atkinson, David N. “Mr. Justice Minton and the Supreme Court, 1949-1956.” Ph.D. diss., University of Iowa, 1969.
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Atkinson, David N. “Opinion Writing on the Supreme Court, 1949-1956: The Views of Justice Sherman Minton.” Temple Law Quarterly 49 (Fall 1975): 105-118.
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Atkinson, David N. “Retirement and Death on the United States Supreme Court: From Van Devanter to Douglas.” University of Missouri at Kansas City Law Review 45 (Fall 1976): 1-27.
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“Attorney General Mitchell Terminates Association's Advance Screening of Supreme Court Nominees.” American Bar Association Journal 57 (December 1971): 1175-1179.
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Atwood, Edward W. “Chase's Trial.” Portland University Law Review 2 (Spring 1951): 11-23.
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Auchincloss, Louis. “The Long Life and Broad Mind of Mr. Justice Holmes.” American Heritage 29 (June 1978): 68-77.
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Auerbach, Jerold J. “From Rags to Robes: The Legal Profession, Social Mobility, and the American Jewish Experience.” American Jewish Historical Quarterly 66 (December 1976): 249-284.
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Augustyn, Noel J. “The Chief I Knew.” Journal of Supreme Court History 31, no. 1 (2006): 9–14.
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Avery, Michael, ed. We Dissent: Talking Back to the Rehnquist Court: Eight Cases That Subverted Civil Liberties and Civil Rights. New York: New York University Press, 2009.
Eight contributors, among them Erwin Chemerinsky, Tracey Maclin, Jamin Raskin, David Rudovsky, Marjorie Cohn, Susan Serrano, Abbe Smith and Eva Paterson, writing the dissents they say should have been written in eight Rehnquist Court decisions, edited by Michael Avery of Suffolk University Law School; New York University Press, 2009, 237 pages. Not read.
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