The Annotated Bibliography: B
565 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.
Bacon, Ezekiel. A Lecture Delivered before the Young Men's Association of the City of Utica, December 15, 1843. Utica, NY: R. W. Roberts, 1844.
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Bader, William D., and Frank J. Williams. Unknown Justices of the United States Supreme Court. William S. Hein, 2011.
Profiles of the Court's obscure justices by William D. Bader and Frank J. Williams, asking what they meant to the Court and to legal culture and why they stayed obscure; William S. Hein, 2011, 139 pages. Not read.
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Bader, William D., and Roy M. Mersky, comps. The First One Hundred Eight Justices. Buffalo, NY: William S. Hein, 2004.
The 1978 statistical study of the first hundred justices brought up to a hundred and eight, 173 pages from Hein in 2004 with a preface by Richard S. Arnold; the original is on this shelf. No copy found online. Not read.
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Bader, William D., and Roy M. Mersky. “Justice Levi Woodbury: A Reputational Study.” Journal of Supreme Court History 23, no. 2 (1998): 129–142.
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Bader, William D., Henry J. Abraham & James B. Staab. "The Jurisprudence of Levi Woodbury." Vermont Law Review 18, no. 2 (1994): 261–312.
The fullest modern assessment, from a team including Henry Abraham, the dean of judicial-appointments scholarship.
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Badger, William V. “Louis D. Brandeis: Judge, Legal Scholar, and Statesman.” Social Science 34 (April 1959): 80-88.
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Bagan, Earl S. “Louis Dembitz Brandeis: Of the People, by the People, for the People.” Oklahoma City University Law Review 9 (Fall 1984): 505-539.
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Baier, Paul R. “Edward Douglass White: Frame for a Portrait.” Louisiana Law Review 43, no. 4 (1983).
The best of the Louisiana historiography — Baier's evocative portrait of the Confederate veteran, sugar planter, and devout Catholic who became the first sitting associate justice elevated to Chief.
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Baier, Paul R. “Justice Clark, the Voice of the Past, and the Exclusionary Rule.” Texas Law Review 64 (October 1985): 415-419.
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Bailey, Mark Warren. Guardians of the Moral Order: The Legal Philosophy of the Supreme Court, 1860–1910. DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2004.
The Gilded Age Court read through the moral philosophy its justices were taught: Claeys's Claremont Review notice credits it with unearthing unstudied speeches, treatises and college curricula, and with answering the Progressive reading, Beard to Horwitz, that the Court protected property for economic reasons.
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Bailey, Michael A., and Forrest Maltzman. The Constrained Court: Law, Politics, and the Decisions Justices Make. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011.
Michael Bailey of Georgetown and Forrest Maltzman of George Washington on whether legal doctrine actually constrains the justices, measured against the political preferences the attitudinal model relies on; Princeton, September 2011, 216 pages, an honourable mention for the American Political Science Association's 2012 C. Herman Pritchett Award. Not read.
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Bair, Jesse. “‘The Silent Man’: From Lochner to Hammer v. Dagenhart, a Reevaluation of Justice William R. Day.” Journal of Supreme Court History 40, no. 1 (2015): 38–54.
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Bair, Robert R. & Robin D. Coblentz. "The Trials of Mr. Justice Samuel Chase." Maryland Law Review 27, no. 4 (1967).
A compact legal history of the proceedings that produced the impeachment — the Fries and Callender trials, Chase's treatment of counsel and juries, the Baltimore grand-jury charge, and the Senate case.
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Baird, Vanessa A. Answering the Call of the Court: How Justices and Litigants Set the Supreme Court Agenda. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2007.
Vanessa Baird on where the Court's docket comes from: when the justices signal interest in an area, discrimination, free expression, welfare, immigration or economic regulation, litigants supply a larger and more significant set of cases there four or five years later; Virginia, March 2007, 240 pages, in the Constitutionalism and Democracy series. Not read.
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Baker, H. Robert. Prigg v. Pennsylvania: Slavery, the Supreme Court, and the Ambivalent Constitution. 2012.
A book-length treatment of Story's most consequential and most troubling opinion — the 1842 decision striking down state personal-liberty laws and nationalizing fugitive-slave recapture.
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Baker, H. Robert. “A Better Story in Prigg v. Pennsylvania?” Journal of Supreme Court History 39, no. 2 (2014): 169–189.
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Baker, Leonard. Back to Back: The Duel between FDR and the Supreme Court. New York: Macmillan, 1967.
The 1937 duel retold at book length thirty years on, 311 pages with a short bibliography, by the journalist who went on to write the lives of John Marshall and of Brandeis and Frankfurter.
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Baker, Leonard. Brandeis and Frankfurter: A Dual Biography. New York: Harper & Row, 1984.
The two intertwined lives told as one — the mentor and the protégé, the era's most prominent Jewish justices, bound by ideology, ambition, and a remarkable collaboration.
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Baker, Leonard. John Marshall: A Life in Law. New York: Macmillan, 1974.
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Baker, Leonard. “The Circuit Riding Justices.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1977 (1977): 63-69.
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Baker, Liva. Felix Frankfurter: A Biography. New York: Coward-McCann, 1969.
The first full narrative life, written for a general reader four years after Frankfurter's death — brisk, sympathetic, and still a good story, though it predates the opening of the papers and the modern scholarship.
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Baker, Liva. The Justice from Beacon Hill: The Life and Times of Oliver Wendell Holmes. New York: HarperCollins, 1991.
A big, readable one-volume life and times, strong on the Boston world that produced Holmes and on his long marriage to Fanny Dixwell.
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Baker, Liva. “John Marshall Harlan I and a Color Blind Constitution The Frankfurter-Harlan II Conversations.” Journal of Supreme Court History 17 (1992): 2737.
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Baker, Stewart A., and Katherine H. Wheatley. “Justice Scalia and Federalism: A Sketch.” Urban Lawyer 20 (Spring 1988): 353-366.
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Baker, William. “Memorial of Hon. Morrison Remick Waite.” Ohio State Bar Association Reports 9 (July 11-12, 1888): 173-188.
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Baldwin, Elbert F. “Supreme Court Justices.” Outlook 97 (January 1911): 156-165.
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Baldwin, Gordon B. “Justice Fortas on Dissent and Civil Disobedience: Heretic or Hero?—A Little of Both.” Wisconsin Law Review 1969 (November 1969): 218-230.
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Baldwin, Henry. A General View of the Origin and Nature of the Constitution and Government of the United States. Philadelphia: J. C. Clark, 1837.
The strangest book ever published by a sitting justice: a sprawling, self-financed treatise deducing the Constitution's nature from colonial history, written to justify his "middle course" between Marshall's nationalism and the compact theory of the nullifiers.
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Ball, Dewi Ioan. The Erosion of Tribal Power: The Supreme Court's Silent Revolution. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2016.
Dewi Ioan Ball on the silent revolution he finds in fifty years of Indian-law decisions, the incremental stripping of tribal authority over non-Indians from Williams v. Lee to Nevada v. Hicks, read from seven justices' private papers; Oklahoma, 2016, 311 pages. Not read.
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Ball, Howard, and Phillip J. Cooper. Of Power and Right: Hugo Black, William O. Douglas, and America's Constitutional Revolution. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
The dual study of the two New Deal appointees who drove the rights revolution and then fell out — Douglas the restless individualist beside Black the disciplined textualist.
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Ball, Howard. A Defiant Life: Thurgood Marshall and the Persistence of Racism in America. New York: Crown Publishers, 1999.
A full scholarly biography by a political scientist, published on the heels of Williams's and more focused on the law.
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Ball, Howard. Hugo L. Black: Cold Steel Warrior. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
The fullest modern scholarly biography after Newman's — Howard Ball is sharp on the contradictions: the former Klansman who became the Court's fiercest defender of civil liberties, the literal-minded textualist of ferocious will.
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Ball, Howard. The Vision and the Dream of Justice Hugo L. Black: An Examination of a Judicial Philosophy. University: University of Alabama Press, 1975.
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Ball, Howard. “Hugo L. Black: A Twentieth Century Jeffersonian.” Southwestern University Law Review 9 (1977): 1049-1068.
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Ball, Howard. “Justice Hugo L. Black: A Magnificent Product of the South.” Alabama Law Review 36 (Spring 1985): 791-834.
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Ballantine, Arthur A. “John M. Harlan for the Supreme Court.” Iowa Law Review 40 (Spring 1955): 391-399.
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Ballantine, Arthur A. “The Supreme Court: Principles and Personalities.” American Bar Association 31 (March 1945): 113-115.
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Ballard, Rene N. “The Administrative Theory of William Howard Taft.” Western Political Quarterly 7 (March 1954): 65-74.
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Balogh, Elmer. “Mr. Justice Brandeis.” Harvard Law Review 45 (November 1931): 1-3.
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Bancroft, Frederic. “Some Radicals as Statesmen: Chase, Sumner, Adams, and Stevens.” Atlantic Monthly 86 (August 1900): 276-283.
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Bander, Edward J. “Holmespun Humor.” Villanova Law Review 10 (Fall 1964): 92-99.
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Bander, Edward J. “The Justice of Louis Dembitz Brandeis.” Commentary 22 (November 1956): 453-455.
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Bander, Edward J., ed. Justice Holmes: Wisdom and Humor of and about Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. Charlottesville, VA: Michie, 1966.
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Banks, Christopher P., and John C. Blakeman. The U.S. Supreme Court and New Federalism: From the Rehnquist to the Roberts Court. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2012.
Christopher Banks and John Blakeman on the federalism decisions from the Rehnquist Court's revival of state sovereignty into the Roberts Court, the Affordable Care Act case included; Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, 2012, 348 pages. Not read.
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Banks, N. Huston. “Abby Folsom and Judge Story: A Curious Incident.” Magazine of American History 10 (November 1883): 427-429.
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Banner, James. “Mr. Justice Sutherland and the Social Welfare.” Master's thesis, Columbia University, 1961.
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Banner, Stuart. The Most Powerful Court in the World: A History of the Supreme Court of the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024.
Stuart Banner's one-volume institutional history of the Court from 1789 to the present, how it acquired and kept its authority, who the justices were and how they were chosen, and how it works inside; Oxford, November 2024, 672 pages. Not read.
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Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States. “In Memory of Honorable Wiley Rutledge: Proceedings before United States Supreme Court.” Iowa Law Review 36 (Summer 1951): 591-606.
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Barbar, James. The Honorable Eighty-Eight. New York: Vantage Press, 1957.
Vantage Press, New York, 1957: 124 pages on the eighty-eight justices by the author's count, catalogued under the Court and its judges. Not seen, and no copy found online.
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Barbas, Samantha. Newsworthy: The Supreme Court Battle over Privacy and Press Freedom. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2017.
Samantha Barbas of Buffalo on the Hill family, held hostage in 1952 and then turned into a novel, a play and a film, whose privacy suit against Life became Time, Inc. v. Hill and set the newsworthiness standard; Stanford, January 2017, 348 pages, written from the papers of Nixon, who argued the case. Not read.
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Barker, Charles E. With President Taft in the White House: Memories of William Howard Taft. Chicago: Knoch, 1947.
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Barkley, Alben W. “The Lessons of John Marshall.” Federal Bar Association Journal 3 (April 1937): 3-11.
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Barkow, Rachel Elise. Justice Abandoned: How the Supreme Court Ignored the Constitution and Enabled Mass Incarceration. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2025.
Rachel Barkow of NYU on six decisions that opened the way to pretrial detention, coercive plea bargaining, disproportionate sentences and racial disparity, and the originalist case for overruling them; Harvard, March 2025, 320 pages. Not read.
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Barlin, Barbara. “John Marshall: Usurper or Grantee?” Social Education 22 (March 1958): 116-118, 121.
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Barnes, Catherine A. Men of the Supreme Court: Profiles of the Justices. New York: Facts on File, 1978.
Twenty-six profiles of the justices who sat between 1945 and 1978, Black to Whittaker in alphabetical order, from the Facts on File reference house, with a short bibliography.
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Barnes, James B. “The Font of Federal Power: Wickard v. Filburn and the Aggregation Principle.” Journal of Supreme Court History 42, no. 1 (2017): 49–66.
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Barnes, William Horatio. The Supreme Court of the United States: A Series of Biographies. Washington, DC: W.H. Barnes & Co., 1877.
A Washington publisher's 1877 collective biography of the Court, with an introduction by Justice Miller and fifteen portraits; the sketches of the nine sitting justices first ran as pages 65 to 118 of Barnes's The American Government (1875), which the Library of Congress has in full text.
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Barnett, Helaine M., and Kenneth Levine. “Mr. Justice Potter Stewart.” New York University Law Review 40 (May 1965): 526-562.
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Barnett, Randy E. “The Three Narratives of the Slaughter-House Cases.” Journal of Supreme Court History 41, no. 3 (2016): 295–309.
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Barnett, Vincent M., Jr. “Mr. Justice Black and the Supreme Court.” University of Chicago Law Review 8 (December 1940): 20-41.
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Barnett, Vincent M., Jr. “Mr. Justice Jackson and the Supreme Court.” Western Political Quarterly 1 (September 1948): 223-242.
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Barnett, Vincent M., Jr. “Mr. Justice Murphy, Civil Liberties, and the Holmes Tradition.” Cornell Law Quarterly 32 (November 1946): 177-221.
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Barnhart, Bill, and Gene Schlickman. John Paul Stevens: An Independent Life. DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2010.
The fullest biography of Stevens, and the best starting point for a long and independent life.
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Barnwell, Robert W., Jr. “Rutledge, ‘The Dictator.’” Journal of Southern History 7 (1941): 215.
The standard study of Rutledge's extraordinary wartime governorship — the near-absolute powers South Carolina handed him as the British closed in, which earned him the nickname and made him the most powerful executive in revolutionary America.
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Barre, W. L. “John Jay.” In Lives of Illustrious Men of America: Distinguished in the Annals of the Republic as Legislators, Warriors, and Philosophers, by W. L. Barre, 334-348. Cincinnati: W. A. Clarke, 1859.
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Barre, W. L. “John Marshall.” In Lives of Illustrious Men of America: Distinguished in the Annals of the Republic as Legislators, Warriors, and Philosophers, by W. L. Barre, 426-452. Cincinnati: W. A. Clarke, 1859.
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Barre, W. L. “John Rutledge.” In Lives of Illustrious Men of America: Distinguished in the Annals of the Republic as Legislators, Warriors, and Philosophers, by W. L. Barre, 408-425. Cincinnati: W. A. Clarke, 1859.
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Barrett, Amy Coney. Listening to the Law: Reflections on the Court and the Constitution. New York: Sentinel, 2025.
Barrett's own reflective account of the Court, constitutional interpretation, and her path to the bench, published in 2025 — the closest thing to a self-portrait from the newest conservative justice.
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Barrett, Amy Coney. “Originalism and Stare Decisis.” Notre Dame Law Review 92, no. 5 (2017): 1921.
Barrett's most cited academic article, from her years as a law professor, and essential for understanding the mind she brought to the bench.
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Barrett, C. Walker. “The Miracle of the Constitution.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1978: 97–102.
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Barrett, John Q. “A New Chief Justice in the Sight of His Predecessor: Stone and Hughes, Summer 1941.” Journal of Supreme Court History 42, no. 2 (2017): 202208.
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Barrett, John Q. “Attorney Robert H. Jackson and President Franklin D. Roosevelt.” Journal of Supreme Court History 44, no. 1 (2019): 90–108.
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Barrett, John Q. “Law Clerk John Costelloe’s Photographs of the Stone Court Justices, October 1963.” Journal of Supreme Court History 46, no. 2 (2021): 162–180.
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Barry, Richard. Mr. Rutledge of South Carolina. New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1942.
Barry's study, though based on wide research and at times colorful, ultimately feels light rather than penetrating.
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Barth, Alan. Prophets with Honor: Great Dissents and Great Dissenters in the Supreme Court. New York: Knopf, 1974.
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Bartlett, Louis. “Mr. Brandeis.” Nation 102 (March 2, 1916): 257.
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Bartlett, Robert M. The Way of Liberty: Louis Dembitz Brandeis, They Did Something About It. New York: Association Press, 1939.
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Barton, Benjamin H. The Credentialed Court: Inside the Cloistered, Elite World of American Justice. New York: Encounter Books, 2022.
Benjamin Barton of Tennessee shows how narrow the justices' backgrounds have become, nearly all of them Harvard or Yale graduates and former appellate judges or professors, through studies of every justice from Jay to Barrett; Encounter, March 2022, 360 pages. Not read.
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Bartosic, Florian. “The Constitution, Civil Liberties, and John Marshall Harlan.” Kentucky Law Journal 46 (Spring 1958): 807-847.
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Bartosic, Florian. “With John Marshall from William and Mary to Dartmouth College.” William and Mary Law Review 7 (May 1966): 259-266.
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Baskerville, Stephen W. “Frankfurter, Keynes, and the Fight for Public Works, 1932-1935.” Maryland Historian 9 (Spring 1978): 1-16.
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Bassett, James. “Unpartisan Chief Justice of the United States.” New York Times Magazine 103 (October 11, 1953): 10, 19-20.
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Bates, Earnest S. “McReynolds, Roberts, and Hughes.” New Republic 87 (July 1, 1936): 232.
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Bates, Ernest Sutherland. The Story of the Supreme Court. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1936.
A popular one-volume history from 1936, the eve of the court-packing fight, reissued in 1938 'with a prefatory conclusion' once the fight was over, and reprinted by Rothman in 1982.
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Bates, Henry M. “Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone.” American Bar Association Journal 27 (August 1941): 469-475.
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Bates, Henry M. “New Supreme Court Judge: An Appraisal.” American Bar Association Journal 26 (January 1940): 107.
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Battle, George G. “James Moore Wayne: Southern Unionist.” Fordham Urban Law Journal 14 (March 1964): 42-59.
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Baude, Patrick. “An Appreciative Note on Mr. Justice Douglas' View of the Court's Role in Environmental Cases.” Indiana Law Journal 51 (Fall 1975): 22-26.
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Baude, William. The Supreme Court's Shadow Docket. New York University Journal of Law and Liberty 9 (2015): 1–45.
The article that named the thing: forty-five pages in the New York University Journal of Law and Liberty in 2015 on the orders and summary decisions the Court issues outside its argued docket, called there “a range of orders and summary decisions that defy its normal procedural regularity.” Vladeck credits this piece with coining the phrase. Free from Chicago Unbound; abstract and citation read, not the article.
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Baum, Lawrence. Ideology in the Supreme Court. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2017.
Lawrence Baum on how ideology reaches specific votes, through shared understandings among political elites and the justices' attitudes toward social groups rather than deduction from principle, tested on the three areas that realigned between 1910 and 2013; Princeton, May 2017, 288 pages, and winner of the 2018 Pritchett Award. Not read.
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Baur, Vom, F. Trowbridge. “Introduction of Mr. Justice Frankfurter.” Federal Bar Journal 18 (January/March 1958): 21-23.
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Baxter, Katharine S. “John Jay: Statesman and First Chief Justice of the United States.” In Godchild of Washington: A Picture of the Past, by Katharine S. Baxter, 87-94. New York: F. T. Neely, 1897.
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Baxter, Maurice G. Daniel Webster and the Supreme Court. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1966.
The Marshall and Taney Courts from the advocate's lectern: Webster's cases before the Court, 1966, with a bibliography.
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Bayh, Birch. “How Should We Judge Our Judges? In the Wake of the Senate Rejection of Judges Haynsworth and Carswell and the Drive to Impeach Justice Douglas.” Lithopinion 5 (Fall 1970): 6-8.
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Baynes, Thomas E., Jr. “Yankee from Georgia: A Search for Justice Woods.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1978: 31–42.
The sole standalone study of Woods ever published — Baynes's search for the transplanted Ohio Union general who became a New South justice and wrote almost nothing memorable in six years.
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Bazelon, David L. “Humanizing the Criminal Process: Some Decisions of Mr. Justice Marshall.” Black Law Journal 6 (Fall 1979): 3-11.
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Bean, Michael J. “The Legitimacy of Civil Law Reasoning in the Common Law: Justice Harlan's Contribution.” Yale Law Journal 82 (December 1972): 258-285.
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Beaney, William M. “Justice William O. Douglas: The Constitution in a Free Society.” Indiana Law Journal 51 (Fall 1975): 18-21.
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Beard, Charles A. The Supreme Court and the Constitution. New York: Macmillan, 1912.
Beard's 127-page study of 1912 on the origins of judicial review, grown from a Political Science Quarterly article: the Convention of 1787, judicial control before ratification, and Marbury; reissued in 1962 with Alan Westin's introduction, and free to read.
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Beard, Charles A. “Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes.” Current History 33 (March 1931): 801-806.
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Beck, James M. “Justice Holmes and the Supreme Court.” Federal Bar Journal 1 (March 1932): 36-39, 61.
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Beck, James M. “The Memory of Marshall.” American Bar Association Journal 21 (June 1935): 345-351.
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Becker, Brandon, and Michael F. Walsh. “The Interpretation of Narrow Construction and Policy: Mr. Justice Stevens' Circuit Opinions.” San Diego Law Review 13 (July 1976): 899-930.
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Becker, Carl. “John Jay and Peter Van Schaak.” New York State Historical Association Journal 50 (October 1969): 1-12.
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Becker, Robert M. “Chief Justice Warren and Civil Liberties.” Ph.D. diss., New School for Social Research, 1974.
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Beer, Henry W. “Late Justice Benjamin Nathan Cardozo.” New Jersey Law Journal 62 (December 28, 1939): 1-3, 437.
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Beiser, Edward N. “The Haynsworth Affair Reconsidered: The Significance of Conflicting Perceptions of the Judicial Role.” Vanderbilt Law Review 23 (March 1970): 263-292.
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Beitzinger, Alfons J. “Chief Justice Taney and the Publication of Court Opinions.” Catholic University of America Law Review 7 (January 1958): 32-36.
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Belair, Felix. “Mr. Truman's Friend—and His Nominee?” New York Times Magazine 101 (December 16, 1951): 13, 43.
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Belden, Marva R., and Thomas G. Belden. “Kate Was Too Ambitious.” American Heritage 7 (August 1956): 40.
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Belden, Thomas G. “The Salmon P. Chase Family in the Civil War and Reconstruction: A Study in Ambition and Corruption.” Ph.D. diss., University of Chicago, 1952.
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Belden, Thomas G., and Marva R. Belden. So Fell the Angels. Boston: Little, Brown, 1956.
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Belgrad, Eric A. “John Marshall's Contribution to American Neutrality Doctrines.” William and Mary Law Review 9 (Winter 1967): 430-457.
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Belknap, Michael R. “Frankfurter and the Nazi Saboteurs.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1982 (1982): 66-71.
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Belknap, Michal R. The Supreme Court and Criminal Procedure: The Warren Court Revolution. Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2011.
The documentary volume on the criminal-procedure revolution, in CQ Press's series on the Court's power: Michal Belknap on notification of rights and interrogation, search and seizure, and counsel for the indigent, with the opinions set beside law review articles, press editorials and police manuals from before and after the rulings.
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Belknap, Michal R. The Supreme Court under Earl Warren, 1953–1969. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2005.
The Warren years in one volume of the South Carolina chief-justiceships series, school cases to the criminal-procedure revolution; the press quotes Urofsky calling it 'far and away the best single volume we have on the Warren Court.'
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Belknap, Michal R. The Vinson Court: Justices, Rulings, and Legacy. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2004.
The only book-length treatment of the Vinson Court as a court — the loyalty-security cases, Youngstown, and the run-up to Brown that Vinson did not live to decide.
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Belknap, Michal R. “Alarm Bells from the Past: The Troubling History of American Military Commissions.” Journal of Supreme Court History 28, no. 3 (2003): 300322.
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Belknap, Michal R. “Dennis v. United States: Great Case Or Cold War Relic?” Journal of Supreme Court History 18 (1993): 41–58.
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Belknap, Michal R. “Mr. Justice Pitney and Progressivism.” Seton Hall Law Review 16, no. 2 (1986): 381–423.
The leading modern study of Pitney — Belknap's case that the author of Coppage was no simple reactionary but a New Jersey progressive whose labor decisions were more mixed, and more principled, than the caricature.
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Belknap, Michal R. “Why Dennis v. United States is a Landmark Case.” Journal of Supreme Court History 34, no. 3 (2009): 289–302.
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Belko, William S. Philip Pendleton Barbour in Jacksonian America: An Old Republican in King Andrew's Court. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 2016.
Strict construction, states' rights, hostility to banks, tariffs, and internal improvements — the creed itself, carried by the Speaker who fought the Missouri Compromise restrictions, presided over Virginia's 1829–30 convention, and was Jackson's deliberate choice to plant the doctrine in Duvall's chair.
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Bell, Landon C. “John Marshall: Albert J. Beveridge as a Biographer.” Virginia Law Register 12 (February 1927): 640-655.
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Bell, Peter A. “Extrajudicial Activity of Supreme Court Justices.” Stanford Law Review 22 (February 1970): 587-617.
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Bell, Robin O. “Justice Anthony M. Kennedy: Will His Appointment to the United States Supreme Court Have an Impact on Employment Discrimination?” University of Cincinnati Law Review 57 (1989): 1037-1071.
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Bell, Thomas Rives. The Constitution of Conflict: How the Supreme Court Undermines the Separation of Powers. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2025.
Thomas Rives Bell of Knox College argues the Court should stay out of interbranch disputes that do not touch individual rights, through case studies of the legislative veto, executive agreements, recess appointments and impeachment; Kansas, November 2025, 304 pages. Not read.
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Belsky, Martin H., ed. The Rehnquist Court: A Retrospective. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
The Rehnquist Court looked back on, 283 pages of essays from Oxford in 2002 edited by Martin Belsky. No copy found online. Not read.
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Belton, Robert and Stephen L. Wasby. “How Griggs Came to Be.” Journal of Supreme Court History 39, no. 3 (2014): 425–443.
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Belz, Herman. “The Supreme Court and Constitutional Responsibility in the Civil War Era.” Journal of Supreme Court History 21 (Special Edition 1996): 5–8.
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Bemis, Samuel F. Jay's Treaty. New York: Macmillan, 1924.
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Bendiner, Robert. “The Law and Potter Stewart: An Interview with Justice Potter Stewart.” American Heritage 35, no. 1 (1983).
The interview people quote, two years after he left the bench: Stewart on labels, on Warren ('sometimes was guided by what he thought was right or wrong rather than by the law'), on obscenity ('It's a very subjective matter'), and on the judge's duty 'to remove from his judicial work his own political or religious or moral or philosophical or social ideas.'
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Benedict, Michael Les. The Impeachment and Trial of Andrew Johnson. New York: W. W. Norton, 1973.
The standard scholarly account of the 1868 trial, where the ex-justice delivered his second historic performance: Curtis's opening for the defense framed impeachment as a legal proceeding requiring an indictable offense — the theory on which Johnson survived by one vote.
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Benedict, Michael Les. “Reconstruction: The Civil War Amendments.” Journal of Supreme Court History 21 (Special Edition 1996): 89–97.
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Benson, John S. The Judicial Record of the Late Chief Justice Chase. New York: Baker, Voorhis, and Company, 1882.
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Bent, Silas. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing Co., 1932.
The first full-length life, published in 1932, the year Holmes left the bench, by the journalist Silas Bent (whose other books include Newspaper Crusaders).
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Bentley, Judith. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Messner, 1983.
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Bentley, William. The Diary of William Bentley, D.D., Pastor of the East Church, Salem, Massachusetts, vol. 3 (1803–1810). Salem, Mass.: Essex Institute, 1911.
The contemporary's verdict that John D. Cushing gave the last word of his dissertation to, from the Salem minister's diary at Cushing's death: 'pleasant, not grave,' 'small in person, but easy in his manners,' a judge whose 'decisions had less of the language of the Law than any man,' and 'a man who had deserved well of his country and who had been an example of purity and peaceful ambition.'
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Bergan, Francis. “Marshall, the Constitution, and the Common Law.” Alabama Lawyer 25 (June 1974): 702-706.
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Bergan, Francis. “Mr. Justice Brewer: A Perspective of a Century.” Albany Law Review 25 (June 1961): 191-202.
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Berger, Raoul. “Benno Schmidt vs. Rehnquist and Scalia.” Ohio State Law Journal 47 (November 1986): 709-712.
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Berger, Raoul. “Jefferson v. Marshall in the Burr Case.” American Bar Association Journal 60 (June 1974): 702-706.
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Berger, Raoul. “Jefferson v. Marshall in the Burr Case.” American Business Law Journal 14 (Winter 1977): 391-404.
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Berkson, Larry C. “Supreme Court Justices: Effective Encoders of Supreme Court Decisions.” American Business Law Journal 14 (Winter 1977): 391-404.
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Berlin, George S. “The Brandeis-Weizmann Dispute.” American Jewish Historical Quarterly 60 (September 1970): 37-68.
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Berman, Daniel M. “Freedom and Mr. Justice Black: The Record after Twenty Years.” Missouri Law Review 25 (1960): 155-174.
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Berman, Daniel M. “Hugo Black, Southerner.” American University Law Review 10 (January 1961): 35-42.
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Berman, Daniel M. “Hugo L. Black at Seventy-five.” American University Law Review 10 (January 1961): 43-52.
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Berman, Daniel M. “Hugo L. Black: The Early Years.” Catholic University of America Law Review 8 (May 1959): 103-116.
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Berman, Daniel M. “Mr. Justice Brennan after Five Years.” Catholic University of America Law Review 11 (1962): 1-2.
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Berman, Daniel M. “Mr. Justice Brennan.” Nation 183 (October 3, 1956): 298.
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Berman, Daniel M. “Mr. Justice Brennan: A Preliminary Appraisal.” Catholic University of America Law Review 7 (January 1958): 1-15.
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Berman, Daniel M. “Mr. Justice Stewart: A Preliminary Appraisal.” University of Cincinnati Law Review 28 (Fall 1959): 401-421.
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Berman, Daniel M. “Mr. Justice Whittaker: A Preliminary Appraisal.” Missouri Law Review 24 (1959): 1.
The first scholarly look, written after two terms and cited by Friedman and Israel.
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Berman, Daniel M. “The Case of Justice Frankfurter.” New Jersey State Bar Journal 2 (Fall 1958): 149, 168-169.
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Berman, Daniel M. “The Political Philosophy of Hugo L. Black.” Ph.D. diss., Rutgers University, 1957.
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Berman, Daniel M. “The Racial Issue and Mr. Justice Black.” American University Law Review 16 (June 1967): 386-402.
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Berman, William C. “Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.” In The Truman Period as a Research Field. 1967.
The first item in Friedman and Israel's list, 'on the background to Clark's work on the Court': Berman's survey of civil rights and civil liberties in the Truman years, in the volume Kirkendall edited from the 1966 Truman Library conference, which F&I says covers 'aspects of the history of the Truman administration in which Clark played major roles.'
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Bernard, Burton C. “Brandeis in St. Louis.” St. Louis University Law Journal 11 (Fall 1966): 10-11.
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Berns, Walter and Philippa Strum. “Issue: The Clear and Present Danger Test.” Journal of Supreme Court History 25, no. 2 (2000): 187–190.
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Bernstein, David E. “Lochner and Constitutional Continuity.” Journal of Supreme Court History 36, no. 2 (2011): 116–128.
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Bernstein, David E. “Plessy versus Lochner: The Berea College Case.” Journal of Supreme Court History 25, no. 1 (2000): 93–111.
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Bernstein, David E. “Two Asian Laundry Cases.” Journal of Supreme Court History 24, no. 1 (1999): 95–111.
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Bernstein, Irving. “The Conservative Mr. Justice Holmes.” New England Quarterly 23 (December 1950): 435-452.
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Bernstein, R. B. “Hugo L. Black and the Challenges of Judicial Biography.” Journal of Supreme Court History 20 (1995): 147–152.
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Berry, Mary Frances. Stability, Security, and Continuity: Mr. Justice Burton and Decision-Making in the Supreme Court, 1945–1958. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1978.
The scholarly study of Burton's Court years by the historian Mary Frances Berry, built from his meticulous diaries — a close look at how a modest Ohio Republican actually made decisions across the Vinson and Warren Courts.
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Beschle, Donald L. “The Conservative as Liberal: The Religion Clauses, Liberal Neutrality, and the Approach of Justice O'Connor.” Notre Dame Law Review 62 (1987): 151-191.
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Beth, Loren P. John Marshall Harlan: The Last Whig Justice. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1992.
The standard scholarly life — Loren Beth reads Harlan as an old-fashioned Kentucky Whig whose nationalism and moral absolutism made him the Court's lonely conscience on race.
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Beth, Loren P. “Judge into Justice: Should Supreme Court Appointees Have Judicial Experience?” South Atlantic Quarterly 58 (Autumn 1959): 521-527.
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Beth, Loren P. “Justice Harlan and the Chief Justiceship.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1983 (1983): 73-79.
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Beth, Loren P. “Justice Harlan and the Uses of Dissent.” American Political Science Review 49 (December 1955): 1085-1104.
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Beth, Loren P. “Mr. Justice Black and the First Amendment: Comments on the Dilemma of Constitutional Interpretation.” Journal of Politics 41 (November 1979): 1105-1124.
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Beth, Loren P. “President Hayes Appoints a Justice.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1989: 68–77.
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Bethune, Brett. “Influence without Impeachment: How the Impeach Earl Warren Movement Began, Faltered, but Avoided Irrelevance.” Journal of Supreme Court History 47, no. 2 (2022): 142–161.
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Beveridge, Albert J. The Life of John Marshall (4 vols.). Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1916–1919.
Magnificent and dated in equal measure: a senator's epic that fixed Marshall's heroic image for the twentieth century, built on prodigious research and an open loathing of Jefferson.
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Beveridge, Albert J. “Commentaries on the Life of John Marshall.” Journal of Missouri Bar 3 (June 1947): 115-117, 126-127.
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Beveridge, Albert J. “John Marshall, the Man and the Lawyer.” Case and Comment 23 (March 1917): 809-812.
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Beveridge, Albert J. “John Marshall: His Personality and Development.” Ohio Law Report 14 (February 21, 1916): 24-32.
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Beveridge, Albert J. “The Development of the American Constitution under John Marshall.” American Law Review 61 (May/June 1927): 449-477.
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Beveridge, Albert J. “The Development of the American Constitution under John Marshall.” Michigan Bar Journal 1 (March 1922): 121-133; (April 1922): 141-182.
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Beveridge, Albert J. “The Development of the American Constitution under John Marshall.” Minnesota Law Review 7 (November 1922): 102-121.
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Beveridge, Albert J. “The Development of the Constitution under John Marshall.” American Law Review 56 (November/December 1922): 921-948.
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Beveridge, Albert J. “The Development of the United States Constitution under John Marshall.” In Proceedings of the Bar Association of the State of New Hampshire, 1923, 7-49. Concord, NH: Rumford Press, 1924.
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BeVier, Lillian R. “Free Expression in the Warren and Burger Courts.” Journal of Supreme Court History 25, no. 2 (2000): 191–212.
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Beytagh, Francis X., Jr. “Mr. Justice Stevens and the Burger Court's Uncertain Trumpet.” Notre Dame Lawyer 51 (July 1976): 946-955.
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Bickel, Alexander M. & Benno C. Schmidt Jr. The Judiciary and Responsible Government, 1910–1921 (Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court, vol. 9). New York: Macmillan, 1984.
The Holmes Devise volume for the White Court, 1910–1921.
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Bickel, Alexander M. The Least Dangerous Branch: The Supreme Court at the Bar of Politics. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1962.
The book that named the countermajoritarian difficulty, judicial review's standing quarrel with democratic government, and answered it with the passive virtues: the techniques by which a Court declines to decide.
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Bickel, Alexander M. The Supreme Court and the Idea of Progress. New York: Harper & Row, 1970.
Bickel's 1969 Harvard Law School lectures on the Warren Court, revised for print the year after it ended and reissued by Yale in 1978 with a foreword by Anthony Lewis.
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Bickel, Alexander M. “A Reply to Arthur J. Goldberg: The Overworked Court.” New Republic 168 (February 1973): 17-18.
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Bickel, Alexander M. “Chief Justice Warren and the Presidency.” New Republic 134 (January 23, 1956): 8.
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Bickel, Alexander M. “Close of the Warren Era.” New Republic 161 (July 12, 1969): 13-16.
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Bickel, Alexander M. “Frankfurter and Friend.” New Republic 158 (February 3, 1968): 27-28, 32-33.
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Bickel, Alexander M. “Mr. Taft Rehabilitates the Court.” Yale Law Journal 79 (November 1969): 1-45.
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Bickel, Alexander M. “On the Retirement of Justice Reed.” New Republic 136 (March 1957): 6.
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Bickel, Alexander M. “The Making of Supreme Court Justices.” New Leader 53 (May 25, 1970): 14-18.
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Bickel, Alexander M., ed. The Unpublished Opinions of Mr. Justice Brandeis: The Supreme Court at Work. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1957.
Opinions Brandeis wrote and never delivered, taken from his working papers and set out with commentary by Alexander Bickel, Paul Freund introducing: the Court seen from the drafts that did not issue.
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Biddle, Francis. Justice Holmes, Natural Law, and the Supreme Court. New York: Macmillan, 1961.
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Biddle, Francis. Mr. Justice Holmes. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1942.
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Biddle, Francis. “Dedicatory Issue of the Columbia Law Review to Harlan Fiske Stone, Columbia Law, 1898, Chief Justice of the United States; and Charles Evans Hughes, Columbia Law, 1884, Retired Chief Justice of the United States.” Columbia Law Review 41 (November 1941): 1157.
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Biddle, Francis. “Louis Dembitz Brandeis.” American Bar Association Journal 29 (February 1943): 71-73.
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Biddle, Francis. “Mr. Justice Holmes.” Temple Law Quarterly 6 (February 1932): 139-140.
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Biddle, Francis. “Reminiscences of Mr. Justice Holmes.” Case and Comment 49 (Fall 1943): 5-9.
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Biddle, Francis. “Reminiscences of Mr. Justice Holmes.” Chicago Bar Review 24 (May 1943): 313-314, 352-358.
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Bidwell, W. H. “Chief Justice Waite.” Eclectic Magazine 82 (May 1874): 631.
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Bidwell, W. H. “Salmon P. Chase.” Eclectic Magazine 81 (September 1873): 373-374.
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Biela, Leon Julius. “How to Avoid Dictatorship: The Public Debate Over Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Court-packing Plan and Its International Context.” Journal of Supreme Court History 49, no. 1 (2024): 26–48.
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Bigelow, John. “A Chapter in Chancery of New Jersey: Livingston, Paterson, and Howell.” New Jersey Historical Society Proceedings 54 (October 1936): 268-279.
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Bikle, Henry W. “Mr. Justice Brandeis and the Regulation of Railroads.” Harvard Law Review 45 (November 1931): 4-32.
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Billman, Obed C. “John Marshall Harlan (1833-1911).” Case and Comment 23 (July 1916): 120-125.
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Binion, Gayle. “An Assessment of Potter Stewart.” Center Magazine 14 (September 1981): 2-5.
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Binion, Gayle. “Justice Potter Stewart: The Unpredictable Vote.” Journal of Supreme Court History 17 (1992): 99–108.
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Binion, Gayle. “The Evolution of Constitutional Doctrine: The Role of Justice Stewart on a Changing Supreme Court.” Ph.D. diss., University of California, Los Angeles, 1977.
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Binney, Horace. An Eulogy on the Life and Character of John Marshall, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Philadelphia: J. Crissy and G. Goodman, 1835.
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Binney, Horace. Eulogy on John Marshall Delivered at Philadelphia, September 24, 1835. Chicago: Callaghan, 1900.
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Binney, Horace. Memorial sketch of Bushrod Washington. Philadelphia: C. Sherman & Son, 1858.
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Binney, Horace. “Binney's Eulogy on Chief Justice Marshall.” American Jurist 14 (October 1835): 462-465.
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“Biographical Notes.” U.S. News and World Report 27 (August 5, 1949): 20.
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“Biographical Sketch of Chief Justice Ellsworth.” American Law Magazine 3 (July 1844): 249-272.
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Birkby, Robert H. “Teaching Congress How to Do Its Work: Mr. Justice McReynolds and Maritime Torts.” Congressional Studies 8 (1981): 11-20.
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Bischoff, Ralph F. “The Supreme Court Then and Now.” Albany Law Review 20 (January 1956): 16-22.
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Bishirjian, Richard. “Justice Story's Influence on American Law.” Intercollegiate Review 8 (Winter 1972-1973): 127-130.
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Bishop, H. O. “Chief Justice John Marshall, Transportation Expert.” American Bar Association Journal 21 (March 1935): 184-185.
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Bishop, James. The Holmes-Einstein Letters. London: Macmillan, 1964.
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Bishop, William W., Jr. “Robert H. Jackson, Editorial.” American Journal of International Law 49 (January 1955): 44-50.
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Biskupic, Joan. American Original: The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009.
The definitive biography, by a veteran Supreme Court journalist.
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Biskupic, Joan. Breaking In: The Rise of Sonia Sotomayor and the Politics of Justice. New York: Sarah Crichton Books, 2014.
The best biography — the veteran Court journalist Joan Biskupic on Sotomayor's rise from a Bronx housing project to the Court, and on the politics of the first Latina justice's appointment.
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Biskupic, Joan. Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court's Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences. New York: William Morrow, 2023.
The best single account of the conservative supermajority and how it was built.
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Biskupic, Joan. Sandra Day O'Connor: How the First Woman on the Supreme Court Became Its Most Influential Justice. New York: Ecco, 2005.
The first major biography, by the veteran Court journalist Joan Biskupic — written while O'Connor still sat, and definitive on how the pragmatic Arizonan became the swing vote who decided abortion, affirmative action, and religion for a generation.
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Biskupic, Joan. The Chief: The Life and Turbulent Times of Chief Justice John Roberts. New York: Basic Books, 2019.
The definitive biography, by the veteran Court journalist who has chronicled a generation of justices.
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Biskupic, Joan. “Justice Kennedy: The Fifth Vote.” Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report 47 (February 6, 1989): 1695.
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Black, Charles L. “A Note on Senatorial Consideration of Supreme Court Nominees.” Yale Law Journal 79 (March 1970): 657-664.
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Black, Charles L. “Mr. Justice Black, the Supreme Court, and the Bill of Rights.” Harper's Magazine 222 (February 1961): 63-73.
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Black, Charles L., Jr. The People and the Court: Judicial Review in a Democracy. New York: Macmillan, 1960.
Judicial review in a democracy defended, two years before Bickel's Least Dangerous Branch took up the same question, by the Yale professor who had worked on the Brown briefs at Columbia.
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Black, Chauncey F., and Samuel B. Smith, eds. Some Account of the Work of Stephen J. Field, as Legislator, State Judge, and Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. New York: S. B. Smith, 1895.
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Black, Elizabeth. “Hugo Black: A Memorial Portrait.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1982 (1982): 72-94.
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Black, Elizabeth. “Hugo Black: The Magnificent Rebel.” Southwestern University Law Review 9 (1977): 889-898.
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Black, Forrest R. “Should the Senate Pass on the Social and Economic Views of Nominees to the Supreme Court of the United States?” St. John's Law Review 6 (May 1932): 257-271.
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Black, Forrest R. “The Role of the United States Senate in Passing on the Nominations to Membership in the Supreme Court of the United States.” Kentucky Law Journal 19 (March 1931): 226-238.
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Black, Hugo L. A Constitutional Faith. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1968.
Black's own credo, drawn from his 1968 Carpentier Lectures at Columbia, and the clearest statement of the philosophy that drove him.
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Black, Hugo L. Edited by Irving Dilliard. One Man's Stand for Freedom: Mr. Justice Black and the Bill of Rights — A Collection of His Supreme Court Opinions. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1963.
Martin and Goehlert list the book but omit Dilliard, which is the one fact about it that matters — an edited collection of opinions is an argument about which opinions count, and Dilliard made it.
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Black, Hugo L. “About Edmond Cahn.” New York University Law Review 40 (April 1965): 207-208.
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Black, Hugo L. “Address.” Missouri Bar Journal 13 (September 1942): 173-176.
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Black, Hugo L. “Erie Railroad v. Tompkins.” Missouri Bar Journal 13 (October 1942): 173-176.
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Black, Hugo L. “Inside a Senate Investigation.” Harper's Magazine 172 (February 1936): 275–286.
February 1936: Black is a sitting senator from Alabama running the lobbying investigation that made him nationally famous and feared, and he is writing about it himself, eighteen months before Roosevelt names him to the Court.
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Black, Hugo L. “Mr. Justice Black.” Indiana Law Journal 25 (Summer 1950): 423.
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Black, Hugo L. “Mr. Justice Frankfurter.” Harvard Law Review 78 (June 1965): 1521-1522.
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Black, Hugo L. “Mr. Justice Murphy.” Michigan Law Review 48 (February 1950): 739.
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Black, Hugo L. “Mr. Justice Rutledge.” Indiana Law Journal 25 (Summer 1950): 423.
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Black, Hugo L. “Reminiscences.” Alabama Law Review 18 (Fall 1963): 3-11.
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Black, Hugo L. “The Bill of Rights.” New York University Law Review 35 (April 1960): 865–881.
Black's 1960 James Madison Lecture, and the closest thing to a manifesto he ever wrote: the argument that the Bill of Rights means what it says, that “no law” means no law, and that the Fourteenth Amendment carried the whole of it against the states.
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Black, Hugo L. “The Lawyer and Individual Freedom.” Tennessee Law Review 21 (December 1950): 461-471.
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Black, Hugo L. “There Is a South of Union and Freedom.” Georgia Law Review 2, no. 1 (Fall 1967): 10–15.
Six pages, free from Georgia's repository, and sharper than its length suggests: the Klan-member-turned-incorporationist writing about the South in 1967, in a tribute issue for Judge Elbert Tuttle of the Fifth Circuit — the judge who enforced desegregation — alongside Earl Warren and John Minor Wisdom.
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Black, Hugo L. “William Orville Douglas.” Yale Law Journal 73 (May 1964): 915.
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Black, Hugo L., and Edmond Cahn. “Justice Black and First Amendment ‘Absolutes’: A Public Interview.” New York University Law Review 37 (June 1962): 549–563.
Edmond Cahn asks and Black answers, in public, in 1962 — and it produced the most-quoted exchange in the literature of the First Amendment: “Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech,” and “that is what I believe it means.”
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Black, Hugo L., and Elizabeth Black. Mr. Justice and Mrs. Black: The Memoirs of Hugo L. Black and Elizabeth Black. New York: Random House, 1986.
The intimate primary source — Black's own fragments of memoir joined to his wife Elizabeth's candid diaries of the later Court years, with a foreword by Justice Brennan.
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Black, Hugo L., Jr. My Father, A Remembrance. New York: Random House, 1975.
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Black, John C. “John Marshall.” Albany Law Journal 54 (July 25, 1896): 55-62.
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Black, John C. “John Marshall.” Illinois State Bar Association Proceedings 20, part 2 (July 14-15, 1896): 25-45.
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Black, Ryan C., and Ryan J. Owens. The Solicitor General and the United States Supreme Court: Executive Branch Influence and Judicial Decisions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Ryan Black and Ryan Owens on the Solicitor General's influence, measured from Justice Blackmun's papers with statistical matching and causal inference, and found at certiorari, at opinion assignment and in the treatment of precedent, with professionalism and objectivity offered as the explanation; Cambridge, April 2012, 181 pages. Not read.
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Black, Ryan C., Ryan J. Owens, Justin Wedeking, and Patrick C. Wohlfarth. The Conscientious Justice: How Supreme Court Justices' Personalities Influence the Law, the High Court, and the Constitution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Ryan Black, Ryan Owens, Justin Wedeking and Patrick Wohlfarth measure the justices' conscientiousness from their words and test it across nine stages of the Court's work, from agenda setting to opinion writing; Cambridge, 358 pages, dated 2019 by the Library and 2020 by the publisher. Not read.
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Black, Ryan C., Ryan J. Owens, Justin Wedeking, and Patrick C. Wohlfarth. US Supreme Court Opinions and Their Audiences. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Ryan Black, Ryan Owens, Justin Wedeking and Patrick Wohlfarth build a measure of opinion clarity and find the Court writing more plainly when facing divided lower courts, weak agencies, less professional legislatures or a hostile public, with clearer opinions producing better compliance; Cambridge, April 2016, 185 pages. Not read.
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Black, Ryan C., Timothy R. Johnson, and Justin Wedeking. Oral Arguments and Coalition Formation on the U.S. Supreme Court: A Deliberate Dialogue. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2012.
Ryan Black, Timothy Johnson and Justin Wedeking on argument as a means by which the justices monitor each other's positions, read from transcripts between 1998 and 2007 and from the archival notes of Justices Powell and Blackmun, with the information gathered there shaping how opinions are drafted; Michigan, October 2012, 160 pages. Not read.
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Black, Ryan C., Timothy R. Johnson, and Ryan J. Owens. “Chief Justice Burger and the Bench: How Physically Changing the Shape of the Court’s Bench Reduced Interruptions during Oral Argument.” Journal of Supreme Court History 43, no. 1 (2018): 83–98.
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Blackman, Paul H. “Judicial Biography and Public Law: An Analysis with Emphasis on the New Deal Court.” Ph.D. diss., University of Virginia, 1971.
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Blackmar, Charles B. “On the Removal of Judges: The Impeachment Trial of Samuel Chase.” Judicature 48 (February 1965): 183-187.
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Blackmun, Harry A. “Allowances of In Forma Pauperis Appeals in Section 2255 and Habeas Corpus Cases.” Federal Rules Decisions 43 (1968): 343-361.
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Blackmun, Harry A. “Dedication Remarks.” Arkansas Law Review 30 (Spring 1976): 14-22.
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Blackmun, Harry A. “Section 1983 and Federal Protection of Individual Rights: Will the Statute Remain Alive or Fade Away?” New York University Law Review 60 (April 1985): 1-29.
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Blackmun, Harry A. “Some Goals for Legal Education.” Ohio Northern University Law Review 1 (1974): 403-410.
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Blackmun, Harry A. “Some Personal Reminiscences and What They Meant for Me.” Journal of Supreme Court History 29, no. 3 (2004): 323–336.
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Blackmun, Harry A. “The Marital Deduction and Its Use in Minnesota.” Minnesota Law Review 36, no. 1 (December 1951): 50–64.
Blackmun on estate tax, written in Minneapolis in 1951 while he was a tax and estates lawyer eight years from the Mayo Clinic's general counsel office and twenty-two years from Roe v. Wade.
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Blackmun, Harry A. “The Story-Holmes Seat.” Journal of Supreme Court History 21, no. 2 (1996): 11–16.
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Blackmun, Harry A. “Thoughts about Ethics.” Emory Law Journal 24 (Winter 1975): 3-20.
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Blaesi, George M. “Chief Justice Stone.” Law Notes 50 (May 1946): 5-6.
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Blaisdell, Donald P. “Mr. Justice James Clark McReynolds.” Ph.D. diss., University of Wisconsin, 1948.
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Blaisdell, Doris A. “The Constitutional Law of Mr. Justice McReynolds.” Ph.D. diss., University of Wisconsin, 1954.
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Bland, Randall W. Private Pressure on Public Law: The Legal Career of Justice Thurgood Marshall. Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, 1973.
An early book-length study, written while Marshall sat and nearly twenty years before he retired: a political scientist's account of the legal career, grown from a Notre Dame thesis, revised in 1993 to carry the story to the end of the Court years.
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Bland, Randall W. “Examination of the Legal Career of Thurgood Marshall Prior to His Elevation to the Supreme Court of the United States, 1934-1967.” Ph.D. diss., Notre Dame University, 1971.
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Bland, Randall W. “Justice Thurgood Marshall: An Analysis of His First Years on the Court, 1967-1971.” North Carolina Central Law Journal 4 (Spring 1973): 183-202.
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Blandford, Linda A., and Patricia Russell Evans, eds. Supreme Court of the United States, 1789–1980: An Index to Opinions Arranged by Justice (2 vols.). Millwood, NY: Kraus International Publications, 1983.
Every opinion of every justice from 1789 to 1980, indexed justice by justice in two volumes for the Supreme Court Historical Society: the reference that lets a reader find what a given member of the Court wrote, rather than what the Court decided.
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Blasi, Vincent, ed. The Burger Court: The Counter-Revolution That Wasn't. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1983.
The influential verdict on the Burger Court — a Yale symposium arguing that the Court expected to undo the Warren revolution mostly consolidated it instead.
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Blatchford, Harriet W., comp. The Blatchford Memorial. 1871.
Listed by Martin and Goehlert as one of three Blatchford items, and it is worth being blunt about what it is: a family memorial to the Justice's GRANDFATHER, the Reverend Samuel Blatchford, D.D. (1767–1828) — his autobiography, memoir, obituary and funeral sermon, followed by descendant tables.
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Blaustein, Albert P. “Some Notes on the Chief Justice.” American Bar Association Journal 40 (July 1954): 600-601.
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Blaustein, Albert P., and Roy M. Mersky. The First One Hundred Justices: Statistical Studies on the Supreme Court of the United States. Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1978.
The book behind every “greatest justices” ranking: the 1970 survey in which sixty-five scholars rated the first ninety-six justices — twelve great, fifteen near great, fifty-five average, six below average, eight failures — plus statistical tables on the first hundred. The scheme has been borrowed ever since, Abraham's appointment ratings included.
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Blaustein, Albert P., and Roy M. Mersky. “Rating Supreme Court Justices.” American Bar Association Journal 58 (November 1952): 1183-1189.
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Bloch, Charles J. “Mr. Justice Hugo L. Black.” Georgia Bar Journal 25 (August 1962/1963): 56-59.
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Bloch, Susan L., and Maeva Marcus. “John Marshall's Selective Use of History in Marbury v. Madison.” Wisconsin Law Review 1986 (1986): 301-337.
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Bloch, Susan Low and Maeva Marcus. “John Marshall’s Selective Use of History in Marbury v. Madison.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1987: 82–107.
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Bloch, Susan Low. “The Privilege of Clerking for Thurgood Marshall.” Journal of Supreme Court History 17 (1992): 23–25.
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Bloom, Lackland H., Jr. Do Great Cases Make Bad Law? New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.
Lackland Bloom of Southern Methodist tests Holmes's dictum on twenty-two decisions from Marbury to the Affordable Care Act case, asking of each why the Court thought it momentous and whether the doctrine it produced proved workable; Oxford, 2014, 435 pages. Not read.
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Bloom, Lackland H., Jr. Methods of Interpretation: How the Supreme Court Reads the Constitution. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Lackland Bloom's descriptive survey of the nine ways the Court reads the Constitution, text, original understanding, tradition and practice, structure, precedent, doctrinal derivation and refinement, consequentialist reasoning and rhetoric, with strong and weak examples of each drawn from the opinions themselves; Oxford, February 2009, 592 pages. Not read.
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Bloom, Solomon. “The Liberalism of Louis D. Brandeis, the Father of the New Deal.” Commentary 6 (October 1968): 313-321.
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Bloomfield, Maxwell. “The Warren Court in American Fiction.” Journal of Supreme Court History 16 (1991): 86–96.
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Blue, Frederick J. Salmon P. Chase: A Life in Politics. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1987.
The other modern scholarly biography, and the fullest account of the political Chase.
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Blue, Fredrick. “Kate's Paper Chase: The Race to Publish the First Biography of Salmon P. Chase.” Old Northwest 8 (Winter 1982-1983): 353-363.
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Bobelian, Michael. Battle for the Marble Palace: Abe Fortas, Earl Warren, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and the Forging of the Modern Supreme Court. Tucson, AZ: Schaffner Press, 2019.
Michael Bobelian on the 1968 fight over Fortas's nomination as Chief Justice, the first filibuster of a Supreme Court nominee, Thurmond's use of the obscenity films, and Nixon's turning of the Court into a campaign issue; Schaffner Press, 2019, 475 pages. Not read.
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Bodger, William V. “Some Ideas of Mr. Justice Holmes Regarding Education.” Peabody Journal of Education 28 (July 1950): 2-8.
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Bogen, David S. “The Free Speech Metamorphosis of Mr. Justice Holmes.” Hofstra Law Review 11 (Fall 1982): 97-189.
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Bohm, Robert M. The Past as Prologue: The Supreme Court's Pre-Modern Death Penalty Jurisprudence and Its Influence on the Supreme Court's Modern Death Penalty Decisions. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2012.
Robert Bohm on thirty-nine capital cases decided before Furman v. Georgia and the doctrinal effect they had on the decisions that came after it; Carolina Academic Press, Durham, 2012, 256 pages. Not read.
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Boles, Donald E. Mr. Justice Rehnquist, Judicial Activist: The Early Years. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1987.
The earliest book-length study of Rehnquist, published the year after he became Chief Justice and two years before Davis's Justice Rehnquist and the Constitution, and titled for its thesis, that the associate-justice years were activism, not restraint.
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Bolick, Clint. David's Hammer: The Case for an Activist Judiciary. Cato Institute, 2007.
Clint Bolick's argument that a passive judiciary is the greater danger to liberty, illustrated from speech, economic-liberty, equal-protection and property claims; Cato Institute, March 2007, 188 pages, by a constitutional litigator. Not read.
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Bolick, Clint. Two-Fer: Electing a President and a Supreme Court. Hoover Institution Press, 2012.
Clint Bolick's argument that judicial appointments should weigh heavily in choosing a president, and that recent presidents have grown effective at appointing judges who share their philosophy; Hoover Institution Press, April 2012, 115 pages. Not read.
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Bollinger, Lee C., and Geoffrey R. Stone, eds. Money, Politics, and the First Amendment: Fifty Years of Supreme Court Decisions and Campaign Finance Reforms. New York: Oxford University Press, 2026.
Fifty years of campaign-finance decisions, Buckley v. Valeo to Citizens United and after, in essays on both sides edited by Lee Bollinger and Geoffrey Stone, with Briffault, Abrams, Chemerinsky, Issacharoff, Pildes, Tushnet, Judge Wood and Senators Whitehouse and Klobuchar among the contributors; Oxford, March 2026, 438 pages. Not read.
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Bolner, James. “Fred M. Vinson: 1890-1938, The Years of Relative Obscurity.” Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 63 (1965): 3.
The Kentucky years and the House, Louisa to the Court of Appeals, in the state historical society's journal; Friedman and Israel call it 'a routine but useful survey.'
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Bolner, James. “Mr. Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson and Racial Discrimination.” Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 64 (1966): 29.
James Bolner's study of the Chief Justice and the race cases, a year after his survey of Vinson's early life.
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Bolner, James. “Mr. Chief Justice Vinson and the Communist Controversy: A Reassessment.” Kentucky Historical Society Register 66 (October 1968): 378-391.
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Bolner, James. “Mr. Chief Justice Vinson: His Politics and His Constitutional Law.” Ph.D. diss., University of Virginia, 1963.
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Bonaparte, Charles J. John Marshall as Lawyer and Judge. Baltimore: Williams, 1901.
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Bond, James E. I Dissent: The Legacy of Justice James Clark McReynolds. Fairfax, VA: George Mason University Press, 1992.
The only book-length study, and a fair-minded one about a man easy to caricature.
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Boorstin, Daniel J. “The Elusiveness of Mr. Justice Holmes.” New England Quarterly 14 (September 1941): 478-487.
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Borchard, Edwin. “Taney's Influence on Constitutional Law.” Georgetown Law Journal 24 (May 1936): 843-863.
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Borgersen, Ellen. “On the Power of Balance: A Remembrance of Justice Potter Stewart.” Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly 13 (Winter 1986): 173-183.
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Bork, Robert H. “Styles in Constitutional Theory.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1984 (1984): 53-60.
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Boskey, Bennett. “Mr. Chief Justice Stone.” Harvard Law Review 59 (October 1946): 1200-1202.
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Boskey, Bennett. “Supreme Court Declinations.” Journal of Supreme Court History 31, no. 3 (2006): 252–261.
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Bosmajian, Haig. “Chief Justice Warren Burger and Freedom of Speech.” Midwest Quarterly 15 (January 1974): 121-140.
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“Boston Bar Forty Years Ago: Reminiscences of the Days of Webster, Choate, Loring, Curtis, and Bartlett.” American Law Review 23 (July/August 1889): 649-652.
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Boudin, Louis B. “John Marshall and Roger B. Taney.” Georgetown Law Journal 24 (May 1936): 864-909.
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Boudin, Louis B. “Justice Holmes and His World.” Law Guild Review 3 (July/August 1943): 24-41.
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Bourguignon, Henry J. “The Second Mr. Justice Harlan: His Principles of Judicial Decision Making.” Supreme Court Review 1979 (1979): 251-328.
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Bowe, Jess J. “Comparative Analysis of the Earl Warren and Warren Burger Supreme Courts.” International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice 11 (Spring/Winter 1987): 193-212.
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Bowen, Catherine Drinker. Yankee from Olympus: Justice Holmes and His Family. Boston: Little, Brown, 1944.
The famous popular life — Catherine Drinker Bowen's romantic, best-selling biography of Holmes and his family that fixed his image for a generation.
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Bowman,Winston. “Feat of Clay: Muhammad Ali’s Legal Fight Against the Vietnam Draft.” Journal of Supreme Court History 44, no. 3 (2019): 307–324.
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Boyd, Christina L., Paul M. Collins, Jr., and Lori A. Ringhand. Supreme Bias: Gender and Race in U.S. Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2023.
Christina Boyd, Paul Collins and Lori Ringhand show from the hearing transcripts that women and nominees of colour are questioned harder and interrupted more; Stanford, October 2023, 290 pages. Not read.
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Boyd, Julian P. “Letter to the Editor.” William and Mary Quarterly 8 (April 1951): 317-319.
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Boyd, Julian P. “The Chasm That Separated Thomas Jefferson and John Marshall.” In Essays on the American Constitution: A Commemorative Volume in Honor of Alpheus T. Mason, edited by Gottfried Dietze, 3-20. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1964.
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Boyd, Julian P. “William Paterson, Forerunner of John Marshall.” In Lives of Eighteen from Princeton, edited by Williard Thorp, 194-196. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1946.
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Boynton, W. W. “John Marshall and the Western Reserve.” Western Reserve Law Journal 7 (April 1901): 61-64.
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Bozell, L. Brent. “Should We Impeach Earl Warren?” National Review 11 (September 9, 1961): 153.
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Bozo, Peter, April A. Christine, and Shimmy Edwards. “Many Voices, One Court: The Origin and Role of Dissent in the Supreme Court.” Journal of Supreme Court History 36, no. 3 (2011): 193–215.
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Bradbury, James Ware; Walter Chandler. "Memoir of Nathan Clifford" (Maine Historical Society, 1887) & "Nathan Clifford: A Triumph of Untiring Effort" (ABA Journal 11, 1925).
The memorial tradition, as the FJC's bibliography lists it: Bradbury — a former senator who knew him — for the Maine Historical Society, and Chandler (who also wrote the Catron centenary) with the bar's self-made-man framing.
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Braden, George D. “Mr. Justice Minton and the Truman Bloc.” Indiana Law Journal 26 (1951): 153.
The first term counted, by a Yale professor writing while it was still warm: Vinson, Burton, Clark and Minton as a bloc, and the rule that 'when the Truman appointees go, they all go together; and as the Truman appointees go, so goes the Court.'
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Bradley, Charles, ed. Miscellaneous Writings of the Late Hon. Joseph P. Bradley, with a Sketch of His Life. Newark, NJ: L. J. Hardham, 1902.
No biography of Bradley has ever been written — this memorial volume, assembled by his son with a life sketch and assessments of his judicial record and dissents, is the closest thing that exists.
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Bradley, Craig, ed. The Rehnquist Legacy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
A scholarly assessment of the whole tenure, gathered just after his death — essays on federalism, criminal procedure, religion, and judicial administration that take the measure of a Chief who moved the law steadily rightward and ran the building with quiet efficiency.
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Bradley, Joseph P. Family Notes Respecting the Bradley Family of Fairfield. Newark, NJ: A. Pierson, 1894.
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Bradley, Joseph P. “Saint Memin's Portrait of Marshal.” Century Magazine 38 (September 1889): 778-781.
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Bragaw, Stephen G. “Thomas Jefferson and the American Indian Nations: Native American Sovereignty and the Marshall Court.” Journal of Supreme Court History 31, no. 2 (2006): 155–180.
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Braley, Henry K. “Roger Brooke Taney, Chief Justice of the United States.” Green Bag 22 (March 1910): 149-167.
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Brandeis, Louis D. Brandeis and (Brandeis): The Reversible Mind of Louis D. Brandeis, 'the People's Lawyer', as It Stands Revealed in His Public Utterances, Briefs, and Correspondences. Boston: United Shoe Machinery, 1912.
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Brandeis, Louis D. Brandeis on Zionism: A Collection of Addresses and Statements. Washington, DC: Zionist Organization of America, 1942.
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Brandeis, Louis D. Business — A Profession. Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1914.
The other 1914 book, the People's Attorney's essays and addresses on business as a calling, from Small, Maynard of Boston; the Library of Congress copy online is the 1925 printing, with Ernest Poole's essay 'Brandeis' in front and notes by Felix Frankfurter, on efficiency, unions, hours, life insurance, trusts, railroads and interlocking directorates.
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Brandeis, Louis D. Mr. Justice Brandeis, Mr. Justice. Edited by Paul A. Freund. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1956.
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Brandeis, Louis D. Other People's Money and How the Bankers Use It. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1914.
Brandeis's own manifesto against monopoly and 'the curse of bigness' — the muckraking classic on how investment bankers used other people's money to control American industry.
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Brandeis, Louis D. The Brandeis Guide to the Modern World. Edited by Alfred Lief. Boston: Little, Brown, 1941.
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Brandeis, Louis D. The Curse of Bigness: Miscellaneous Papers of Louis D. Brandeis. Edited by Osmond K. Fraenkel and Clarence M. Lewis. New York: Viking Press, 1934.
The collection made while he still sat, 362 pages edited by Osmond K. Fraenkel and Clarence M. Lewis for the Viking Press in 1934, under the phrase that became his label.
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Brandeis, Louis D. The Social and Economic Views of Mr. Justice Brandeis. Edited by Alfred Lief. New York: Vanguard Press, 1930.
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Brandeis, Louis D. The Words of Justice Brandeis. Edited by Solomon Goldman. New York: H. Schuman, 1953.
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Brandeis, Louis D. “The Living Law.” Illinois Law Review 10 (February 1916): 461-471.
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Brandeis, Louis D., and Josephine Goldmark. Women in Industry. New York: Arno, 1969.
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Brandow, James C. “John Marshall’s Supreme Court Practice: A Letter Comes to Light.” Journal of Supreme Court History 20 (1995): 73–76.
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Brandwein, Pamela. “A Lost Jurisprudence of the Reconstruction Amendments.” Journal of Supreme Court History 41, no. 3 (2016): 329–346.
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Brant, Irving. “John Marshall and the Lawyers and Politicians.” In Chief Justice John Marshall: A Reappraisal, edited by William M. Jones, 38-60. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1956.
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Brant, Irving. “Mr. Justice Rutledge: The Man.” Indiana Law Journal 25 (Summer 1950): 424-443.
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Breed, Alan R. “Mahlon Pitney.” Senior thesis, Princeton University, 1932.
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Brennan, William J., Jr. An Address on the Occasion of the Celebration of the Golden Anniversary of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, 1913 to 1963. Harvard Law School, Occasional Pamphlet No. 7 (1963).
The speech at the Bureau's fiftieth-anniversary banquet, printed as a Harvard Law School pamphlet.
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Brennan, William J., Jr. An Affair with Freedom: A Collection of His Opinions and Speeches Drawn from His First Decade as a United States Supreme Court Justice. Edited by Stephen J. Friedman. New York: Atheneum, 1967.
The first decade in his own words, opinions and speeches from 1956 to 1966 selected by Stephen J. Friedman for Atheneum in 1967: xv and 384 pages, the reader for the Warren Court's engine before Baker v. Carr and Sullivan were history.
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Brennan, William J., Jr. Richard W. Benka, Richard H. Chambers, Ramsey Clark, Milton V. Freeman, Thomas J. Klitgaard, Simon H. Rifkind, Gerhard A. Gesell, Erwin N. Griswold, Milton Handler, Leonard F. Jansen, William A. Reppy, Marshall L. Small, Jay Kelly Wright, and Eric Sevareid. “Remembrances of William O. Douglas on the 50th Anniversary of his Appointment to the Supreme Court.” Journal of Supreme Court History 15 (1990): 104–124.
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Brennan, William J., Jr. The Constitution of the United States: Contemporary Ratification. 1985.
Brennan's credo, delivered as a 1985 address at Georgetown and the most influential judicial answer to the originalism then ascendant under Attorney General Edwin Meese.
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Brennan, William J., Jr. “A Tribute to Thurgood Marshall.” Journal of Supreme Court History 17 (1992): 1–8.
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Brennan, William J., Jr. “Address to the New Jersey Bar.” Guild Practitioner 33 (Fall 1976): 152-168.
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Brennan, William J., Jr. “Constitutional Adjudication and the Death Penalty: A View from the Court.” Harvard Law Review 100 (December 1986): 313-331.
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Brennan, William J., Jr. “Constitutional Adjudication.” Notre Dame Lawyer 40 (1965): 559.
The Cardinal O'Hara Lecture at Notre Dame, April 21, 1965, printed in the August number: Brennan on why constitutional cases are not ordinary disputes but contests between individual right and public power, to be decided by applying enduring principles to present conditions, with procedural fairness and human dignity as the tests.
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Brennan, William J., Jr. “Efficient Organization and Effective Administration for Today's Courts... The Citizens' Responsibility.” Journal of the American Judicature Society 48 (December 1964): 145-150.
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Brennan, William J., Jr. “Federal Habeas Corpus and State Prisoners: An Exercise in Federalism.” Utah Law Review 7 (Fall 1961): 423-442.
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Brennan, William J., Jr. “How Goes the Supreme Court?” Mercer Law Review 36 (Spring 1985): 781-794.
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Brennan, William J., Jr. “How the Supreme Court Arrives at a Decision.” In American Government, 8th ed., by Peter Woll, 550-558. Boston: Little, Brown, 1984.
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Brennan, William J., Jr. “Inside View of the High Court.” New York Times Magazine 113 (October 6, 1963): 35, 100, 102, 103.
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Brennan, William J., Jr. “Interpreting the Constitution.” Social Policy 18 (Summer 1987): 24-28.
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Brennan, William J., Jr. “Remarks on Discovery by Honorable William J. Brennan, Jr.” Federal Rules Decisions 33 (1963): 56-66.
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Brennan, William J., Jr. “Some Aspects of Federalism.” New York University Law Review 39 (1964): 945.
Brennan's address to the Conference of Chief Justices in New York on August 7, 1964, by Robert Post's account of it, aimed at the state judges unsettled by the reapportionment and habeas decisions and setting out how he saw the relation of state and federal authority.
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Brennan, William J., Jr. “Some Thoughts on the Supreme Court's Workload.” Judicature 66 (December/January 1982-1983): 230-235.
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Brennan, William J., Jr. “State Constitutions and the Protection of Individual Rights.” Harvard Law Review 90 (January 1977): 489-504.
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Brennan, William J., Jr. “State Court Decisions and the Supreme Court.” Pennsylvania Bar Association Quarterly 31 (June 1960): 393-407.
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Brennan, William J., Jr. “Supreme Court Review of State Court Decisions.” Michigan State Bar Journal 38 (November 1959): 14-22.
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Brennan, William J., Jr. “The Administrative Judge: The Key to Effective Court Management.” Journal of the American Judicature Society 45 (April 1962): 272-278.
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Brennan, William J., Jr. “The Bill of Rights and the States.” New York University Law Review 36 (1961): 761.
The James Madison Lecture at New York University, February 15, 1961, printed in the April number at pages 761 to 778: the first of his two Madison Lectures at New York University, on the subject its title names; the second, in 1986, was 'The Bill of Rights and the States: The Revival of State Constitutions as Guardians of Individual Rights,' 61 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 535.
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Brennan, William J., Jr. “The Criminal Prosecution: Sporting Event or Quest for Truth?” Washington University Law Quarterly 1963 (June 1963): 279-295.
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Brennan, William J., Jr. “The National Court of Appeals: Another Dissent.” University of Chicago Law Review 40 (Spring 1973): 473-485.
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Brennan, William J., Jr. “The Responsibilities of the Legal Profession.” American Bar Association Journal 54 (1968): 121.
The last item in the Friedman and Israel bibliography, and the only one after the chapter was written: a 1968 piece in the bar's own journal.
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Brennan, William J., Jr. “The Supreme Court and the Meiklejohn Interpretation of the First Amendment.” Harvard Law Review 79 (1965): 1.
Brennan's own account, a year after New York Times v. Sullivan and by Lee Bollinger's reading of it, of Alexander Meiklejohn's theory that the First Amendment protects the speech self-government needs, and of how far the Court's decisions had taken it up; twenty pages, the first article of the volume.
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Brennan, William J., Jr. “The United States Supreme Court: Reflections Past and Present.” Marquette Law Review 48 (Spring 1965): 437-444.
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Brennan, William J., Jr. “Tribute to Chief Justice Earl Warren.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1989: 13–16.
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Brennan, William J., Jr. “Why Protect the Press?” Columbia Journalism Review 18 (January 1980): 59-60.
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Brennan, William J., Jr., et al. “Chief Justice Warren.” Harvard Law Review 88 (November 1974): 1-12.
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Brenner, Saul, and Joseph M. Whitmeyer. Strategy on the United States Supreme Court. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Saul Brenner and Joseph Whitmeyer's finding that the justices behave less strategically than the literature assumes: departures from outcome-prediction at the certiorari stage, coalition bargaining in fewer than six per cent of cases and most vote fluidity not strategic at all; Cambridge, February 2009, 196 pages. Not read.
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Brenner, Saul, and Theodore S. Arrington. “William O. Douglas: Consistent Civil Libertarian or Parabolic Supporter?” Journal of Politics 45 (May 1983): 490-496.
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Brenner, Saul. “Another Look at Freshman Indecisiveness on the United States Supreme Court.” Polity 16 (Winter 1983): 320-328.
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Bressman, Jeremy. “A New Standard of Review: Craig v. Boren and Brennan’s ‘Heightened Scrutiny’ Test in Historical Perspective.” Journal of Supreme Court History 32, no. 1 (2007): 85–95.
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Brewer, David J. Address: Two Periods in the History of the Supreme Court. Richmond: Richmond Press, 1906.
Brewer's own history of the Court, twenty-four pages delivered to the Virginia State Bar Association at Hot Springs in August 1906 and printed at Richmond; the Library of Congress has it in its pamphlet collection and no copy has been found online.
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Brewer, David J. American Citizenship: Yale Lectures. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1902.
Brewer's Yale lectures on the duties of the citizen, 131 pages from Scribner's in 1902, the sitting Justice as public moralist; the companion to his Christian Nation address of three years later.
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Brewer, David J. Orators and Oratory of Texas. Edited by William Vincent Byars. Chicago: F. P. Kaiser, 1923.
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Brewer, David J. The Income Tax Cases and Some Comments Thereon. Iowa City: University of Iowa, 1895.
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Brewer, David J. The United States: A Christian Nation. Philadelphia: John C. Winston, 1905.
Brewer's famous Haverford lectures expanding on his Holy Trinity dictum — the canonical primary source for the 'Christian nation' idea from the justice who put the phrase into the U.S. Reports.
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Brewer, David J. “The Nation's Anchor.” Albany Law Journal 57 (March 12, 1898): 166-170.
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Brewer, David J. “The Nation's Safeguard.” Report of the New York State Bar Association 16 (1893): 37-47.
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Brewer, David J. “The Supreme Court of the United States.” Scribner's 33 (March 1903): 273-284.
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Breyer, Stephen G. “A Look Back at the Dred Scott Decision.” Journal of Supreme Court History 35, no. 2 (2010): 110–121.
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Breyer, Stephen. Active Liberty: Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
Breyer's judicial manifesto, and the clearest statement of the pragmatic philosophy he offered as the alternative to originalism.
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Breyer, Stephen. Breaking the Vicious Circle: Toward Effective Risk Regulation. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993.
The pre-bench Breyer, the administrative-law scholar — his influential little book on how to make risk regulation rational, a window on the expert, consequences-minded cast of mind he would bring to the Court.
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Breyer, Stephen. Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge's View. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.
Breyer's fullest statement of his judicial philosophy — the argument that the Court earns its authority by making the Constitution work for a democratic society, weighing purposes and consequences rather than parsing text alone.
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Breyer, Stephen. Reading the Constitution: Why I Chose Pragmatism, Not Textualism. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2024.
Breyer's parting argument, written just after his retirement — a direct rebuttal to the textualism and originalism now ascendant on the Court, and the clearest statement of the pragmatic alternative he spent three decades defending.
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Breyer, Stephen. The Authority of the Court and the Peril of Politics. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021.
Breyer's last book before retiring, and his answer to a moment of crisis over the Court's legitimacy.
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Breyer, Stephen. The Court and the World: American Law and the New Global Realities. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
Breyer's argument that American judges can no longer decide cases in isolation from the wider world — that commerce, security, treaties, and human rights increasingly require attention to foreign and international law.
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Breyer, Stephen. “In Memoriam Clerking for Justice Goldberg.” Journal of Supreme Court History 15 (1990): 4–7.
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Breyer, Stephen. “The Cherokee Indians and the Supreme Court.” Journal of Supreme Court History 25, no. 3 (2000): 215–227.
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Bricker, John J. “Justice Harold H. Burton.” American Bar Association Journal 31 (November 1945): 558.
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Bridge, Dave. Pushback: The Political Fallout of Unpopular Supreme Court Decisions. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2024.
Dave Bridge of Baylor on how parties turn unpopular, countermajoritarian decisions, Roe to Dobbs, into electoral momentum; Missouri, March 2024, 367 pages. Not read.
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Briggs, Charles W. “Justice Holmes Was Not a Ladder to Hitler.” American Bar Association Journal 32 (October 1946): 631-634.
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Bright, Myron H. “The Case of William Dick: Ransom County, North Dakota.” Journal of Supreme Court History 35, no. 1 (2010): 25–34.
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Brill, Steven. “What Ron Didn't Know about Sandra.” American Lawyer 3 (November 1981): 5-7.
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Brin, Joseph G. “Louis D. Brandeis.” Law Society Journal 7 (November 1936): 640-642.
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Brisbin, Richard A., Jr. Justice Antonin Scalia and the Conservative Revival. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.
The first serious scholarly study of Scalia's method and its place in the conservative legal movement — a close reading of the opinions through his first decade that remains a standard analytical account.
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Brister, E. M. P. Centennial History of the City of Newark and Licking County, Ohio (2 vols.). Chicago: S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1909.
The fullest life of Woods anyone wrote, and it is a county subscription history.
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Brock, David. Stench: The Making of the Thomas Court and the Unmaking of America. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2024.
David Brock on the making of the Thomas Court, the Federalist Society, the megadonors and the Thomases' ethics, from the author of The Real Anita Hill who has since, by his own later title, become an ex-conservative; Knopf, September 2024, 384 pages. Not read.
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Brock, David. The Real Anita Hill: The Untold Story. New York: Free Press, 1993.
Bestselling 1993 attack on Hill's credibility, arguing she invented the charges — later repudiated by its own author, who said publicly in 2001 that he had lied in it.
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Brockett, Linus P. “David Davis, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the U.S.” In Men of Our Day: Biographical Sketches of Patriots, Orators, Statesmen, Generals, Reformers, Financiers, and Merchants, Now on the Stage of Action ..., by Linus P. Brockett, 346-351. Philadelphia: Ziegler and McCurdy, 1872.
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Brockett, Linus P. “Salmon Portland Chase.” In Men of Our Day: Biographical Sketches of Patriots, Orators, Statesmen, Generals, Reformers, Financiers, and Merchants, Now on the Stage of Action..., by Linus P. Brockett, 179-200. Philadelphia: Ziegler and McCurdy, 1872.
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Broderick, Vincent L. “Justice Potter Stewart.” North Carolina Central Law Review 12 (1981): 297.
A profile written while he still sat, weeks before the retirement announcement: the brevity, the narrow holdings, the respect for precedent, and the equal-protection record from housing to school desegregation, by a federal district judge.
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Brodhead, Michael J. David J. Brewer: The Life of a Supreme Court Justice, 1837–1910. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1994.
The standard biography and the only full one, from Southern Illinois University Press.
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Brodhead, Michael J. “Justice David J. Brewer: A Voice for Peace on the Supreme Court.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1985 (1985): 93-102.
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Brody, Burton F. “The Pragmatic Naturalism of Mr. Justice Holmes.” Chicago-Kent Law Review 46 (Spring/Summer 1969): 9-33.
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Bronner, Ethan. Battle for Justice: How the Bork Nomination Shook America. New York: W. W. Norton, 1989.
A Boston Globe correspondent's blow-by-blow of the 1987 Bork fight, built on interviews across the White House, the Justice Department, and the senators who beat him.
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Bronner, Frederick L. “John Marshall: A Layman's Approach.” Albany Law Journal 20 (January 1956): 1-5.
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Brookhiser, Richard. John Marshall: The Man Who Made the Supreme Court. New York: Basic Books, 2018.
The most concise and quotable of the modern popular lives — Marshall in a week rather than a month.
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Brooks, Christopher. “Senator Charles Sumner and the Admission of John S. Rock to the Supreme Court Bar.” Journal of Supreme Court History 48, no. 2 (2023): 139–147.
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Brooks, Elbridge S. “The Story of John Jay, of Bedford, First Chief Justice of the United States.” In Historic Americans: Sketches of the Lives and Characters of Certain Famous Americans Held Most in Reverence by the Boys and Girls of America, by Elbridge S. Brooks, 146-160. New York: Crowell, 1899.
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Brooks, Elbridge S. “The Story of John Marshall of Richmond, Called 'The Great Chief Justice.'” In Historic Americans: Sketches of the Lives and Characters of Certain Famous Americans Held Most in Reverence by the Boys and Girls of America, by Elbridge S. Brooks, 161-174. New York: Crowell, 1899.
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Brooks, Noah. “Lincoln, Chase, and Grant.” Century Magazine 49 (February 1895): 607-619.
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Brooks, Noah. “Salmon P. Chase.” In Statesman, by Noah Brooks, 143-173. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1893.
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Brown, David P. “Bushrod Washington.” In The Forum; or Forty Years Full Practice at the Philadelphia Bar, edited by David P. Brown, 350-378. Philadelphia: R. H. Small, 1856.
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Brown, David P. “Henry Baldwin, LL.D.” In The Forum, vol. 2, edited by David P. Brown, 76-90. Philadelphia: R. H. Small, 1856.
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Brown, David P. “Robert Cooper Grier, LL.D.” In The Forum, vol. 2, edited by David P. Brown, 91-101. Philadelphia: R. H. Small, 1856.
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Brown, Elliot A. “Case Histories, Interest Group Litigation, and Mr. Justice Holmes: Some Unexplored Questions on Psycho-Political Behavior.” Emory Law Journal 24 (Fall 1975): 1037-1074.
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Brown, Ernest J. “The Open Economy: Justice Frankfurter and the Position of the Judiciary.” Yale Law Journal 67 (December 1957): 219-239.
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Brown, Francis Joseph. The Social and Economic Philosophy of Pierce Butler. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1945.
The only book-length study of Butler — a Catholic University monograph on the conservative Minnesota Democrat's philosophy, and the fullest account of the most reticent of the Four Horsemen.
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Brown, George S. “A Dissenting Opinion of Mr. Justice Story Enacted as Law within Thirty-six Days.” Virginia Law Review 26 (April 1940): 759-767.
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Brown, H. B. "The Dissenting Opinions of Justice Daniel." American Law Review 21, no. 6 (1887): 869–900.
A thirty-page audit of Daniel's dissents, by an author generally identified as Henry Billings Brown — who would join the Court himself in 1891.
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Brown, Henry B. “Judicial Independence.” American Bar Association Reports 12 (1889): 265-288.
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Brown, Henry B. “Proposed International Prize Court.” American Journal of International Law 2 (July 1908): 476-489.
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Brown, Henry B. “The Dissenting Opinions of Mr. Justice Harlan.” American Law Review 46 (May/June 1912): 321-352.
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Brown, Henry B. “The Distribution of Property.” American Bar Association Reports 16 (1893): 213-242.
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Brown, Henry B. “The Judiciary.” In Celebration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Laying of the Corner Stone of the Capitol of the United States, by Duncan S. Walker, 74-79. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1896.
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Brown, Hugh H. “John Marshall.” Case and Comment 23 (July 1916): 127-130.
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Brown, John M. “Frankfurter and the Uniform of Justice.” In Through These Men, by John M. Brown, 167-197. New York: Harper, 1956.
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Brown, Neal. Critical Confessions and John Marshall and His Times. 2d ed. Wausau, WI: Philosopher Press, 1902.
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Brown, Steven P. Alabama Justice: The Cases and Faces That Changed a Nation. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 2020.
Eight Supreme Court cases that began in Alabama, New York Times v. Sullivan, Gomillion v. Lightfoot and Frontiero v. Richardson among them, with a closing section on the three Alabama-born justices, by Steven Brown of Auburn; Alabama, October 2020, 276 pages. Not read.
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Brown, Steven P. John McKinley and the Antebellum Supreme Court: Circuit Riding in the Old Southwest. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 2012.
The subtitle is the thesis: a study of circuit riding in the Old Southwest, with McKinley as its exhausted exemplar.
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Brown, Steven P. “An Assault on Justice: John McKinley and the Affair at Jackson.” Journal of Supreme Court History 36, no. 2 (2011): 83–95.
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Brown, Steven P. “The Girard Will and Twin Landmarks of Supreme Court History.” Journal of Supreme Court History 41, no. 1 (2016): 7–20.
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Brown, William Garrott. The Life of Oliver Ellsworth. New York: Macmillan, 1905.
For a century the only full biography, and still valuable: Brown wrote gracefully, worked from materials some of which are no longer easily traced, and fixed the standard narrative of Ellsworth's life.
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Brown, William Garrott. “A Continental Congressman: Oliver Ellsworth, 1777-1783.” American Historical Review 10 (July 1905): 751-781.
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Brown, William Garrott. “The Early Life of Oliver Ellsworth.” American Historical Review 10 (April 1905): 534-564.
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Browne, Irving. “John Marshall.” In Short Studies of Great Lawyers, by Irving Browne, 201-217. Albany, NY: Albany Law Journal, 1878.
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Browne, Irving. “Joseph Story.” In Short Studies of Great Lawyers, by Irving Browne, 28. Albany, NY: Albany Law Journal, 1878.
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Brownell, Herbert, Jr. “John Marshall, the Chief Justice.” Cornell Law Quarterly 41 (Fall 1955): 93-104.
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Brownell, Herbert. “Brown v. Board of Education: Revisited.” Journal of Supreme Court History 18 (1993): 21–28.
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Brownfeld, Alan C. Dossier on Douglas. Washington, DC: New Majority Book Club, 1970.
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Browning, John G. “A Forgotten First: Everett J.Waring, First Black Supreme Court Advocate and the Case of Jones v. United States.” Journal of Supreme Court History 47, no. 3 (2022): 265–283.
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Brownstein, Ronald. “With or without Supreme Court Changes, Reagan Will Reshape the Federal Bench.” National Journal 16 (December 8, 1984): 2338-2341.
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Broyde, Michael J. “The Intercircuit Tribunal and Perceived Conflicts: An Analysis of Justice White's Dissents from Denial of Certiorari during the 1985 Term.” New York University Law Review 62 (June 1987): 610-650.
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Brubaker, Stanley C. “Benjamin Nathan Cardozo: An Intellectual Biography.” Ph.D. diss., University of Virginia, 1979.
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Bruckmann, Barbara O. “Justice Sandra Day O'Connor: Trends toward Judicial Restraint.” Washington and Lee Law Review 42 (Fall 1985): 1185-1231.
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Brudney, Victor, and Richard F. Wolfson. “Mr. Justice Rutledge: Law Clerks' Reflections.” Indiana Law Journal 25 (Summer 1950): 455-461.
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Bryan, Amanda C., Rachel Houston, Timothy R. Johnson. “Taking Note: Justice Harry A. Blackmun’s Observations from Oral Argument about Life, the Law, and the U.S. Supreme Court.” Journal of Supreme Court History 45, no. 1 (2020): 44–65.
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Bryan, George. The Imperialism of John Marshall: A Study in Expediency. Boston: Stratford, 1924.
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Bryant, James R. Eulogium on Chief Justice Marshall Delivered in the Unitarian Church, Washington City, on the 24th of September, 1835, at the Request of the Union Literary Society. Washington, DC: Jacob Gideon, Jr., 1835.
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Bryden, David P. “How to Select a Supreme Court Justice: The Case of Robert Bork.” American Scholar 57 (Spring 1988): 210-217.
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Buchanan, James M. “A Note on the ‘Joe Cotton Story.’” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1981: 92–93.
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Buchanan, James M. “Oliver Ellsworth, Third Chief Justice.” Journal of Supreme Court History 16 (1991): 20–26.
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Buchanan, John G. “Justices of the United States Supreme Court from Pennsylvania.” Pennsylvania Bar Association Quarterly 16 (January 1945): 143-151.
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Buckner, Kermit G. “Analysis of Chief Burger's Influence in Supreme Court Cases Affecting Public Education.” Ph.D. diss., University of North Carolina, Greensboro, 1980.
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Budiansky, Stephen. Oliver Wendell Holmes: A Life in War, Law, and Ideas. New York: W. W. Norton, 2019.
The best modern single-volume life — narrative, humane, and unillusioned.
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Buel, Elizabeth C. “Oliver Ellsworth.” New England Magazine 30 (July 1904): 611-626.
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Burford, Anne M., with John Greenya. Are You Tough Enough? New York: McGraw-Hill, 1986.
His mother's memoir of the EPA years and the 1983 contempt-of-Congress fight that ended them, written when the future justice was in college; the source of the mother-son exchange the chapter quotes.
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Burger, Warren E. Delivery of Justice: Proposals for Changes to Improve the Administration of Justice. St. Paul, MN: West Publishing, 1990.
The administrator's book: xix and 361 pages of Burger's proposals for the machinery of justice, from court management to the bar, published by West with the College of William and Mary in 1990, four years into the retirement.
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Burger, Warren E. For Whom the Bell Tolls, Remarks... Association of the Bar of the City of New York, February 17, 1970. Washington, DC: Association of the Bar of the City of New York, 1970.
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Burger, Warren E. It Is So Ordered: A Constitution Unfolds. New York: William Morrow, 1995.
The last book, published by Morrow in the year of his death: fourteen cases and moments from Marbury to Plessy, told for the general reader, 268 pages; the record's description opens, 'The Constitution of the United States affects the daily life of every American in powerful and often unrecognized ways.'
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Burger, Warren E. Remarks... at Federal Bar Council Law Day Dinner, May 3, 1971. New York: Federal Bar Council, 1971.
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Burger, Warren E. “A Sick Profession.” Federal Bar Journal 27 (Summer 1967): 228-234.
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Burger, Warren E. “Address to the American Law Institute, Washington, D.C., May 19, 1970.” American Law Institute Annual Proceedings 47 (1970): 24-28.
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Burger, Warren E. “Address... before the Fifth Judicial Circuit Conference.” Journal of Public Law 21 (1972): 271-278.
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Burger, Warren E. “Agenda for Change.” Judicature 54 (January 1971): 232-236.
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Burger, Warren E. “Annual Report on the State of the Judiciary.” American Bar Association Journal 69 (April 1983): 442-450.
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Burger, Warren E. “Bringing the Judicial Machinery Up to the Demands Made on It.” Pennsylvania Bar Association Quarterly 42 (March 1971): 262-267.
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Burger, Warren E. “Burger's Law.” Across the Board 15 (May 1978): 80-82.
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Burger, Warren E. “Can We Cope? The Constitution after 200 Years.” American Bar Association Journal 65 (February 1979): 203-207.
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Burger, Warren E. “Conclusion: Marking the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution.” Seton Hall Law Review 16 (1986): 462-464.
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Burger, Warren E. “Conference on Supreme Court Advocacy.” Catholic University Law Review 33 (Spring 1984): 525-527.
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Burger, Warren E. “Counsel for the Prosecution and the Defense: Their Role under Minimum Standards.” American Criminal Law Quarterly 8 (Fall 1969): 2-9.
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Burger, Warren E. “Court Administrators: Where Would We Find Them?” Judicature 53 (October 1969): 108-110.
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Burger, Warren E. “Deferred Maintenance of Judicial Machinery Remarks... National Conference on the Judiciary, Williamsburg, VA, March 12, 1971.” Judicature 54 (May 1971): 410-417.
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Burger, Warren E. “Has the Time Come? Remarks... at Opening Session, American Law Institute, May 16, 1972, Washington, DC.” American Law Institute Annual Proceedings 1972 (1972): 23-32.
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Burger, Warren E. “My Predecessor: Earl Warren.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1989: 17–19.
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Burger, Warren E. “New Chief Justice's Philosophy of Law in America.” New York State Bar Journal 41 (October 1969): 454-479.
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Burger, Warren E. “Obstacles to the Constitution.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1987: 19–23.
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Burger, Warren E. “Paradoxes in the Administration of Criminal Justice.” Journal of Criminal Law, Criminology, and Police Science 58 (December 1967): 428-432.
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Burger, Warren E. “Psychiatry and the Law.” Federal Rules Decisions 32 (1963): 557-567.
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Burger, Warren E. “Reflections on Law and Experimental Medicine.” UCLA Law Review 15 (1968): 436-442.
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Burger, Warren E. “Remarks of Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, Read by Chief Judge S. W. Robinson.” Federal Rules Decisions 100 (March 1984): 207-212.
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Burger, Warren E. “Remarks of Honorable Warren E. Burger, Chief Justice Supreme Court of the United States.” Federal Rules Decisions 100 (April 1984): 534-538.
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Burger, Warren E. “Report on the Federal Judicial Branch: 1973.” American Bar Association Journal 59 (October 1973): 1125-1130.
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Burger, Warren E. “Rx for Justice: Modernize the Courts.” Nation's Business 62 (September 1974): 61-63.
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Burger, Warren E. “School for Judges.” Federal Rules Decisions 33 (1964): 139-150.
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Burger, Warren E. “Stanley F. Reed.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1981 (1981): 10-13.
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Burger, Warren E. “Symposium: Standards of Conduct for Prosecution and Defense Personnel.” American Criminal Law Quarterly 5 (Winter 1966): 8-31.
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Burger, Warren E. “The Courts on Trial.” Federal Rules Decisions 22 (1959): 71-83.
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Burger, Warren E. “The Image of Justice.” Judicature 55 (December 1971): 200-202.
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Burger, Warren E. “The Necessity for Civility: Remarks at the Opening Session, American Law Institute, May 18, 1971, Washington, DC.” Federal Rules Decisions 52 (1971): 211-218.
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Burger, Warren E. “The Office of the United States Attorney General.” Louisiana Bar Journal 2 (October 1954): 124-133.
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Burger, Warren E. “The Special Skills of Advocacy: Are Specialized Training and Certification of Advocates Essential to Our System of Justice?” Fordham Law Review 42 (December 1973): 227-242.
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Burger, Warren E. “The State of the Federal Judiciary: 1979.” American Bar Association Journal 65 (March 1979): 358-365.
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Burger, Warren E. “The Time Is Now for the Intercircuit Panel.” American Bar Association Journal 71 (April 1985): 86-91.
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Burger, Warren E. “Thinking the Unthinkable.” Loyola Law Review 31 (Spring 1985): 205-220.
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Burger, Warren E. “Thomas Jefferson and the Court.” Journal of Supreme Court History 16 (1991): 97–104.
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Burger, Warren E. “Tom C. Clark Eulogies.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1978: 3–4.
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Burger, Warren E., and Earl Warren. “Retired Chief Justice Warren Attacks Chief Justice Burger: Defends Freud Study Group's Composition and Proposal.” American Bar Association Journal 59 (July 1973): 721-730.
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Burger, Warren E., and W. A. Lawrence. Conversation with the Chief Justice July 5, 1971. Washington, DC: American Broadcasting Company, 1971.
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Burger, Warren E., Benjamin Heinman, George Bush, and Laurence H. Tribe. “In Tribute of Honorable Potter Stewart.” Yale Law Journal 95 (June 1986): 1321-1333.
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Burger, Warren E., Rex E. Lee, Kenneth W. Starr, William H. Rehnquist. “Remarks on the Bicentennial of the Supreme Court.” Journal of Supreme Court History 15 (1990): 8–16.
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Burke, Andrew F. “Discussion of Senator Black's Legal Position under the Constitution of the United States.” Massachusetts Law Quarterly 22 (July/September 1937): 1-5.
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Burke, Richard K. “The Path to the Court: A Study of Federal Judicial Appointments.” Master's thesis, Vanderbilt University, 1958.
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Burlingham, Charles C. “Harlan Fiske Stone.” American Bar Association Journal 32 (June 1946): 322-324.
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Burnette, Lawrence. “Peter V. Daniel: Agrarian Justice.” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 62 (July 1954): 289-305.
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Burns, James MacGregor. Packing the Court: The Rise of Judicial Power and the Coming Crisis of the Supreme Court. New York: Penguin Press, 2009.
James MacGregor Burns's charge that the Court assumed a power of review the Constitution never granted and has used it to block reforms mandated by elected majorities, with the 1937 court-packing fight at the centre and proposals to curb the Court at the end; Penguin Press, 2009, 326 pages, by a historian and biographer rather than a lawyer. Not read.
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Burns, Kevin J. “Chief Justice as Chief Executive: Taft’s Judicial Statesmanship:.” Journal of Supreme Court History 43, no. 1 (2018): 47–68.
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Burns, Ronald D. James F. Byrnes. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1961.
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Burt, Robert A. Two Jewish Justices: Outcasts in the Promised Land. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.
A short, influential meditation on Brandeis and Frankfurter as Jewish outsiders — Burt reads their jurisprudence through assimilation and marginality, arguing that the immigrant's anxiety to belong helped shape Frankfurter's deference to the American majority.
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Burton, David H. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Boston: Twayne, 1980.
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Burton, David H. Oliver Wendell Holmes: What Manner of Liberal? Huntington, NY: R. E. Krieger, 1979.
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Burton, David H. Taft, Holmes, and the 1920s Court: An Appraisal. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1998.
A short double study of Taft and Holmes, who sat together through the 1920s: the two careers set side by side, formative years first, to explain how each decided.
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Burton, David H. “Curious Correspondence of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes and Franklin Ford.” New England Quarterly 53 (June 1980): 196-211.
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Burton, David H. “Mr. Justice Holmes in England, 1866.” History Today 29 (May 1979): 304-309.
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Burton, David H. “The Friendship of Justice Holmes and Canon Sheehan.” Harvard Library Bulletin 25 (April 1977): 155-169.
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Burton, David H. “The Intellectual Kinship of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Frederick E. Pollock, and Harold J. Laski.” American Philosophical Society Proceedings 119 (April 1975): 133-142.
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Burton, David H., ed. Progressive Masks: Letters of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Franklin Ford. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1982.
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Burton, Harold H. The Story of the Place Where First and A Streets Formerly Met at What Is Now the Site of the Supreme Court Building. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1952.
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Burton, Harold H. “An Independent Judiciary: The Keystone of Our Freedom.” American Bar Association Journal 39 (December 1953): 1067-1070.
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Burton, Harold H. “John Marshall: The Man.” University of Pennsylvania Law Review 104 (October 1955): 3-8.
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Burton, Harold H. “Judging Is Also Administration: An Appreciation of Constructive Leadership.” Temple Law Quarterly 21 (October 1947): 77-90.
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Burton, Harold H. “Justice, the Guardian of Liberty: John Marshall at the Trial of Aaron Burr.” American Bar Association Journal 37 (October 1951): 735-738.
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Burton, Harold H. “The Continuity of the United States Supreme Court.” Case and Comment 55 (July/August 1950): 3-8.
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Burton, Harold H. “The Dartmouth College Case: A Dramatization.” American Bar Association Journal 38 (December 1952): 991-994.
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Burton, Harold H. “The Legal Tender Cases: A Celebrated Supreme Court Reversal.” American Bar Association Journal 42 (March 1956): 231.
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Burton, Harold H. “The Supreme Court: Mr. Justice Burton Gives Interesting Comparisons.” American Bar Association Journal 33 (July 1947): 645-648.
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Burton, Harold H. “The United States Supreme Court.” Women Lawyers Journal 34 (Summer 1948): 4-6, 33, 43-45.
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Burton, Harold H. “Two Significant Decisions: Ex Parte Milligan and Ex Parte McCardle.” American Bar Association Journal 41 (February 1955): 121-124.
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Burton, Harold H. “Unsung Services of Supreme Court of the United States.” Referees' Journal 24 (January 1950): 4-8.
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Burton, Harold H. “Unsung Services of the Supreme Court of the United States.” Fordham Law Review 24 (Summer 1955): 169-177.
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Burton, Harold H. “Unsung Services of the Supreme Court of the United States.” Ohio Bar 21 (December 27, 1948): 517-521.
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Burton, Harold H., and Thomas E. Waggaman. “The Story of the Place.” George Washington Law Review 21 (January 1953): 253-264.
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Burton, Orville Vernon, and Armand Derfner. Justice Deferred: Race and the Supreme Court. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2021.
Orville Vernon Burton and Armand Derfner read nearly two hundred cases involving racial minorities from Cherokee removal to Shelby County, and find that the Court protected civil rights only in the window from the 1930s to the early 1970s; Belknap, May 2021, 464 pages. Not read.
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“Bust of John Marshall Placed in Hall of Fame.” American Bar Association Journal 11 (June 1925): 381-382.
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Butler, Charles H. “Melville Weston Fuller, David Josiah Brewer, Memorial Note.” American Journal of International Law 4 (October 1910): 909-921.
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Butler, Charles H. “Mr. Justice Brown.” Greenbag 18 (June 1906): 321-330.
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Butler, Charles Henry. A Century at the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1942.
The memoir of the Court's Reporter of Decisions from 1902 to 1916, volumes 187 to 241 of the United States Reports, published in 1942: the Court of Fuller and White seen from the reporter's desk.
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Butler, Charles Henry. “Customs, Courtesies and Ceremonies.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1978: 79–90.
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Butler, Pierce. “Some Opportunities and Duties of Lawyers.” American Bar Association Journal 9 (September 1923): 583-587.
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Buttre, Lillian C. “Joseph Story.” In American Portrait Gallery, vol. 2, by Lillian C. Buttre, 45-46. New York: J. C. Buttre, 1877.
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Buttre, Lillian C. “Roger Brooke Taney.” In The American Portrait Gallery, by Lillian C. Buttre, vol. 2, 981-982. New York: J. C. Buttre, 1877.
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Byrnes, James F. All in One Lifetime. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1958.
Byrnes's autobiography, and a revealing self-portrait of a man at the center of power for four decades.
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Byrnes, James F. Speaking Frankly. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1947.
Byrnes's insider account of the early Cold War — his eighteen months as Truman's Secretary of State, the fraught Council of Foreign Ministers, and the hardening toward the Soviet Union.
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Byrnes, James F. “Communist Influence, Home and Abroad.” Texas Bar Journal 23 (August 22, 1960): 416-422.
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Byrnes, James F. “Despite These Honors.” In Twenty-seven Masters of Politics, edited by Raymond Moley, 250-259. New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1949.
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Byrnes, James F. “Segregation.” Vermont Bar Association Proceedings 50 (1956): 86.
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Byrnes, James F. “The South Respects the Written Constitution: Supreme Court Has No Power to Amend the Constitution.” Vital Speeches 23 (March 1957): 331-335.
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Byrnes, James F. “The Supreme Court and States Rights.” Alabama Lawyer 20 (October 1959): 396-403.
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