The Annotated Bibliography: E
71 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.
Earl Warren Papers — Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (register). Washington: Library of Congress, 1864–1974.
The papers themselves: a quarter of a million items in 846 containers, spanning 1864 to 1974, 'with the bulk of the items concentrated in the period after 1953, when Warren became chief justice,' with a chronology of the life from Bakersfield to the Warren Commission.
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Early, Stephen T. “James Clark McReynolds and the Judicial Process.” Ph.D. diss., University of Virginia, 1952.
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Easterbrook, Frank H. "The Most Insignificant Justice: Further Evidence." University of Chicago Law Review 50, no. 2 (1983): 481–503.
The reply brief in the funniest exchange in American legal scholarship.
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Eastland, James O. Is the Supreme Court Pro-Communist? Here Are Facts as Disclosed by U.S. Senator James O. Eastland. Richmond, VA: Patrick Henry Group, 1962.
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Eddy, Ruth S. “The Ancestry of Judge Joseph Story: Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.” Essex Institute Historical Collections 83 (January 1947): 59-66.
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Edgerton, Henry W. “Mr. Justice Rutledge.” Harvard Law Review 63 (December 1949): 293-298.
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Edwards, Isaac. “Chief Justice Taney: A Sketch and a Criticism.” Albany Law Journal 8 (July 19, 1873): 33-38.
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Edwards, Laura F. “The Reconstruction Rights: The Fourteenth Amendment and Popular Conceptions of Governance.” Journal of Supreme Court History 41, no. 3 (2016): 310–328.
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Eger, Paul G. “Justice Brown.” Michigan State Bar Journal 24 (May 1945): 347-349.
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Eggert, Gerald G., and Phillip E. Stebbins. “The Chief Justice: Image of an Office.” American History Illustrated 5 (May 1970): 32-41.
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Ehrenhaft, Peter D. “Bruce Allen Murphy, The Brandeis-Frankfurter Connection: The Secret Political Activities of Two Supreme Court Justices.” American Journal of Legal History 27 (July 1983): 302-307.
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“Eighty-eight Years Old and Still Active.” American Bar Association Journal 15 (April 1929): 211.
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Eisenberg, David. “A Consideration of Extra-Judicial Activities in the Pre-Marshall Era.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1985: 117–126.
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Eisgruber, Christopher L. The Next Justice: Repairing the Supreme Court Appointments Process. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007.
Christopher Eisgruber's proposal for the confirmation process: that senators ask when and why judges should override elected officials, and judge nominees on their writings rather than on how they perform in the hearing room; Princeton, 2007, 239 pages, by a former Stevens clerk then teaching law at New York University. Not read.
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Eisler, Jacob. The Law of Freedom: The Supreme Court and Democracy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Jacob Eisler of Southampton on seventy years of election law as the Court's deepest intervention in American democracy, and the competing ideas of freedom behind it; Cambridge, July 2023, 329 pages. Not read.
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Eisler, Kim Isaac. A Justice for All: William J. Brennan, Jr., and the Decisions That Transformed America. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993.
The first full biography, written before the papers opened — Eisler is good on Brennan the vote-counter and coalition-builder, the Irish-Catholic New Jersey judge who became the liberal engine of two Courts.
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Eitzen, D. Stanley. David J. Brewer, 1837-1910: A Kansan on the United States Supreme Court. Emporia: Graduate Division, Kansas State Teacher's College, 1964.
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Eldridge, F. Howard. “Justice Holmes: Another Aspect of His Life and Philosophy.” University of Chicago Law Record 10 (July 1943): 417-436.
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Elliott, E. Donald. “Holmes and Evolution: Legal Process as Artificial Intelligence.” The Journal of Legal Studies 13 (January 1984): 113-146.
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Elliott, J. Daniel. “The Great Dissenter No More: Justice Harlan, the Fourteenth Amendment, and United States v. Shipp.” Journal of Supreme Court History 49, no. 2 (2024): 151–169.
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Ellis, Charles M. The Power of the Commander-in-Chief to Declare Emancipation: As Shown from Benjamin R. Curtis. Boston: A. Williams, 1862.
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Ellis, Charles M. “Roger Brooke Taney.” Atlantic Monthly 15 (February 1865): 151-161.
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Ellis, L. Ethan. “Charles Evans Hughes: A Profile.” American History Illustrated 3 (October 1968): 28-37.
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Ellis, Richard E. The Jeffersonian Crisis: Courts and Politics in the Young Republic. New York: Oxford University Press, 1971.
The classic political history of the Jeffersonian assault on the Federalist judiciary — the strongest broad context for the impeachment, placing the trial alongside the repeal of the Judiciary Act of 1801, Stuart v. Laird, and the struggle over the federal courts' place in the constitutional order.
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Ellmann, James I. “Justice Holmes Today.” Commercial Law Journal 39 (January 1934): 5-12.
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Ellmann, James I. “Mr. Justice Brandeis.” Commercial Law Journal 38 (August 1933): 363-372.
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Elsmere, Jane S. “The Impeachment Trial of Justice Samuel Chase.” Ph.D. diss., Indiana University, 1962.
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Elsmere, Jane Shaffer. Justice Samuel Chase. Muncie, IN: Janevar, 1980.
The only other full-length life of Chase besides Stormy Patriot — published the same year, from a small Indiana press, and fuller on the judicial career and the impeachment trial.
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Elson, Edward L., and Warren E. Burger. “William O. Douglas: 1898-1980.” American Bar Association Journal 66 (March 1980): 320-321.
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Ely, James W., Jr. The Chief Justiceship of Melville W. Fuller, 1888–1910. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1995.
The modern institutional reappraisal, in South Carolina's Chief Justiceships series.
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Ely, James W., Jr. The Contract Clause: A Constitutional History. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2016.
James Ely of Vanderbilt on the contract clause from its origins protecting creditors, through the Marshall Court's use of it as the chief instrument of review over state law, to the police-power exception, the New Deal eclipse and the recent revival in pension litigation; Kansas, October 2016, 376 pages. Not read.
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Ely, James W., Jr. “Melville W. Fuller Reconsidered.” Journal of Supreme Court History 23, no. 1 (1998): 35–49.
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Ely, James W., Jr. “Property Rights and the Supreme Court in the Gilded Age.” Journal of Supreme Court History 38, no. 3 (2013): 330–344.
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Ely, James W., Jr. “Property Rights and the Supreme Court in World War II.” Journal of Supreme Court History 21, no. 1 (1996): 19–34.
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Ely, James W., Jr. “Rufus W. Peckham and Economic Liberty.” Vanderbilt Law Review 62, no. 2 (2009): 591.
The leading modern reassessment of the man who wrote Lochner — Ely's case that Peckham was no crude tool of capital but a coherent economic-liberty jurist in the Jacksonian antimonopoly tradition.
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Ely, James W., Jr. “Rufus W. Peckham and the Pursuit of Economic Freedom.” Journal of Supreme Court History 37, no. 1 (2012): 22–41.
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Ely, James W., Jr. “The Contract Clause during the Civil War and Reconstruction.” Journal of Supreme Court History 41, no. 3 (2016): 257–274.
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Ely, James W., Jr. “The Fuller Court and Takings Jurisprudence.” Journal of Supreme Court History 21, no. 2 (1996): 120–135.
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Ely, James W., Jr. “The Supreme Court and Property Rights in the Progressive Era.” Journal of Supreme Court History 44, no. 1 (2019): 53–70.
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Emerson, Thomas I. “Justice Douglas and Lawyers with a Cause.” Yale Law Journal 89 (March 1980): 616-623.
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Emmy, Walter B. “Legal and Political Philosophy of Mr. Justice Holmes.” Oklahoma State Bar Journal 3 (September 1932): 150-157.
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Enselman, Isidor. “Mr. Justice Holmes.” Case and Comment 54 (July/August 1949): 48-55.
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Epps, Garrett. American Justice 2014: Nine Clashing Visions on the Supreme Court. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014.
Garrett Epps of Baltimore on October Term 2013, read through what the publisher calls the nine clashing constitutional visions on the bench; Penn Press, October 2014, 192 pages, the first of six annual term reviews the press published from 2014 to 2019. Not read.
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Epstein, Lee, and Eric A. Posner. What Is Oral Argument For? University of Chicago Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 26-22 (2026).
Twenty terms of transcripts and 368,369 speaking turns, asking what the hour is actually for: finds that a justice’s ideology and distance from the median predict how much they talk while the attorneys’ experience predicts almost nothing, and argues that a literature counting interruptions without conditioning on participation has been measuring the wrong thing.
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Epstein, Lee, and Jack Knight. The Choices Justices Make. Washington, DC: CQ Press, 1998.
Two hundred pages from CQ Press in 1998 on how the justices choose, the political-science companion to Epstein's later work with Landes and Posner on the behavior of federal judges.
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Epstein, Lee, and Jeffrey A. Segal. Advice and Consent: The Politics of Judicial Appointments. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
The whole federal judiciary in one appointments book — district courts and circuits alongside the Supreme Court — with the quantitative literature synthesized into tables, and a blunt thesis: politics has governed the selection process from the start.
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Epstein, Lee, Andrew D. Martin, Kevin M. Quinn, and Jeffrey A. Segal. "Ideology and the Study of Judicial Behavior." In Ideology, Psychology, and Law, edited by Jon Hanson. 2012.
The readable account of what an ideology score is and is not — why political scientists treat ideology as indispensable to explaining judging, how the measures are actually built, and which methodological and normative objections to them remain unanswered.
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Epstein, Lee, Jeffrey A. Segal, Harold J. Spaeth, and Thomas G. Walker. The Supreme Court Compendium: Two Centuries of Data, Decisions, and Developments. Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2021.
The standard statistical reference on the Court, in its seventh edition: 848 pages and more than 180 tables on the justices' backgrounds, the nominations, the caseloads, the voting and the public's opinion of all of it. Three of its four authors are principal investigators of the Supreme Court Database, which is to say the tables end where this site's own voting pages begin.
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Epstein, Lee, William M. Landes, and Richard A. Posner. Inferring the Winning Party. Journal of Legal Studies 39, no. 2 (2010): 433–467.
Tests the courthouse folk wisdom that the side asked more questions loses, finds that it holds, and uses the pattern to separate two accounts of what the questioning is for: a legalistic search for truth, or a realistic strategy for influencing colleagues.
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Epstein, Lee, William M. Landes, and Richard A. Posner. The Behavior of Federal Judges: A Theoretical and Empirical Study of Rational Choice. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013.
A political scientist, an economist and a sitting federal judge treat judges as labour-market actors with pecuniary and non-pecuniary motives, and test the consequences across district courts, circuit courts and the Supreme Court — not only votes and outcomes but opinion length, citations, dissents, and questions asked at oral argument.
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Epstein, Leon D. “Economic Predilections of Justice Douglas.” Wisconsin Law Review 1949 (May 1949): 531-562.
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Epstein, Leon D. “Justice Douglas and Civil Liberties.” Wisconsin Law Review 151 (January 1951): 125-157.
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Epstein, Leon D. “Justice Douglas: A Case Study in Judicial Review.” Ph.D. diss., University of Chicago, 1949.
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Epstein, Richard A. “The History of Public Utility Rate Regulation in the United States Supreme Court: Of Reasonable and Nondiscriminatory Rates.” Journal of Supreme Court History 38, no. 3 (2013): 345–368.
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Erickson, William H. “The Impact of the Judicial Confirmation Process on the U.S. Supreme Court.” Colorado Law Review 17 (February 1988): 223-224.
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Ernst, Morris L. Justice Brandeis' Five Points. Philadelphia: Brandeis Lawyers' Society, 1947.
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Eskridge, Charles and Jack DiSorbo. “The Bronze Doors, or a Tribute to the Legitimacy and Endurance of the Written Rule of Law.” Journal of Supreme Court History 48, no. 3 (2023): 325–357.
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Espinosa, Jose F. “Observations on Justice Holmes' and Cardozo's Philosophy of Law.” Philadelphia Law Journal 22 (April 1947): 87-92.
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Estes, W. Lee. “Roger B. Taney.” American Law Review 59 (September/October 1925): 783-798.
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Evans, Charles. Report of the Trial of the Honorable Samuel Chase... Baltimore: Printed for Samuel Butler and George Keatings, 1805.
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Evans, Elizabeth G. “Mr. Justice Brandeis: New Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.” Case and Comment 23 (August 1916): 254-255.
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Evans, Jocelyn J., and Keith Gaddie. The U.S. Supreme Court's Democratic Spaces. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2021.
The Supreme Court building of 1935 and the Court's earlier homes in New York, Philadelphia and Washington, read by Jocelyn Evans and Keith Gaddie as political space rather than architecture; Oklahoma, 2021, 220 pages. Not read.
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Evans, Patricia R. and Roger F. Jacobs. “The Court in Recent Literature.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1979: 94–100.
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Evarts, William M. Eulogy on Chief Justice Chase, Delivered by William M. Evarts, before the Alumni of Dartmouth College, at Hanover, June 24, 1874. Hanover, NH: J. B. Parker, 1874.
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Evarts, William M. “Evarts' Eulogy of the Late Chief Justice Chase.” Albany Law Journal 10 (July 1, 1874): 21-25.
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Evatt, Herbert V. “Mr. Justice Cardozo.” Columbia Law Review 39 (January 1939): 5-8.
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Evatt, Herbert V. “Mr. Justice Cardozo.” Harvard Law Review 52 (January 1939): 357-360.
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Evatt, Herbert V. “Mr. Justice Cardozo.” Yale Law Journal 48 (January 1939): 375-378.
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Evershed, Lord. “Mr. Justice Frankfurter.” Harvard Law Review 76 (November 1962): 3-6.
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Ewald, William. "James Wilson and the Drafting of the Constitution." University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 10, no. 5 (2008).
An exceptionally detailed reconstruction of Wilson's work at the Convention.
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Ewing, Cortez A. M. The Judges of the Supreme Court, 1789–1937: A Study of Their Qualifications. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1938.
A 1938 study of the justices to that date by their qualifications, 124 pages with a map and diagrams from the University of Minnesota Press, the ancestor of Blaustein and Mersky's statistical studies forty years later.
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