The Annotated Bibliography: F
310 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.
Fabrikant, Robert. “Remembering Warren E. Burger.” Journal of Supreme Court History 40, no. 2 (2015): 203–210.
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Fagelson, Ian B. “President Truman’s Justice Department and the Fight for Racial Justice in the Supreme Court.” Journal of Supreme Court History 43, no. 1 (2018): 69–82.
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Fahy, Charles. “Judicial Philosophy of Mr. Justice Murphy.” Yale Law Journal 60 (May 1951): 812-820.
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Fahy, Charles. “Mr. Chief Justice Stone.” Harvard Law Review 59 (October 1946): 1196-1199.
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Fairchild, Thomas E., F. “Ryan Duffy, Win G. Knoch, Latham Castle, Luther M. Swygert, Walter J. Cummings, Wilbur F. Pell, Jr., Robert A. Sprecher, Philip W. Tone, William J. Bauer, and Harlington Wood, Jr. "Tribute to Justice John Paul Stevens.” Chicago-Kent Law Review 56 (Winter 1980): 1-10.
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Fairman, Charles. Mr. Justice Miller and the Supreme Court, 1862–1890. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1939.
The monument, and still unsurpassed.
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Fairman, Charles. Reconstruction and Reunion, 1864–88, Part One (Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court, vol. 6). New York: Macmillan, 1971.
The monumental Holmes Devise volumes for the Court from 1864 to 1888, and the standing institutional frame for this site across those decades.
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Fairman, Charles. Reconstruction and Reunion, 1864–88, Part Two (Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court, vol. 7). New York: Macmillan, 1987.
The second half of Fairman, published sixteen years after the first and a separate book, and the one that matters here.
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Fairman, Charles. “Justice Miller and the Mortgaged Generation.” Iowa Law Review 23 (March 1938): 351-378.
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Fairman, Charles. “Justice Samuel F. Miller and the Barbourville Debating Society.” Mississippi Valley Historical Review 17 (March 1931): 595-601.
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Fairman, Charles. “Justice Samuel Miller: A Study of a Judicial Statesman.” Political Science Quarterly 50 (March 1935): 15-44.
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Fairman, Charles. “Mr. Justice Bradley's Appointment to the Supreme Court and the Legal Tender Cases.” Harvard Law Review 54 (April 1941): 977-1034; (May 1941): 1128-1155.
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Fairman, Charles. “Retirement of Federal Judges.” Harvard Law Review 51 (January 1938): 397-430.
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Fairman, Charles. “Robert H. Jackson: 1892-1954, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.” Columbia Law Review 55 (April 1955): 445-487.
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Fairman, Charles. “Samuel F. Miller, Justice of the Supreme Court, 1862-1890.” Vanderbilt Law Review 10 (February 1957): 193-208.
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Fairman, Charles. “The Education of a Justice: Justice Bradley and Some of His Colleagues.” Stanford Law Review 1 (January 1949): 217-255.
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Fairman, Charles. “The Late Mr. Justice Cardozo.” California State Bar Journal 13 (December 1938): 19-23.
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Fairman, Charles. “The So-Called Granger Cases, Lord Hale, and Justice Bradley.” Stanford Law Review 5 (July 1953): 587-679.
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Fairman, Charles. “What Makes a Great Justice: Mr. Justice Bradley and the Supreme Court, 1870-1892.” Boston University Law Review 30 (January 1950): 49-102.
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Fakhimi, Morad. “Terrorism and Habeas Corpus: A Jurisdictional Escape.” Journal of Supreme Court History 30, no. 3 (2005): 226–243.
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Fallon, Perlie P. “Mystery of Justice Holmes.” Nebraska Law Review 37 (1958): 442-448.
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Fallon, Perlie P. “Some Influences of Justice Holmes' Thought on Current Law.” Dickinson Law Review 56 (1951-1952): 387-401.
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Fallon, Perlie P. “Some Influences of Justice Holmes' Thought on Current Law: Assessments, Bankruptcy, Citizenship, and Commerce.” Temple Law Quarterly 19 (March 1945): 15-25.
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Fallon, Perlie P. “Some Influences of Justice Holmes' Thought on Current Law: Conflict of Laws, Contempt, Contracts, Copyright, and Corporations.” Tennessee Law Review 19 (February 1946): 118-128.
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Fallon, Perlie P. “Some Influences of Justice Holmes' Thought on Current Law: Contracts with the United States, Suits against the United States.” Minnesota Law Review 30 (February 1946): 185-203.
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Fallon, Perlie P. “Some Influences of Justice Holmes' Thought on Current Law: Federal Taxation of Instrumentalities of the United States.” Tulane Law Review 20 (October 1945): 56-82.
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Fallon, Perlie P. “Some Influences of Justice Holmes' Thought on Current Law: Interstate Commerce; Fourteenth Amendment.” Minnesota Law Review 29 (April 1945): 318-338.
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Fallon, Perlie P. “Some Influences of Justice Holmes' Thought on Current Law: The Full Faith and Credit Clause.” Nebraska Law Review 26 (March 1947): 367-381.
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Fallon, Perlie P. “Some Influences of Justice Holmes' Thought on Current Law: The Police Power; Theories of Local Law.” Nebraska Law Review 24 (June 1945): 182-194.
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Fallon, Perlie P. “The Judicial World of Mr. Justice Holmes.” Notre Dame Lawyer 14 (November 1938): 52-97.
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Fallon, Richard H., Jr. Law and Legitimacy in the Supreme Court. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2018.
Richard Fallon of Harvard grounds judicial legitimacy in good faith in constitutional argument, the justices basing decisions only on arguments they genuinely believe valid, and answers legal realism without its cynicism; Belknap, February 2018, 240 pages, and winner of the 2019 Cooley Book Prize. Not read.
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Fallon, Richard H., Jr. The Changing Constitution: Constitutional Law in the Trump-Era Supreme Court. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025.
Richard Fallon of Harvard on religion, speech, guns, equal protection and executive power in the Court since 2017, read as the product of political and institutional forces rather than doctrine alone; Cambridge, August 2025, 330 pages. Not read.
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Farganis, Dion, and Justin Wedeking. Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings in the U.S. Senate: Reconsidering the Charade. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2014.
Dion Farganis and Justin Wedeking code nearly eleven thousand questions and answers from the Judiciary Committee's hearings since 1955 and find nominees more forthcoming than the charade thesis allows, with televised hearings from 1981 explaining the contrary impression; Michigan, March 2014, 176 pages. Not read.
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Farnum, George R. Holmes: The Soldier Philosopher. Brooklyn, NY: American Law Book Company, 1939.
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Farnum, George R. “Benjamin N. Cardozo: Lights and Shadows.” Lawyer 2 (September 1938): 5-6.
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Farnum, George R. “Brandeis: Prophet of Industrial Era.” Case and Comment 47 (November/December 1941): 16-17.
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Farnum, George R. “Brandeis: Prophet of Industrial Era.” Law Notes 45 (November 1941): 26-27.
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Farnum, George R. “Brandeis: Prophet of Industrial Era.” New Jersey Law Journal 64 (October 23, 1941): 483.
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Farnum, George R. “Chief Justice Stone Is Militant Leader.” New Jersey Law Journal 64 (November 13, 1941): 521.
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Farnum, George R. “Felix Frankfurter: An Unfinished Portrait.” New Jersey Law Journal 65 (March 12, 1942): 125.
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Farnum, George R. “Holmes: The Solitary Scholar, A Study in Spiritual Values.” Lawyer 1 (June 1938): 13-14.
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Farnum, George R. “John Marshall Harlan: Portrait of a Great Dissenter.” American Bar Association Journal 30 (October 1944): 576-578.
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Farnum, George R. “Justice Benjamin Cardozo, Philosopher.” Boston University Law Review 12 (November 1932): 587-599.
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Farnum, George R. “Justice Brandeis: Gentleman and Jurist.” Massachusetts Law Society Journal 3 (November 1931): 306.
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Farnum, George R. “Justice Frankfurter: An Intriguing Figure.” Law Notes 45 (September 1941): 21-22.
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Farnum, George R. “Justice Holmes: Philosopher and Humanitarian.” Law Society Journal 3 (November 1930/February 1931): 3-6.
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Farnum, George R. “Justice Holmes: Philosopher and Humanitarian.” Lawyer 5 (November 1941): 25-27.
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Farnum, George R. “Louis D. Brandeis: A Chapter Closed.” Lawyer 2 (April 1939): 8-9.
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Farnum, George R. “Oliver Wendell Holmes: Jurist, Soldier, and Philosopher.” American Bar Association Journal 29 (January 1943): 17-21.
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Farr, Chester N., Jr. “John Marshall.” University of Pennsylvania Law Review 42 (June 1894): 426-434.
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Farrand, Max, ed. The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787 (4 vols., rev. ed.). New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1937.
The indispensable printed collection for what the Convention's future justices actually did at Philadelphia: the notes, the plans and their variants, and Madison's account of the speeches.
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Farrelly, David G. “A Sketch of John Marshall Harlan's Pre-Court Career.” Vanderbilt Law Review 10 (February 1957): 209-226.
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Farrelly, David G. “Harlan's Formative Period: The Years before the War.” Kentucky Law Journal 46 (Spring 1958): 367-406.
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Farrelly, David G. “Justice Harlan's Dissent in the Pollock Case.” Southern California Law Review 24 (February 1951): 175-182.
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Fassett, John D. New Deal Justice: The Life of Stanley Reed of Kentucky. New York: Vantage Press, 1994.
The one full biography, by a lawyer who clerked for Reed and knew him well.
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Fassett, John D. “Mr. Justice Reed and Brown v. The Board of Education.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1986: 48–63.
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Fassett, John D. “The Buddha and the Bumblebee: The Saga of Stanley Reed and Felix Frankfurter.” Journal of Supreme Court History 28, no. 2 (2003): 165–196.
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Faulkner, Robert K. The Jurisprudence of John Marshall. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1968.
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Faulkner, Robert K. “John Marshall and the Burr Trial.” Journal of American History 53 (September 1966): 247-258.
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Faulkner, Robert K. “Lincoln and the Rebirth of Liberal Democracy.” Journal of Supreme Court History 35, no. 3 (2010): 201–212.
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Feather, Augustus G., ed. The Supreme Court of the United States: A Series of Biographical Sketches of Its Members, with a Chronological Order of Succession. 1900.
Biographical sketches of the members of the Court to 1900 with a chronological order of succession, 168 pages, no place or publisher on the Library of Congress record: the earliest all-the-justices book in this bibliography, not seen, with no copy found online.
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Fede, Andrew T. “Not the Most Insignificant Justice: Reconsidering Justice Gabriel Duvall's Slavery Law Opinions Favoring Liberty.” Journal of Supreme Court History 42, no. 1 (2017): 7–27.
The key Duvall study between Easterbrook's 1983 needle and Thomas's 2020 book.
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Feder, Benjamin D. “And a Child Shall Lead Them: Justice O'Connor, the Principle of Religious Liberty and Its Practical Application.” Pace Law Review 8 (Spring 1988): 249-302.
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Fegan, Hugh E. “Edward Douglass White, Jurist and Statesman.” Georgetown Law Journal 14 (November 1925): 1-21; 15 (January 1926): 148-168.
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Fehrenbacher, Don E. The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978.
The Pulitzer-winning definitive history of the case, and still the standard against which all Dred Scott scholarship is measured.
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Fehrenbacher, Don E. “Roger B. Taney and the Sectional Crisis.” Journal of Southern History 43 (November 1977): 555-566.
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Feldman, James A. “‘So Forcibly Presented by His Counsel, Who Are of His Race’: Cornelius Jones, Forgotten Black Supreme Court Advocate and Fighter for Civil Rights in the Plessy Era.” Journal of Supreme Court History 47, no. 2 (2022): 97–141.
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Feldman, Noah. Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices. New York: Twelve, 2010.
The best narrative group biography of the Roosevelt Court — Black, Douglas, Frankfurter and Jackson, “scorpions in a bottle,” whose rivalries made and unmade doctrine.
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Feldman, Stephen M. Neoconservative Politics and the Supreme Court: Law, Power, and Democracy. New York: New York University Press, 2013.
Stephen Feldman on the neoconservatives who attacked pluralist democracy in the 1980s, became an interest group inside it, and kept their hold on constitutional law through the Court after losing the elected branches in 2008; NYU Press, 2013, 226 pages. Not read.
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Feldman, Stephen M. Pack the Court! A Defense of Supreme Court Expansion. Temple University Press, 2021.
Stephen Feldman of Wyoming argues that expanding the Court would not cost it its legitimacy, because law and politics were never separable in constitutional interpretation, and that Democrats should expand it while they can; Temple, August 2021, 278 pages. Not read.
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Feldman, Stephen M. Who Belongs: White Christian Nationalism and the Roberts Court. New York: New York University Press, 2026.
Stephen M. Feldman of Wyoming argues that the Roberts Court's religion, speech and equal-protection decisions serve a white Christian nationalist politics rather than a return to pre-1937 doctrine; NYU Press, January 2026, 280 pages, and a thesis the shelf records without adjudicating. Not read.
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Felix Frankfurter Papers — Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1846–1966.
The personal papers, 70,650 items, which the finding aid says Frankfurter 'considered to be his personal papers' and which are 'supplemented by his Supreme Court files which he gave to the Law School of Harvard University'; the diaries, diary notes and appointment books run from 1911 to 1965.
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Felix, Antonia. Sonia Sotomayor: The True American Dream. New York: Berkley Books, 2010.
An accessible earlier biography, strong on the Puerto Rican family, the childhood diabetes, and the Princeton-and-Yale ascent.
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Felleman, Frank, and John C. Wright, Jr. “The Powers of the Supreme Court Justice Acting in an Individual Capacity.” University of Pennsylvania Law Review 112 (April 1964): 981-1024.
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Fellman, David. “The Diminution of Judicial Salaries.” Iowa Law Review 24 (November 1938): 89-126.
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Fernandez, Angela. Pierson v. Post, The Hunt for the Fox: Law and Professionalization in American Legal Culture. 2018.
A book-length study of the 1805 fox-hunt case every law student still reads — decided by the New York Supreme Court with Livingston writing his most famous (and funniest) dissent, in defense of the hunter.
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Fernandez, Mark F. “John Blair (1731–1800).” In Dictionary of Virginia Biography. Richmond: Library of Virginia, 1998.
The best concise account of Blair's whole public life — especially useful on his Virginia judgeships, the uncertain evidence surrounding Commonwealth v. Caton, the 1788 judicial remonstrance, the Convention, circuit riding, Chisholm, Penhallow, and his resignation for poor health.
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Ferren, John M. Salt of the Earth, Conscience of the Court: The Story of Justice Wiley Rutledge. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
The definitive biography, by a judge of the D.C. Court of Appeals who spent years recovering a justice history had let slip.
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Ferren, John M. “General Yamashita and Justice Rutledge.” Journal of Supreme Court History 28, no. 1 (2003): 54–80.
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Ferren, John M. “Military Curfew, Race-Based Internment, and Mr. Justice Rutledge.” Journal of Supreme Court History 28, no. 3 (2003): 252–269.
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Fiebelman, Herbert U.; James L. Noles Jr. "John McKinley of Alabama" (Alabama Lawyer 22, 1961) & "Alabama's Forgotten Justices: John McKinley and John A. Campbell" (Alabama Lawyer 63, 2002).
The home-state bar's two remembrances, forty years apart, as the FJC's bibliography lists them — Fiebelman's the fuller career sketch, Noles's a double portrait pairing McKinley with Alabama's other justice, John Archibald Campbell.
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Fiechter, Frederick C., Jr. “The Preparation of an American Aristocrat.” New England Quarterly 6 (March 1933): 3-28.
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Field, Henry M. Life of David Dudley Field. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1898.
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Field, Stephen J. Personal Reminiscences of Early Days in California, with Other Sketches. 1893.
Field's own memoir of the Gold Rush frontier — the vigilante justice, the mining-camp law, and the feuds that forged the most combative justice of the Gilded Age.
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Field, Stephen J. “Address, The Supreme Court of the United States, Centennial Celebration of the Organization of the Federal Judiciary.” United States Reporter 134 (February 4, 1890): 729-746.
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Field, Stephen J. “Personal Reminiscences of Early Days in California, With Other Sketches.” Journal of Supreme Court History 29, no. 1 (2004): 22–119.
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Field, Stephen J. “The Centenary of the Supreme Court of the United States.” American Law Review 24 (May/June 1890): 351-368.
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Field, Stephen J. “The Late Chief Justice Chase.” Overland Monthly 11 (October 1873): 305-310.
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Fife, Madelyn, Greg Goelzhauser, Kaylee B. Hodgson, and Nicole Voulvais. “Concurring and Dissenting Without Opinion.” Journal of Supreme Court History 42, no. 2 (2017): 171–192.
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Figg, Robert M., Jr. “James F. Byrnes and the Supreme Court, 1941-1942.” South Carolina Law Review 25 (1973): 543-548.
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Finch, Edward R. “Memorial to Justice Cardozo.” American Bar Association Journal 24 (September 1938): 728-730.
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Finch, Francis M. Chief Justice John Marshall. Philadelphia: T. and J. W. Johnson, 1905.
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Finch, Francis M. “John Marshall.” Yale Law Journal 10 (March 1901): 171-183.
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Fine, Sidney. Frank Murphy (3 vols.: The Detroit Years; The New Deal Years; The Washington Years). Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1984.
The monumental scholarly biography, three volumes and nearly two decades in the making, and one of the fullest lives ever written of any justice.
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Fine, Sidney. “Frank Murphy, the Thornhill Decision, and Picketing as Free Speech.” Labor History 6 (Spring 1965): 99-120.
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Fine, Sidney. “Mr. Justice Murphy and the Hirabayashi Case.” Pacific Historical Review 33 (May 1964): 195-209.
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Fine, Sidney. “Mr. Justice Murphy in World War II.” Journal of American History 53 (June 1966): 90-106.
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Fingarette, Herbert. “The Perils of Powell: In Search of a Factual Foundation of the Disease Concept of Alcoholism.” Harvard Law Review 83 (February 1970): 793-812.
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Finkelman, Paul and Candace Jackson Gray. “Justice John McLean: Politician, Anti-Slavery Jurist, Emancipator of Slaves, and . . . Slaveowner?” Journal of Supreme Court History 49, no. 2 (2024): 105–137.
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Finkelman, Paul, ed. Milestone Documents of the Supreme Court: Exploring the Cases That Shaped America. Dallas: Schlager Group, 2023.
Eighty decisions with the text of each and a commentary, edited by Paul Finkelman for libraries, in six volumes; Schlager Group, 2023, 1,496 pages. Not read.
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Finkelman, Paul, ed. The Supreme Court: Controversies, Cases, and Characters from John Jay to John Roberts. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2014.
Paul Finkelman's four-volume reference arranged chronologically by Chief Justice from 1789 to 2013, evaluating each chief justiceship through its major cases; ABC-CLIO, January 2014, 1,432 pages, pitched at high-school and undergraduate readers. Not read.
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Finkelman, Paul. "John McLean: Moderate Abolitionist and Supreme Court Politician." Vanderbilt Law Review 62, no. 2 (2009): 519–566.
Finkelman, elsewhere the Court's sternest prosecutor on slavery, gives McLean real credit: the lone Prigg dissenter, the Dred Scott dissenter, the one justice antislavery America trusted.
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Finkelman, Paul. Supreme Injustice: Slavery in the Nation's Highest Court. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018.
Three justices — Marshall, Story and Taney — tried for their records on slavery, with Story's chapter the most unsettling because expectations are highest.
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Finkelman, Paul. “Lincoln and Emancipation: Constitutional Theory, Practical Politics, and the Basic Practice of Law.” Journal of Supreme Court History 35, no. 3 (2010): 243–266.
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Finkelman, Paul. “Prigg v. Pennsylvania Understanding Justice Story’s Proslavery Nationalism.” Journal of Supreme Court History 22, no. 2 (1997): 51–64.
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Finkelman, Paul. “‘Hooted Down the Page of History’: Reconsidering the Greatness of Chief Justice Taney.” Journal of Supreme Court History 19 (1994): 83102.
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Finley, S. W. “Daniel Webster Packed ’Em In.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1979: 70–78, 83.
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Fisch, Max H. “Justice Holmes: The Predictive Theory of Law and Pragmatism.” Journal of Philosophy 39 (February 1962): 85-97.
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Fish, Peter G. “Harper’s Weekly Celebrates the Centennial of the Supreme Court of the United States: A Bicentennial Retrospective.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1988: 46–49.
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Fish, Peter G. “William Howard Taft and Charles Evans Hughes: Conservative Politicians as Chief Judicial Reformers.” Supreme Court Review 1975 (1975): 123-145.
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Fish, Peter Graham. Federal Justice in the Mid-Atlantic South: United States Courts from Maryland to the Carolinas, 1789–1835. Washington, DC: Administrative Office of the United States Courts, 2002.
An institutional history rather than a biography, but the most useful book for placing Blair's circuit service in the world of the early federal courts of the Mid-Atlantic South — the demanding circuit system that occupied far more of an early justice's time than the Court's small appellate docket.
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Fisher, Louis. On the Supreme Court: Without Illusion and Idolatry. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2014.
Louis Fisher's short book against judicial finality, arguing that constitutional interpretation is shared with the elected branches, the states and the public and that the Court exercises review without holding the last word; Paradigm, 2014, 242 pages. Not read.
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Fisher, Louis. Reconsidering Judicial Finality: Why the Supreme Court Is Not the Last Word on the Constitution. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2019.
Louis Fisher's case against judicial finality, told through the decisions the elected branches and the public effectively reversed, on slavery, child labour, internment, abortion and religious liberty; Kansas, August 2019, 288 pages. Not read.
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Fisher, Louis. Supreme Court Expansion of Presidential Power: Unconstitutional Leanings. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2017.
Louis Fisher's case that the Court held a neutral line between the branches for a century and a half before turning in the 1930s toward executive independence in emergencies, traced through impoundment, the vetoes, immunity, recess appointments and immigration; Kansas, July 2017, 352 pages. Not read.
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Fisher, Louis. “Protecting Individual Rights: A Broad Public Dialogue.” Journal of Supreme Court History 45, no. 1 (2020): 66–84.
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Fiss, Owen M. Troubled Beginnings of the Modern State, 1888–1910 (Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court, vol. 8). New York: Macmillan, 1993.
The Holmes Devise volume for the early Fuller Court, 1888–1910.
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Fitzgerald, Mark J. “Justice Reed: A Study of a Center Judge.” Ph.D. diss., University of Chicago, 1950.
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Flanagan, James F. “Five Justices and Why They Left the Court for ‘Better’ Positions.” Journal of Supreme Court History 41, no. 1 (2016): 72–89.
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Flanders, Henry. The Life of John Marshall. Philadelphia: T. and J. W. Johnson, 1905.
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Flanders, Henry. The Lives and Times of the Chief Justices: John Jay and John Rutledge (Vol. 1). Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1855.
A substantial nineteenth-century account of the first two Chief Justices.
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Flanders, Henry. The Lives and Times of the Chief Justices: William Cushing, Oliver Ellsworth, John Marshall (Vol. 2). Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1858.
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Flanders, Henry. “Chief Justice Rutledge.” University of Pennsylvania Law Review 54 (April 1906): 203-213.
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Flanders, Henry. “The Life of John Marshall.” The Dial 6 (May 1885): 10-12.
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Flavius, Brother. The Pride of Our Nation: A Story of Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney. Notre Dame, IN: Dujarie Press, 1961.
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Fletcher, Kimberley L. The Collision of Political and Legal Time: Foreign Affairs and the Supreme Court's Transformation of Executive Authority. Temple University Press, 2018.
Kimberley Fletcher of San Diego State reads Curtiss-Wright, the internment cases, Youngstown, Dames & Moore and the detainee cases as one line in which the Court is an agent of institutional change rather than a follower of politics; Temple, May 2018, 296 pages. Not read.
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Fletcher, R. V. “Mr. Justice McReynolds: An Appreciation.” Vanderbilt Law Review 2 (December 1948): 35-46.
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Flexner, Bernard. Mr. Justice Brandeis and the University of Louisville. Louisville: University of Louisville, 1938.
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Flower, Frank A. Edwin McMasters Stanton, the Autocrat of Rebellion, Emancipation, and Reconstruction. New York: Saalfield Publishing Company, 1905.
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Flowers, Ronald B. “The Naturalization of Douglas Clyde Macintosh, Alien Theologian.” Journal of Supreme Court History 25, no. 3 (2000): 243–270.
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Flynn, James J. Famous Justices of the Supreme Court. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1968.
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Flynn, William J., and Howard N. Morse. “David Davis, Justice, U.S. Supreme Court, in Retrospect.” Alabama Lawyer 13 (October 1952): 392-395.
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Flynn, William J., and Howard N. Morse. “U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Davis of Illinois.” Chicago Bar Record 34 (October 1952): 29-30.
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Foley, William E. “Chief Justice Hughes and the Due Process of Law.” Ph.D. diss., Harvard University, 1940.
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Foote, Henry S. “Judge Catron.” In The Bench and Bar of the South and Southwest, by Henry S. Foote, 145-153. St. Louis: Soule, Thomas, and Wentworth, 1876.
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Foote, Joseph. “Mr. Justice Blackmun.” Harvard Law School Bulletin 21 (June 1970): 18-21.
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Foote. “Mr. Justice Brennan: A Profile.” Harvard Law School Bulletin (November 1966): 4.
A profile in the law school's alumni magazine in the month of his tenth anniversary, cited by Friedman and Israel as 18 Harvard Law School Bulletin 4 (1966).
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Foraker, Joseph B. “Salmon P. Chase.” Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society Publications 15 (July 1906): 311-340.
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Foran, William A. “John Marshall as a Historian.” American Historical Review 43 (October 1937): 51-64.
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Ford, Christine Blasey. One Way Back: A Memoir. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2024.
The witness's own account, published 19 March 2024 by St. Martin's Press: Ford's memoir of the life around the September 27 session, the suburban Washington childhood, the career in psychology and biostatistics, the surfing, the family, and the five years since, which Kirkus called an artful and honest account of sacrifice and survival.
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Ford, John C. “The Fundamentals of Holmes' Juristic Philosophy.” Fordham Law Review 9 (November 1942): 255-278.
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Ford, Paul Leicester, ed. Essays on the Constitution of the United States, Published during Its Discussion by the People, 1787-1788. Brooklyn, NY: Historical Printing Club, 1892.
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Ford, Worthington C. “The 'Publius' Letters Attacking Samuel Chase.” The Nation 85 (November 14, 1907): 441-442.
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Fordham, Jefferson B. “Earl Warren, A Man for All Men.” Human Rights 1 (July 1971): 1-12.
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Fordham, Jefferson B. “Iredell's Dissent in Chisholm v. Georgia.” North Carolina Historical Review 8 (April 1931): 155-167.
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Fordham, Jefferson B., and Theodore Husted, Jr. “John Marshall and the Rule of Law.” University of Pennsylvania Law Review 104 (October 1955): 57-68.
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Forkosch, Morris D., ed. Essays in Legal History in Honor of Felix Frankfurter. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1966.
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Forman, William H. “Chief Justice Edward Douglass White.” American Bar Association Journal 56 (May 1970): 260-262.
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Forrester, Ray. “Mr. Justice Burton and the Supreme Court.” Tulane Law Review 20 (October 1945): 1-21.
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Forrester, Ray. “Mr. Justice Rutledge: A New Factor.” Tulane Law Review 17 (April 1943): 511-536.
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Fortas, Abe. Concerning Dissent and Civil Disobedience. New York: New American Library, 1968.
The 1968 mass-market bestseller — a sitting Supreme Court justice telling a nation on fire when law-breaking protest is defensible and when it isn't.
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Fortas, Abe. “Chief Justice Warren: The Enigma of Leadership.” Yale Law Journal 84 (January 1975): 405-412.
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Fortas, Abe. “Criminal Justice 'without Pity.'” Trial Lawyers Quarterly 9 (Summer 1973): 9-14.
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Fortas, Abe. “Mr. Justice Douglas.” Yale Law Journal 73 (May 1964): 917.
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Fortas, Abe. “William O. Douglas: A Eulogy.” Yale Law Journal 89 (March 1980): 613-615.
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Fortas, Abe. “William O. Douglas: An Appreciation.” Indiana Law Journal 51 (Fall 1975): 3-5.
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Fosdick, Raymond B. Secretary Hughes and the League of Nations. New York: New York Times, 1924.
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Foskett, Ken. Judging Thomas: The Life and Times of Clarence Thomas. New York: William Morrow, 2004.
A balanced journalistic biography by an Atlanta reporter who interviewed Thomas and those around him — strong on the Pin Point, Georgia origins and the long road to the Court.
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Foulke, William D. A Generation of Judges by Their Reporter. Buffalo, NY: William S. Hein, 1973.
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Foulke, William D. “Hart: Salmon Portland Chase.” American Historical Review 5 (April 1900): 583-588.
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Fowler, James A. “Mr. Justice Edward Terry Sanford.” American Bar Association Journal 17 (April 1931): 229-233.
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Fowler, Russell. “Calvin Coolidge and the Supreme Court.” Journal of Supreme Court History 25, no. 3 (2000): 271–295.
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Fox, George A. Hearings before the Subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate... on the Nomination of Louis D. Brandeis to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. New York: Evening Post Job Printing Office, 1916.
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Fox, Mary V., ed. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. Hillside, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 1983.
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Frank, David A., and Francis J. Mootz III, eds. The Rhetoric of Judging Well: The Conflicted Legacy of Justice Anthony M. Kennedy. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2023.
The major post-retirement scholarly volume — fifteen scholars on Romer, Casey, and Obergefell, on 'the sweet mystery of life,' and on the blind spots.
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Frank, Jerome. “Mr. Justice Holmes and Non-Euclidian Legal Thinking.” Cornell Law Quarterly Review 17 (June 1932): 568-603.
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Frank, John P. Clement Haynsworth, the Senate, and the Supreme Court. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1991.
The 1969 defeat of Nixon's first nominee for the Fortas seat, told at book length twenty years on, with a fourteen-page bibliography, from the University Press of Virginia.
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Frank, John P. Justice Daniel Dissenting: A Biography of Peter V. Daniel, 1784–1860. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1964.
Daniel dissented against corporations, banks, admiralty, federal roads — against the nineteenth century itself — with a consistency no colleague matched.
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Frank, John P. Marble Palace: The Supreme Court in American Life. New York: Knopf, 1958.
The Court as an institution explained for the general reader in 1958 by John P. Frank, Black's former clerk and biographer; reprinted by Greenwood in 1972.
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Frank, John P. Mr. Justice Black: The Man and His Opinions. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1949.
The first full-length study of Black, written by his own former law clerk with an introduction by Charles Beard — the book that started Black scholarship, published while the justice still had two decades to serve.
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Frank, John P. The Warren Court. New York: Macmillan, 1964.
Friedman and Israel's source for 'a valuable survey of Clark's life to 1964': Frank's portrait volume of the sitting Court, with Karsh's photographs, written by the man whose Vinson appraisal is two entries above.
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Frank, John P. “Affirmative Opinions on Justice Warren.” New York Times Magazine 104 (October 3, 1954): 17-42.
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Frank, John P. “Conflict of Interest and U.S. Supreme Court Justices.” American Journal of Comparative Law 18 (1970): 744-761.
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Frank, John P. “Fred Vinson and the Chief Justiceship.” University of Chicago Law Review 21 (1954): 212.
John P. Frank's 1954 appraisal of Fred Vinson's Chief Justiceship, 21 University of Chicago Law Review 212, which Friedman and Israel list in their chapters on Vinson, Minton and Clark; not found online, known through Kurland's review of the same year, and not read.
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Frank, John P. “Harlan Fiske Stone: An Estimate.” Stanford Law Review 9 (May 1957): 621-632.
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Frank, John P. “Hugo L. Black: He Has Joined the Giants.” American Bar Association Journal 58 (January 1972): 21-25.
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Frank, John P. “Judicial Appointments: Controversy and Accomplishment.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1977 (1977): 79-85.
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Frank, John P. “Justice Black and the New Deal.” Arizona Law Review 9 (Summer 1967): 26-58.
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Frank, John P. “Justice Murphy: The Goals Attempted.” Yale Law Journal 58 (December 1949): 1-26.
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Frank, John P. “Justice Tom Clark and Judicial Administration.” Texas Law Review 46 (November 1967): 5-56.
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Frank, John P. “Mr. Justice Black: A Biographical Appreciation.” Yale Law Journal 65 (February 1956): 454-463.
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Frank, John P. “Supreme Court Justice Appointments II.” Wisconsin Law Review 1941 (May 1941): 343-379.
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Frank, John P. “Supreme Court Justice Appointments.” Wisconsin Law Review 1941 (March 1941): 172-210.
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Frank, John P. “The Appointment of Supreme Court Justices: Prestige, Principles, and Politics.” Wisconsin Law Review 1941 (March 1941): 172-210; (May 1941): 343-379; (July 1941): 461-512.
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Frank, John P. “The Legal Ethics of Louis D. Brandeis.” Stanford Law Review 17 (April 1965): 683-709.
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Frank, Walter M. Making Sense of the Constitution: A Primer on the Supreme Court and Its Struggle to Apply Our Fundamental Law. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2012.
Walter M. Frank's primer on constitutional law and why the Court divides so closely, moving from the Constitution and the amendments in historical context to doctrinal development, decision-making and the interpretation debate, and closing on six contested areas including abortion, affirmative action and campaign finance; Southern Illinois University Press, March 2012, 328 pages. Not read.
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Frankel, Joseph. Louis D. Brandeis: Patriot, Judge, Zionist. Washington, DC: B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation, 1959.
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Frankel, Robert P., Jr. “Before Marbury: Hylton v. United States and the Origins of Judicial Review.” Journal of Supreme Court History 28, no. 1 (2003): 1–13.
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Frankel, Robert P., Jr. “The Supreme Court and Impartial Justice: The View from the 1790s.” Journal of Supreme Court History 19 (1994): 103–116.
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Frankfurter, Felix, and Adrian S. Fisher. “Business of the Supreme Court at the October Terms, 1935 and 1936.” Harvard Law Review 51 (February 1938): 577-637.
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Frankfurter, Felix, and Edwin McElwain. “The Administrative Side of Chief Justice Hughes: The Business of the Supreme Court as Conducted by Chief Justice Hughes.” Harvard Law Review 63 (November 1949): 1-26.
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Frankfurter, Felix, and James M. Landis. The Business of the Supreme Court: A Study in the Federal Judicial System. New York: Macmillan, 1928.
The foundational study of the federal judicial system, written with his protégé James Landis — a dense institutional history of the Court's jurisdiction and workload that launched a whole field and is still a starting point in it.
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Frankfurter, Felix, and James M. Landis. The Compact Clause of the Constitution. New Haven, CT: Yale Law Journal Company, 1925.
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Frankfurter, Felix, and James M. Landis. “The Business of the Supreme Court at October Term, 1928.” Harvard Law Review 43 (November 1929): 33-62.
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Frankfurter, Felix, and James M. Landis. “The Business of the Supreme Court of the United States: A Study in the Federal Judicial System.” Harvard Law Review 38 (June 1925): 1005-1059; 39 (November 1925): 35-81; 39 (January 1926): 325-367; 39 (March 1926): 587-627; 39 (June 1926): 1046-1075; 40 (January 1927): 431-468; 40 (April 1927): 831-877; 40 (June 1927): 1110-1149.
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Frankfurter, Felix, and James M. Landis. “The Supreme Court under the Judiciary Act of 1925.” Harvard Law Review 42 (November 1928): 1-29.
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Frankfurter, Felix, and Nathan Green. The Labor Injunction. New York: Macmillan, 1930.
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Frankfurter, Felix, and Nathaniel L. Nathanson. “Forbidden Dialogue: Standards of Judicial Review of Administrative Action.” Supreme Court Review 1963 (1963): 206-210.
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Frankfurter, Felix, ed. Mr. Justice Brandeis. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1932.
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Frankfurter, Felix, ed. “The Early Writings of O. W. Holmes, Jr.” Harvard Law Review 44 (March 1931): 717-827.
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Frankfurter, Felix, ed. “The Early Writings of O. W. Holmes.” Harvard Law Review 64 (March 1931): 717-827.
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Frankfurter, Felix. Felix Frankfurter: A Register of His Papers in the Library of Congress. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, 1971.
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Frankfurter, Felix. Law and Politics: Occasional Papers of Felix Frankfurter, 1913–1938. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1939.
Twenty-five years of the professor's occasional writing, 1913 to 1938, gathered by MacLeish and Prichard the year he went on the Court: his own voice before the robe.
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Frankfurter, Felix. Mr. Justice Holmes and the Constitution. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1938.
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Frankfurter, Felix. Mr. Justice Holmes and the Supreme Court. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1938.
Frankfurter's three public lectures on Holmes at Harvard in April 1938, on property and society, civil liberties and the federal system, given months before Roosevelt named him to the seat Holmes had held.
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Frankfurter, Felix. Mr. Justice Holmes. New York: Coward-McCann, 1931.
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Frankfurter, Felix. Of Law and Life and Other Things That Matter: Papers and Addresses of Felix Frankfurter, 1956–1963. Edited by Philip B. Kurland. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1965.
The last gathering, the papers and addresses of the final seven years to the stroke and the retirement, edited by Philip Kurland for the Belknap Press in 1965, the year Frankfurter died: 284 pages, the third volume of the extrajudicial writing after Law and Politics and Of Law and Men.
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Frankfurter, Felix. Of Law and Men: Papers and Addresses of Felix Frankfurter, 1939–1956. Edited by Philip Elman. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1956.
The off-the-bench writing of the first seventeen years on it, gathered by Philip Elman and published by Harcourt, Brace in 1956: 364 pages of papers and addresses, the sequel to Law and Politics.
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Frankfurter, Felix. Oliver W. Holmes. Boston: Starr King Press, 1956.
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Frankfurter, Felix. Sketch of the Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes. New York: American Council of Learned Societies, 1944.
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Frankfurter, Felix. Some Observations on Supreme Court Litigation and Legal Education. Chicago: Chicago Law School, University of Chicago, 1954.
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Frankfurter, Felix. The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti: A Critical Analysis for Lawyers and Laymen. Boston: Little, Brown, 1927.
Frankfurter's own famous intervention — the Harvard professor's coolly devastating dissection of the trial, first an Atlantic Monthly article and then this book, which made him a national figure and a marked man to the Boston establishment.
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Frankfurter, Felix. The Commerce Clause under Marshall, Taney and Waite. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1937.
The historian's book, published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1937, the year of the Court-packing fight: three Chief Justices and one clause, the commerce power as it was read from 1801 to 1888, by the man who would join the Court two years later and read it himself.
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Frankfurter, Felix. The Constitutional World of Mr. Justice Frankfurter: Some Representative Opinions. Edited by Samuel J. Konefsky. New York: Hafner, 1971.
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Frankfurter, Felix. The Public and Its Government. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1930.
The professor's Yale lectures of 1930, 170 pages from the Yale University Press, nine years before the Court: Frankfurter on the public and its government before there was a New Deal.
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Frankfurter, Felix. “A Symposium on Statutory Construction: Foreword.” Vanderbilt Law Review 3 (April 1950): 365-368.
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Frankfurter, Felix. “Chief Justices I Have Known.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1980 (1980): 3-9.
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Frankfurter, Felix. “Chief Justices I Have Known.” Virginia Law Review 39 (November 1953): 883.
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Frankfurter, Felix. “Distribution of Judicial Power between United States and State Courts.” Cornell Law Quarterly 13 (June 1928): 499-530.
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Frankfurter, Felix. “Felix Frankfurter.” Harvard Law School Bulletin 21 (June 5, 1970): 15-17.
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Frankfurter, Felix. “Harlan Fiske Stone.” American Philosophical Society Year Book 1946 (1946): 334-339.
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Frankfurter, Felix. “Holmes and the Sorcerer's Apprentice.” In Twenty-seven Masters of Politics, edited by Raymond Moley, 151-164. New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1949.
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Frankfurter, Felix. “Hours of Labor and Realism in Constitutional Law.” Harvard Law Review 29 (February 1916): 353-373.
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Frankfurter, Felix. “John Marshall and the Judicial Function.” Harvard Law Review 69 (December 1955): 217-238.
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Frankfurter, Felix. “Justice Holmes Defines the Constitution.” Atlantic Monthly 162 (October 1938): 484-495.
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Frankfurter, Felix. “Memorandum on 'Incorporation of the Bill of Rights into the Fourteenth Amendment.'” Harvard Law Review 78 (February 1965): 746-783.
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Frankfurter, Felix. “Mr. Justice Brandeis and the Constitution.” Harvard Law Review 45 (November 1931): 33-105.
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Frankfurter, Felix. “Mr. Justice Brandeis.” Harvard Law Review 55 (December 1941): 181-183.
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Frankfurter, Felix. “Mr. Justice Cardozo and Public Law.” Columbia Law Review 39 (January 1939): 88-118.
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Frankfurter, Felix. “Mr. Justice Cardozo and Public Law.” Yale Law Journal 48 (January 1939): 458-488.
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Frankfurter, Felix. “Mr. Justice Cardozo.” American Bar Association Journal 24 (August 1938): 638-639.
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Frankfurter, Felix. “Mr. Justice Holmes and the Constitution: A Review of His Twenty-five Years on the Supreme Court.” Harvard Law Review 41 (December 1927): 121-173.
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Frankfurter, Felix. “Mr. Justice Holmes, March 8, 1841 to March 6, 1935.” Harvard Law Review 48 (June 1935): 1279-1280.
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Frankfurter, Felix. “Mr. Justice Jackson.” Columbia Law Review 55 (April 1955): 435-437.
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Frankfurter, Felix. “Mr. Justice Jackson.” Harvard Law Review 68 (April 1955): 937-939.
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Frankfurter, Felix. “Mr. Justice Roberts.” University of Pennsylvania Law Review 104 (1955): 311.
The primary document of the switch controversy: Frankfurter's memorial essay publishing Roberts's own posthumous memorandum explaining his 1937 votes.
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Frankfurter, Felix. “Oliver Holmes, Jr.” In Dictionary of American Biography, vol. 21, supplement 1, 417-427. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1981.
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Frankfurter, Felix. “Oliver Holmes, Jr.” In Dictionary of American Biography, vol. 21, supplement 7, 417-427. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1981.
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Frankfurter, Felix. “Personal Ambition of Judges: Should a Judge Think beyond the Judicial?” American Bar Association Journal 34 (August 1948): 656-659, 747-749.
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Frankfurter, Felix. “Some Observations on the Nature of the Judicial Process of Supreme Court Litigation.” American Philosophical Society Proceedings 98 (April 1954): 233-239.
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Frankfurter, Felix. “Some Reflections on the Reading of Statutes.” Columbia Law Review 47 (May 1947): 527.
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Frankfurter, Felix. “Taney and the Commerce Clause.” Harvard Law Review 49 (June 1936): 1286-1302.
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Frankfurter, Felix. “The Constitutional Opinions of Justice Holmes.” Harvard Law Review 29 (April 1916): 683-702.
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Frankfurter, Felix. “The Job of a Supreme Court Justice.” New York Times Magazine 104 (November 1954): 14.
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Frankfurter, Felix. “The Supreme Court in the Mirror of Justices.” American Bar Association Journal 44 (August 1958): 723-726.
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Frankfurter, Felix. “The Supreme Court in the Mirror of Justices.” University of Pennsylvania Law Review 105 (April 1957): 781-796.
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Frankfurter, Felix. “The Supreme Court.” Parliamentary Affairs 3 (Winter 1949): 55-71.
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Frankfurter, Felix. “Twenty Years of Mr. Justice Holmes' Constitutional Opinions.” Harvard Law Review 36 (June 1923): 909-939.
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Frankfurter, Felix. “Zeitgeist and the Judiciary.” Survey 29 (January 25, 1913): 542-544.
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Franklin, John Hope. “A Half-Century of Presidential Race Initiatives: Some Reflections.” Journal of Supreme Court History 24, no. 2 (1999): 226–237.
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Franz, Patricia L. “Ohio v. The Bank: An Historical Examination of Osborn v. The Bank of the United States.” Journal of Supreme Court History 24, no. 1 (1999): 112137.
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Frasca, Ralph. “The Helderberg Advocate: A Public-Nuisance Prosecution a Century before Near v. Minnesota.” Journal of Supreme Court History 26, no. 3 (2001): 215–230.
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“Fred M. Vinson.” Northwestern University Law Review 49 (March/April 1954): 1-75.
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Frederick Moore Vinson Papers — University of Kentucky Libraries, Special Collections Research Center (finding aid). Lexington, Kentucky: University of Kentucky Libraries, 1864–1953.
The papers: 166 cubic feet from forty years of public life, in series for the House, the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, the Emergency Court of Appeals, the Office of Economic Stabilization, Bretton Woods, the Federal Loan Administration, War Mobilization and Reconversion, the Treasury and the Supreme Court, with speeches, clippings and photographs.
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Frederick, David C. Supreme Court and Appellate Advocacy: Mastering Oral Argument. St. Paul, MN: Thomson/West, 2003.
A practitioner's manual on oral argument at the Court and the courts of appeals, with a foreword by Justice Ginsburg; West, 2003.
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Frederick, David C. “Supreme Court Advocacy in the Early Nineteenth Century.” Journal of Supreme Court History 30, no. 1 (2005): 1–16.
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Freedman, Max, ed. Roosevelt and Frankfurter: Their Correspondence, 1928–1945. Boston: Little, Brown, 1967.
The extraordinary FDR–Frankfurter letters — the professor as presidential adviser, talent scout, and sounding board, documenting an intimacy with power almost unimaginable for a soon-to-be and then sitting justice.
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Freeman, George Clemon, Jr. “Justice Powell and the Eighth Amendment: The Vindication of Proportionality.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1987: 1015.
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Freeman, Joanne B. Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001.
The study of the honour code in the politics of the 1790s, in which the Livingston-Jones affair of May 1798 is an example of how an insult became a killing: the Argus squib, the caning on the Battery, and, in Freeman's words, 'so serious an affront that it prompted a discussion about precisely how much of Livingston's nose had been grabbed.'
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Freeman, Landa M. “Mr. Jay Rides Circuit.” Journal of Supreme Court History 31, no. 1 (2006): 18–27.
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French, Bruce C. “The Views of Justice Rehnquist Concerning the Proper Role of the State in National Labor Relations Policy.” Tulsa Law Journal 17 (Fall 1981): 76-96.
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Freund, Paul A. On Understanding the Supreme Court. Boston: Little, Brown, 1949.
Freund's Rosenthal lectures at Northwestern in April 1949, 130 pages on how to read the Court, from the Harvard professor Paul Freund.
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Freund, Paul A. Portrait of a Liberal Judge: Mr. Justice Brandeis, on Understanding the Supreme Court. Boston: Little, Brown, 1957.
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Freund, Paul A. “An Appreciation of Mr. Justice Brandeis.” St. Louis University Law Journal 11 (Fall 1966): 4-5.
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Freund, Paul A. “Appointment of Justices: Some Historical Perspectives.” Harvard Law Review 101 (April 1988): 1146-1229.
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Freund, Paul A. “Charles Evans Hughes as Chief Justice.” Harvard Law Review 81 (November 1967): 4-43.
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Freund, Paul A. “Chief Justice Stone and the Conflict of Laws.” Harvard Law Review 59 (October 1946): 1210-1236.
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Freund, Paul A. “Holmes and Brandeis in Retrospect.” Boston Bar Journal 28 (September/October 1984): 7-10.
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Freund, Paul A. “Individual and Commonwealth in the Thought of Mr. Justice Jackson.” Stanford Law Review 8 (December 1955): 9-25.
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Freund, Paul A. “Justice Brandeis: A Law Clerk's Remembrance.” American Jewish History 68 (September 1978): 7-18.
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Freund, Paul A. “Mr. Justice Black and the Judicial Function.” UCLA Law Review 14 (January 1967): 467-474.
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Freund, Paul A. “Mr. Justice Brandeis.” Harvard Law Review 55 (December 1941): 195-196.
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Freund, Paul A. “Mr. Justice Brandeis.” Harvard Law Review 70 (March 1957): 769-792.
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Freund, Paul A. “Mr. Justice Frankfurter.” Harvard Law Review 76 (November 1962): 17-19.
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Freund, Paul A. “The Evolution of a Brandeis Dissent.” Manuscripts 10 (Spring 1958): 18-25.
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Freund, Paul A. “The Liberalism of Justice Brandeis.” American-Jewish Archives 10 (April 1958): 3-11.
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Freund, Paul A. “The Supreme Court: A Tale of Two Terms.” Ohio State Law Journal 26 (Spring 1965): 225-238.
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Freund, Paul A., and Albert M. Sacks. “Mr. Justice Frankfurter.” University of Chicago Law Review 26 (Winter 1959): 205-221.
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Freyer, Tony A. and Daniel Thomas. “The Passenger Cases Reconsidered in Transatlantic Commerce Clause History.” Journal of Supreme Court History 36, no. 3 (2011): 216–235.
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Freyer, Tony A. “Cooper v. Aaron (1958): A Hidden Story of Unanimity and Division.” Journal of Supreme Court History 33, no. 1 (2008): 89–109.
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Freyer, Tony A. “Hugo L. Black: Alabamian and American, 1886-1937.” Alabama Law Review 36 (Spring 1985): 789-926.
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Freyer, Tony A. “Prophet or Example: A Review of The Republic According to John Marshall Harlan.” Journal of Supreme Court History 24, no. 3 (1999): 325–332.
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Freyer, Tony A. “Swift and Erie: The Trials of an Ephemeral Landmark Case.” Journal of Supreme Court History 34, no. 3 (2009): 261–274.
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Freyer, Tony A. “The First Amendment and World War II.” Journal of Supreme Court History 21, no. 1 (1996): 83–104.
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Freyer, Tony Allan. The Passenger Cases and the Commerce Clause: Immigrants, Blacks, and States' Rights in Antebellum America. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2014.
Tony Freyer on the Passenger Cases of 1849, five to four with eight separate opinions, on whether a state could tax or regulate arriving immigrants and free Black people, and on how the fracture fed the Compromise of 1850 and Dred Scott; Kansas, September 2014, 216 pages, in the Landmark Law Cases series. Not read.
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Freyer, Tony. Hugo L. Black and the Dilemma of American Liberalism. Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman, 1990.
A compact interpretive biography (Library of American Biography) framing Black around the central tension of twentieth-century liberalism — majoritarian democracy against individual rights.
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Friedman, Barry. The Will of the People: How Public Opinion Has Influenced the Supreme Court and Shaped the Meaning of the Constitution. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009.
Barry Friedman's history of public opinion and the Court from the founding to 2005, arguing that for all their life tenure the justices have always answered to the public, which has disciplined them by abolishing judgeships and threatening to pack the bench; Farrar, Straus and Giroux, September 2009, 624 pages. Not read.
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Friedman, Edward L. “Mr. Justice Harlan.” Notre Dame Lawyer 30 (1955): 349.
The appointment appraisal, by a lawyer in the New York Telephone Company's legal department, written in the spring of 1955: three decades of corporate and appellate litigation in New York, the war, the eight months on the Second Circuit, and the advocate's gift: 'His principal asset was his ability to make sense to the Court, no matter how complex the issue.'
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Friedman, Leon, and Fred L. Israel, eds. The Justices of the United States Supreme Court: Their Lives and Major Opinions. New York: Chelsea House, 1969.
The standard reference set, and for many of the justices no one has written a book about, the fullest connected account of the life in print.
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Friedman, Leon, comp. Obscenity: The Complete Oral Arguments before the Supreme Court in the Major Obscenity Cases. New York: Chelsea House, 1970.
The complete oral arguments in seven obscenity cases, Roth and Alberts through Jacobellis, Freedman and Ginzburg, transcribed in 1970 with an introduction by Charles Rembar.
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Friedman, Richard D. “Charles Evans Hughes as Chief Justice, 1930-1941.” D.Ph. diss., University of Oxford, 1978.
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Friedman, Richard D. “Chief Justice Hughes’ Letter on Court-Packing.” Journal of Supreme Court History 22, no. 1 (1997): 76–86.
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Friedman, Richard D. “Taking Decisions Seriously: A Review of Rethinking the New Deal Court: The Structure of a Constitutional Revolution.” Journal of Supreme Court History 24, no. 3 (1999): 314–324.
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Friedman, Richard D. “The Transformation in Senate Response to Supreme Court Nominations: From Reconstruction to the Taft Administration and Beyond.” Cardozo Law Review 5 (Fall 1983): 1-95.
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Friedman, Richard D. “Tribal Myths: Ideology and the Confirmation of Supreme Court Nominations.” Yale Law Journal 95 (May 1986): 1283-1320.
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Friendly, Fred W. Minnesota Rag: The Dramatic Story of the Landmark Supreme Court Case That Gave New Meaning to Freedom of the Press. New York: Random House, 1981.
How a bigoted Minnesota scandal sheet, shut down under the state's gag law and bankrolled on appeal by the Chicago Tribune's Colonel McCormick, produced Near v. Minnesota and the rule against prior restraint.
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Friendly, Fred W. “Beyond 'Caldwell': Justice White and Reporter Caldwell, Finding a Common Ground.” Columbia Journalism Review 11 (September/October 1972): 31-37.
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Friendly, Fred W. “The Federal Judiciary: What Role Politics?” Judicature 68 (April/May 1985): 330-336.
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Friendly, Fred W., and Martha J. H. Elliott. The Constitution, That Delicate Balance. New York: Random House, 1984.
Fred Friendly's landmark cases for the general reader, speech, press, religion and due process, with the text of the Constitution; Random House, 1984.
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Friendly, Henry J. “Mr. Justice Brandeis: The Quest for Reason.” University of Pennsylvania Law Review 108 (May 1960): 985-999.
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Friendly, Henry J. “Mr. Justice Harlan, as Seen by a Friend and Judge of an Inferior Court.” Harvard Law Review 85 (December 1971): 382-389.
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Friendly, Henry J. “Reactions of a Lawyer-Newly Become Judge.” Yale Law Journal 71 (December 1961): 218-238.
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Frierson, William L. “Chief Justice John Marshall.” Tennessee Law Review 12 (April 1934): 167-173.
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Frisch, Morton J. “John Marshall's Philosophy of Constitutional Republicanism.” Review of Politics 20 (January 1958): 34-45.
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Frost, Daniel. “Protection Against Eugenics: A Comparison of Two Jurisprudences.” Journal of Supreme Court History 42, no. 3 (2017): 275–294.
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Fry, Amelia R. “The Warren Tapes: Oral History and the Supreme Court.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1982 (1982): 10-22.
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Fuchs, Ralph F. “In Memory of Mr. Justice Wiley B. Rutledge.” Rocky Mountain Law Review 24 (December 1951): 1-8.
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Fuchs, Ralph F. “The Judicial Art of Wiley B. Rutledge.” Washington University Law Quarterly 28 (April 1943): 115-146.
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Fuchs, Ralph F. “Wiley B. Rutledge, 1894-1949.” National Bar Journal 7 (December 1949): 393-397.
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Funston, Richard Y. “Great Presidents, Great Justices?” Presidential Studies Quarterly 7 (Fall 1977): 191-199.
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Fuqua, David. “Justice Harry A. Blackmun: The Abortion Decisions.” Arkansas Law Review 34 (Winter 1980): 278-286.
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