The Annotated Bibliography: H

409 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.

Hackett, Frank W. “Mr. Justice Bradley.” Green Bag 4 (April 12, 1892): 145-152.
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Hackett, William H. “Sketch of the Life and Character of John Jay.” American Review 2 (July 1845): 59-68.
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Hackney, Sheldon. “The Clay County Origins of Mr. Justice Black: The Populist as Insider.” Alabama Law Review 36 (Spring 1985): 835-844.
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Hagemann, Gerard. The Man on the Bench: A Story of Chief Justice Edward Douglass White. Notre Dame, IN: Dujarie Press, 1962.
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Hahn, Harlan. “President Taft and the Discipline of Patronage.” Journal of Politics 28 (May 1966): 368-390.
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Haigh, Roger W. “Defining Due Process of Law: The Case of Mr. Justice Hugo Black.” South Dakota Law Review 17 (Winter 1972): 1-40.
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Haigh, Roger W. “Mr. Justice Black and the Written Constitution.” Alabama Law Review 24 (Fall 1972): 15-44.
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Haigh, Roger W. “Mr. Justice Hugo L. Black, Due Process of Law, and the Judicial Role.” Ph.D. diss., Fordham University, 1971.
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Haigh, Roger W. “The Judicial Opinions of Mr. Justice Hugo L. Black.” Southwestern University Law Review 9 (1977): 1069-1126.
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Haimbaugh, George D., Jr. “Free Press versus Fair Trial: The Contribution of Mr. Justice Frankfurter.” University of Pittsburgh Law Review 26 (March 1965): 491-520.
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Haines, Charles Grove, and Foster H. Sherwood. The Role of the Supreme Court in American Government and Politics, 1835–1864. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1957.
The second and last volume of Haines's study, 1835 to 1864, finished by Foster H. Sherwood and published by the University of California Press in 1957, nine years after Haines's death; the Da Capo reprint of 1973 can be borrowed at the Internet Archive. Not read.
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Haines, Charles Grove. The Role of the Supreme Court in American Government and Politics, 1789–1835. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1944.
The Court's first half-century read from an avowedly Jeffersonian standpoint, treating Marshall's judicial review as one arm of a Federalist project to centralize national power.
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Hale, Brenda. “Magna Carta: Our Shared Heritage.” Journal of Supreme Court History 41, no. 2 (2016): 135–146.
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Hale, Frank W., Jr. “A Rhetorical Exegesis of the Life and Speeches of Salmon Portland Chase.” Ph.D. diss., Ohio State University, 1955.
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Hale, Frank W., Jr. “Salmon Portland Chase: Rhetorician of Abolition.” Negro History Bulletin 26 (February 1963): 165.
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Hale, Vicky C. “Abortion Waiting Period Statutes: Hartigan v. Zbaraz: 108 S. Ct. 479: And Justice Anthony Kennedy's Impact on Future Decisions.” Tulsa Law Journal 24 (Winter 1988): 189-213.
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Hall, A. Oakey. “Justice Samuel Blatchford.” The Green Bag 5, no. 11 (November 1893): 489–492.
Four pages by a former mayor of New York who knew him, written four months after his death — the only near-contemporary magazine profile, and the single item the Federal Judicial Center's own scholarship bibliography lists for Blatchford.
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Hall, A. Oakey. “The New Supreme Court Justice.” Green Bag 8 (January 1896): 1-4.
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Hall, Kermit L. & Mark David Hall, eds. Collected Works of James Wilson (2 vols.). Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2007.
The principal modern collection of Wilson's writings: revolutionary pamphlets, constitutional arguments, ratification speeches, law lectures, and judicial materials, with a scholarly introduction.
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Hall, Kermit L. A Comprehensive Bibliography of American Constitutional and Legal History, 1896–1979. Millwood, NY: Kraus International Publications, 1984.
The deepest of the finding aids: five volumes and 3,443 pages covering the whole literature of American constitutional and legal history from 1896 to 1979, priced at $650 on publication and aimed squarely at scholars, with a two-volume supplement in 1991 carrying it to 1987.
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Hall, Kermit L., et al., eds. The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
More than a thousand entries on cases, justices, doctrines, and concepts, the second edition taking in the 800-odd decisions handed down since the first — the one-volume desk reference to reach for first.
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Hall, Mark David. "James Wilson: Democratic Theorist and Supreme Court Justice." In Seriatim: The Supreme Court Before John Marshall. 1998.
The best concise, Court-centered introduction — connecting Wilson's theory of popular sovereignty to his circuit duties and early opinions, especially Chisholm v. Georgia.
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Hall, Mark David. The Political and Legal Philosophy of James Wilson, 1742–1798. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1997.
The best systematic study of Wilson's ideas.
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Hall, Matthew E. K. The Nature of Supreme Court Power. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Matthew Hall's argument that the Court gets its way when lower courts can carry out its rulings directly, and that where implementation depends on anyone else the decision's popularity determines whether it takes effect; Cambridge, December 2010, 264 pages. Not read.
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Hall, Matthew E. K. What Justices Want: Goals and Personality on the U.S. Supreme Court. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Matthew Hall of Notre Dame joins personality psychology to rational choice, measuring the big-five traits of the justices of 1946 to 2015 from their words and showing how the traits weight the goals each pursues; Cambridge, August 2018, 214 pages. Not read.
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Hall, Timothy L. Supreme Court Justices: A Biographical Dictionary. New York: Facts on File, 2001.
A one-volume biographical dictionary of every justice to Breyer, 566 pages with portraits and a thirty-page bibliography; Facts on File, 2001. Borrow it at the Internet Archive; not read.
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Halper, Thomas. “Demographic Factors and Supreme Court Appointments.” Drake Law Review 21 (January 1972): 238-251.
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Halper, Thomas. “Senate Rejection of Supreme Court Nominees.” Drake Law Review 22 (September 1972): 102-113.
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Halper, Thomas. “Supreme Court Appointments: Criteria and Consequences.” New York Law Forum 21 (Spring 1976): 563-584.
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Halpern, Phillip. “Robert H. Jackson, 1892-1954.” Stanford Law Review 8 (December 1955): 3-8.
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Halpern, Stephen C., and Charles M. Lamb, eds. Supreme Court Activism and Restraint. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1982.
Activism and restraint as a collection of essays, 436 illustrated pages from Lexington Books in 1982, catalogued as addresses, essays and lectures on the Court and on judicial process; the editors went on to profile the Burger Court in 1991. Search-only at HathiTrust. Not read.
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Halsell, Willie D. “A Mississippi Habeas Corpus Case and Justice L.Q.C. Lamar.” Journal of Mississippi History 4 (January 1942): 31-33.
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Halsell, Willie D. “Appointment of L.Q.C. Lamar to the Supreme Court: A Political Battle of Cleveland's Administration.” Mississippi Valley Historical Review 28 (December 1941): 399-412.
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Halsell, Willie D. “L.Q.C. Lamar's Taylor Farm: An Experiment in Diversified Farming.” Journal of Mississippi History 5 (January 1943): 185-196.
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Halsell, Willie D. “L.Q.C. Lamar, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.” Journal of Mississippi History 5 (April 1943): 59-78.
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Halsell, Willie D. “The Friendship of L.Q.C. Lamar and Jefferson Davis.” Journal of Mississippi History 6 (July 1944): 131-144.
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Halsey, John J. “A Modern Roman.” Dial 11 (September 1890): 111-112.
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Hambleton, James E. “All-Time All-Star All-Era Supreme Court.” American Bar Association Journal 69 (April 1983): 462-464.
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Hamilton, Daniel W. “A New Right to Property: Civil War Confiscation in the Reconstruction Supreme Court.” Journal of Supreme Court History 29, no. 3 (2004): 254–285.
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Hamilton, Doris J. “Oliver Wendell Holmes.” Hobbies 64 (August 1959): 110-111.
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Hamilton, J. G. de Roulhac. “Lamar of Mississippi.” Virginia Quarterly Review 8 (January 1932): 77-89.
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Hamilton, Virginia V. “Hugo Black and the K.K.K.” American Heritage 19 (April 1968): 60-65, 108-111.
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Hamilton, Virginia V. “Hugo Black: The Road to the Court.” Southwestern University Law Review 9 (1977): 859-888.
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Hamilton, Virginia V. “Listen Hill, Hugo Black, and the Albatross of Race.” Alabama Law Review 36 (Spring 1985): 845-860.
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Hamilton, Virginia V. “The Senate Career of Hugo L. Black.” Ph.D. diss., University of Alabama, 1968.
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Hamilton, Virginia V., ed. Hugo Black and the Bill of Rights: Proceedings of the First Hugo Black Symposium in American History on "The Bill of Rights and American Democracy". University: University of Alabama Press, 1978.
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Hamilton, Virginia Van der Veer. Hugo Black: The Alabama Years. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1972.
The essential book on the formation — the Alabama boyhood, the police-court judge and prosecutor, the Klan membership, and the New Deal senator, all before the 1937 appointment that shocked the country.
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Hamilton, Walton H. “Cardozo the Craftsman.” University of Chicago Law Review 6 (December 1938): 1-22.
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Hamilton, Walton H. “Justice Cardozo: The Great Tradition.” New Republic 95 (July 27, 1938): 329.
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Hamilton, Walton H. “On Dating Mr. Justice Holmes.” University of Chicago Law Review 9 (December 1941): 1-29.
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Hamilton, Walton H. “The Jurist's Art of Louis D. Brandeis.” Columbia Law Review 31 (November 1931): 1073-1093.
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Hamilton, Walton H., and George D. Braden. “The Special Competence of the Supreme Court.” Yale Law Journal 50 (June 1941): 1319-1375.
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Hamlin, Edward S. “Salmon Portland Chase.” International Review 2 (September 1875): 662-691.
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Hand, Augustus N. “Mr. Justice Frankfurter.” Harvard Law Review 62 (January 1949): 353-356.
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Hand, Learned. “Birthday Tribute on 82nd Birthday.” United States Law Review 72 (November 1938): 632-634.
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Hand, Learned. “Justice Cardozo's Work as a Judge.” United States Law Review 72 (September 1938): 496-498.
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Hand, Learned. “Justice Louis D. Brandeis and the Good Life.” Journal of Social Philosophy 4 (January 1939): 144-147.
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Hand, Learned. “Louis Dembitz Brandeis: Memorial Session, Supreme Court of the United States.” American Bar Association Journal 29 (February 1943): 67.
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Hand, Learned. “Mr. Justice Holmes.” Harvard Law Review 43 (April 1930): 857-862.
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Hand, Learned. “Stone's Conception of the Judicial Function.” Columbia Law Review 46 (July 1946): 696-699.
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Handberg, Roger B., Jr. “After the Fall: Justice Fortas' Judicial Values and Behavior after the Failure of His Nomination as Chief Justice.” Capital University Law Review 15 (Winter 1986): 205-222.
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Handberg, Roger B., Jr., and Harold F. Hill. “Predicting the Judicial Performance of Presidential Appointments to the United States Supreme Court.” Presidential Studies Quarterly 14 (Fall 1984): 538-547.
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Handler, Emmerich. “The Fourth Amendment, Federalism, and Mr. Justice Frankfurter.” Syracuse Law Review 8 (Spring 1957): 166-190.
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Handler, Milton and Michael Ruby. “Justice Holmes and the Year Books.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1988: 37–39.
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Handler, Milton C. and Michael Ruby. “Justice Cardozo: One-Ninth of the Supreme Court.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1988: 50–59.
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Handler, Milton C. “Clerking for Justice Harlan Fiske Stone.” Journal of Supreme Court History 20 (1995): 113–122.
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Handler, Milton. “The 1926 Term: My Clerkship With Mr. Justice Stone.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1985: 5–7.
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Hanna, John. “Our Highest Court... and the Man from California...” . . ." Freeman 4 (November 2, 1953): 87-88.
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Hansford, Thomas G., and James F. Spriggs II. The Politics of Precedent on the U.S. Supreme Court. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006.
Thomas Hansford and James Spriggs on how the Court treats its own precedents, from interpreting them favourably to narrowing and overruling them, built on the Court's handling of precedent from 1946 to 1999; Princeton, 2006, 155 pages. Not read.
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Hapgood, Norman. Mr. Brandeis, the Changing Years. New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1930.
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Hapgood, Norman. “Americans We Like: Justice Brandeis, Apostle of Freedom.” Nation 125 (October 5, 1927): 330-331.
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Hard, William. “Brandeis.” Outlook 113 (May 31, 1916): 271.
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Hardaway, Roger D. “Howell Edmunds Jackson: Tennessee Legislator and Jurist.” West Tennessee Historical Society Papers 30 (1976): 104-119.
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Hardman, Thomas P. “Mr. Justice Cardozo.” West Virginia Law Quarterly 38 (April 1932): 187-194.
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Hardy, Sallie E. “Chief Justice John Marshall.” Magazine of American History 12 (July 1884): 62-71.
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Hardy, Sallie E. “John Marshall, Third Chief Justice of the United States, as Son, Brother, Husband, and Friend.” Green Bag 8 (December 1896): 479-492.
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Hardy, Sallie E. “The Will of a Great Lawyer: How Chief Justice Marshall Devised His Estates.” Green Bag 8 (January 1896): 4-6.
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“Harlan Fiske Stone, Attorney General of the United States.” American Law Review 58 (July/August 1924): 574-580.
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Harlan, John M. What Part Does the Oral Argument Play. Cornell Law Quarterly 41, no. 1 (1955): 6–11.
A sitting justice’s answer, six pages long: there is no substitute for the Socratic exchange “in getting at the real heart of an issue,” argument is “perhaps the most effective weapon you have got,” and — from a diary Harlan kept of his own impressions — the view he held at the end of the argument day usually turned out to be the one he settled on.
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Harlan, John M. “A Glimpse of the Supreme Court at Work.” University of Chicago Law School Record 11, no. 2 (1963).
The Seventh Ernst Freund Lecture at Chicago, printed in the law school's Record: Harlan on how the Court screens its cases under the 1925 Act and the certiorari standards, then argument, conference, the vote and the assignment, with the argument that the workload is better met by proper use of certiorari and a bar that understands the Court than by enlarging it or cutting its jurisdiction.
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Harlan, John M. “Address to the Fifty-eighth Annual Meeting of the American Association of Law Libraries.” Law Library Journal 58 (November 1965): 370-379.
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Harlan, John M. “Glimpse of the Supreme Court at Work.” Oklahoma Bar Association Journal 34 (September 28, 1963): 1649-1655.
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Harlan, John M. “Government under the Constitution.” Law Notes 11 (February 1908): 206-208.
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Harlan, John M. “Introduction” to Potter Stewart, “Robert H. Jackson's Influence on Federal-State Relationships.” Mr. Justice Jackson: Four Lectures in His Honor (1969).
The three pages Friedman and Israel call 'short but revealing': Harlan introducing Potter Stewart's lecture on Robert Jackson and federalism, and using the occasion to say that the Court had gone from enlarging federal power in the 1930s and 1940s to restricting state authority under the Fourteenth Amendment in the 1950s and 1960s, and that 'This shift must be recognized as involving something more than mere differences among judges as to where the line should be drawn between state and federal authority.'
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Harlan, John M. “James Wilson and the Formation of the Constitution.” American Law Review 34 (July/August 1900): 481-504.
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Harlan, John M. “John M. Harlan's One Day Diary, August 21, 1877: An Interpretation of the Harlan-Bristow Controversy.” Filson Club History Quarterly 24 (April 1958): 158-168.
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Harlan, John M. “Manning the Dikes: Some Comments on the Statutory Certiorari Jurisdiction and Jurisdictional Statement Practice of the Supreme Court of the United States.” Record of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York 13 (1958): 541.
The Eighteenth Cardozo Lecture, given to the Association of the Bar of the City of New York on October 28, 1958, on how the Court takes in its cases: the statutory certiorari jurisdiction and the jurisdictional-statement practice, with an introduction by Ernest A. Gross.
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Harlan, John M. “Mr. Justice Black: Remarks of a Colleague.” Harvard Law Review 81 (November 1967): 1-3.
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Harlan, John M. “Mr. Justice Harlan's Address, at the Banquet Given on December Ninth in Honor of the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of His Appointment to the Supreme Court.” Albany Law Journal 65 (January 1903): 16-18.
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Harlan, John M. “Some Aspects of the Judicial Process in the Supreme Court of the United States.” Australian Law Journal 33 (August 1959): 108-125.
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Harlan, John M. “The Bill of Rights and the Constitution.” American Bar Association Journal 50 (1964): 918.
A 1964 piece in the bar's journal, cited by Lewis Maddocks in his 1979 study of the two Harlans on civil rights and liberties.
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Harlan, John M. “The Frankfurter Imprint as Seen by a Colleague.” Harvard Law Review 76 (November 1962): 1-2.
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Harlan, John M. “The Supreme Court of the United States and Its Work.” American Law Review 30 (November/December 1896): 900-902.
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Harlan, John M. “The Supreme Court of the United States.” In The Supreme Court of the United States, edited by Hampton L. Carson, 725-732. Philadelphia: A. R. Keller, 1882.
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Harlan, John M. “The Supreme Court Years.” Texas Law Review 40 (June 1962): 748.
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Harlan, John M. “Thoughts at a Dedication: Keeping the Judicial Function in Balance.” American Bar Association Journal 49 (1963): 943.
The dedication address that his readers treat as the statement of his method: Charles Fried quotes it on those who doubt the federal system's adequacy, a 2021 Belmont Law Review rehearing of his method cites it for its defence of the common-law way of developing constitutional doctrine, and David Shapiro reprinted it in The Evolution of a Judicial Philosophy at page 289.
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Harlan, Malvina Shanklin. Some Memories of a Long Life, 1854–1911. New York: Modern Library, 2002.
The justice's wife's memoir, written in 1915 and lost for nearly a century until it surfaced in the Supreme Court Historical Society's journal and was published as a book with an introduction by Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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Harlan, Malvina Shanklin. “Some Memories of a Long Life, 1854-1911.” Journal of Supreme Court History 26, no. 2 (2001): 109–211.
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Harmon, Kenneth, et al. “The One Hundred and First Justice: An Analysis of the Opinions of Justice John Paul Stevens, Sitting as a Judge on the Seventh Court of Appeals.” Vanderbilt Law Review 29 (January 1976): 125-209.
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Harold H. Burton Papers — Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1792–1965.
The papers, and the reason Burton matters to historians of his Court more than his opinions suggest: the finding aid notes that 'Burton's diaries begin in 1941 and continue through 1963 covering his service as senator and associate justice,' the daily record Mary Frances Berry's 1978 study was built on.
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Harpaz, Leora. “Justice Jackson's Flag Salute Legacy: The Supreme Court Struggles to Protect Intellectual Individualism.” Texas Law Review 64 (March 1986): 817-914.
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Harper, Fowler V. Justice Rutledge and the Bright Constellation. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1965.
The first study of Rutledge, by his friend the law professor Fowler Harper — an admiring account of the New Deal liberal who died at fifty-five after only six years on the Court.
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Harper, Fowler V. “Mr. Justice Rutledge and Full Faith and Credit.” Indiana Law Journal 25 (Summer 1950): 480-497.
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Harring, Sidney L. and Kathryn Swedlow. “‘The Defendant Has Seemed to Live a Charmed Life’: Hopt v. Utah: Territorial Justice, The Supreme Court of the United States, and Late Nineteenth-Century Death Penalty Jurisprudence.” Journal of Supreme Court History 25, no. 1 (2000): 40–71.
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Harrington, Matthew P. Jay and Ellsworth, The First Courts: Justices, Rulings, and Legacy. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2008.
The ABC-CLIO handbook for the first two Courts, Jay's and Ellsworth's, on a bench with no precedent to work from that had to invent judicial review and separation of powers as it went, and that used its authority to strengthen the new national government rather than act as a neutral arbiter; Matthew Harrington, ABC-CLIO, May 2008, 309 pages. Not read.
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Harris, Charles D. “The Impeachment Trial of Samuel Chase.” American Bar Association Journal 57 (January 1971): 53-57.
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Harris, Joseph P. The Advice and Consent of the Senate: A Study of the Confirmation of Appointments by the United States Senate. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1953.
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Harris, Richard. Decision. New York: Dutton, 1971.
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Harris, Richard. “Annals of Politics: Judge Carswell and the Senate. Parts 1 and 2.” New Yorker 46 (December 5, 1970): 60-160; (December 12, 1970): 53-131.
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Harris, Robert J. “Chief Justice Taney: Prophet of Reform and Reaction.” Vanderbilt Law Review 10 (February 1957): 227-257.
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Harris, Whitney R. “Justice Jackson at Nuremberg.” International Lawyer 20 (Summer 1986): 867-896.
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Harrison, Joseph. “Mr. Justice Brennan: Eleventh from Harvard Law School.” Harvard Law School Bulletin 8 (February 1957): 7-8.
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Harrison, Richard A. “Henry Brockholst Livingston.” Princetonians, 1769–1775: A Biographical Dictionary (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980), 397–407.
The fullest account of the early life in print and the closest thing to the biography Dunne said was yet to be written: Princeton (the Latin prize, the turkeys, the 1774 oration on 'Liberty'), Schuyler's staff and the Gates quarrel ('a man whom I abhor from my very soul'), Spain with Jay told against him ('Livingston divulged all confidential information to his friends'), the capture at sea, the name shortened 'For the sake of distinction,' the 1785 attempt read as the price of the Littlepage pamphlet war, the turn from Federalism dated to 1791, the 1798 duel and the coroner's jury, Clinton's 1802 appointment, the Court years with the count of thirty-nine, five and three, the letters to Story, the War of 1812, three marriages and eleven children; then two pages of sources down to the manuscript letters at the Massachusetts Historical Society.
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Harry A. Blackmun Papers — Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1913–2001.
The finding aid to the collection whose opening in 2004 the Library's own bulletin announced: 530,800 items in 1,576 containers, the Eighth Circuit years from 1959 and the Supreme Court years 1970 to 1994, with the video oral history the Library also put online.
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Harry, Robert H. “Byron White: The Practicing Lawyer.” University of Colorado Law Review 75 (2004): 203.
The Denver years, 1947-1960, from inside the firm that became Davis, Graham & Stubbs: the clients, the cases, and 'the hardest working lawyer in the firm.'
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Hart, Albert Bushnell. Salmon Portland Chase. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1899.
The classic life, from Houghton Mifflin's American Statesmen series, by the eminent Harvard historian Albert Bushnell Hart.
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Hart, Henry M., Jr. “Holmes' Positivism: An Addendum.” Harvard Law Review 64 (February 1951): 929-937.
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Hart, James. The U.S. Supreme Court in American Society: Historical Perspectives. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2025.
A short thematic history of the Court by era, with case summaries and judicial profiles, by James Hart, formerly of the Stetson and Denver law schools, which the Law Gazette's reviewer called readable and admirably short; Edward Elgar, 2025, 182 pages. Not read.
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Hart, W. O. “Chief Justices of the United States.” American Bar Association Journal 7 (July 1921): 332-333.
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Hart, W. O. “Edward Douglass White: A Tribute.” Loyola Law Journal 7 (July 1926): 150-158.
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Hartley, Cecil B. “Life of Governor John Rutledge.” In Heroes and Patriots of the South, by Cecil B. Hartley, 291-301. Philadelphia: G. G. Evans, 1860.
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Hartley, Roger C. The Assault on American Labor Law: Unions before the Supreme Court, 1965-2025. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2026.
Roger C. Hartley of Catholic University reads nearly a hundred National Labor Relations Act decisions from 1965 to 2025 as a Court legislating against the statute's collectivist design; Massachusetts, 2026, 224 pages. Not read.
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Hartman, Harold F. “Constitutional Doctrines of Edward D. White.” Ph.D. diss., Cornell University, 1936.
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Hartz, Louis. “John M. Harlan in Kentucky, 1855-1877: The Story of His Pre-Court Political Career.” Filson Club History Quarterly 14 (January 1940): 17-40.
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Harvey, Anna. A Mere Machine: The Supreme Court, Congress, and American Democracy. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2013.
Anna Harvey's empirical claim that the Court defers substantially to congressional preferences in constitutional cases, and her cross-national argument that American rights owe less to judicial independence than is supposed; Yale, November 2013, 366 pages. Not read.
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Harvey, Richard B. Earl Warren: Governor of California. Jericho, NY: Exposition Press, 1969.
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Harvey, Richard B. “Governor Earl Warren of California: A Study in 'Non-Partisan' Republican Politics.” California Historical Quarterly 46 (March 1967): 33-51.
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Hasen, Richard L. The Justice of Contradictions: Antonin Scalia and the Politics of Disruption. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2018.
The critical reckoning with the legacy — the election-law scholar Richard Hasen argues that Scalia's slashing style and disruptive method did as much to coarsen legal argument as his originalism did to reshape it.
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Haskett, Richard C. "William Paterson, Attorney General of New Jersey: Public Office and Private Profit in the American Revolution." William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd ser., 7 (1950).
A focused archival study of Paterson's years as New Jersey's first attorney general — how public prosecution, private practice, wartime confiscation, and professional advancement overlapped in the Revolutionary state.
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Haskett, Richard C. “Prosecuting the Revolution.” American Historical Review 59 (April 1954): 578-587.
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Haskett, Richard C. “Village Clerk and Country Lawyer: William Paterson's Legal Experience, 1763-1772.” New Jersey Historical Society Proceedings 66 (October 1948): 155-171.
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Haskett, Richard C. “William Paterson, Counsellor at Law.” Ph.D. diss., Princeton University, 1952.
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Haskins, George L. “John Marshall and the Commerce Clause of the Constitution.” University of Pennsylvania Law Review 104 (October 1955): 23-68.
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Haskins, George Lee, and Herbert A. Johnson. Foundations of Power: John Marshall, 1801–15 (Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court, vol. 2). New York: Macmillan, 1981.
The second Holmes Devise volume, the first fourteen years of the Marshall Court in two parts, Haskins on the Court and Johnson on its work, which the Library of Congress says argue that Marshall's accomplishment was 'to establish the rule of law as the basis of the Supreme Court's jurisprudence'; Macmillan, 1981, reissued by Cambridge in 2009.
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Hatcher, John H. “Fred Vinson, Congressman from Kentucky: A Political Biography, 1890-1938.” Ph.D. diss., University of Cincinnati, 1967.
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Hatcher, John H. “Fred Vinson: Boyhood and Education in the Big Sandy Valley.” Kentucky Historical Society Register 72 (July 1974): 243-261.
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Hatcher, John H. “The Education of the Thirteenth United States Chief Justice: Frederick Moore Vinson, Part I.” West Virginia History 39 (July 1978): 285-323.
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Hatcher, William H. “John Marshall and States' Rights.” Solicitor Quarterly 3 (April 1965): 207-216.
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Hauptman, Laurence M. “Justice Samuel Nelson and the Seneca Indians.” Journal of Supreme Court History 48, no. 1 (2023): 7–30.
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Havemann, E. “Storm Center of Justice.” Life 56 (May 22, 1964): 108-110.
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Havighurst, Harold C. “In Memoriam: Fred M. Vinson.” Northwestern University Law Review 49 (March/April 1954): 1-2.
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Havighurst, Harold C. “Mr. Justice Black.” National Lawyer's Guild Quarterly 1 (May 1938): 181-185.
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Haw, James A. “Samuel Chases's Objections to the Federal Government.” Maryland Historical Magazine 76 (Fall 1981): 272-285.
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Haw, James, Francis F. Beirne, Rosamond R. Beirne & R. Samuel Jett. Stormy Patriot: The Life of Samuel Chase. Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1980.
Written by four Maryland historians, Stormy Patriot follows Chase from provincial Annapolis and Revolutionary politics through the Continental Congress, state judgeships, Supreme Court service, and impeachment.
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Haw, James. John & Edward Rutledge of South Carolina. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1997.
The strongest modern account.
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Haygood, Wil. Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
A dual narrative built around the 1967 confirmation hearings — the Southern senators' days of interrogation intercut with the life that had led Marshall to that table.
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Haymond, Frank C. “John Marshall: His Influence on the Constitution and the Courts.” West Virginia Law Quarterly 42 (December 1935): 14-30.
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Hazeltine, Alice J. We Grew Up in America. Nashville: Abingdon, 1954.
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Hazelton, Morgan L. W., and Rachael K. Hinkle. Persuading the Supreme Court: The Significance of Briefs in Judicial Decision-Making. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2022.
More than twenty-five thousand party and amicus briefs filed between 1984 and 2015, matched to the opinions they produced and read by machine, with interviews with former clerks and advocates behind the numbers, by Morgan Hazelton and Rachael Hinkle; Kansas, August 2022, 296 pages. Not read.
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Healy, Thomas. The Great Dissent: How Oliver Wendell Holmes Changed His Mind — and Changed the History of Free Speech in America. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2013.
The finest book on Holmes's most consequential change of heart.
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Healy, Thomas. “The Justice Who Changed His Mind: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and the Story behind Abrams v. United States.” Journal of Supreme Court History 39, no. 1 (2014): 35–78.
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Heaney, Howell J. “The Letters of Joseph Story, 1779-1845, in the Hampton L. Carson Collection of the Free Library of Philadelphia.” American Journal of Legal History 2 (April 1958): 75-85.
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Heath, James O. To Face Down Dixie: South Carolina's War on the Supreme Court in the Age of Civil Rights. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2017.
James Heath on South Carolina's three senators, Olin Johnston, Strom Thurmond and Ernest Hollings, fighting the Warren Court through judicial nominations across four presidencies, from Brown to the Marshall, Fortas and Haynsworth confirmations; LSU Press, December 2017, 327 pages. Not read.
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Heck, Edward V. “Changing Voting Patterns in the Burger Court: The Impact of Personnel Change.” San Diego Law Review 17 (August 1980): 1021-1046.
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Heck, Edward V. “Civil Liberties Voting Patterns in the Burger Court, 1975-1978.” Western Political Quarterly 34 (June 1981): 193-202.
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Heck, Edward V. “Justice Brennan and Freedom of Expression Doctrine in the Burger Court.” San Diego Law Review 24 (September/October 1987): 1153-1183.
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Heck, Edward V. “Justice Brennan and the Changing Supreme Court.” Ph.D. diss., Johns Hopkins University, 1978.
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Heck, Edward V. “Socialization of a Freshman Justice: The Early Years of Justice Brennan.” Pacific Law Journal 10 (July 1979): 707-728.
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Heck, Edward V., and Melinda G. Hall. “Bloc Voting and the Freshman Justice Revisited.” Journal of Politics 43 (August 1981): 852-860.
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Heck, Edward V., and Paula C. Arledge. “Justice O'Connor and the First Amendment, 1981-1984.” Pepperdine Law Review 13 (May 1986): 993-1019.
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Heckart, Ronald J. “Justice Fortas and the First Amendment.” Ph.D. diss., State University of New York at Albany, 1973.
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Hedrick, Charles E. “John Marshall and the West.” Marshall Review 1 (1937): 42-47.
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Heffron, Paul T. “Felix Frankfurter: Manuscript Historians.” Manuscripts 23 (Summer 1971): 178-184.
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Heffron, Paul T. “Profile of a Public Man.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1980 (1980): 30-37, 48.
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Heffron, Paul T. “The Early Years of Justice Moody.” Essex Institute Historical Collections 123, no. 4 (1987): 309–330.
The study of Moody before Washington — the Essex County prosecutor (of Lizzie Borden, among others) who became Roosevelt's favorite reformer.
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Heffron, Paul T. “Theodore Roosevelt and the Appointment of Mr. Justice Moody.” Vanderbilt Law Review 18, no. 2 (1965): 545–568.
The standard account of the closest presidential-justice relationship of the era — TR's Navy Secretary and trust-busting Attorney General, sent to the Court in 1906 to carry the Square Deal inside.
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Heilman, Arthur D. “Preserving the Essential Role of the Supreme Court: A Comment on Justice Rehnquist's Proposal.” Florida State University Law Review 14 (Spring 1986): 15-34.
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Heins, Marjorie. Priests of Our Democracy: The Supreme Court, Academic Freedom, and the Anti-Communist Purge. New York: New York University Press, 2013.
Marjorie Heins on the anti-communist investigation of New York City's teachers and professors in the 1950s, the cases it sent to the Court, and the idea of academic freedom traced from the late nineteenth century to the present; NYU Press, February 2013, 384 pages. Not read.
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Heins, Marjorie. ““Priests of Our Democracy’: The Origins of First Amendment Academic Freedom.” Journal of Supreme Court History 38, no. 3 (2013): 386–412.
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Helfman, Harold M. “The Contested Confirmation of Stanley Matthews to the United States Supreme Court.” Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio 8 (July 1958): 154-170.
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Hellman, Florence S., comp. The Supreme Court Issue: A Selected List of References. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1937.
The Library of Congress's own reading list for the court-packing fight: thirty-three leaves compiled by Florence S. Hellman as acting chief bibliographer in 1937, with a forty-two-page sequel under the same title in 1938. The third of the Division of Bibliography's Supreme Court lists on this shelf, after 1909 and 1924. Public domain; no scan reached. Not read.
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Hellman, George S. Benjamin N. Cardozo: American Judge. New York: Whittlesey House, 1940.
The first biography, published two years after Cardozo's death by a friend and man of letters — affectionate and literary, thin on the law but rich on the shy, ascetic bachelor behind the opinions.
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Hemingway, Mollie, and Carrie Severino. Justice on Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court. Washington, DC: Regnery, 2019.
The conservative counter-narrative, by a journalist and a legal activist who defend Kavanaugh and portray the opposition to him as a coordinated campaign of character assassination.
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Hemingway, Mollie. Alito: The Justice Who Reshaped the Supreme Court and Restored the Constitution. 2026.
One of two full-length Alito biographies published in April 2026, a fortnight after Canellos's, and the sympathetic one: Hemingway is a Federalist editor and co-author of the Kavanaugh book on his colleague's shelf, which readers should weigh.
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Hendel, Samuel. Charles Evans Hughes and the Supreme Court. New York: King's Crown Press, 1951.
The standard study of Hughes the jurist — Samuel Hendel's analysis of the constitutional record across both tenures, from the Progressive-era associate justice to the Chief who steered the Court through 1937.
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Hendel, Samuel. “The 'Liberalism' of Chief Justice Hughes.” Vanderbilt Law Review 10 (February 1959): 259-268.
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Henderson, Lloyd W. “Earl Warren and California Politics.” Ph.D. diss., University of California, Berkeley, 1965.
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Hendrick, Burton J. “Governor Hughes.” McClure's 30 (March 1908): 521-536; (April 1908): 670-681.
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Hendricks, Nancy. Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life in American History. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2020.
A library-market life of Ginsburg in ABC-CLIO's Women Making History series, published 4 November 2020, weeks after her death: 264 pages tracing the Brooklyn childhood, the Rutgers and Columbia years, the ACLU Women's Rights Project and the twenty-seven years on the Court against the history of women's equality.
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Hendricks, Nancy. Sandra Day O'Connor: How an Arizona Cowgirl Became the First Woman Supreme Court Justice. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2026.
A library-market life of O'Connor in Bloomsbury Academic's Women Making History series, published 2 April 2026: 288 pages by Nancy Hendricks, with Peg A. Lamphier and Rosanne Welch as series editors, tracing the ranch childhood and the career against the history of women's equality.
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Hengstler, Gary A. “'Crowning Chapter': Burger's Energies Now Directed toward Constitution's Birthday.” American Bar Association Journal 72 (August 1986): 19.
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“Henry Billings Brown.” Case and Comment 2 (March 1896): 1-2.
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Hensley, Thomas R., Kathleen Hale, and Carl Snook. The Rehnquist Court: Justices, Rulings, and Legacy. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2006.
The ABC-CLIO handbook for the Rehnquist Court, covering 1986 to 2005 and the fourteen justices who served, by Thomas Hensley of Kent State with Kathleen Hale and Carl Snook; 443 pages, June 2006. It puts the question whether those years produced a conservative counter-revolution and answers that continuity prevailed. Not read.
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Henson, Ray D. “A Study in Style: Mr. Justice Frankfurter.” Villanova Law Review 6 (Spring 1961): 377-387.
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Herda, D. J. Earl Warren: A Life of Truth and Justice. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2019.
A popular life of Warren published in December 2019, written from primary and unpublished sources, family recollections, photographs and diary extracts: the Scandinavian immigrant childhood, the corruption-fighting district attorney and reforming governor of California, then the chief justiceship, Brown and Miranda, and the Warren Commission at the end.
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Herring, James. “John Jay.” In The National Portrait Gallery, vol. 2, by James Herring and James B. Longacre, 47-62. Philadelphia: Henry Perkins, 1835.
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Herriott, Frank I. “Justice Samuel F. Miller and His First Circuit Court.” Annals of Iowa 9 (July/October 1910): 539-545.
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Hess, Stephen. “Big Bill Taft.” American Heritage 17 (October 1966): 33-37, 82-86.
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Heyman, Ira M. “The Chief Justice, Racial Segregation, and the Friendly Critics.” California Law Review 49 (March 1961): 104-125.
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Hickman, Chris. “Courting the Right: Richard Nixon’s 1968 Campaign Against the Warren Court.” Journal of Supreme Court History 36, no. 3 (2011): 287–303.
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Hickman, Martin B. “Mr. Justice Holmes: A Reappraisal.” Western Political Quarterly 5 (March 1952): 66-83.
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Hickok, Eugene. “National League of Cities and the Ephemeral Nature of Significant Supreme Court Cases.” Journal of Supreme Court History 34, no. 3 (2009): 303314.
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Hickox, Charles F., III, and Andrew C. Laviano. “William Paterson.” Journal of Supreme Court History 17 (1992): 53–61.
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Hicks, Frederick C. William Howard Taft, Yale Professor of Law and New Haven Citizen. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1945.
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Hicks, Jimmie. “Associate Justice John McKinley: A Sketch.” Alabama Review 18 (July 1965): 227-233.
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Higginbotham, Don, Donna E. Kelly, and Lang Baradell, eds. The Papers of James Iredell. 3 vols. Raleigh, NC: Division of Archives and History, North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, 1976–2003.
The foundational modern primary-source edition, covering 1767–1789 with scholarly annotation.
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Highsaw, Robert B. Edward Douglass White: Defender of the Conservative Faith. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1981.
The standard biography, from LSU Press — fitting, since White never really left Louisiana.
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Highsaw, Robert B. “Mr. Justice White: A Judicial Biography.” Ph.D. diss., Harvard University, 1945.
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Hildreth, Melvin A. “John Marshall.” Bar Briefs 12 (January 1936): 175-177.
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Hill, Anita. Speaking Truth to Power. New York: Doubleday, 1997.
Hill's own telling, six years on: the Oklahoma farm childhood, the years working under Thomas at the Education Department and the EEOC, the 1991 testimony, and what it cost her afterward.
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Hill, Arthur D. “Oliver Wendell Holmes, Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.” Harvard Graduates' Magazine 39 (March 1931): 265-288.
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Hill, Don G. Chief Justice Fuller: A Descendant of One of the Early Settlers of Dedham. Dedham, MA: Dedham Historical Society, 1888.
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Hill, Leslie B. “Charles Evans Hughes and United States Adherence to an International Court: A Rhetorical Analysis.” Ph.D. diss., University of Illinois, 1968.
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Hill, Walter B. “L.Q.C. Lamar.” Green Bag 5 (April 1893): 153-165.
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Hill, Walter B. “Sketch of Mr. Justice L. Q. C. Lamar.” Georgia Bar Association Report 11 (1894): 149-169.
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Hillard, George S. “Memoir of Joseph Story, LL.D.” Massachusetts Historical Society Proceedings 10 (April 1868): 176-205.
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Hines, Adam H. “Ralph Waldo Emerson and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.: The Subtle Rapture of Postponed Power.” Journal of Supreme Court History 44, no. 1 (2019): 39–52.
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Hirsch, H. N. The Enigma of Felix Frankfurter. New York: Basic Books, 1981.
The controversial psychobiography — a Freudian reading that traces Frankfurter's judicial rigidity and his hunger for approval to the wounds of personality, and argues the great liberal professor curdled into a defensive, embittered justice.
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Hirsch, Harry N. “The Uses of Psychology in Judicial Biography: Felix Frankfurter and the Ambiguities of Self-Image.” Ph.D. diss., Princeton University, 1948.
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Hirshman, Linda. Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World. New York: Harper, 2015.
The intertwined story of the first two women on the Court — Hirshman on how the conservative O'Connor and the liberal Ginsburg, so different in method and temperament, together transformed the place of women in American law.
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Hite, Gregory Nelson. “Race, Education and the Courts: A Review of James T. Patterson’s Brown v. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy.” Journal of Supreme Court History 26, no. 3 (2001): 296–304.
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Hitt, Matthew P. Inconsistency and Indecision in the United States Supreme Court. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2019.
Matthew Hitt of Colorado State on the Court's two incompatible duties, resolving disputes and keeping doctrine consistent, and on the institutional changes that made the modern Court choose consistency and a smaller docket; Michigan, May 2019, 234 pages. Not read.
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Hoadly, George. Address at Music Hall, Cincinnati, Ohio, on the Occasion of the Removal of the Remains of Salmon P. Chase to Spring Grove Cemetery, Thursday, October 14, 1886. Cincinnati: R. Clarke, 1887.
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Hoadly, George. “Honorable George Hoadly's Oration on Salmon P. Chase, October 14, 1886.” Weekly Law Bulletin 16 (November 1, 1886): 321-329.
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Hoagland, Donald W. “Byron White as a Practicing Lawyer in Colorado.” University of Colorado Law Review 58 (Summer 1987): 365-370.
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Hoar, George F. “Memoir of Horace Gray.” Massachusetts Historical Society Proceedings 18 (January 1904): 155-187.
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Hobbs, Truman M. “Justice Black: Qualities of Greatness.” Alabama Law Review 24 (Fall 1972): 11-13.
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Hobson, Charles F. The Great Chief Justice: John Marshall and the Rule of Law. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1996.
The best short study of what Marshall actually did as a judge — written by the longtime editor of the Papers of John Marshall, who knew the working jurist from the inside of his own files.
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Hobson, Charles F. “John Marshall and His Papers.” Journal of Supreme Court History 21, no. 2 (1996): 30–35.
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Hobson, Charles F. “John Marshall and the Fairfax Litigation: The Background of Martin v. Hunter’s Lessee.” Journal of Supreme Court History 21, no. 2 (1996): 3650.
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Hobson, Charles F. “Remembering the Great Chief Justice.” Journal of Supreme Court History 27, no. 3 (2002): 293–303.
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Hobson, Charles F. “Review Essay: Paul Finkelman. Supreme Injustice: Slavery in the Nation’s Highest Court (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2018).” Journal of Supreme Court History 43, no. 3 (2018): 363–381.
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Hobson, Charles F. “The Yazoo Lands Sale Case: Fletcher v. Peck (1810).” Journal of Supreme Court History 42, no. 3 (2017): 219–255.
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Hockett, Jeffrey D. New Deal Justice: The Constitutional Jurisprudence of Hugo L. Black, Felix Frankfurter, and Robert H. Jackson. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1996.
A systematic comparison of three Roosevelt appointees — Black, Frankfurter and Jackson — who agreed about the New Deal and then split bitterly over rights and restraint.
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Hockett, Jeffrey D. “Justice Robert H. Jackson and Segregation: A Study of the Limitations and Proper Basis of Judicial Action.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1989: 52–67.
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Hockett, Jeffrey D. “The Battle over Brown’s Legitimacy.” Journal of Supreme Court History 28, no. 1 (2003): 30–53.
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Hockett, Jeffrey. “Brown v. Board of Education and the Politics That Created a Constitutional Icon.” Journal of Supreme Court History 46, no. 3 (2021): 292–330.
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Hoeflich, Michael H., and Ross E. Davies, eds. The Black Book of Justice Holmes: Text Transcript and Commentary. Clark, NJ: Talbot Publishing, 2021.
Holmes kept a notebook he called the Black Book for more than fifty years, and this is it: the manuscript in facsimile with a facing transcription, edited by Michael Hoeflich of Kansas and Ross Davies of George Mason, with a foreword by Stephen McAllister and essays placing it in context.
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Hoffer, Peter Charles, and N. E. H. Hull. Impeachment in America, 1635–1805. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1984.
The standard scholarly history of early American impeachment — colonial precedents, state practice, and the federal experiments — culminating in the Chase trial.
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Hoffer, Peter Charles, Williamjames Hull Hoffer, and N. E. H. Hull. The Supreme Court: An Essential History. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2018.
Peter Charles Hoffer, Williamjames Hull Hoffer and N. E. H. Hull's one-volume history of the Court, organised chapter by chapter around each Chief Justice and quoting the opinions at length; Kansas, October 2018, 510 pages, in a second edition that follows the first of 2007. Not read.
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Hoffer, Peter Charles. The Supreme Court Footnote: A Surprising History. New York: New York University Press, 2024.
What the footnotes to the Court's opinions have carried, Chisholm v. Georgia to Dobbs, by Peter Charles Hoffer of Georgia; NYU Press, June 2024, 232 pages. Not read.
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Hoffer, Williamjames Hull. The "Sick Chicken" Case: The US Supreme Court and the New Deal. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2025.
Schechter Poultry, the unanimous decision of 27 May 1935 that struck down the National Industrial Recovery Act, told by Williamjames Hull Hoffer of Seton Hall as a window on a country in depression; Kansas, February 2025, 228 pages, in the Landmark Law Cases & American Society series. Not read.
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Hoffer, Williamjames Hull. “Plessy v. Ferguson: The Effects of Lawyering on a Challenge to Jim Crow.” Journal of Supreme Court History 39, no. 1 (2013): 1–21.
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Hoffer, Williamjames Hull. “William Paterson and the National Jurisprudence: Two Draft Opinions on the Sedition Law of 1798 and the Federal Common Law.” Journal of Supreme Court History 22, no. 2 (1997): 36–50.
The only substantial modern study of Paterson's actual work as a justice — built on two draft opinions on the Sedition Act and the federal common law of crimes.
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Hoffheimer, Michael H. “Justice Holmes: Law and the Search for Control.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1989: 98–118.
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Hofstadter, Samuel H. “In Memoriam: Louis Dembitz Brandeis.” American Bar Association Journal 47 (October 1961): 978-980.
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Hofstadter, Samuel H. “Mr. Justice Holmes: Exponent of Judicial Relativity.” American Bar Association Journal 42 (January 1956): 19-23.
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Hofstadter, Samuel H., and Theodore B. Richter. “Mr. Justice Frankfurter, Legal Craftsman.” Association of the Bar of the City of New York 20 (May 1965): 273-287.
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Hofstedt, Matthew. “Afterword: A Brief History of Supreme Court Messengers.” Journal of Supreme Court History 39, no. 2 (2014): 259–263.
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Hofstedt, Matthew. “Looking Back: Society Acquisitions During the Burger Years.” Journal of Supreme Court History 50, no. 2 (2025): 113–122.
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Hofstedt, Matthew. “The Switch to Black: Revisiting Early Supreme Court Robes.” Journal of Supreme Court History 46, no. 1 (2021): 13–41.
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Hofstedt, Matthew. “The Words Not Chiseled: Unused Inscriptions for the Supreme Court Building.” Journal of Supreme Court History 43, no. 2 (2018): 125–140.
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Hogan, Frank J. “Associate Justice James F. Byrnes.” American Bar Association Journal 27 (August 1941): 475-478.
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Hogan, John C. “Blackstone and Joseph Story: Their Influence on the Development of Criminal Law in America.” Minnesota Law Review 40 (January 1956): 107-124.
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Hogan, John C. “Joseph Story on Juries.” Oregon Law Review 37 (April 1958): 234-255.
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Hogan, John C. “Joseph Story's Anonymous Law Articles.” Michigan Law Review 52 (April 1954): 869-884.
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Hogan, John C. “Joseph Story's Essay on 'Domicil.'” Buffalo Law Review 35 (April 1955): 215-224.
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Hogan, John C. “Joseph Story's Essay on 'Natural Law.'” Oregon Law Review 34 (February 1955): 88-105.
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Hogan, John C. “Joseph Story's Unsigned Article on Common Law Lines.” Case and Comment 62 (November/December 1957): 34-36.
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Hogan, John C. “Justice Story on Capital Punishment.” California Law Review 43 (March 1955): 76-84.
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Hogan, John C. “Justice Story on the Common Law of Evidence.” Vanderbilt Law Review 9 (December 1955): 51-67.
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Hogan, John C., ed. “The Last Will and Testament of Stephen J. Field.” California History Quarterly 36 (March 1957): 41-55.
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Hogan, John C., ed. “Three Essays on the Law by Joseph Story.” Southern California Law Review 28 (December 1954): 19-32.
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Hohenstein, ., Kurt. “Just What the Doctor Ordered: The Harrison Anti-Narcotic Act, the Supreme Court, and the Federal Regulation of Medical Practice, 1915-1919.” Journal of Supreme Court History 26, no. 3 (2001): 231–256.
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Holcombe, Arthur N. “John Marshall as Politician and Political Theorist, 1788-1835.” In Chief Justice John Marshall: A Reappraisal, edited by William M. Jones, 24-37. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1956.
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Holland, Henry M. “Juristic Philosophy of Justice Cardozo: A Study in Mediation.” Ph.D. diss., University of Washington, 1958.
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Holland, Kenneth M. “Statesmanship and the Law: The Jurisprudence and Political Thought of Chief Justice Roger B. Taney.” Ph.D. diss., University of Chicago, 1978.
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Hollander, Samuel M. “Chief Justice Harlan Fiske Stone.” Commercial Law Journal 52 (October 1947): 193-195.
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Hollander, Samuel M. “Chief Justice Stone.” New Jersey Law Journal 70 (September 1947): 307.
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Hollingsworth, Harold M. “The Confirmation of Judicial Review under Taney and Chase.” Ph.D. diss., University of Tennessee, 1966.
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Hollister, Howard C. “William H. Taft at the Bar and on the Bench.” Green Bag 20 (July 1908): 337-345.
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Holmes, Oliver W., Jr. Justice Holmes to Doctor Wu: An Intimate Correspondence, 1921-1932. New York: Central Book Company, n.d.
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Holmes, Oliver W., Jr. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: His Book Notices and Uncollected Letters and Papers. Edited by Harry C. Shriver. New York: Central Book Company, 1936.
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Holmes, Oliver W., Jr. Representative Opinions of Mr. Justice Holmes. Edited by Alfred Lief. New York: Vanguard Press, 1931.
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Holmes, Oliver W., Jr. The Dissenting Opinions of Mr. Justice Holmes. Edited by Alfred Lief. New York: Vanguard Press, 1929.
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Holmes, Oliver W., Jr. The Holmes Reader: The Life, Writings, Speeches, Constitutional Decisions, etc., of the Late Oliver Wendell Holmes, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, as Well as an Evaluation of His Work and Achievements by Eminent Authorities. Edited by Julius J. Marke. New York: Oceana Publications, 1955.
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Holmes, Oliver W., Jr. The Holmes-Einstein Letters: Correspondence of Mr. Justice Holmes and Lewis Einstein, 1903-1935. Edited by James B. Peabody. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1964.
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Holmes, Oliver W., Jr. The Judicial Opinions of Oliver Wendell Holmes: Constitutional Opinions, Selected Excerpts, and Epigrams as Given in the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, 1885-1902. Edited by Harry C. Shriver. Buffalo, NY: Dennis, 1940.
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Holmes, Oliver W., Jr. The Mind and Faith of Justice Holmes: His Speeches, Essays, Letters, and Judicial Opinions. Edited by Max Lerner. Boston: Little, Brown, 1943.
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Holmes, Oliver W., Jr. The Occasional Speeches of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. Edited by Mark D. Howe. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1962.
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Holmes, Oliver W., Jr. “The Early Reading of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes.” Harvard Library Bulletin 8 (Spring 1954): 163-203.
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Holmes, Oliver W., Jr., and Patrick Sheehan. Holmes-Sheehan Correspondence: The Letters of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes and Canon Patrick Augustine Sheehan. Edited by David H. Burton. Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, 1976.
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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. The Common Law. Boston: Little, Brown, 1881.
The book that made him, and still the most famous sentence in American jurisprudence: 'The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience.'
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Holmes, Oliver Wendell. Collected Legal Papers. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1920.
The essays and addresses gathered in 1920 by Harold Laski, whom the Internet Archive record credits beside Holmes; 316 pages from Harcourt, Brace, published while the Justice was seventy-nine and still sitting.
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Holmes, Oliver Wendell. Speeches. Boston: Little, Brown, 1913.
The short book of the occasional speeches in the Little, Brown printing of 1913 that grew from the 1891 first edition; 128 pages.
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Holsinger, M. Paul. “Mr. Justice Van Devanter and the New Deal: A Note.” Historian 31 (November 1968): 57-63.
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Holsinger, M. Paul. “The Appointment of Supreme Court Justice Van Devanter.” American Journal of Legal History 12 (October 1968): 324-335.
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Holsinger, M. Paul. “Willis Van Devanter: Wyoming, 1884-1897.” Annals of Wyoming 37 (October 1965): 171-206.
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Holt, George C. “The New Justice of the Supreme Court.” Independent 54 (October 2, 1902): 2361-2364.
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Holt, Michael F. By One Vote: The Disputed Presidential Election of 1876. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2008.
The modern account of the disputed 1876 election: the improvised fifteen-member commission, five justices among them, and the party-line 8–7 that settled it.
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Holt, Thad, Jr. “The Resignation of Mr. Justice Campbell.” Alabama Review 12 (April 1954): 105-118.
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Holt, Wythe. "John Blair: 'A Safe and Conscientious Judge.'" In Seriatim: The Supreme Court Before John Marshall. 1998.
The essential modern treatment.
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Holtzoff, Alexander. “Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone.” Federal Bar Association Journal 4 (November 1941): 207-209, 214.
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Holzer, Henry Mark. The Supreme Court Opinions of Clarence Thomas, 1991–2006: A Conservative's Perspective. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2007.
The opinions read by an admirer: Holzer's survey of the majority, concurring and dissenting opinions of the first fifteen terms, arranged by subject from the separation of powers to the Bill of Rights, with an appendix listing every opinion; McFarland, 2007, 244 pages, with a second edition carrying the count to 2011.
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“Home Life of the Late Chief Justice Chase.” Albany Law Journal 8 (October 25, 1873): 258-260.
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Honeyman, A. “Van Doren. "Early Career of Governor William Paterson, 1745-1806.” Somerset County Historical Quarterly 1 (July/October 1912): 161-179, 241-256.
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Honigman, Jason L. “Louis D. Brandeis: The People's Lawyer.” University of Detroit Law Journal 18 (January 1955): 127-133.
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“Honorable Noah H. Swayne: Memorial Proceedings of the Ohio State Bar Association.” Ohio State Bar Association Reports 5 (December 30-31, 1884): 41-48.
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“Honors to the Memory of Mr. Justice Blatchford.” Albany Law Journal 48 (November 18, 1893): 415-416.
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Hoogenboom, Ari & Herbert Ershkowitz, eds. "Levi Woodbury's 'Intimate Memoranda' of the Jackson Administration." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 92, no. 4 (1968): 507–515.
A reminder that the Library of Congress archive is full of material like this, waiting for the biographer who never comes.
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Hook, Sidney. “Justice Black's Illogic: A Case Study in Professional Ethics.” New Leader 40 (December 2, 1957): 17-20.
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Hooker, Richard J., ed. “John Marshall on the Judiciary, the Republicans, and Jefferson, March 4, 1801.” American Historical Review 53 (April 1948): 518-520.
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Hopkinson, Joseph. Eulogium in Commemoration of the Honorable Bushrod Washington. Philadelphia: S. Manning, 1830.
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Hopkinson, Joseph. “Biographical Sketch of Bushrod Washington.” American Law Magazine 5 (July 1845): 249-267.
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Hopkirk, John W. “William O. Douglas, Individualist: A Study in the Development and Application of a Judge's Attitudes.” Ph.D. diss., Princeton University, 1960.
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Hopkirk, John W. “William O. Douglas: His Work in Policy Bankruptcy Proceedings.” Vanderbilt Law Review 18 (March 1965): 663-699.
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Horace Gray Papers — Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1845–1902.
Small and one-directional: 400 letters to Gray in two containers, on one reel of microfilm made in 1952 from originals then in the Court's own archives, which the Library says 'contain references to legal decisions and opinions in which Gray was interested or involved.'
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Horace H. Lurton Papers — Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1860-1934.
A single container: 250 items, 0.4 linear feet and one reel of microfilm, 1860 to 1934 with the bulk from 1893 to 1915, the circuit years and the five on the Court.
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Horner, Frederick. The History of the Blair, Banister, and Braxton Families Before and After the Revolution. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1898.
Martin and Goehlert list this as one of only three Blair items, so it is worth saying what it is: a 257-page family genealogy in five parts, of which chapter three — pages 64 to 80, with a portrait plate captioned ‘signer of the Constitution of the United States and associate justice United States Supreme Court’ — is the Justice.
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Horwill, Herbert S. “Charles Evans Hughes.” Contemporary Review 120 (November 1921): 593-599.
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Horwitz, Morton J. The Warren Court and the Democratic Constitution. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2024.
With a foreword by Erwin Chemerinsky; the standout recent Warren Court book.
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Horwitz, Morton J. The Warren Court and the Pursuit of Justice. New York: Hill and Wang, 1998.
The great legal historian Morton Horwitz's brief, incisive synthesis of the Warren Court's jurisprudence — the best short book on why its expansion of rights amounted to a second Reconstruction.
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Houghton, Walter R. “John Marshall.” In Kings of Fortune, by Walter R. Houghton, 437-456. Chicago: A. E. Davis, 1885.
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House, A. F. “Mr. Justice Field and Attorney General Garland.” Arkansas Law Review 3 (Summer 1949): 266-277.
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Howard, A. E. Dick. “Mr. Justice Black: The Negro Protest Movement and the Rule of Law.” Virginia Law Review 53 (June 1967): 1030-1084.
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Howard, A. E. Dick. “Mr. Justice Powell and the Emerging Nixon Majority.” Michigan Law Review 70 (January 1972): 445-468.
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Howard, J. Woodford, Jr. Mr. Justice Murphy: A Political Biography. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1968.
The best one-volume life, and a fair-minded one.
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Howard, J. Woodford, Jr. “Frank Murphy and the Philippine Commonwealth.” Pacific Historical Review 33 (February 1964): 45-68.
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Howard, J. Woodford, Jr. “Frank Murphy and the Sit Down Strikes of 1937.” Labor History 1 (Spring 1960): 103-140.
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Howard, J. Woodford, Jr. “Frank Murphy: A Liberal's Creed.” Ph.D. diss., Princeton University, 1959.
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Howard, J. Woodford, Jr. “Justice Murphy: The Freshman Years.” Vanderbilt Law Review 18 (March 1965): 473-505.
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Howard, J. Woodford, Jr. “The Cramer Treason Case.” Journal of Supreme Court History 21, no. 1 (1996): 49–60.
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Howard, James O. “Constitutional Doctrines of Mr. Justice Van Devanter.” Ph.D. diss., State University of Iowa, 1937.
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Howard, Lowell B. “Mr. Justice John Marshall Harlan and the Supreme Court, 1955-1971: A Study in Federalism and Judicial Self-Restraint.” Ph.D. diss., Ohio State University, 1975.
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Howe, Mark D. “Holmes' Positivism: A Brief Rejoinder Comment.” Harvard Law Review 64 (April 1951): 937-939.
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Howe, Mark D. “Mr. Justice Holmes and His Secretaries.” New York Times Magazine 100 (April 8, 1951): 15, 42-46.
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Howe, Mark D. “Mr. Justice Holmes Seeks His Friends.” Atlantic Monthly 199 (April 1957): 71-73.
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Howe, Mark D. “Oliver Wendell Holmes at Harvard Law School.” Harvard Law Review 70 (January 1957): 401-421.
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Howe, Mark D. “The Positivism of Mr. Justice Holmes.” Harvard Law Review 64 (February 1951): 529-546.
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Howe, Mark D. “The Positivism of Mr. Justice Holmes.” Measure 1 (Spring 1950): 118-132.
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Howe, Mark DeWolfe, ed. Holmes–Laski Letters: The Correspondence of Mr. Justice Holmes and Harold J. Laski, 1916–1935. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1953.
The great correspondence — nearly twenty years of letters between the aging Holmes and the young English socialist Harold Laski, ranging over law, books, politics, and life with unmatched wit and candor.
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Howe, Mark DeWolfe, ed. Holmes–Pollock Letters: The Correspondence of Mr. Justice Holmes and Sir Frederick Pollock, 1874–1932 (2 vols.). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1941.
Less political fireworks than Laski, more law and more candor; many Holmes readers prefer it.
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Howe, Mark DeWolfe, ed. Touched with Fire: Civil War Letters and Diary of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., 1861–1864. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1946.
Holmes's Civil War letters and diary — the young officer of the Twentieth Massachusetts, thrice wounded, in his own voice at the source of everything.
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Howe, Mark DeWolfe. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes (2 vols.: The Shaping Years, 1841–1870; The Proving Years, 1870–1882). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1957.
The authorized biography, by Holmes's own secretary and literary executor — two magisterial volumes that carry him from Brahmin boyhood through the Civil War to the eve of the bench.
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Howell, Charles B. “Contract and Consideration: Mansfield and Cardozo.” Intramural Law Review 1 (May 1949): 75-90.
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Howell, R.B.C. “Louis Dembitz Brandeis.” Tennessee Law Review 16 (June 1940): 441-450.
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Howell, Ronald F. “Conservative Influence on Constitutional Development, 1923-1937: The Judicial Theory of Justices Van Devanter, McReynolds, Sutherland, and Butler.” Ph.D. diss., Johns Hopkins University, 1952.
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Howell, Ronald F. “The Judicial Conservatives Three Decades Ago: Aristocratic Guardians of the Prerogatives of Property and the Judiciary.” Virginia Law Review 49 (December 1963): 1447-1483.
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Howland, Francis. “Story.” In Homes of American Statesmen: With Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches by Various Authors, 427-445. New York: A. W. Upham, 1858.
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Howland, Harold J. “Hughes, Governor.” Outlook 88 (February 8, 1908): 303-309.
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Hoyt, Edwin P. Lost Statesman. Philadelphia: Peter Reilly, 1961.
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Hubbard, Elbert. John Jay, the First Chief Justice of the United States. New York: Hartford Lunch Company, 1918.
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Hubbard, Elbert. “John Jay.” In Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen, by Elbert Hubbard, 327-361. New York: Putnam's, 1898.
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Hubbard, Elbert. “John Jay.” Magazine of American History 1 (December 1901): 1-6; 1 (January/March 1902): 24-30; 2 (April/May 1902): 46-57.
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Hubbard, Robert C. “Mr. Justice Robert H. Jackson.” Senior thesis, Princeton University, 1950.
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Hubbell, Jay B. South in American Literature: 1607-1900. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1954.
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Huber, Richard G. “William O. Douglas and the Environment.” Environmental Affairs 5 (Spring 1976): 209-212.
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Hudon, Edward G. “John Lilburne, the Levellers, and Mr. Justice Black.” American Bar Association Journal 60 (June 1974): 686-689.
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Hudon, Edward G., ed. The Occasional Papers of Mr. Justice Burton. Brunswick, ME: Bowdoin College, 1969.
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Hudson, David L., Jr. The Handy Supreme Court Answer Book: The History and Issues Explained. 2nd ed. Detroit: Visible Ink Press, 2023.
Six hundred questions and answers on the Court's history, structure and cases by David L. Hudson Jr. of Belmont, a First Amendment scholar, in a second edition; Visible Ink, 2023, 448 pages. Not read.
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Hudson, David L., Jr. The Rehnquist Court: Understanding Its Impact and Legacy. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2007.
David L. Hudson's survey of the Rehnquist Court's work across its major subject areas, written while he was a research attorney at the First Amendment Center; Praeger, 2007, 181 pages. Not read.
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Hudspeth, Harvey G. “Howell Edmunds Jackson and the Making of Tennessee's First Native-born Supreme Court Justice.” Tennessee Historical Quarterly 58 (1999): 140–155.
The main modern account of Jackson's improbable appointment — a Democrat named by Republican Benjamin Harrison — and of the two-year tenure that ended with his dying return for the income-tax rehearing in Pollock.
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Huebner, Tim S. “Memphis and the Making of Justice Fortas.” Journal of Supreme Court History 42, no. 3 (2017): 314–336.
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Huebner, Timothy S. “Roger B. Taney and the Slavery Issue: Looking beyond—and before—Dred Scott.” Journal of American History 97, no. 1 (2010): 17–38.
The essential modern article and the engine of any fair verdict.
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Huebner, Timothy S. The Southern Judicial Tradition: State Judges and Sectional Distinctiveness, 1790–1890. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1999.
The fullest scholarly treatment of Catron in print — a chapter-length portrait inside Huebner's group study of the South's great state judges.
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Huebner, Timothy S. The Taney Court: Justices, Rulings, and Legacy. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2003.
An ABC-CLIO handbook on the Taney Court in four parts, the period, the justices, the major decisions and the legacy; xiii and 288 pages, 2003. No copy found online; not read.
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Huebner, Timothy S. “Divided Loyalties: Justice William Johnson and the Rise of Disunion in South Carolina, 18221834.” Journal of Supreme Court History 20 (1995): 19–30.
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Huebner, Timothy S. “‘In Defiance of Judge Taney’: Black Constitutionalism and Resistance to Dred Scott.” Journal of Supreme Court History 45, no. 3 (2020): 215235.
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Huebner, Timothy S. “‘The Unjust Judge’: Roger B. Taney, the Slave Power, and the Meaning of Emancipation.” Journal of Supreme Court History 40, no. 3 (2015): 249–262.
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Hughes, Charles E. Foreign Relations. Chicago: Republican National Committee, 1924.
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Hughes, Charles E. Our Relations to the Nations of the Western Hemisphere. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1928.
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Hughes, Charles E. Pan American Peace Plans. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1929.
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Hughes, Charles E. The Pathway of Peace. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1925.
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Hughes, Charles E. “'Justice Our Anchor': 150th Anniversary of the First Sitting of the Supreme Court, Washington, DC, February 1, 1940.” Vital Speeches 6 (February 1940): 259-260.
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Hughes, Charles E. “Address at Judicial Conference.” American Bar Association Journal 18 (July 1932): 445-448.
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Hughes, Charles E. “Address: Making Democracy Workable; 150th Anniversary of the First Meeting of Congress, Washington, DC, March 4, 1939.” Vital Speeches 5 (March 1939): 327-328.
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Hughes, Charles E. “An Imperishable Ideal of Liberty under Law.” Journal of the American Judicature Society 25 (December 1941): 99.
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Hughes, Charles E. “Associate Justice Van Devanter: An Appraisal by the Chief Justice.” American Bar Association Journal 28 (July 1942): 458-459.
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Hughes, Charles E. “Chief Justice Hughes Addresses Judicial Conference of Fourth Circuit.” American Bar Association Journal 18 (July 1932): 445-448.
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Hughes, Charles E. “In Memory of Mr. Justice Butler.” United States Reports 310 (May 1940): xv-xx.
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Hughes, Charles E. “Liberty and Law.” American Bar Association Proceedings 1925 (1925): 183-199.
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Hughes, Charles E. “Mr. Justice Brandeis.” Columbia Law Review 31 (November 1931): 1071-1072.
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Hughes, Charles E. “Mr. Justice Holmes.” Harvard Law Review 44 (March 1931): 677-679.
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Hughes, Charles E. “Observations on the Monroe Doctrine.” American Journal of International Law 17 (1923): 611-628.
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Hughes, Charles E. “Proceeding in Memory of Mr. Justice Cardozo.” United States Reports 305 (October 1938): xxii-xxvii.
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Hughes, Charles E. “Some Aspects in the Development of American Law.” Chicago Legal News 48 (January 20, 1916): 198-200.
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Hughes, Charles E. “The Obligations of the Bar.” California State Bar Journal 3 (May 1929): 223-225, 240-241.
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Hughes, Charles E. “War Powers under the Constitution.” Massachusetts Law Quarterly 2 (August 1917): 575-590.
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Hughes, Charles E., ed. Mr. Justice Brandeis. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1932.
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Hughes, Charles E., Jr. “Mr. Chief Justice Stone.” Harvard Law Review 59 (October 1946): 1193-1236.
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Hughes, Charles E., Robert H. Jackson, and Charles A. Beardsley. “One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of First Session of Supreme Court: Addresses.” American Bar Association Journal 26 (March 1940): 203-208.
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Hughes, Charles E., Robert H. Jackson, and Charles A. Beardsley. “Sesquicentennial of the Supreme Court of the United States.” New York Law Review 74 (March 1940): 142-150.
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Hughes, Charles Evans. Addresses of Charles Evans Hughes, 1906–1916. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1916.
The speeches of the governor and the first Court tenure, gathered by Putnam's in the year he resigned to run for President, with an introduction by Jacob Gould Schurman; a second edition of the 1908 Addresses and Papers, carried forward eight years.
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Hughes, Charles Evans. Conditions of Progress in Democratic Government. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1910.
The reform governor's Yale lectures, 123 pages from the Yale University Press in 1910, the year Taft put him on the Court: Hughes on what democratic government needs to work, written by the man who had just spent four years making New York's do so.
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Hughes, Charles Evans. “Roger Brooke Taney.” American Bar Association Journal 17 (1931).
Two sitting Chief Justices formally rehabilitating a predecessor — Hughes at the pendulum's far swing, Warren, of all people, renewing the absolution the year after Brown.
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Hughes, Charles Evans. The Autobiographical Notes of Charles Evans Hughes. Edited by David J. Danelski and Joseph S. Tulchin. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1973.
Hughes in his own words — the candid notes he wrote for his family, edited by David Danelski and Joseph Tulchin, covering the whole career with the reticence and precision that were his hallmark.
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Hughes, Charles Evans. The Supreme Court of the United States: Its Foundation, Methods and Achievements. New York: Columbia University Press, 1928.
Hughes's own book on the institution he would soon lead again — the Columbia lectures he gave in the interval between his two tenures, a lucid insider's account of the Court's history, methods, and self-inflicted wounds (Dred Scott, the Legal Tender reversal).
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Hughes, David F. “Chief Justice Chase at the Impeachment Trial of Andrew Johnson.” New York State Bar Journal 41 (April 1969): 218-233.
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Hughes, David F. “Salmon P. Chase, Chief Justice.” Ph.D. diss., Princeton University, 1963.
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Hughes, David F. “Salmon P. Chase, Chief Justice.” Vanderbilt Law Review 18 (March 1965): 569-614.
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Hughes, John C. “John Marshall Harlan, the Warren Court, and the Freedoms of Speech and Press.” Ph.D. diss., New School for Social Research, 1978.
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Hughes, Robert M. “Chief Justice John Marshall and His Work.” In Genesis and Birth of the Federal Constitution: Addresses and Papers in the Marshall-Wythe School of Government and Citizenship of the College of William and Mary, edited by J.A.C. Chandler, 351-374. New York: Macmillan, 1924.
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Hulbary, William E., and Thomas G. Walker. “The Supreme Court Selection Process: Presidential Motivations and Judicial Performance.” Western Political Quarterly 33 (June 1980): 185-196.
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Hull, Elizabeth A. “Sherman Minton and the Cold War Court.” Ph.D. diss., New School for Social Research, 1977.
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Hulse, Carl. Confirmation Bias: Inside Washington's War Over the Supreme Court, from Scalia's Death to Justice Kavanaugh. New York: Harper, 2019.
Carl Hulse of the New York Times on the seat that stayed empty after Scalia's death, the Garland blockade, and the two confirmations that followed, reported from the participants; Harper, June 2019, 352 pages. Not read.
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Hume, Robert J. Ethics and Accountability on the US Supreme Court: An Analysis of Recusal Practices. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2017.
Robert Hume of Fordham on recusal at the Court, built from original datasets: the justices comply with the statute selectively, weighing ethics against the duty to sit, and recusals move outcomes less than the critics assume; SUNY Press, December 2017, 204 pages. Not read.
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Hunt, Rockwell D. California's Stately Hall of Fame. Stockton, CA: College of the Pacific, 1950.
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Hunt, William. “Bushrod Washington.” In American Biographical Panorama, by William Hunt, 40-41. Albany, NY: J. Munsell, 1849.
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Hunt, William. “James Wilson.” In American Biographical Panorama, by William Hunt, 160. Albany, NY: J. Munsell, 1849.
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Hunt, William. “Joseph Story.” In The American Biographical Sketch Book, by William Hunt, 302. New York: Cornish, Lamport, 1848.
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Hunt, William. “Nathan Clifford.” In American Biographical Sketch Book, by William Hunt, 128-129. New York: Cornish, Lamport, and Company, 1848.
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Hunt, William. “Samuel Chase.” In American Biographical Panorama, by William Hunt, 59. Albany, NY: J. Munsell, 1849.
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Hurst, James W. Justice Holmes on Legal History. New York: Macmillan, 1964.
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Huston, Luther. Pathway to Judgement: A Study of Earl Warren. Philadelphia: Chilton Books, 1966.
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Hutcheson, Joseph C. “Louis Dembitz Brandeis.” Texas Law Review 20 (November 1941): 1-3.
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Hutchinson, Dennis J. The Man Who Once Was Whizzer White: A Portrait of Justice Byron R. White. New York: Free Press, 1998.
The standard biography, by a legal scholar who clerked for White and knew him for decades.
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Hutchinson, Dennis J. “Felix Frankfurter and the Business of the Supreme Court.” Supreme Court Review 1980 (1980): 143-209.
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Hutchinson, Dennis J. “Justice Jackson and the Nuremberg Trials.” Journal of Supreme Court History 21, no. 1 (1996): 105–116.
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Hutchinson, Dennis J. “The Ideal New Frontier Judge.” Supreme Court Review 1997: 373.
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Hutchinson, Dennis J. “The Man Who Once Was Whizzer White.” Yale Law Journal 103 (1993): 43.
The article that became the book: the nickname's origin in a Denver Post sportswriter's line about a freshman game in 1934, 'an identification he did not seek, did not like and could not shake,' and the waitress who asked 'Aren't you "Whizzer" White?'
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Huthmacher, J. Joseph. “Charles Evans Hughes and Charles Francis Murphy: The Metamorphosis of Progressivism.” New York History 46 (January 1965): 25-40.
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Hyde, Charles C. “Charles Evans Hughes.” In The American Secretaries of State and Their Diplomacy, edited by Samuel F. Bemis, 221-402. New York: Pageant Book Company, 1958.
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Hyde, Charles C. “Charles Evans Hughes: An Appreciation.” American Journal of International Law 43 (April 1949): 335-338.
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Hylton, J. Gordon. “The Judge Who Abstained in Plessy v. Ferguson: Justice David Brewer and the Problem of Race.” Mississippi Law Journal 61 (1991): 315–366.
The most-cited Brewer article — why the Court's most outspoken justice, absent the day Plessy came down, compiled a record on race notably better than his brethren's, dissenting alone for Chinese litigants and Black defendants.
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Hylton, J. Gordon. “The Perils of Popularity: David Josiah Brewer and the Politics of Judicial Reputation.” Vanderbilt Law Review 62, no. 2 (2009): 567.
Hylton's mature reassessment, from the Vanderbilt symposium on forgotten justices: how the most famous judge in America circa 1900 — lecturer, essayist, public moralist — became a Lochner-era punchline, and what the collapse says about how judicial reputations are made.
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Hylton, Joseph Gordon. “David Josiah Brewer: A Conservative Justice Reconsidered.” Journal of Supreme Court History 19 (1994): 45–64.
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Hyman, Harold M. The Reconstruction Justice of Salmon P. Chase: In re Turner and Texas v. White. 1997.
The leading study of Chase as Chief Justice.
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Hyman, Harold M. “The Undocketed Constitutional Bridge Across the War Gulf, ca. 1861-73.” Journal of Supreme Court History 21 (Special Edition 1996): 63–74.
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Hyneman, Charles S. The Supreme Court on Trial. AldineTransaction, 2007.
Charles Hyneman on what the Court actually does and how its way of making policy compares with the alternatives, with the desegregation cases and judicial review as the test material; a 2007 AldineTransaction reprint, 308 pages, of a book first published by Atherton Press in 1963. Not read.
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