The Annotated Bibliography: I
20 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.
Ide, John J. The Portraits of John Jay. New York: New York Historical Society, 1938.
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Ides, Allan. “The Jurisprudence of Justice Byron White.” Yale Law Journal 103 (1993): 419.
The standard jurisprudential assessment, by White's own former clerk, published while the justice still sat — the case that White's resistance to both ideological camps was itself a coherent judicial philosophy.
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In Memoriam, Honorable Abe Fortas: Proceedings of the Bar and Officers of the Supreme Court of the United States, December 13, 1982. Washington: The Court, 1982.
The Bar's memorial, held the Term after his death and printed by the Court as a 36-page pamphlet with a portrait.
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In Memoriam, Honorable Charles Evans Whittaker: Proceedings of the Bar and Officers of the Supreme Court of the United States, February 19, 1975. Washington: The Court, 1975.
The Bar's memorial, fifteen months after his death, printed by the Court as a 39-page pamphlet with a portrait.
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“In Memoriam: Elizabeth Hughes Gossett 1907-1981.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1982: 5.
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“In Memoriam: Tom C. Clark as the Court Remembers Him.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1978: 1–2.
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Ingersoll, Henry Hulbert. “John Catron.” In Great American Lawyers, vol. 4, edited by William D. Lewis, 121-186. Philadelphia: J. C. Winston Company, 1909.
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Iredell, James. Answers to Mr. Mason's Objections to the New Constitution, Recommended by the Late Convention (by 'Marcus'). New Bern, NC: Hodge and Wills, 1788.
Iredell's reply, as 'Marcus', to George Mason's published objections to the Constitution, printed at New Bern by Hodge and Wills for North Carolina's ratification debate of 1788; the one carrier online is Paul Leicester Ford's Pamphlets on the Constitution of the United States (1888), where Mason's Objections stand at page 327 and Iredell's answer at page 333.
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Iredell, James. “Letter of James Iredell to Johnson.” Massachusetts Historical Society Proceedings 53 (1920): 27-28.
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Irish, Marian D. “Mr. Justice Douglas and Judicial Restraint.” University of Florida Law Review 6 (Winter 1953): 537-553.
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Irons, Peter, and Stephanie Guitton, eds. May It Please the Court: The Most Significant Oral Arguments Made Before the Supreme Court Since 1955. New York: The New Press, 1993.
Twenty-three landmark arguments transcribed from the Court's own tapes, six cassettes in the box, published over the National Archives restrictions the editor had signed and to the Court's public fury — the same year all the argument recordings were opened at last.
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Irons, Peter. A People's History of the Supreme Court: The Men and Women Whose Cases and Decisions Have Shaped Our Constitution. New York: Viking, 1999.
The Zinn-school history of the Court told from the litigants up — the enslaved, the schoolchildren, and the objectors whose names are on the cases — by the scholar-litigator who helped reopen Korematsu.
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Irons, Peter. Brennan vs. Rehnquist: The Battle for the Constitution. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994.
Irons's 1994 pairing of Brennan and Rehnquist as the poles of the modern Court, catalogued under both men, constitutional law and 'political questions and judicial power'; Knopf, xiv, 380 pages.
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Irons, Peter. The Courage of Their Convictions: Sixteen Americans Who Fought Their Way to the Supreme Court. New York: Free Press, 1988.
Sixteen litigants tell how their cases reached the Court, with Irons's framing; Free Press, 1988, with a Penguin paperback in 1990. Borrow it at the Internet Archive; not read.
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Irons, Peter. “Politics and Principles: An Assessment of the Roosevelt Record on Civil Rights and Liberties.” Washington Law Review 59 (September 1984): 693-772.
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Irvine, Alexander Andrew Mackay. “Constitutional Change in the United Kingdom: British Solutions to Universal Problems.” Journal of Supreme Court History 23, no. 2 (1998): 26–39.
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Isaacs, Nathan. “John Marshall on Contracts: Study in Early American Juristic Theory.” Virginia Law Review 7 (March 1921): 413-428.
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Isenbergh, Max. “Thoughts on William O. Douglas' The Court Years: A Confession and Avoidance.” American University Law Review 30 (Winter 1981): 415-428.
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Isgur, Sarah. Last Branch Standing: A Potentially Surprising, Occasionally Witty Journey Inside Today's Supreme Court. New York: Crown, 2026.
Sarah Isgur, editor of SCOTUSblog and co-host of Advisory Opinions, on the Court of 2026 as a 3-3-3 bench of institutionalists and reformers rather than a 6-3 partisan one; Crown, April 2026, 416 pages. Not read.
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Ishitani, M. Henry. “An End to Rebel ‘Punishment’: The Test Oath Cases and the Constitutional Politics of Confederate Disqualification.” Journal of Supreme Court History 49, no. 3 (2024): 240–269.
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