The Annotated Bibliography: K
170 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.
Kagan, Elena. “Confirmation Messes, Old and New.” University of Chicago Law Review 62 (1995): 919.
The essay that called confirmation hearings a 'vapid and hollow charade' — quoted back at her, endlessly, at her own vapid and hollow charade in 2010.
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Kagan, Elena. “Presidential Administration.” Harvard Law Review 114 (2001): 2245.
Kagan's most influential scholarship — the canonical modern account of presidential control over the administrative state, drawn from her Clinton White House years.
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Kagel, Sam, and Virginia B. Smith. “Chief Justice Warren and Labor Laws.” California Law Review 49 (March 1961): 126-143.
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Kahn, Michael A. “Abraham Lincoln’s Appointments to the Supreme Court: A Master Politician at his Craft.” Journal of Supreme Court History 22, no. 2 (1997): 6578.
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Kahn, Michael A. “The Appointment of John McLean to the Supreme Court: Practical Presidential Politics in the Jacksonian Era.” Journal of Supreme Court History 18 (1993): 59–72.
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Kahn, Paul W. “The Court, the Community, and the Judicial Balance: The Jurisprudence of Justice Powell.” Yale Law Journal 97 (November 1987): 1-60.
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Kahn, Ronald, and Ken I. Kersch, eds. The Supreme Court and American Political Development. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2006.
Case studies putting the Court inside the American political development literature, on the Reconstruction amendments and race, affirmative action after Bakke, the persistence of Roe, the Court's relations with the New Deal and Great Society coalitions and Native American citizenship, edited by Ronald Kahn of Oberlin and Ken I. Kersch of Princeton; Kansas, May 2006, 504 pages. Not read.
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Kairys, David. With Liberty and Justice for Some: A Critique of the Conservative Supreme Court. New York: New Press, 1993.
Thirty-one decisions on speech, voting, religion, equal protection, and privacy, read by a veteran civil rights lawyer as evidence that the liberal rulings of the 1960s were the aberration.
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Kalin, Berkley. “Young Abe Fortas.” West Tennessee Historical Society Papers 34 (October 1980): 96-100.
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Kallen, Horace M. The Faith of Louis D. Brandeis, Zionist. New York: Hadassah, Women's Zionist Organization of America, 1943.
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Kallen, Horace M. “The Faith of Louis Brandeis.” New Palestine 32 (November 14, 1941): 23.
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Kalman, Laura. Abe Fortas: A Biography. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1990.
The definitive biography, exhaustively researched and judicious.
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Kalman, Laura. FDR's Gambit: The Court Packing Fight and the Rise of Legal Liberalism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022.
Laura Kalman's revisionist account of the 1937 court-packing fight, arguing that the plan came much closer to passing than the standard story allows and that the Court changed direction in response; Oxford, September 2022, 440 pages. Not read.
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Kalman, Laura. The Long Reach of the Sixties: LBJ, Nixon, and the Making of the Contemporary Supreme Court. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.
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Kalven, Harry, Jr. “Mr. Justice Holmes: Torts.” University of Chicago Law Review 31 (Winter 1964): 263-267.
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Kalven, Harry, Jr. “Upon Rereading Mr. Justice Black on the First Amendment.” UCLA Law Review 14 (1967): 428-445.
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Kalven, Harry, Jr., and Roscoe T. Steffen. “The Bar Admission Cases: An Unfinished Debate between Justice Frankfurter and Justice Black.” Law in Transition 21 (Fall 1961): 155-196.
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Kaminski, John P., and Jennifer Lawton. “Duty and Justice at ‘Every Man’s Door’: The Grand Jury Charges of Chief Justice John Jay, 1790–1794.” Journal of Supreme Court History 31, no. 3 (2006): 235–251.
The fullest study of the charges that were the early federal judiciary's real public voice — Jay's courtroom civic sermons, reprinted in newspapers up and down the seaboard.
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Kane, N. Stephen. “Charles Evans Hughes and Mexican-American Relations, 1921-1924.” Ph.D. diss., University of Colorado, 1970.
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Kang, John M. Oliver Wendell Holmes and Fixations of Manliness. Routledge, 2018.
John Kang of St. Thomas reads the free-speech dissents in Abrams and Gitlow against an idiosyncratic conception of manliness rooted in physical courage and formed by the Civil War service, and argues that the famous opinions are philosophical commentary on what democracy demands rather than the sceptical marketplace they are usually taken for.
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Kaplan, Benjamin. “Encounters with O. W. Holmes.” Harvard Law Review 96 (June 1983): 1828-1852.
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Kaplan, David A. The Most Dangerous Branch: Inside the Supreme Court in the Age of Trump. New York: Crown, 2018.
David Kaplan's critical, behind-the-scenes narrative of the modern Court — the argument that the justices, Roberts foremost, have grasped more power than a democracy should grant them, and should be more modest than they are.
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Kaplan, Jacob J. “Mr. Justice Brandeis: Prophet.” New Palestine 32 (November 14, 1941): 27.
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Karachuk, Robert Feikema. “Error or Appeal? Navigating Review Under the Supreme Court’s Admiralty Jurisdiction, 1789-1800.” Journal of Supreme Court History 27, no. 2 (2002): 93–113.
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Karfunkel, Thomas, and Thomas W. Ryley. The Jewish Seat: Anti-Semitism and the Appointment of Jews to the Supreme Court. Hicksville, NY: Exposition Press, 1978.
Anti-Semitism and the appointment of Jews to the Court, 178 pages from Exposition Press in 1978 with a six-page bibliography. Borrow it at the Internet Archive; not read.
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Karlan, Pamela S., Diane P. Wood, Karen Nelson Moore and others. “The Jurisprudence of Justice Harry A. Blackmun.” Dickinson Law Review 97, no. 3 (Spring 1993): 421–626.
The final major reckoning written while Blackmun was still on the bench, and free in full.
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Karst, Kenneth L. “Invidious Discrimination: Justice Douglas and the Return of the 'Natural-Law-Due-Process Formula.'” UCLA Law Review 16 (1969): 716-750.
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Karst, Kenneth L. “Justice Douglas and the Equal Protection Clause.” Indiana Law Journal 51 (Fall 1975): 14-17.
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Karst, Kenneth L. “Justice Marshall and the First Amendment.” Black Law Journal 6 (Fall 1979): 26-42.
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Kastellec, Jonathan P., and Robin A. Taboni. A Database of the Shadow Docket. Journal of Law and Courts 14, no. 1 (2026): 220–237.
The first systematic database of the Court's non-merits work: Kastellec and Taboni parsed the Journal of the Supreme Court for the 1993 through 2024 terms into individual orders, sorting more than 265,000 actions across some 220,000 dockets into fifty-nine categories from cert denials to GVRs. Open access, with the data at shadowdocketdata.com and Harvard Dataverse; abstract and citation read, not the article.
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Katcher, Leo. Earl Warren: A Political Biography. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1967.
The other 1967 life, by a journalist who had covered California politics: the prosecutor, the attorney general, the governor and the vice-presidential candidate before the Court, at 520 pages.
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Katz, Irving. “Henry Lee Higginson vs. Louis Dembitz Brandeis: A Collision between Tradition and Reform.” New England Quarterly 41 (March 1968): 67-81.
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Katzenbach, Nicholas deB. “Byron White's Appointment to the Supreme Court.” University of Colorado Law Review 58 (1987): 429.
How the seat was filled in the spring of 1962, by the man who was in the Justice Department when it happened: Whittaker's retirement, the other names, and Robert Kennedy's objection that, whatever their distinction, none was really close to the President.
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Kaufman, Andrew L. Cardozo. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998.
The definitive biography, thirty years in the making, by a Harvard law professor who once clerked at the Court.
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Kaufman, Andrew L. “Judging New York Style: A Brief Retrospective of Two New York Judges.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1988: 60–65.
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Kaufman, Irving R. “Chilling Judicial Independence.” Yale Law Journal 88 (March 1979): 681-716.
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Kaufman, Irving R. “John Marshall: A Dedication.” Fordham Law Review 24 (Autumn 1955): xi-xvii.
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Kaufman, Irving R. “Thurgood Marshall: A Tribute from a Former Colleague.” Black Law Journal 6 (Fall 1979): 23-25.
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Kaye, David. “And Then There Were 12: Statistical Reasoning, the Supreme Court, and the Size of the Jury.” California Law Review 68 (September 1980): 1004-1043.
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Kaye, Judith S. “The Supreme Court and Juvenile Justice.” Journal of Supreme Court History 36, no. 1 (2011): 62–80.
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Keasbey, A. Q. “Joseph P. Bradley-A Tribute.” New Jersey Law Journal 15 (March 1892): 65-69.
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Keck, Thomas M. The Most Activist Supreme Court in History: The Road to Modern Judicial Conservatism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.
The road to modern judicial conservatism, and the case that it produced the most activist Court in the Court's history; University of Chicago Press, 2004, 378 pages. Borrow it at the Internet Archive; not read.
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Keeble, John B. “Influence of John Marshall on American Jurisprudence.” Tennessee Bar Association Proceedings 32 (1913): 169-196.
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Keedy, Edwin R. “Owen J. Roberts and the Law School.” University of Pennsylvania Law Review 104 (December 1955): 318-321.
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Keefe, Arthur J. “Justice Black Leaves His Mark.” American Bar Association Journal 58 (January 1972): 63-65.
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Keeffe, Arthur J. “John Marshall, Magnificent Mugwump.” Catholic University of America Law Review 6 (1957): 103-115.
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Kelbley, Charles A. “Bad Judgement on Judges: Why Screening Judges on Single Issues Threatens to Corrupt Our Legal System.” Human Rights 15 (Fall 1987): 14-19.
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Kelby, William. “The Duel between Brockholst Livingston and James Jones.” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 7 (1883): 486 (Notes and Queries).
The fullest account of the duel that this chapter could reach, from the librarian of the New-York Historical Society in 1883, out of the newspapers of May 1798: the Argus of May 8 and its 'Master Jemmy Jones, another boy, and not quite sixty'; Jones at the printer's, then on the Battery; Hoboken on the afternoon of Wednesday, May 9; both fired at once, and Jones 'received a ball in his groin, which opened a main artery, and he died in a few minutes'; the burial at St. Paul's the next evening.
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Kelland, Clarence B. “James Wilson, Expounder and Defender of the Constitution.” Law Student's Helper 17 (July 1909): 209-213.
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Kelland, Clarence B. “John Jay: A Brief Study of the Life of a Great Master of International Law.” Law Students' Helper 17 (April 1909): 106-108.
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Keller, Robert H., Jr. In Honor of Justice Douglas: A Symposium on Individual Freedom and the Government. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1979.
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Keller, Robert H., Jr. “William O. Douglas, the Supreme Court, and American Indians.” American Indian Law Review 3 (Winter 1975): 333-360.
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Kellogg, Frederic R. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Legal Theory, and Judicial Restraint. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Frederic Kellogg's reading of Holmes as a legal theorist rather than a stylist: the argument is that Holmes's restraint on the bench followed from a theory of law as something that emerges from social experience and community practice, so that a judge who legislates from the bench mistakes what law is.
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Kellogg, Frederic R. The Formative Essays of Justice Holmes: The Making of an American Legal Philosophy. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1984.
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Kellogg, Frederic R. “Law, Morals, and Justice Holmes.” Judicature 69 (December 1985): 214-217.
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Kelly, Florence. “Mr. Brandeis.” Survey 36 (May 13, 1916): 191-193.
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Kelso, Charles D. “Justice O'Connor Replaces Justice Stewart: What Effect on Constitutional Cases?” Pacific Law Journal 13 (January 1982): 259-272.
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Kendall, Emily. “Because of ‘His Spotless Integrity of Character’: The Story of Salmon P. Chase: Cabinets, Courts, and Currencies.” Journal of Supreme Court History 36, no. 2 (2011): 96–115.
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Kennedy, Anthony M. Life, Law & Liberty: A Memoir. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2025.
Kennedy's own account, published in October 2025 — Sacramento, the 1987 nomination after Bork, and unusually candid reflections on Casey, Obergefell, and the swing-seat decades.
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Kennedy, Anthony M. “Anthony M. Kennedy: Academy of Achievement Interview, June 3, 2005.” Academy of Achievement (2005).
Video and transcript, free.
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Kennedy, Cornelius B. “Toward 1987: The Foundation for the Constitution.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1986: 96–102.
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Kennedy, Cornelius Bryant. “Toward 1987: A Dramatic Change in Goals, 1785-1787.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1985: 112–116.
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Kennedy, Edward M., Richard B. Collins, Burke Marshall, Kate Stith, and Paul Tagliabue. “Tributes to Byron R. White.” Yale Law Journal 112 (2003): 973.
Five tributes in the March 2003 issue: Kennedy's 'The Unforgettable Byron White' (973), Collins's 'Western Justice' (975), Burke Marshall's 'Byron White, Lawyer' (987), Kate Stith's 'Justice White and the Law' (993), and NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue's 'A Tribute to Byron White' (999).
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Kennedy, Harry L. “Justice William O. Douglas on Freedom of the Press.” Ph.D. diss., Ohio University, 1980.
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Kennedy, John F. Profiles in Courage (the Lamar chapter). 1956.
The reason most readers have heard of Lamar at all.
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Kennedy, Randall. “Reconstruction: The Waite Court and the Politics of History.” Journal of Supreme Court History 21 (Special Edition 1996): 99–102.
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Kennedy, W.P.M. “Justice Louis D. Brandeis.” University of Toronto Law Journal 4 (1941): 402.
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Kennedy, Walter B. “Portrait of the New Supreme Court.” Fordham Law Review 13 (March 1944): 1-16; 14 (March 1945): 8-36.
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Kens, Paul. Justice Stephen Field: Shaping Liberty from the Gold Rush to the Gilded Age. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1997.
The modern biography and the natural first read.
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Kens, Paul. The Supreme Court under Morrison R. Waite, 1874–1888. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2010.
Paul Kens on the Court of 1874 to 1888, the civil rights cases out of the Colfax massacre and the campaigns over women's rights, Mormon polygamy and Chinese immigration, and the railroad, corporate regulation and land cases beside them, with the argument that this was no transitional Court but one whose majority saw themselves as guardians of a pre-war constitutional tradition; South Carolina, July 2010, 240 pages, in the Chief Justiceships series. Not read.
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Kens, Paul. “Dawn of the Conservative Era.” Journal of Supreme Court History 22, no. 1 (1997): 1–13.
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Kens, Paul. “Helen J. Knowles, Making Minimum Wage: Elsie Parrish versus the West Coast Hotel Company (2021).” Journal of Supreme Court History 47, no. 3 (2022): 324–329.
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Kens, Paul. “Introduction: The Incident at Lathrop Station.” Journal of Supreme Court History 30, no. 2 (2005): 85–104.
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Kens, Paul. “Justice Stephen Field of California.” Journal of Supreme Court History 33, no. 2 (2008): 149–159.
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Kens, Paul. “Lochner v. New York: Rehabilitated and Revised, but Still Reviled.” Journal of Supreme Court History 20 (1995): 31–46.
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Kens, Paul. “The Crédit Mobilier Scandal and the Supreme Court: Corporate Power, Corporate Person, and Government Control in the Mid-nineteenth Century.” Journal of Supreme Court History 34, no. 2 (2009): 170–182.
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Kens, Paul. “The Great Dissenter: The Story of John Marshall Harlan, America’s Judicial Hero Book Reviews.” Journal of Supreme Court History 47, no. 1 (2022): 6570.
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Kent, Charles A., ed. Memoir of Henry Billings Brown, Late Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. New York: Duffield, 1915.
Brown left an autobiographical sketch, and after his death his Detroit friend Charles Kent published it with connecting material — and this slim volume remains, more than a century on, the closest thing to a biography Brown has.
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Kerr, Charles. “If Spencer Roane Had Been Appointed Chief Justice Instead of John Marshall.” American Bar Association Journal 20 (March 1934): 167-172.
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Kersch, Ken I. “The Gompers v. Buck’s Stove Saga: A Constitutional Case Study in Dialogue, Resistance, and the Freedom of Speech.” Journal of Supreme Court History 31, no. 1 (2006): 28–57.
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Kiel, Daniel. The Transition: Interpreting Justice from Thurgood Marshall to Clarence Thomas. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023.
Paired study of Thurgood Marshall and Clarence Thomas and the 1991 succession that joined them, tracing two opposed constitutional routes toward the same end of fuller Black citizenship.
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Kiel, Daniel. “Justice Thurgood Marshall’s Last Stand.” Journal of Supreme Court History 47, no. 2 (2022): 197–214.
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Kierner, Cynthia A. Traders and Gentlefolk: The Livingstons of New York, 1675–1790. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1992.
The scholarly study of the Livingston dynasty of New York, in which Brockholst Livingston is a minor figure.
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Killenbeck, Mark R. "William Johnson, the Dog That Did Not Bark?" Vanderbilt Law Review 62, no. 2 (2009): 407–445.
The essential modern re-examination — from the same 2009 Vanderbilt symposium that reassessed Samuel Chase and Bushrod Washington.
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Killenbeck, Mark R. “A Prudent Regard to Our Own Good? The Commerce Clause, in Nation and States.” Journal of Supreme Court History 38, no. 3 (2013): 281–308.
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Killenbeck, Mark R. “All Banks in Like Manner Taxes? Maryland and the Second Bank of the United States.” Journal of Supreme Court History 44, no. 1 (2019): 725.
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Killenbeck, Mark R. “Fletcher, Whitney, and the Art of Disagreement.” Journal of Supreme Court History 45, no. 2 (2020): 112–139.
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Killenbeck, Mark R. “No Bed of Roses: William Johnson, Thomas Jefferson and the Supreme Court, 1822-23.” Journal of Supreme Court History 37, no. 2 (2012): 95–124.
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Kilpatrick, J. J. “Warren Legacy.” National Review 21 (August 12, 1969): 794-800.
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King, Gary. “Presidential Appointments to the Supreme Court: Adding Systematic Explanation to Probabilistic Description.” American Politics Quarterly 15 (July 1987): 373-386.
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King, Gilbert. Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America. New York: Harper, 2012.
The Pulitzer Prize winner — King's gripping reconstruction of the 1949 Groveland case in Florida, where Marshall and the LDF defended four young Black men falsely accused of rape amid lynch mobs, a murderous sheriff, and Klan terror.
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King, Michael P. “Justice Antonin Scalia: The First Term on the Supreme Court, 1986-1987.” Rutgers Law Journal 20 (Fall 1988): 1-77.
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King, Willard L. Lincoln's Manager, David Davis. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1960.
The one full biography, and still the standard life six decades on.
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King, Willard L. Melville Weston Fuller: Chief Justice of the United States, 1888–1910. New York: Macmillan, 1950.
King recovers the improbable rise: the Augusta, Maine, boy and Bowdoin graduate who became a Chicago railroad and commercial lawyer and active Democrat, never held federal office, and was Grover Cleveland's out-of-nowhere pick for the center chair after Waite died.
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King, Willard L. “Melville Weston Fuller: 'The Chief and the Giants on the Court.'” American Bar Association Journal 36 (April 1950): 293-296, 349-351.
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King, Willard L. “Melville Weston Fuller: Chief Justice of the United States, 1888-1910.” American Bar Association Journal 36 (March 1950): 183-186, 255-258.
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King, Willard L. “Mr. Justice Frankfurter Retires.” American Bar Association Journal 48 (December 1962): 1143-1145.
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Kirkpatrick, W. Wallace. “Justice Black and Antitrust.” UCLA Law Review 14 (1967): 475-500.
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Klarman, Michael J. From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
The Court and racial equality from Plessy through the Progressive Era and the wars to Brown and the civil rights movement, concluding that Brown mattered most for mobilizing southern white opposition and encouraging direct-action protest; Oxford, 2004, 655 pages. Not read.
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Klein, Michael. “Hugo L. Black: A Judicial View of American Constitutional Democracy.” University of Miami Law Review 22 (Spring 1968): 753-799.
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Kleven, Thomas. “The Constitutional Philosophy of Justice William H. Rehnquist.” Vermont Law Review 8 (Spring 1983): 1-53.
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Klimuir, D. P. “Justice Jackson and Nuremberg: A British Tribute.” Stanford Law Review 8 (December 1955): 54-59.
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Klingelsmith, Margaret C. “James Wilson and the So-Called Yazoo Frauds.” University of Pennsylvania Law Review 56 (January 1908): 1-27.
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Klingelsmith, Margaret C. “James Wilson.” In Great American Lawyers, vol. 1, edited by William D. Lewis, 149-222. Philadelphia: J. C. Winston Company, 1907-1909.
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Klinkhamer, Marie C. “Chief Justice White and Administrative Law.” Fordham Law Review 14 (November 1944): 194-231.
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Klinkhamer, Marie C. “John Marshall's Use of History.” Catholic University of America Law Review 6 (December 1956): 78-96.
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Klinkhamer, Marie C. “Joseph P. Bradley: Private Public Opinions of a 'Political' Justice.” University of Detroit Law Journal 38 (December 1960): 150-172.
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Klinkhamer, Marie Carolyn. Edward Douglass White: Chief Justice of the United States. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1943.
The standard scholarly biography — Marie Klinkhamer's life of the Confederate soldier and Louisiana sugar planter who became the ninth Chief Justice and gave American law the antitrust 'rule of reason.'
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Kluger, Richard. Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality. 1976.
The monumental history of Brown v. Board of Education — nearly 800 pages tracing the case from the plantation South to the Supreme Court, with Marshall and the LDF at its center.
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Kmiec, Douglas W. “The Supreme Court in Times of Hot and Cold War: Learning from the Sounds of Silence for a War on Terrorism.” Journal of Supreme Court History 28, no. 3 (2003): 270–299.
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Knight, Lucian L. “L.Q.C. Lamar, of Mississippi.” In Reminiscences of Famous Georgians, by Lucian L. Knight, 176-193. Atlanta: Franklin-Turner, 1907.
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Knight, Thomas J. “The Dissenting Opinions of Justice Harlan.” American Law Review 51 (July/August 1917): 481-506.
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Knowles, Helen J. The Tie Goes to Freedom: Justice Anthony M. Kennedy on Liberty. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2009.
The best study of Kennedy's constitutional thought — Helen Knowles's argument that a coherent conception of liberty, not mere difference-splitting, runs through his opinions on speech, dignity, and gay rights.
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Knowles, Helen J. “May It Please the Court? The Solicitor General’s Not-So-‘Special’ Relationship: Archibald Cox and the 1963-1964 Reapportionment Cases.” Journal of Supreme Court History 31, no. 3 (2006): 279–297.
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Knowles, Helen J. “‘Omak’s Minimum Pay Law Joan D’Arc’: Telling the Local Story of West Coast Hotel v. Parrish (1937).” Journal of Supreme Court History 37, no. 3 (2012): 283–304.
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Knowles, Helen J., and Steven B. Lichtman, eds. Judging Free Speech: First Amendment Jurisprudence of US Supreme Court Justices. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Nine essays, one justice each, on First Amendment jurisprudence: Holmes, Sutherland, Black, Harlan II, Brennan, Stewart, Kennedy, Thomas and Breyer, edited by Helen Knowles and Steven Lichtman as accessible overviews of each justice's approach; Palgrave Macmillan, October 2015, 288 pages. Not read.
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Knowles-Gardner, Helen J. “Supremely Influential: How the Man That Once Was Whizzer White Shaped My Career.” Journal of Supreme Court History 48, no. 1 (2023): 95–112.
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Knowles-Gardner, Helen J. “Without a Little Help from Your Friends: The Supreme Court’s Rejection of the American Jewish Congress Amicus Brief in NAACP v. Alabama ex rel. Patterson (1958).” Journal of Supreme Court History 50, no. 1 (2025): 54–88.
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Knowles-Gardner, Helen J. “‘The ct is disposed to consider the merits…Wow!’: Anthony Lewis Takes Us Inside the Oral Arguments in NAACP v. Alabama ex rel. Flowers (1964).” Journal of Supreme Court History 49, no. 3 (2024): 213–239.
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Knox, John. The Forgotten Memoir of John Knox: A Year in the Life of a Supreme Court Clerk in FDR’s Washington. Edited by Dennis J. Hutchinson and David J. Garrow. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002.
The most vivid inside account of any justice's chambers ever published — McReynolds's 1936–37 clerk recorded his employer's cruelty, his bigotry, and the strange loneliness of the household, against the backdrop of the Court-packing fight.
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Knox, John. “Justice George Sutherland.” Chicago Bar Review 24 (October 1942): 16-18.
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Knox, John. “Recollections of Justice Cardozo.” Chicago Bar Review 21 (October 1939): 9-10, 25.
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Knox, John. “Some Comments on Chief Justice Hughes.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1984 (1984): 34-44.
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Knox, John. “Some Correspondence with Holmes and Pollock.” Chicago Bar Review 21 (March 1940): 219-224.
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Kobler, Franz. Her Children Call Her Blessed: A Portrait of the Jewish Mother. New York: Stephen Daye Press, 1955.
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Kobylka, Joseph F. “The Court, Justice Blackmun, and Federalism: A Subtle Movement with Potentially Great Ramifications.” Creighton Law Review 19 (Winter 1986): 9-49.
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Kobylka, Joseph F., Tony Mauro, Daniel Farber and others. “Reflections on Judging: A Discussion Following the Release of the Blackmun Papers.” Missouri Law Review 70, no. 4 (Fall 2005): 965–1308.
A symposium on what the Blackmun papers revealed, held as they opened.
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Koh, Harold Hongju, Nan D. Hunter and others. “Justice Blackmun and Judicial Biography: A Conversation With Linda Greenhouse.” Brooklyn Law Review 72, no. 1 (Fall 2006): 1–236.
The reason to come is Harold Koh's “Unveiling Justice Blackmun” — Koh conducted the roughly five-hundred-page oral history over the eighteen months after the retirement, so this is the man who asked the questions writing about the man who answered them.
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Koh, Harold Hongju. “The Justice Who Grew.” Journal of Supreme Court History 19 (1994): 5–8.
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Kohn, Alan C. “Reviewed: Failing Justice: Charles Evans Whittaker of the Supreme Court, by Craig Alan Smith.” Journal of Supreme Court History 31, no. 1 (2006): 91–96.
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Kohn, Alan C. “Supreme Court Law Clerk, 1957-1958, A Reminiscence.” Journal of Supreme Court History 23, no. 2 (1998): 40–52.
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Konefsky, Samuel J. Chief Justice Stone and the Supreme Court. New York: Macmillan, 1945.
The only other book-length Stone study besides Mason's great biography — a contemporary analysis of his chief justiceship written while Stone still presided, valuable precisely for its before-the-verdict perspective on the wartime Court.
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Konefsky, Samuel J. John Marshall and Alexander Hamilton: Architects of the American Constitution. New York: Macmillan, 1964.
The classic paired study tracing how Hamilton's constitutional vision — implied powers, national supremacy, the sanctity of contract — became law through Marshall's opinions.
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Konefsky, Samuel J. The Legacy of Holmes and Brandeis: A Study in the Influence of Ideas. New York: Macmillan, 1956.
Konefsky on Holmes and Brandeis as a single inheritance rather than two careers, Macmillan, 1956, 316 pages; reprinted by Collier in 1961 and Da Capo in 1974.
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Konefsky, Samuel J. “A Fresh Glimpse of Brandeis.” Virginia Law Review 44 (November 1958): 1093-1097.
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Konefsky, Samuel J. “Holmes and Brandeis: Companions in Dissent.” Vanderbilt Law Review 10 (February 1957): 269-300.
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Konefsky, Samuel J. “Justice Frankfurter and the Conscience of a Constitutional Judge.” Brooklyn Law Review 31 (April 1965): 213-219.
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Konkle, Burton A. James Wilson and the Constitution: The Opening Address in the Official Series of Events Known as the James Wilson Memorial: Delivered before the Law Academy of Philadelphia on November 14, 1906. Philadelphia: Law Academy of Philadelphia, 1907.
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Konvitz, Milton R. Expanding Liberties: Freedom's Gains in Postwar America. New York: Viking Press, 1966.
Friedman and Israel's last item, which 'contains many references to Clark': Konvitz's survey of the postwar expansion of civil liberties, published the year before Clark left the bench, so that his Mapp and Schempp and Heart of Atlanta are in it as news.
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Kornberg, Harvey R. “Charles Evans Hughes and the Supreme Court: A Study in Judicial Philosophy and Voting Behavior.” Ph.D. diss., Brown University, 1972.
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Kozel, Randy J. Settled Versus Right: A Theory of Precedent. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Randy Kozel of Notre Dame identifies the structural problem in stare decisis, that judges who disagree about interpretive method will find their views on a precedent's durability tracking their views on whether it was right, and proposes a theory to survive changes of personnel; Cambridge, June 2017, 180 pages. Not read.
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Kraines, Oscar. “The Holmes Tradition.” American Jewish History Society Publications 42 (June 1953): 341-359.
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Kramer, Larry. “Federalism in Antebellum America: The View From the North.” Journal of Supreme Court History 21 (Special Edition 1996): 15–21.
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Kremm, Walter P. “Justice Holmes on Constitutionality and Evidence of His Influence upon the Vinson Court, 1946-1949.” Ph.D. diss., University of North Carolina, 1961.
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Krislov, Samuel. “Mr. Justice Black Reopens the Free Speech Debate.” UCLA Law Review 11 (1964): 189-211.
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Krislov, Samuel. “Oliver Wendell Holmes: The Ebb and Flow of Judicial Legendry.” Northwestern University Law Review 52 (September/October 1957): 514-525.
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Kroninger, Robert H. Sarah and the Senator. Berkeley, CA: Howell-North Books, 1964.
The book-length account of the maddest story in Supreme Court history — the Sharon divorce scandal, Sarah Althea Hill, and David Terry's vendetta against Field, which ended with a U.S. marshal shooting Terry dead at a railroad lunchroom in 1889 and the Court blessing it in In re Neagle.
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Kroninger, Robert. “The Justice (Stephen J. Field) and the Lady (Sarah Althea Hill).” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1977 (1977): 11-19.
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Kronstein, Heinrich, and Joachmin Volhard. “Brandeis before the FTC in 1915: Should Advisory Opinions Be Given?” Federal Bar Journal 24 (Fall 1964): 609-621.
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Kruse, Kevin M. “Personal Rights, Public Wrongs: The Gaines Case and the Beginning of the End of Segregation.” Journal of Supreme Court History 22, no. 2 (1997): 113–130.
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Kuhner, Timothy K. Capitalism v. Democracy: Money in Politics and the Free Market Constitution. Stanford Law Books, 2014.
Timothy Kuhner argues that treating money as speech has produced a free-market democracy that corrupts capitalism as well as democracy, since politically powerful firms escape competition, and that only an amendment can restore the boundary; Stanford Law Books, June 2014, 376 pages. Not read.
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Kull, Andrew. “Post-Plessy, Pre-Brown: ‘Logical Exactness’ in Enforcing Equal Rights.” Journal of Supreme Court History 24, no. 2 (1999): 155–169.
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Kulp, Victor H. “A Great Jurist, Oliver Wendell Holmes.” Oklahoma State Bar Journal 4 (May 1933): 34-37.
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Kurland, Philip B. Mr. Justice Frankfurter and the Constitution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1971.
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Kurland, Philip B. “Appointment and Disappointment of Supreme Court Justices.” Law and the Social Order 1972 (1972): 183-237.
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Kurland, Philip B. “Earl Warren, the 'Warren Court', and the 'Warren Myths.'” Michigan Law Review 67 (December 1968): 353-358.
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Kurland, Philip B. “Justice Robert H. Jackson: Impact on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.” University of Illinois Law Forum 1977 (1977): 551-576.
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Kurland, Philip B. “Mr. Justice Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Erie Doctrine in Diversity Cases.” Yale Law Journal 67 (December 1957): 187-218.
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Kurland, Philip B. “Review of Civil Liberties and the Vinson Court by C. Herman Pritchett.” University of Chicago Law Review 22 (1954).
Philip Kurland's 1954 review of Pritchett's Civil Liberties and the Vinson Court, the low estimate of Vinson's leadership ('If Vinson was a "leader" at all it was of Mr. Justice Clark and Mr. Justice Minton'), with footnotes naming the kinder appraisals by Allen and Frank.
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Kurland, Philip B. “The Memoirs of Chief Justice Earl Warren.” Yale Law Journal 87 (1977): 225.
Kurland's review of the posthumous memoirs opens 'This is a dull book on an important subject,' notes that the internment regret is there and the Brown dissension is not, and ends with the other verdict on where Warren belongs: 'not Marshall and Hughes, but rather his immediate predecessor and immediate successor: Fred M. Vinson and Warren E. Burger.'
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Kurland, Philip B., ed. Felix Frankfurter on the Supreme Court: Extrajudicial Essays on the Court and the Constitution. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1970.
Kurland's collection of Frankfurter's non-judicial writing on the Court and Constitution — the single best volume of the justice in his own analytical voice.
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Kurland, Philip B., ed. James Bradley Thayer, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Felix Frankfurter on John Marshall. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1967.
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Kurland, Philip B., Paul A. Freund, and Albert M. Sacks. “Mr. Justice Frankfurter.” University of Chicago Law Review 26 (Autumn/Winter 1959): 1-2, 205-216, 217-221.
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Kutler, Stanley I. Judicial Power and Reconstruction Politics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1968.
Judicial power in the politics of Reconstruction, 178 pages from the University of Chicago Press in 1968. Borrow it at the Internet Archive; not read.
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Kutler, Stanley I. “Chief Justice Taft and the Delusion of Judicial Exactness: A Study in Jurisprudence.” Virginia Law Review 48 (December 1962): 1407-1426.
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Kutler, Stanley I. “Chief Justice Taft, Judicial Unanimity, and Labor: The Coronado Case.” Historian 24 (November 1961): 68-83.
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Kutler, Stanley I. “Chief Justice Taft, National Regulation, and the Commerce Clause.” Journal of American History 51 (March 1965): 651-668.
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Kutler, Stanley I. “The Judicial Philosophy of Chief Justice Taft and Organized Labor, 1921-1930.” Ph.D. diss., Ohio State University, 1960.
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Kutler, Stanley I., ed. John Marshall. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1972.
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Kyvig, David E. “Appealing Supreme Court Decisions: Constitutional Amendments as Checks on Judicial Review.” Journal of Supreme Court History 21, no. 2 (1996): 106–119.
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