The Annotated Bibliography: L
238 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.
L'Heureux-Dubé, Claire. “Canadian Justice: Celebrating Differences and Sharing Problems.” Journal of Supreme Court History 20 (1995): 5–10.
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Labbé, Ronald M. & Jonathan Lurie. The Slaughterhouse Cases: Regulation, Reconstruction, and the Fourteenth Amendment. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2003.
The standard history of the 1873 decision that first construed the Fourteenth Amendment and narrowed it for a century.
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Ladnier, Catherine & Clare Cushman. “Miranda Three Years Later: Five Justices Discuss the Case.” Journal of Supreme Court History 50, no. 2 (2025): 123–153.
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Lahav, Pnina. “History in Journalism and Journalism in History: Anthony Lewis and the Watergate Crisis.” Journal of Supreme Court History 29, no. 2 (2004): 163176.
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Lamar, Clarinda Pendleton. The Life of Joseph Rucker Lamar, 1857–1916. 1926.
The one full life, written by the justice's widow ten years after his death.
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Lamar, Joseph R. A Century's Progress in Law. Augusta, GA: Richards and Shaver, 1900.
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Lamar, Joseph R. “History of the Establishment of the Supreme Court of Georgia.” Report of the Georgia Bar Association 24 (1907): 85-103.
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Lamb, Brian, Susan Swain, and Mark Farkas, eds. The Supreme Court: A C-SPAN Book Featuring the Justices in Their Own Words. New York: PublicAffairs, 2010.
Interviews with all nine sitting justices plus retired Justice O'Connor, gathered for a C-SPAN documentary and rounded out by court reporters, advocates, and the Clerk of the Court.
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Lamb, Charles M. “The Making of a Chief Justice: Warren Burger on Criminal Procedure, 1956-1969.” Cornell Law Review 60 (June 1975): 743-788.
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Lamb, Charles M. “Warren Burger and the Insanity Defense: Judicial Philosophy and Voting Behavior on a U.S. Court of Appeals.” American University Law Review 24 (Fall 1974): 91-128.
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Lamb, Charles M. “When Judicial Agreement Seems Impossible: Warren Burger, David Bazelon, and the D.C. Court of Appeals.” American Journal of Political Science 11 (Spring 1984): 75-82.
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Lamb, Charles M., and Stephen C. Halpern, eds. The Burger Court: Political and Judicial Profiles. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1991.
A profile of each justice of the Burger Court and of the Court's politics, 513 illustrated pages from the University of Illinois Press in 1991, five years after Burger left.
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Lamb, George C., III, Charles L. Schlumberger, D. J. Simonetti, James D. Spratt, Jr., Joel R. Tew, and Douglas W. Ey, Jr. “Justice Stevens: The First Three Terms.” Vanderbilt Law Review 32 (April 1979): 671-754.
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Lamb, Martha J. “Chief Justice Morrison Remick Waite, His Home in Washington.” Magazine of American History 20 (July 1888): 1-16.
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Lambert, William. “Fortas of the Supreme Court: A Question of Ethics; The Justice and the Stock Manipulator.” Life 66 (May 9, 1969): 32-37.
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Lampo, Jordan. “The Last Days of the Warren Court: How Justice Brennan Orchestrated Shapiro v. Thompson (1969).” Journal of Supreme Court History 48, no. 1 (2023): 75–94.
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Landis, James M. “Mr. Justice Brandeis and the Harvard Law School.” Harvard Law Review 55 (December 1941): 184-190.
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Landis, James M. “Mr. Justice Brandeis.” Legal Intelligencer 106 (January 29, 1942): 1.
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Landis, James M. “Mr. Justice Brandeis: A Law Clerk's View.” American Jewish Historical Society Publications 46 (June 1957): 467-473.
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Landynski, Jacob W. “In Search of Justice Black's Fourth Amendment.” Fordham Law Review 45 (December 1976): 453-496.
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Landynski, Jacob W. “John Marshall Harlan and the Bill of Rights: A Centennial View.” Social Research 49 (Winter 1982): 899-926.
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Lane, Charles. The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction. New York: Henry Holt, 2008.
The dark side of the same Court, told as narrative history.
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Lane, Frederick S. The Court and the Cross: The Religious Right's Crusade to Reshape the Supreme Court. Beacon Press, 2008.
Frederick S. Lane on three decades of organised effort to shape federal judicial appointments and what it did to the decisions on school prayer, abortion and public funding of religious bodies, by a legal journalist and attorney; Beacon Press, 2008, 263 pages. Not read.
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Langran, Robert W. “Congress versus the Court.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1978: 91–96, 120.
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Langran, Robert W. “Presidents vs. the Court.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1977: 70–78.
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Langran, Robert W. “Why Are Some Supreme Court Justices Rated as Failures?” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1985 (1985): 8-14.
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Laporte, Cloyd. “John M. Harlan Saves the Ella Wendel Estate.” American Bar Association Journal 59 (August 1973): 668-872.
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Laracey, Mel. “The Impeachment of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase: New Perspectives from Thomas Jefferson’s Presidential Newspaper.” Journal of Supreme Court History 40, no. 3 (2015): 231–248.
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Lardner, Lynford A. “The Constitutional Doctrines of Justice David Josiah Brewer.” Ph.D. diss., Princeton University, 1938.
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Larson, Robert W. “Taft, Roosevelt, and New Mexico Statehood.” Mid-America 45 (April 1963): 99-114.
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Lash, Joseph P., ed. From the Diaries of Felix Frankfurter. New York: W. W. Norton, 1975.
Frankfurter's own diaries, with a long biographical introduction by Joseph Lash — gossipy, self-justifying, and indispensable, the justice's unguarded running commentary on colleagues, presidents, and cases.
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Lashly, Jacob M. “Mr. Justice Whittaker.” American Bar Association Journal 43 (June 1957): 526-527.
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Laska, Lewis L. “Mr. Justice Sanford and the Fourteenth Amendment.” Tennessee Historical Quarterly 33 (Summer 1974): 210-227.
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Laski, Harold J. “Mr. Justice Brandeis.” Harper's Magazine 209 (January 1934): 168-218.
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Laski, Harold J. “Mr. Justice Holmes: For His Eighty-ninth Birthday.” Harper's 160 (March 1930): 415-423.
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Laski, Harold J. “The Political Philosophy of Mr. Justice Holmes.” Yale Law Journal 40 (March 1931): 683-695.
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Lasser, William. The Limits of Judicial Power: The Supreme Court in American Politics. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988.
The Supreme Court in American politics and the limits of what it can do, 354 pages from the University of North Carolina Press in 1988 with a twenty-four-page bibliography. Borrow it at the Internet Archive; not read.
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Latham, Frank B. The Great Dissenter: Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan, 1833-1911. New York: Cowles Book Company, 1970.
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Lathrop, Henry W. “Judge Miller's Appointment to the Supreme Court.” Iowa Historical Record 7 (January 1891): 16-17.
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Laufer, David D. “Hague v. C.I.O.: Mr. Justice Stone's Test of Federal Jurisdiction: A Reappraisal.” Buffalo Law Review 19 (Spring 1970): 547-564.
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Laurence, Robert. “Thurgood Marshall's Indian Law Opinions.” Howard Law Journal 27 (Winter 1984): 3-89.
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Lauter, David. “The Justices Again Repudiate Rehnquist: Is His Dominance of the Court a Myth?” National Law Journal 7 (April 1, 1985): 5.
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Lavery, Emmet. “Felix Frankfurter and the Theater.” American Bar Association Journal 51 (December 1965): 1162-1164.
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Lavery, Emmet. “Justice Holmes and Canon Sheehan.” Catholic World 172 (October 1950): 13-19.
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Lawless, William B. “Mr. Justice Jackson: The Struggle for Federal Supremacy.” Notre Dame Law Review 37 (May 1962): 489-498.
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Lawlor, John M. “Court Packing Revisited: A Proposal for Rationalizing the Timing of Appointments to the Supreme Court.” University of Pennsylvania Law Review 134 (April 1986): 967-1000.
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Lawrence, Albert B. “A Murder that Mattered: Sam Sheppard, the Supreme Court, and Free Press/Free Trial.” Journal of Supreme Court History 43, no. 2 (2018): 16072.
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Lawrence, Albert B. “The (Very) Abbreviated Supreme Court Career of Edwin M. Stanton.” Journal of Supreme Court History 42, no. 2 (2017): 154–170.
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Lawrence, Albert B. “The Brothers Peckham and the Politics of Judicial Nomination.” Journal of Supreme Court History 39, no. 1 (2014): 22–34.
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Lawrence, Albert. “Biased Justice: James C. McReynolds of the Supreme Court of the United States.” Journal of Supreme Court History 30, no. 3 (2005): 244–270.
The standard scholarly treatment of what makes McReynolds unique in the Court's history: an antisemitism so open he refused to speak to Brandeis, sit for photographs with him, or attend Cardozo's memorial.
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Lawrence, Albert. “Herbert Brownell, Jr.: The ‘Hidden Hand’ in the Selection of Earl Warren and the Government’s Role in Brown v. Board of Education.” Journal of Supreme Court History 37, no. 1 (2012): 75–92.
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Lawrence, Alexander A. James Moore Wayne: Southern Unionist. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1943.
The standard biography for eighty years, by a Savannah lawyer-historian with access to the family materials and the city's memory.
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Lawrence, Alexander A. “Justice Wayne and the Dred Scott Case.” In Report of Proceedings of the Fifty-seventh Annual Session of the Georgia Bar Association, edited by John B. Harris, 196-218. Macon, GA: W. Burke Company, 1940.
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Lawrence, Barnett M. “The Supreme Court: The 1985-86 Term in Review and a Look Ahead.” Environmental Law Reporter 16 (November 1986): 10325-10329.
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Lawrence, David. Nine Honest Men. New York: Appleton and Company, 1936.
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Laws, Bolitha J. “Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson.” American Bar Association Journal 39 (October 1953): 901-921.
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Laycock, Douglas. “Edward Schempp and His Family.” Journal of Supreme Court History 38, no. 1 (2013): 63–79.
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Laycock, Douglas. “The Clear and Present Danger Test.” Journal of Supreme Court History 25, no. 2 (2000): 161–186.
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Lazarus, Edward. Closed Chambers: The First Eyewitness Account of the Epic Struggles Inside the Supreme Court. New York: Times Books, 1998.
A Blackmun clerk's account of October Term 1988 — capital punishment, race, abortion — attacked on publication for breaching the confidentiality of chambers.
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Lazarus, Richard J. The Rule of Five: Making Climate History at the Supreme Court. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020.
Massachusetts v. EPA from Joe Mendelson's petition to Stevens's five-vote opinion, told by Richard Lazarus of Harvard, who argues that accident, infighting and luck decided the case as much as law; Belknap, March 2020, 368 pages, and winner of the 2021 Julia Ward Howe Prize. Not read.
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Leach, Richard H. "Rediscovery of Samuel Nelson." New York History 34, no. 1 (1953): 64–71.
The one modern scholarly attempt to pull Nelson out of the footnotes, and its title concedes the situation: a half-century judge obscured precisely because he generated no scandals and joined no crusades.
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Leach, Richard H. “Benjamin R. Curtis: Case Study of a Supreme Court Justice.” Ph.D. diss., Princeton University, 1951.
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Leach, Richard H. “Benjamin Robbins Curtis: A Model for a Successful Legal Career.” American Bar Association Journal 41 (March 1955): 225-228.
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Leach, Richard H. “Benjamin Robbins Curtis: Judicial Misfit.” New England Quarterly 25 (December 1952): 448-462.
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Leach, Richard H. “Justice Curtis and the Dred Scott Case.” Essex Institute Historical Collection 94 (January 1958): 37-56.
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Leach, Richard H.; Frank J. Williams & William D. Bader. "A Model for a Successful Legal Career" (ABA Journal, 1955) & "Maverick Lawyer and Independent Jurist" (Roger Williams U. L. Rev., 2012).
That the bar keeps reaching for Curtis as its exemplar is itself the finding.
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Leavelle, Arnaud B. “James Wilson and the Relation of Scottish Metaphysics to American Political Thought.” Political Science Quarterly 57 (September 1942): 394-410.
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Ledbetter, William H., Jr. “Mr. Justice Harlan: Due Process and Civil Liberties.” South Carolina Law Review 20 (1968): 389.
The doctrinal study Friedman and Israel point to, by an assistant professor at South Carolina: Harlan's Fourteenth Amendment due process work traced to Cardozo and Frankfurter and read through the state criminal procedure, free speech and privacy cases as restraint rather than preference, with the cost stated plainly: 'His treatment of civil liberty cases within the due process clause no doubt causes him in many instances to decide a case quite differently from his personal tastes.'
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Lee, Edward T. “Resolution Relative to Appointment of Hugo L. Black as a Justice of the United States.” John Marshall Law Quarterly 4 (September 1938): 71-77.
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Lee, Evan Tsen. Judicial Restraint in America: How the Ageless Wisdom of the Federal Courts Was Invented. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Evan Tsen Lee's history of where the restraint doctrines came from, standing and abstention among them, from Marshall to Scalia, with the claim that they cannot be understood apart from the cultural and intellectual forces of their times, including shifting values about property, racial equality and the environment; Oxford, 2011, 232 pages. Not read.
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Lee, Mike. Saving Nine: The Fight Against the Left's Audacious Plan to Pack the Supreme Court and Destroy American Liberty. Nashville, TN: Center Street, 2022.
Senator Mike Lee of Utah against Court expansion, arguing that the idea has moved from the fringe into mainstream Democratic politics and would turn the judiciary into a partisan instrument; Center Street, 2022, 240 pages. Not read.
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Lee, Rex E. “Lawyering in the Supreme Court: The Role of the Solicitor General.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1985: 15–21.
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Lee, Rex E. “On Greatness and Constitutional Vision: Justice Byron R. White.” Journal of Supreme Court History 18 (1993): 5–10.
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Lee, Rex. “In Memoriam: Abe Fortas.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1983: 7–9.
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Leedes, Gary C. “Justice George Sutherland and the Status Quo: A Biographical and Review Essay.” Journal of Supreme Court History 20 (1995): 137–146.
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Leedes, Gary C. “Mr. Justice Powell's Standing.” University of Richmond Law Review 11 (Winter 1977): 269-290.
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Lefberg, Irving F. “Chief Justice Vinson and the Politics of Desegregation.” Emory Law Journal 24 (Spring 1975): 243-312.
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Lehman, Irving. The Influence of Judge Cardozo (1870-1938): A Memorial. Stanford, CT: Overbook Press, 1938.
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Lehman, Irving. The Influence of Judge Cardozo on the Common Law. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1942.
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Lehman, Irving. “Judge Cardozo in the Court of Appeals.” Columbia Law Review 39 (January 1939): 12-19.
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Lehman, Irving. “The Influence of Judge Cardozo on the Common Law.” Law Library Journal 35 (January 1942): 2-9.
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Leiter, Richard A., and Roy M. Mersky, eds. Landmark Supreme Court Cases: The Most Influential Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States. New York: Facts On File, 2012.
More than six hundred decisions arranged chronologically within chapters by legal issue, each entry giving the citation, the year, the key issue, the background, the arguments, the majority and dissenting opinions, the aftermath, the significance, related cases and further reading, edited by Richard A. Leiter and Roy M. Mersky; Facts On File, 2012, three volumes, a second edition of the 2004 set by Gary R. Hartman, Mersky and Cindy L. Tate. Not read.
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Lemieux, Scott E. “The Exception That Defines the Rule: Marshall’s Marbury Strategy and the Development of Supreme Court Doctrine.” Journal of Supreme Court History 28, no. 2 (2003): 197–211.
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Lendler, Marc. “The Time to Kill a Snake: Gitlow v. New York and the Bad-Tendency Doctrine.” Journal of Supreme Court History 36, no. 1 (2011): 11–29.
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Lenihan, Joseph L. “Supreme Court Justice Encounters Violence.” Kentucky State Bar Journal 16 (September 1952): 193-196.
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Leonard, Charles A. A Search for a Judicial Philosophy: Mr. Justice Roberts and the Constitutional Revolution of 1937. Millwood, NY: KTO Press, 1971.
The closest thing to a full study of Roberts, built around the question that shadows him: did he switch in 1937 from principle or from fear of Roosevelt's court-packing plan?
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Leonard, Charles. “A Revolution Runs Wild.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1980 (1980): 55-61.
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Lepore, Stefanie A. “The Development of the Supreme Court Practice of Calling for the Views of the Solicitor General.” Journal of Supreme Court History 35, no. 1 (2010): 35–53.
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Lerner, Max. Homage to Louis D. Brandeis. New York: Viking Press, 1939.
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Lerner, Max. “Homage to Brandeis.” Nation 148 (February 15, 1939): 222.
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Lerner, Max. “Hugo Black: A Personal History.'” Nation 145 (October 1937): 367-369.
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Lerner, Max. “John Marshall and the Campaign of History.” Columbia Law Review 39 (March 1939): 396-431.
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Lerner, Max. “John Marshall's Long Shadow.” In Ideas Are Weapons: The History and Uses of Ideas, edited by Max Lerner, 27-37. New York: Viking Press, 1939.
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Lerner, Max. “Mr. Justice Black.” In Ideas Are Weapons: The History and Uses of Ideas, edited by Max Lerner, 254-266. New York: Viking Press, 1939.
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Lerner, Max. “Mr. Justice Brandeis.” In Ideas Are Weapons: The History and Uses of Ideas, edited by Max Lerner, 70-112. New York: Viking Press, 1939.
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Lerner, Max. “Mr. Justice Holmes.” In Ideas Are Weapons: The History and Uses of Ideas, edited by Max Lerner, 54-67. New York: Viking Press, 1939.
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Lerner, Max. “Supreme Court.” Holiday 7 (February 1950): 73-82, 119-122.
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Lerner, Max. “Taney Redivivus.” In Ideas Are Weapons: The History and Uses of Ideas, edited by Max Lerner, 38-41. New York: Viking Press, 1939.
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Lerner, Max. “The Social Thought of Mr. Justice Brandeis.” Yale Law Journal 41 (November 1931): 1-32.
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Leslie, William R. “Similarities in Lord Mansfield's and Joseph Story's View of Fundamental Law.” American Journal of Legal History 1 (October 1957): 278-307.
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Leslie, William R. “The Influence of Joseph Story's Theory of the Conflict of Laws on Constitutional Nationalism.” Mississippi Valley Historical Review 35 (September 1948): 203-220.
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Lessard, Suzannah. “Rehnquist, Powell, and the Cult of the Pro.” Washington Monthly 3 (December 1972): 48-56.
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Lessig, Lawrence. Fidelity & Constraint: How the Supreme Court Has Read the American Constitution. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
Lawrence Lessig's six-hundred-page account of constitutional interpretation as translation, fidelity to meaning across changing contexts, and of the second fidelity, to the judicial role, which he argues wins when the two conflict; Oxford, May 2019, in the Inalienable Rights series. Not read.
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Lester, Wilbur R. “Fred M. Vinson in the Executive Branch.” Northwestern University Law Review 49 (1954): 36.
The war years and the Treasury, by the man who clerked for Judge Vinson on the Court of Appeals for two years and was his assistant through the three in the executive branch; it begins on that arithmetic: 'FRED M. VINSON was in the Executive Branch of the Federal Government for three years.'
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Lettieri, Ronald John. Connecticut's Young Man of the Revolution: Oliver Ellsworth. Hartford: American Revolution Bicentennial Commission of Connecticut, 1978.
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Leuchtenburg, William E. The Supreme Court Reborn: The Constitutional Revolution in the Age of Roosevelt. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
The best account of the 1937 crisis — the collision between Roosevelt's New Deal and the Four Horsemen, the court-packing plan, and the shift of doctrine that made the plan unnecessary.
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Leuchtenburg, William E. “A Klansman Joins the Court: The Appointment of Hugo L. Black.” University of Chicago Law Review 41 (Fall 1973): 1-31.
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Leuchtenburg, William E. “F. D. R.’s Court-Packing Plan: A Second Life, A Second Death.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1988: 78–90.
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Leuchtenburg, William E. “The Nine Justices Respond to the 1937 Crisis.” Journal of Supreme Court History 22, no. 1 (1997): 55–75.
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Leventhal, Louis E. “Louis Dembitz Brandeis.” American Jewish Year Book 44 (1942/1943): 37-52.
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Levin, A. J. “Mr. Justice William Johnson and the Common Incidents of Life.” Michigan Law Review 44 (August 1945): 59-112; (October 1945): 243-293.
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Levin, A. J. “Mr. Justice William Johnson and the Unenviable Dilemma.” Michigan Law Review 42 (April 1944): 803-830.
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Levin, A. J. “Mr. Justice William Johnson, Creative Dissenter.” Michigan Law Review 43 (December 1944): 497-548.
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Levin, A. J. “Mr. Justice William Johnson, Jurist in Limine: Dissent and the Judging Faculty.” Michigan Law Review 47 (February 1949): 477-536.
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Levin, A. J. “Mr. Justice William Johnson, Jurist in Limine: The Judge as Historian and Maker of History.” Michigan Law Review 46 (December 1947): 131-186.
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Levin, A. J. “Mr. Justice William Johnson, Jurist in Limine: Views on Judicial Precedent.” Michigan Law Review 46 (February 1948): 481-520.
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Levin, H. “John McKinley.” In The Lawyers and Law Makers of Kentucky, by H. Levin, 150. Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company, 1897.
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Levin, H. “Robert Trimble.” In The Lawyers and Law Makers of Kentucky, by H. Levin, 149-150. Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company, 1897.
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Levin, H. “Samuel F. Miller.” In The Lawyers and Law Makers of Kentucky, by H. Levin, 151. Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company, 1897.
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Levin, H. “Thomas Todd.” In The Lawyers and Law Makers of Kentucky, by H. Levin, 149. Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company, 1897.
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Levine, Lee, and Stephen Wermiel. The Progeny: Justice William J. Brennan's Fight to Preserve the Legacy of New York Times v. Sullivan. American Bar Association, 2014.
Brennan's fifty-year defence of New York Times v. Sullivan and the line of defamation and speech cases descending from it, written from previously unpublished Brennan papers and from Stephen Wermiel's own interviews with the justice, with Lee Levine; American Bar Association, 2014, 473 pages. Not read.
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Levitan, David M. “Mahlon Pitney, Labor Judge.” Virginia Law Review 40, no. 6 (1954): 733–770.
The classic examination of the record Pitney is remembered for — the full run of his labor opinions, from Coppage to his quiet votes sustaining workmen's compensation.
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Levitan, David M. “Mr. Justice Rutledge.” Virginia Law Review 34 (May/June 1948): 393-416; (July 1948): 526-552.
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Levitan, David M. “The Foreign Relations Power: An Analysis of Mr. Justice Sutherland's Theory.” Yale Law Journal 55 (April 1946): 467-497.
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Levitan, David M. “The Jurisprudence of Mr. Justice Clarke.” Miami Law Quarterly 7, no. 1 (1952).
The one dedicated study of Clarke's six years of opinions — the Wilson appointee whose liberal dissents alongside Brandeis and Holmes hinted at the justice he might have become had he stayed.
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Levy, Beryl H. Cardozo and Frontiers of Legal Thinking, with Selected Opinions. Cleveland: Press of Case Western Reserve University, 1969.
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Levy, Beryl H. Our Constitution: Tool or Testament? 'Democracy Militant.' Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, 1965.
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Levy, Beryl H. Our Constitution: Tool or Testament? 'Holmes: Above the Battle'. New York: Knopf, 1941.
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Levy, Beryl H. “A Solid Chief Justice: Harlan Fiske Stone.” Indiana Law Journal 17 (October 1941): 23-29.
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Levy, David W. “Before Brown: The Racial Integration of American Higher Education.” Journal of Supreme Court History 24, no. 3 (1999): 298–313.
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Levy, David W. “Learned Hand, The Man the Judge A Review Essay.” Journal of Supreme Court History 19 (1994): 133–138.
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Levy, David W. “The Lawyer as Judge: Brandeis' View of the Legal Profession.” Oklahoma Law Review 22 (November 1969): 374-395.
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Levy, David W. “Twenty-One Months of Hell and the Supreme Court to the Rescue in McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents.” Journal of Supreme Court History 45, no. 1 (2020): 28–43.
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Levy, David W., and Bruce A. Murphy. “Preserving the Progressive Spirit in Conservative Times: The Joint Reform Efforts of Justice Brandeis and Professor Frankfurter, 1916-1933.” Michigan Law Review 78 (August 1980): 1252-1304.
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Levy, Leonard W., ed. The Supreme Court under Earl Warren. New York: Quadrangle Books, 1972.
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Levy, Martin L. “Supreme Court in Retreat: Wealth Discrimination and Mr. Justice Marshall.” Texas Southern University Law Review 4 (Spring 1977): 209-242.
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Levy, Robert A., and William Mellor. The Dirty Dozen: How Twelve Supreme Court Cases Radically Expanded Government and Eroded Freedom. New York: Sentinel, 2008.
Twelve decisions arraigned as the ones that expanded government and eroded liberty, from Helvering v. Davis and Wickard v. Filburn to Kelo v. New London, by Robert Levy, then chairman of the Cato Institute, and William Mellor, president of the Institute for Justice; Sentinel, 2008, 302 pages, an advocate's brief rather than a study. Not read.
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Lewin, Nathan. “Helping the Court with Its Work: A Response to Goldberg and Bickel.” New Republic 168 (March 1973): 15-19.
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Lewin, Nathan. “Justice Harlan: 'The Full Measure of the Man.'” American Bar Association Journal 58 (June 1972): 579-583.
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Lewis F. Powell Jr. Archives. Lexington, Virginia: Washington and Lee University School of Law.
The papers, at his alma mater's law school: the Powell Papers proper, the law library's other manuscript collections, and the school's own archives, with the memorandum and a growing digitised selection online.
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Lewis, Anthony. Gideon’s Trumpet. New York: Random House, 1964.
The classic account of Gideon v. Wainwright: Clarence Earl Gideon's petition from prison, Abe Fortas's court-appointed argument, and the 1963 holding that a poor defendant must be given a lawyer.
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Lewis, Anthony. Make No Law: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment. New York: Random House, 1991.
New York Times v. Sullivan told whole — the 1960 advertisement, the Montgomery commissioner's $500,000 libel suit, the 1964 decision — set inside a broader history of American free speech.
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Lewis, Anthony. “A Tough Lawyer Goes to the Supreme Court.” New York Times Magazine 114 (August 8, 1965): 11, 65-67.
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Lewis, Anthony. “Constitutionality of Recess Appointments of Judges to Federal Bench Doubted.” American Judicature Society Journal 41 (December 1957): 122-123.
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Lewis, Anthony. “Justice Black at 75: Still the Dissenter.” New York Times Magazine 110 (February 26, 1961): 13, 73-75.
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Lewis, Anthony. “New Look at the Chief Justice.” New York Times Magazine 113 (January 19, 1964): 9, 63-65.
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Lewis, Anthony. “Portraits of Nine Men under Attack.” New York Times Magazine 107 (May 18, 1958): 14-15.
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Lewis, Ellwood W. “The Appointment of Mr. Justice Harlan.” Indiana Law Journal 29 (Fall 1953): 46-74.
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Lewis, Meredith Kolsky. “Justice William Johnson and the History of Supreme Court Dissent.” Georgetown Law Journal 83 (1995): 2069-2098.
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Lewis, Peter W. “Justice Stewart and Fourth Amendment Probable Cause: 'Swing Voter' or Participant in a 'New Majority'?” Loyola Law Review 22 (Summer 1976): 713-742.
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Lewis, Thomas Tandy, ed. The U.S. Supreme Court. Salem Press, 2016.
Salem Press's three-volume student reference, edited by Thomas Tandy Lewis: every justice, articles on areas of law and constitutional clauses, and hundreds of decisions, with the 2016 edition adding gun rights, campaign finance, same-sex marriage, class actions and unions; 1,093 pages, a second edition of the Magill's Choice set of 2007. Not read.
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Lewis, Walker. Without Fear or Favor: A Biography of Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965.
The other full biography — warmer, faster, written for general readers by a Maryland lawyer who spent years in the family materials.
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Lewis, Walker. “At Home with Chief Justice Taney.” American Bar Association Journal 51 (September 1965): 829-834.
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Lewis, Walker. “Backstage at Dartmouth College.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1977: 29–37.
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Lewis, Walker. “Unjust Judge: Who Wrote It?” American Bar Association Journal 50 (October 1964): 932-937.
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Lewis, William D. “John Marshall.” In Great American Lawyers, vol. 2, edited by William D. Lewis, 311-408. Philadelphia: J. C. Winston Company, 1907.
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Libby, Charles F. John Marshall: An Address Delivered at... [Bowdoin] College on February 4, 1901, the Centenary of the Installation of John Marshall as Chief Justice of the United States. Brunswick, ME: Bowdoin College, 1901.
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Library of Congress, Division of Bibliography (Herman H. B. Meyer, chief bibliographer). List of Works Relating to the Supreme Court of the United States. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1909.
The Library of Congress's own bibliography of the Court, compiled under Herman H. B. Meyer in 1909: books, periodical articles, reports, digests of reports, and biographical material on the chief justices and justices, 124 pages from the Government Printing Office. Free and in the public domain.
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Library of Congress, Division of Bibliography. Supplementary List of References on Judicial Legislation by Decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court Declaring Laws Unconstitutional, Including Power of Congress to Review These Decisions. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1924.
Fifteen pages from the Library of Congress Division of Bibliography in 1924: references on judicial legislation, the decisions striking down statutes, and on the power of Congress to review them, the reading list for the court-curbing debate of the Twenties. A sequel to the Division's 1909 list on this shelf. Public domain; no scan reached. Not read.
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Library of Congress. Hugo LaFayette Black Papers — Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 2011.
130,000 items in 513 containers, spanning 1883 to 1976 and covering both careers: correspondence, notebooks, case files, speeches, and the Senate papers as well as the Court ones.
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Lichtman, Robert M. The Supreme Court and McCarthy-Era Repression: One Hundred Decisions. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2012.
Robert Lichtman's account of every Communist-related decision of the McCarthy era, a hundred of them, tracing the turn from the Vinson Court's deference to the Warren Court's resistance, the retreat under Frankfurter's influence and the resumption after Goldberg replaced him in 1962; Illinois, July 2012, 285 pages, by a lawyer who practised for nearly thirty years in Washington. Not read.
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Lichtman, Robert M. “McCarthyism and the Court: The Need for ‘an uncommon portion of fortitude in the judges.’” Journal of Supreme Court History 39, no. 1 (2014): 107–132.
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Liebman, Lance. “Swing Man on the Supreme Court.” New York Times Magazine 122 (October 8, 1972): 16-17, 94-95, 98, 100.
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Lief, Alfred. The Personal History of an American Ideal. Harrisburg, PA: Telegraph Press, 1936.
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Lightner, David L. “The Supreme Court and the Interstate Slave Trade: A Study in Evasion, Anarchy, and Extremism.” Journal of Supreme Court History 29, no. 3 (2004): 229–253.
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Lillich, Richard B. “The Chase Impeachment.” American Journal of Legal History 4 (January 1960): 49-72.
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Lima, Lazaro. Being Brown: Sonia Sotomayor and the Latino Question. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2019.
Lazaro Lima reads the appointment rather than the life: his argument is that Sotomayor's confirmation was taken as a sign of Latino inclusion at exactly the moment when the civil rights protections that made her career possible were being dismantled, and that treating her as a possibility model substitutes symbol for enfranchisement.
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Lind, Robert C. “Justice Rehnquist: First Amendment Speech in the Labor Context.” Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly 8 (Fall 1980): 93-123.
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Linde, Hans A. “Constitutional Rights in the Public Sector: Justice Douglas on Liberty in the Welfare State.” Washington Law Review 40 (April 1965): 10-77.
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Linde, Hans A. “Justice Douglas on Freedom in the Welfare State: Constitutional Rights in the Public Sector.” Washington Law Review 39 (Spring 1964): 4-46.
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Linder, Usher F. “David Davis.” In Reminiscences of the Early Bench and Bar in Illinois, by Usher F. Linder, 181-188. Chicago: Chicago Legal News, 1879.
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Lindquist, Stefanie A., and Frank B. Cross. Measuring Judicial Activism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Stefanie Lindquist and Frank Cross's attempt to make judicial activism measurable rather than partisan, scoring the use of judicial review against federal and state law and executive action, the expansion of access to the courts and the willingness to overturn precedent, and ranking recent justices on each; Oxford, April 2009, 192 pages. Not read.
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Lindstrom, Eugene E. “Attributes Affecting the Voting Behavior of Supreme Court Justices: 1889-1959.” Ph.D. diss., Stanford University, 1968.
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Lingelbach, William E. “Owen J. Roberts and the American Philosophical Society.” University of Pennsylvania Law Review 104 (December 1955): 368-371.
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Litman, Leah. Lawless: How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, and Bad Vibes. New York: One Signal/Atria, 2025.
Irreverent polemic from a Michigan law professor and Strict Scrutiny co-host, arguing that the six-justice majority runs on conservative grievance rather than the originalism it professes.
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Lively, Donald E. “The Supreme Court Appointment Process: In Search of Constitutional Roles and Responsibilities.” Southern California Law Review 59 (March 1986): 551-579.
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Lively, Donald E., and D. Scott Broyles. Contemporary Supreme Court Cases: Landmark Decisions Since Roe v. Wade. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2016.
More than a hundred landmark decisions since Roe, with commentary and excerpts from the opinions, arranged under separation of powers, economic regulation, equality and individual rights, by Donald Lively of Toledo and D. Scott Broyles; ABC-CLIO, February 2016, two volumes and 792 pages. Not read.
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Livingston, Edwin Brockholst. The Livingstons of Livingston Manor. New York: Knickerbocker Press, 1910.
The family's own history of itself, by a descendant, which Dunne's bibliography offers as 'A similar profile' to Dangerfield's for the judge: the manor, the line from the first Robert Livingston through the Revolution, with a chapter on the family's part in the war and a portrait of Judge Brockholst Livingston at page 248.
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Livingston, John. “Biographical Letter from Justice Catron.” In Portraits of Eminent Americans Now Living, vol. 2, by John A. Livingstone, 805-812. New York: Cornish, Lamport, 1853.
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Livingston, John. “Hon. James M. Wayne.” In Biographical Sketches of Distinguished American Lawyers, by John Livingston, 158-175. New York: The author, 1854.
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Livingston, John. “Honorable John McLean.” In Portraits of Eminent Americans Now Living, vol. 2, by John A. Livingstone, 789-796. New York: Cornish, Lamport, 1853.
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Livingston, John. “Honorable Robert C. Grier.” In Portraits of Eminent Americans Now Living, vol. 2, by John A. Livingstone, 813-817. New York: Cornish, Lamport, 1853.
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Livingstone, John A. “Roger Brooke Taney, 1777-1864.” Commonwealth Law Review 40 (May 1935): 232-236.
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Llewellyn, Karl N. “Holmes.” Columbia Law Review 35 (April 1935): 485-492.
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Llewellyn, Karl N. “Review of Mr. Justice Holmes.” Columbia Law Review 31 (May 1931): 902.
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Lloyd, Henry D. “The Home Life of Salmon Portland Chase.” Atlantic Monthly 32 (November 1873): 526-538.
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Lobingier, Charles S. “The Judicial Opinions of Mr. Justice Thompson.” Nebraska Bar Bulletin 12 (May 1924): 421-426.
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Lodge, Henry C. An Address upon Chief Justice Marshall, Delivered at the Auditorium in Chicago on the Fourth Day of February 1901, at the Request of the Bar Associations of the State of Illinois and the City of Chicago. Washington, DC: Pearson Printing Office, 1901.
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Loerenzen, Ernest G. “Story's Commentaries on the Conflict of Laws: One Hundred Years After.” Harvard Law Review 48 (November 1934): 15-38.
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Loewy, Arnold H. “Rethinking Government Neutrality towards Religion under the Establishment Clause: The Untapped Potential of Justice O'Connor's Insight.” North Carolina Law Review 60 (December 1985): 1049-1070.
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Lofgren, Charles A. The Plessy Case: A Legal-Historical Interpretation. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.
Lofgren's monograph is the standard account of Plessy as law — where 'separate but equal' came from (antebellum Massachusetts, of all places), how the doctrine traveled through railroad cases and state courts, and why Brown's opinion struck almost no one in 1896 as a thunderbolt.
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Logan, Richard D. “The Chief Justice from Northwestern Ohio.” Northwest Ohio Quarterly 18 (January 1946): 14-24.
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Long, Joseph C. “Ex Parte Merryman: The Showdown between Two Great Antagonists: Lincoln and Taney.” South Dakota Law Review 14 (Spring 1969): 207-249.
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Long, Michael G., ed. Marshalling Justice: The Early Civil Rights Letters of Thurgood Marshall. New York: Amistad, 2011.
Hundreds of Marshall's letters from the 1930s and 1940s — the years of dangerous fieldwork building the cases that became Brown.
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Longacre, James B., and James Herring. “John McLean.” In The National Portrait Gallery, vol. 4, by James B. Longacre and James Herring, 257-262. Philadelphia: Robert E. Peterson and Company, 1839.
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Lossing, Benson J. “James Wilson.” In Lives of the Signers of the Declaration of American Independence, by Benson J. Lossing, 126-129. Philadelphia: Evans, Stoddart, and Company, 1870.
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Lossing, Benson J. “John Jay.” In Eminent Americans, by Benson J. Lossing, 171-172. New York: Hurst, 1886.
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Lossing, Benson J. “John Marshall.” In Eminent Americans, by Benson J. Lossing, 216-218. New York: Hurst, 1886.
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Lossing, Benson J. “John Rutledge.” In Eminent Americans, by Benson J. Lossing, 153-154. New York: Hurst, 1886.
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Lossing, Benson J. “Oliver Ellsworth.” In Eminent Americans, by Benson J. Lossing, 102-103. New York: Hurst, 1886.
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Lossing, Benson J. “Samuel Chase.” In Lives of the Signers of the Declaration of American Independence, by Benson J. Lossing, 146-150. Philadelphia: Evans, Stoddart, and Company, 1870.
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Loth, David G. Chief Justice: John Marshall and the Growth of the Republic. New York: W. W. Norton, 1949.
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“Louis Dembitz Brandeis, 1856-1941.” American Bar Association Journal 27 (November 1941): 689.
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Louisell, David W. “The Man and the Mountain: Douglas on Religious Freedom.” Yale Law Journal 73 (May 1964): 975-998.
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Lovelace, Ryan. Search and Destroy: Inside the Campaign against Brett Kavanaugh. 2019.
A legal reporter's case that the 2018 fight was an organized and funded campaign — Demand Justice and its allies — coupled with a challenge to the accusers' credibility and some seventy pages of notes.
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Lovell, Arthur T. “Morrison R. Waite.” New England Magazine 4 (January 1886): 50-52.
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Lovell, Arthur T. “Richard and Gamaliel Waite and Some of Their Descendants.” New England Magazine 4 (January 1886): 48-59.
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Low, A. Maurice. “William Howard Taft.” Yale Review 1 (April 1912): 349-363.
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Lowe, Jennifer M., ed. The Jewish Justices of the Supreme Court Revisited: Brandeis to Fortas. Washington, DC: Supreme Court Historical Society, 1994.
The Supreme Court Historical Society's 142 illustrated pages of 1994 on the Jewish justices from Brandeis to Fortas, with a preface by Breyer and an introduction by Ginsburg. No copy found online. Not read.
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Lowell, Francis C. “Horace Gray.” American Academy of Arts and Sciences 39 (1904): 627-637.
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Lowry, Walker. “Mr. Justice Holmes: The Community vs. the Individual.” California Law Review 36 (September 1948): 390-404.
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Luban, David. “The Noblesse Oblige Tradition in the Practice of Law: Assessing Change.” Vanderbilt Law Review 41 (May 1988): 717-740.
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Lucey, Francis E. “Holmes: Liberal, Humanitarian, Believer in Democracy?” Georgetown Law Journal 39 (May 1951): 523-562.
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Lumbard, J. Edward. “John Harlan: In Public Service, 1955-1971.” Harvard Law Review 85 (December 1971): 372-376.
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Lumbard, J. Edward. “Of Mr. Justice Harlan.” New York County Bar Bulletin 16 (November/December 1958): 93.
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Lundquist, William A. “Oliver Wendell Holmes and External Standards of Criminal and Tort Liability: Application on the Massachusetts Bench.” Buffalo Law Review 28 (Summer 1979): 607-625.
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Luneburg, William V. “Justice Rehnquist, Statutory Interpretation, the Policies of Clear Statement, and Federal Jurisdiction.” Indiana Law Journal 58 (Winter 1982/1983): 211-285.
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Luney, Kenneth D. “Mr. Justice Brandeis and the Problems of Labor.” Ph.D. diss., University of Illinois, 1932.
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Lunt, Richard D. The High Ministry of Government: The Political Career of Frank Murphy. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1965.
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Lupton, John A. “Myra Bradwell and the Profession of Law: Case Documents.” Journal of Supreme Court History 36, no. 3 (2011): 236–263.
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Lurie, Jonathan. The Chase Court: Justices, Rulings, and Legacy. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2004.
The ABC-CLIO handbook for the Chase years, Santa Barbara, 2004: the justices, the major decisions and the legacy, in the reference series whose Taney volume is also on these pages.
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Lurie, Jonathan. The Chief Justiceship of William Howard Taft, 1921–1930. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2019.
Lurie's focused study of what Taft actually built from the center chair: the Judiciary Act of 1925 and the certiorari revolution, the campaign for the Supreme Court building, the lobbying of presidents about appointments.
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Lurie, Jonathan. The Supreme Court and Military Justice. Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2013.
Jonathan Lurie on military justice at the Court in four parts, the Civil War era, the Second World War, 1956 to 1987 and the years after 11 September 2001, each an analytical introduction followed by briefs, rulings and contemporary reporting; CQ Press, August 2013, 256 pages. Not read.
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Lurie, Jonathan. William Howard Taft: The Travails of a Progressive Conservative. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
The modern scholarly reassessment, strong on the through-line of Taft's career — a judicial temperament miscast in the presidency and finally at home on the bench.
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Lurie, Jonathan. “Analysis and Review: Robert C. Post—The Taft Court: Making Law for a Divided Nation, 1921– 1930.” Journal of Supreme Court History 50, no. 2 (2025): 172–188.
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Lurie, Jonathan. “Caustic, Comical, Candid, and Insightful Commentary from Chief Justice William Howard Taft, 1921–1929: Excerpts.” Journal of Supreme Court History 49, no. 1 (2024): 49–65.
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Lurie, Jonathan. “Chief Justice Taft and Dissents: Down with the Brandeis Briefs!” Journal of Supreme Court History 32, no. 2 (2007): 178–189.
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Lurie, Jonathan. “Chief Justice Taft and Henry Pringle: How Pringle Came to Write The Life and Times of William Howard Taft (1939).” Journal of Supreme Court History 43, no. 2 (2018): 141–159.
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Lurie, Jonathan. “Ex-Justice Campbell: The Case of the Creative Advocate.” Journal of Supreme Court History 30, no. 1 (2005): 17–30.
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Lurie, Jonathan. “Mr. Justice Bradley: A Reassessment.” Seton Hall Law Review 16 (1986): 343–376.
The standard modern scholarly assessment of Bradley — the Legal Tender appointment, the 1877 Electoral Commission vote, and the great Fourteenth Amendment opinions, weighed by a leading Court historian.
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Lurie, Jonathan. “One Hundred and Twenty-Five Years after Slaughterhouse: Where’s the Beef?” Journal of Supreme Court History 24, no. 3 (1999): 269–281.
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Lurie, Jonathan. “Stanley Matthews: A Case Portrait of Gilded Age High Court Jurisprudence.” Journal of Supreme Court History 33, no. 2 (2008): 160–169.
The best single treatment of what Matthews actually did with his eight years — above all Yick Wo and Hurtado, the pair of 1880s opinions that still anchor equal-protection and due-process law.
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Lusky, Louis. “Fragmentation of the Supreme Court: An Inquiry into Causes.” Hofstra Law Review 10 (Summer 1982): 1137-1148.
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Luthin, Reinhard H. “Salmon P. Chase's Political Career before the Civil War.” Mississippi Valley Historical Review 29 (March 1943): 517-540.
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Luttig, J. Michael. “Eulogy for Warren E. Burger.” Journal of Supreme Court History 20 (1995): 1–4.
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Luxenberg, Steve. Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation. 2019.
Luxenberg tells the Plessy story as braided biography — Albion Tourgée, the crusading lawyer; John Marshall Harlan, the dissenter; the Comité des Citoyens of New Orleans who manufactured the test case; and Brown, the Massachusetts-born, Yale-educated Detroit judge who wrote the opinion.
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Lyman, Frank Interviewed by Darryl J. Gonzalez. “A Voice from behind the Bench: Recollections of a Supreme Court Page.” Journal of Supreme Court History 29, no. 3 (2004): 308–322.
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Lynch, David. The Role of Circuit Courts in the Formation of United States Law in the Early Republic: Following Supreme Court Justices Washington, Livingston, Story and Thompson. Portland, OR: Hart, 2018.
The rare modern monograph on how justices actually made law on circuit, where the vast bulk of their judging happened — with Washington, Livingston, Story and Thompson as its principal subjects.
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