The Annotated Bibliography: M
444 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.
MacCraken, Brooks W. “Althea and the Judges.” American Heritage 18 (June 1967): 60-63, 75-79.
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MacDonald, William. “The Indebtedness of John Marshall to Alexander Hamilton.” Massachusetts Historical Society Proceedings 46 (May 1913): 412-426.
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Mack, Kenneth W. “Civil Disobedience, State Action, and Lawmaking Outside the Courts: Robert Bell’s Encounter with American Law.” Journal of Supreme Court History 39, no. 3 (2014): 347–371.
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MacKenzie, John P. The Appearance of Justice. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1974.
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MacKenzie, John P. “Rehnquist Recuse: Judging Your Own Case.” Washington Monthly 6 (May 1974): 54-61.
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MacLeish, Archibald. “Felix Frankfurter: A Lesson of Faith.” Supreme Court Review 1966 (1966): 1-6.
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MacLeish, Archibald. “Felix Frankfurter: Frame for a Portrait.” Harvard Law Review 76 (November 1962): 22-24.
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Maclin, Tracey. The Supreme Court and the Fourth Amendment's Exclusionary Rule. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Tracey Maclin of Boston University on the exclusionary rule across the Vinson, Warren, Burger and Rehnquist Courts, written from the retired justices' papers and treating the rule as a political mechanism that expands and contracts with the times; Oxford, 2013, 416 pages. Not read.
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MacVeagh, Wayne. John Marshall: An Address, Delivered upon the Invitation of the American Bar Association and a Joint Committee of the Congress in the Hall of the House of Representatives, February 4, 1901. Washington, DC: Judd and Detweiler, 1901.
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Maddocks, Lewis I. “Justice John Marshall Harlan: Defender of Individual Rights.” Ph.D. diss., Ohio State University, 1959.
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Maddocks, Lewis I. “Two Justices Harlan on Civil Rights and Liberties: A Study in Judicial Contrasts.” Kentucky Law Journal 68 (1979/1980): 301-343.
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Madison, Charles A. “Justice Black: Defender of the Bill of Rights.” Chicago Jewish Forum 12 (Spring 1954): 175-181.
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Madison, Charles A. “Louis D. Brandeis: Jew and Zionist.” Chicago Jewish Forum 10 (Summer 1952): 262-267.
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Magarian, Gregory P. Managed Speech: The Roberts Court's First Amendment. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.
Gregory Magarian of Washington University reads more than forty First Amendment decisions from 2005 to 2016 as a doctrine of managed speech that empowers established institutions and marginalises outsiders, and proposes dynamic diversity instead; Oxford, April 2017, 292 pages. Not read.
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Magee, James J. Mr. Justice Black: Absolutist on the Court. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1980.
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Magee, James J. “Mr. Justice Black and the First Amendment: The Development and Dilemmas of an Absolutist.” Ph.D. diss., University of Virginia, 1976.
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Magill, Roswell. “Stone on Taxation.” Columbia Law Review 46 (September 1946): 747-763.
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Magliocca, Gerard N. "Rediscovering Corfield v. Coryell." Notre Dame Law Review 95, no. 2 (2019): 701.
The essential study of Bushrod's most influential act — the 1823 circuit opinion whose privileges-and-immunities catalog the Reconstruction framers quoted into the Fourteenth Amendment's history.
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Magliocca, Gerard N. Washington's Heir: The Life of Justice Bushrod Washington. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022.
From William & Mary and the apprenticeship under Justice James Wilson (whose seat he would eventually fill) through thirty-one years on the Court, the inheritance of Mount Vernon and George Washington's papers, the founding presidency of the American Colonization Society, and the 1821 sale of enslaved people from Mount Vernon that scandalized even his contemporaries.
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Magliocca, Gerard N. “The Untold Story of Robert H. Jackson’s Youngstown Concurrence.” Journal of Supreme Court History 50, no. 1 (2025): 8–25.
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Magliocca, Gerard N. “‘Commonly Estimated as One Judge’: Bushrod Washington and the Marshall Court.” Journal of Supreme Court History 47, no. 1 (2022): 7–19.
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Magness, Philip W. “Between Evidence, Rumor, and Perception: Marshal Lamon and the ‘Plot’ to Arrest Chief Justice Taney.”.” Journal of Supreme Court History 42, no. 2 (2017): 133–153.
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Magnet, Myron. Clarence Thomas and the Lost Constitution. New York: Encounter Books, 2019.
The conservative brief for Thomas as the Court's most important originalist — Magnet's admiring argument that Thomas has spent decades trying to restore a 'lost Constitution' of limited government and natural rights.
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Magrath, C. Peter. Morrison R. Waite: The Triumph of Character. New York: Macmillan, 1963.
The standard biography, and still the only full one — the natural place to begin.
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Magrath, C. Peter. “Chief Justice Waite and the 'Twin Relic': Reynolds v. United States.” Vanderbilt Law Review 18 (March 1965): 507-543.
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Magrath, C. Peter. “Nine Deliberative Bodies: A Profile of the Warren Court.” Commentary 32 (September 1961): 399.
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Magruder, Allan B. John Marshall. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1985.
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Magruder, Calvert. “Louis Dembitz Brandeis.” American Bar Association Journal 29 (February 1943): 69-71.
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Magruder, Calvert. “Mr. Justice Brandeis.” Harvard Law Review 55 (December 1941): 193-194.
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Mahoney, Joan. “Justice Blackmun, Congress, and the States: From National League of Cities to Garcia.” University of Missouri at Kansas City Law Review 54 (Winter 1986): 215-242.
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Maidment, Richard A. “A Study in Judicial Motivation: Mr. Justice Sutherland and Economic Regulation.” Utah Law Review 1973 (Summer 1973): 156-163.
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Makar, Scott D. “Free Press in 1940s Florida: Pennekamp v. Florida.” Journal of Supreme Court History 42, no. 3 (2017): 295–313.
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Mallison, Albert G. “The Political Theories of Roger B. Taney.” Southwestern Political Science Quarterly 1 (December 1920): 219-240.
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Malphurs, Ryan A. Rhetoric and Discourse in Supreme Court Oral Arguments: Sensemaking in Judicial Decisions. Routledge, 2013.
Ryan Malphurs challenges the consensus that oral argument rarely moves votes, analysing the exchanges in Morse v. Frederick, Kennedy v. Louisiana and Heller and offering sensemaking in place of the rational-choice account; Routledge, 2013, 224 pages. Not read.
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Maltbie, William M. “John Marshall: A Tribute.” Connecticut Bar Journal 29 (December 1955): 335-349.
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Maltese, John Anthony. The Selling of Supreme Court Nominees. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.
Traces the public campaign for and against nominees to its origin, dating the first “Borking” to John Rutledge's rejection in 1795 and arguing that what changed in the modern era is the range of players and the political techniques they use. Winner of APSA's Pritchett Award for the best book on law and courts.
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Maltz, Earl M. "Biography is Destiny: The Case of Justice Peter V. Daniel." Brooklyn Law Review 72, no. 1 (2006): 199–210.
The limiting case of how far ideology can substitute for judging, and a caution about what a life appointment preserves.
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Maltz, Earl M. Dred Scott and the Politics of Slavery. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2007.
The Landmark Law Cases volume on Dred Scott: 182 pages, Kansas, 2007, the short case history of the decision that carries Taney's name further than anything else he wrote.
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Maltz, Earl M. Slavery and the Supreme Court, 1825-1861. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2009.
Eight antebellum slavery cases, one to a chapter, from The Antelope and The Amistad through Groves v. Slaughter, Prigg, Strader and Dred Scott to Ableman v. Booth and Kentucky v. Dennison.
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Maltz, Earl M. The Chief Justiceship of Warren Burger, 1969-1986. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2000.
The volume the South Carolina chief-justiceship series gave Burger, published in 2000: xvi and 307 pages on the Court he led, from federalism and economic regulation to freedom of speech.
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Maltz, Earl M. The Coming of the Nixon Court: The 1972 Term and the Transformation of Constitutional Law. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2016.
Earl Maltz of Rutgers on October Term 1972, the first with all four Nixon appointees sitting, which produced Roe v. Wade along with decisions on school desegregation, criminal procedure, obscenity, the rights of the poor, sex discrimination and aid to parochial schools; Kansas, August 2016, 262 pages. Not read.
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Maltz, Earl M. “Portrait of a Man in the Middle: Mr. Justice Powell, Equal Protection, and the Pure Classification Problem.” Ohio State Law Journal 40 (1979): 941-966.
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Maltz, Earl M. “The Burger Court and the Conflict over the Rational Basis Test: The Untold Story of Massachusetts Bd. of Retirement v. Murgia.” Journal of Supreme Court History 39, no. 2 (2014): 264–285.
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Maltz, Earl M. “The Waite Court and Federal Power to Enforce the Reconstruction Amendments.” Journal of Supreme Court History 21 (Special Edition 1996): 75–88.
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Maltz, Earl M.; R. Owen Williams. "The Unlikely Hero of Dred Scott" (Cardozo L. Rev., 1996), "The Last Angry Man" & "Benjamin Curtis: Top of the List" (Chicago-Kent L. Rev. 82, 2007).
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Man, Albon P., Jr. “Mr. Justice Murphy and the Supreme Court.” Virginia Law Review 36 (November 1950): 889-943.
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Manaster, Kenneth A. Illinois Justice: The Scandal of 1969 and the Rise of John Paul Stevens. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001.
The making of the justice — Kenneth Manaster's account of the 1969 Illinois judicial-corruption scandal that Stevens, as special counsel, helped expose, lifting an obscure Chicago antitrust lawyer toward the bench.
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Mann, Ronald J. Bankruptcy and the U.S. Supreme Court. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Ronald Mann of Columbia on four decades of bankruptcy cases, concentrating on the closely divided ones where the statute gave no answer, and reading them from the justices' private papers and from the citations that migrate out of briefs into opinions; Cambridge, April 2017, 286 pages. Not read.
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Mann, Ronald. “Balancing Bankruptcy and Environmental Law: Midlantic National Bank v. New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.” Journal of Supreme Court History 42, no. 1 (2017): 101–117.
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Mann, S. H. “Chief Justice White.” American Law Review 60 (1926): 620-637.
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Mann, W. Howard. “Mr. Justice Rutledge and Civil Liberties.” Iowa Law Review 35 (Summer 1950): 663-692.
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Mann, W. Howard. “Rutledge and Civil Liberties.” Indiana Law Journal 25 (Summer 1950): 532-559.
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Manning, George H. “Brandeis Defends Newspaper Crusading as Minnesota 'Gag' Law.” Editor and Publisher 63 (February 7, 1931): 5-6.
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Manning, Leonard F. “The Douglas Concept of God in Government.” Washington Law Review 39 (Spring 1964): 47-73.
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Mannino, Edward F. Reinterpreting the Constitution: How the Supreme Court Changes the Law. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2023.
Some two hundred cases in which the Court remade constitutional doctrine, surveyed by the lawyer and historian Edward Mannino; Lexington, May 2023, 302 pages. Not read.
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Mannino, Edward F. Shaping America: The Supreme Court and American Society. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2009.
About a hundred and fifty landmark decisions from the early republic to District of Columbia v. Heller, arranged chronologically and thematically with particular attention to business and religion, by Edward F. Mannino, a trial lawyer and legal historian; University of South Carolina Press, 2009, 321 pages. Not read.
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Marcus, Maeva and Natalie Wexler. “Suits Against States: Diversity of Opinion in the 1790s.” Journal of Supreme Court History 18 (1993): 73–89.
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Marcus, Maeva, et al., eds. The Documentary History of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1789–1800. New York: Columbia University Press, 1985–2007.
Eight volumes in nine: the essential documentary source for the Court's first decade — appointment records, correspondence, circuit materials, press accounts, and the Court's own rough and final minutes.
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Marcus, Maeva, James R. Perry, James M. Buchanan, Christine R. Jordan, and Steven L. Tull. “‘It is my wish as well as my Duty to attend the court’: The Hardships of Supreme Court Service, 1790-1800.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1984: 118–126.
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Marcus, Maeva. “Documenting Judicial History: The Supreme Court of the United States, 1789-1800.” Journal of Supreme Court History 21, no. 2 (1996): 51–56.
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Marcus, Maeva. “George Washington’s Appointments to the Supreme Court.” Journal of Supreme Court History 24, no. 3 (1999): 243–254.
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Marcus, Maeva. “Georgia v. Brailsford.” Journal of Supreme Court History 21, no. 2 (1996): 57–72.
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Marke, Julius J. “A Law Student's Guide to Mr. Justice Holmes.” University of Florida Law Review 28 (Winter 1976): 376-391.
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Markey, Howard T. “Chief Justice Burger as Chairman of the Judicial Conference of the United States.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1986: 8–10.
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Markstein, Charlotte. “United States Supreme Court Decision: United States v. Cruikshank (1876).” Evalyn Clark Memorial Travel Fellowship report, Vassar College (2019).
Seven hundred words by a Vassar undergraduate reporting a research trip, and the only published account by anyone who has actually opened the thing.
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Marquardt, Ronald G. “The Judicial Justice: Mr. Justice Burton and the Supreme Court.” Ph.D. diss., University of Missouri, 1973.
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Mars, David. “Justice Benjamin Nathan Cardozo: His Life and Character.” American Jewish Historical Society Publications 49 (September 1959): 5-15.
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Marsel, Robert S. “Mr. Justice Arthur J. Goldberg and the Death Penalty.” South Texas Law Review 27 (Fall 1986): 467-492.
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Marsh, James M. “The Genial Justice: Robert H. Jackson.” American Bar Association Journal 60 (March 1974): 306-309.
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Marshall, John. A History of the Colonies Planted by the English on the Continent of North America, from Their Settlement to the Commencement of That War Which Terminated in Their Independence. Philadelphia: A. Small, 1824.
The first volume of the Life of Washington, cut loose: the record says it was 'originally published as an introduction to the author's life of George Washington', and here it stands alone, 486 pages from A. Small of Philadelphia in 1824, Marshall's one work of history that is not about Washington at all.
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Marshall, John. An Autobiographical Sketch. Edited by John Stokes Adams. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1937.
Marshall telling his own story to his closest colleague — modest, wry, and revealing in what it lingers on (Valley Forge, his father) and what it hurries past.
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Marshall, John. Complete Constitutional Decisions. Edited by John M. Dillon. Chicago: Callaghan, 1903.
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Marshall, John. Day: Centennial Proceedings of the Chicago Bar, February 4, 1901; Including Proceedings before the Supreme Court of Illinois. Chicago: Press of Hollister Brothers, 1901.
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Marshall, John. Letters of Joseph Story. New York: Macmillan, 1958.
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Marshall, John. Papers of John Marshall. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1969.
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Marshall, John. The Constitutional Decisions of John Marshall. Edited by Joseph P. Cotton, Jr. New York: Putnam's, 1905.
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Marshall, John. The Events of My Life: An Autobiographical Sketch by John Marshall. Edited by Lee C. Bollinger and John C. Dann. Ann Arbor, MI; Washington, DC: Clements Library, University of Michigan; Supreme Court Historical Society, 2001.
Marshall on himself, in thirty pages: the autobiographical sketch, edited by Lee C. Bollinger and John C. Dann with an introduction by Chief Justice Rehnquist, and published in 2001 by the Clements Library at Michigan with the Supreme Court Historical Society.
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Marshall, John. The Life of George Washington, Commander in Chief of the American Forces (5 vols.). Philadelphia: C. P. Wayne, 1804–07.
The Chief Justice's five volumes on Washington, written in his first years on the Court from the papers Bushrod Washington held at Mount Vernon and published by C. P. Wayne of Philadelphia between 1804 and 1807.
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Marshall, John. The Political and Economic Doctrines of John Marshall, Who for Thirty-four Years Was Chief Justice of the United States, and Also His Letters, Speeches, and Hitherto Unpublished and Uncollected Writings. Edited by John E. Oster. New York: Neale Publishing Company, 1914.
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Marshall, John. The Writings of John Marshall upon the Federal Constitution. Boston: J. Munroe, 1839.
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Marshall, John. “A Letter of Marshall to Jefferson, 1783 by R. G. Thwaites.” American Historical Review 10 (July 1905): 815-817.
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Marshall, John. “John Marshall on the French Revolution and on American Politics.” Edited by Jack L. Cross. Wisconsin Law Review 12 (October 1955): 631-649.
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Marshall, John. “Letters from John Marshall to His Wife.” William and Mary Quarterly 3 (April 1923): 73-90.
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Marshall, John. “Marshall-Story Correspondence.” Massachusetts Historical Society Proceedings 14 (1901): 324-360.
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Marshall, Maria N. “The Marshall Memorial Tablet.” Green Bag 14 (August 1902): 372-373.
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Marshall, Thomas R. American Public Opinion and the Modern Supreme Court, 1930-2020: A Representative Institution. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2022.
Thomas Marshall of Texas at Arlington matches more than five hundred decisions since the mid-1930s to the national polls taken around them and finds about two-thirds of them agreeing with the majority or plurality; Lexington, April 2022, 204 pages. Not read.
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Marshall, Thomas R. Public Opinion and the Rehnquist Court. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2008.
Thomas Marshall matching more than two thousand nationwide polls from the Rehnquist years against the decisions, and finding that most align with majority opinion, especially where the public is well informed and the Solicitor General agrees, and that unpopular decisions last less long; State University of New York Press, February 2008, 282 pages. Not read.
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Marshall, Thurgood, and Roy Wilkins. “Interpretation of Supreme Court Decision and the NAACP Program.” Crisis 86 (June/July 1979): 205-209.
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Marshall, Thurgood. The Constitution's Bicentennial: 'The Government They Devised Was Defective from the Start'. 1987.
Marshall's most famous speech, delivered as the nation prepared to celebrate the Constitution's two-hundredth anniversary — and a bracing refusal to celebrate uncritically.
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Marshall, Thurgood. “Dissent in the Bakke Case.” Freedomways 18 (1978): 127-135.
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Marshall, Thurgood. “Financing Public Interest Law Practice: The Role of the Organized Bar.” American Bar Association Journal 61 (December 1975): 1487-1491.
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Marshall, Thurgood. “Group Action in the Pursuit of Justice.” New York University Law Review 44 (October 1969): 661-672.
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Marshall, Thurgood. “Justice Thurgood Marshall's Opinion in the Bakke Case.” Crisis 86 (February 1979): 45-50.
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Marshall, Thurgood. “Mr. Justice Murphy and Civil Rights.” Michigan Law Review 48 (February 1950): 745-766.
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Marshall, Thurgood. “Mr. Justice Murphy and Civil Rights.” National Bar Journal 9 (March 1951): 1-25.
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Marshall, Thurgood. “Remarks on the Death Penalty Made at the Judicial Conference of the Second Circuit.” Columbia Law Review 86 (January 1986): 1-8.
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Marshall, Thurgood. “Search and Seizure: A New Horizon: Dissent by Mr. Justice Marshall in United States v. Robinson.” Contemporary Drug Problems 3 (Spring 1974): 21-44.
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Marshall, Thurgood. “The Continuing Challenge of the Fourteenth Amendment.” Georgia Law Review 3 (Fall 1968): 1-10.
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Marshall, Thurgood. “The Continuing Challenge of the Fourteenth Amendment.” Wisconsin Law Review 1968 (1968): 979-987.
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Marshall, Thurgood. “The Supreme Court as Protector of Civil Rights: Equal Protection of the Laws.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences 275 (May 1951): 101-110.
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Martin, Andrew D., and Kevin M. Quinn. Dynamic Ideal Point Estimation. Political Analysis 10, no. 2 (2002): 134–153.
The paper that made judicial ideology a moving quantity: a Bayesian item-response model fitted to every vote from 1953 to 1999, yielding one ideal point per justice per term and showing that many justices’ preferences do not stay still — the measure behind every claim of drift on this site.
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Martin, Constance L. “The Life and Career of Justice Robert H. Jackson.” Journal of Supreme Court History 33, no. 1 (2008): 42–67.
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Martin, Fenton S., and Robert U. Goehlert. The U.S. Supreme Court: A Bibliography. Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly, 1990.
The standard bibliography of the Court, and the yardstick this site audits its own shelves against: one continuous numbered sequence running past 7,000 entries, arranged justice by justice, its latest entries dated January 1988. Never revised, which means hundreds of the works shelved here postdate it and cannot be in it — a gap the master bibliography marks work by work.
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Martin, John M. “John McKinley: Jacksonian Phase.” Alabama Historical Quarterly 28 (Spring/Summer 1966): 7-31.
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Martini, Teri. John Marshall. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1974.
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Marvin, John F. “A Constitutional Prejudice for Liberty and Equality: Mr. Justice Arthur Goldberg.” University of Missouri at Kansas City Law Review 34 (Summer 1966): 289-324.
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Masnov, James M. Rights Reign Supreme: An Intellectual History of Judicial Review and the Supreme Court. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2023.
An intellectual history of judicial review as the guardian of rights, from the founding to now, by the independent historian James Masnov; McFarland, 2023, 252 pages. Not read.
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Mason, Alpheus T. Brandeis and the Modern State. Washington, DC: National Home Library Foundation, 1936.
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Mason, Alpheus T. Brandeis: Lawyer and Judge in the Modern State. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1933.
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Mason, Alpheus T. The Brandeis Way: A Case Study in the Workings of Democracy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1938.
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Mason, Alpheus T. Variations on the Liberal Theme: Mr. Justice Brandeis. Philadelphia: Brandeis Lawyer's Society, 1947.
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Mason, Alpheus T. “A Birthday Tribute: Address Delivered on the Eighty-second Birthday of Mr. Justice Brandeis.” United States Law Review 72 (November 1938): 634-636.
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Mason, Alpheus T. “Charles Evans Hughes: An Appeal to the Bar of History.” Vanderbilt Law Review 6 (December 1952): 1-19.
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Mason, Alpheus T. “Chief Justice Taft at the Helm.” Vanderbilt Law Review 18 (March 1965): 367-404.
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Mason, Alpheus T. “Conservative World of Mr. Justice Sutherland, 1883-1910.” American Political Science Review 32 (June 1938): 443-477.
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Mason, Alpheus T. “Extra-Judicial Work for Judges: The Views of Chief Justice Stone.” Harvard Law Review 67 (December 1953): 193-216.
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Mason, Alpheus T. “Harlan Fiske Stone and FDR's Court Plan.” Yale Law Journal 61 (June/July 1952): 791-817.
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Mason, Alpheus T. “Harlan Fiske Stone Assays Social Justice, 1912-1923.” University of Pennsylvania Law Review 99 (May 1951): 887-918.
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Mason, Alpheus T. “Harlan Fiske Stone: In Defense of Individual Freedom, 1918-1920.” Columbia Law Review 51 (February 1951): 147-169.
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Mason, Alpheus T. “Inter Arma Silent Leges: Chief Justice Stone's Views.” Harvard Law Review 69 (March 1956): 806-838.
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Mason, Alpheus T. “Louis Brandeis: People's Attorney.” American Mercury 64 (April 1947): 440-447.
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Mason, Alpheus T. “Louis Dembitz Brandeis: Tempered Boldness in a Stand-Pat Society.” University of Pittsburgh Law Review 28 (March 1967): 421-441.
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Mason, Alpheus T. “Mr. Justice Brandeis and the Constitution.” University of Pennsylvania Law Review 80 (April 1931): 799-841.
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Mason, Alpheus T. “Mr. Justice Brandeis: A Student of Social and Economic Science.” University of Pennsylvania Law Review 79 (April 1930): 665-706.
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Mason, Alpheus T. “Mr. Justice Brandeis: Exponent of Social Intelligence.” American Political Science Review 25 (November 1931): 965-979.
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Mason, Alpheus T. “Owen Josephus Roberts.” In Dictionary of American Biography: Supplement Five, 1951-1955. edited by John A. Garraty, 571-577. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1977.
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Mason, Alpheus T. “President by Chance, Chief Justice by Choice.” American Bar Association Journal 55 (January 1969): 35-39.
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Mason, Alpheus T. “Pyrrhic Victory: The Defeat of Abe Fortas.” Virginia Quarterly Review 45 (Winter 1969): 19-28.
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Mason, Alpheus T. “The Core of Free Government, 1938-1940: Mr. Justice Stone and 'Preferred Freedoms.'” Yale Law Journal 65 (April 1956): 597-628.
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Mason, Alpheus T. “The Dilemma of Liberalism.” Journal of Social Philosophy 3 (April 1938): 223-234.
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Mason, Alpheus T. “The Labor Decisions of Chief Justice Taft.” University of Pennsylvania Law Review 78 (March 1930): 585-625.
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Mason, Alpheus T. “The Social Statesmanship of Mr. Justice Brandeis.” Journal of Social Philosophy 4 (January 1939): 148-150.
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Mason, Alpheus Thomas. Brandeis: A Free Man's Life. New York: Viking, 1946.
The authorized biography, written with access to Brandeis and his papers, and for sixty years the standard.
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Mason, Alpheus Thomas. Harlan Fiske Stone: Pillar of the Law. New York: Viking Press, 1956.
The definitive biography, and one of the great judicial lives.
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Mason, Alpheus Thomas. The Supreme Court from Taft to Burger. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1979.
Fifty years of the Court read as one institutional story, 337 pages from Louisiana State University Press in 1979; the third edition, revised and enlarged, of a book first published in 1958 as The Supreme Court from Taft to Warren and revised again in 1968, the retitling marking how far past its own ending the story had run. No copy found online. Not read.
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Mason, Alpheus Thomas. William Howard Taft: Chief Justice. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1965.
The best book on Taft as Chief Justice, by the great judicial biographer who also wrote the lives of Brandeis and Stone.
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Mason, Ed. Chief Justices of the United States. Columbus, OH: Dispatch Printing Company, 1971.
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Mason, Francis N. My Dearest Polly: Letters of Chief Justice Marshall to His Wife, with Their Background, Political and Domestic, 1779-1831. Richmond, VA: Garrett and Massie, 1961.
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Mason, Gene L. “Hugo Black and the United States Senate.” Master's thesis, University of Kansas, 1964.
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Massa, Edward C. “Cardozo Succeeds Holmes.” Notre Dame Lawyer 7 (March 1932): 387-389.
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“Massachusetts Constitution and the Abolition of Slavery.” Commonwealth of Massachusetts (mass.gov guide).
The Commonwealth's own short account of the three Walker suits, and the one that gives the figures: fifty pounds to Walker in 1781, twenty-five to Jennison against the Caldwells, Jennison's default on appeal, his petition to the legislature in June 1782, the April 1783 conviction and the forty-shilling fine.
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Massaro, John L. “'Lame-Duck' Presidents, Great Justices?” Presidential Studies Quarterly 8 (Summer 1978): 296-302.
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Massaro, John L. “Advice and Dissent: Factors in the Senate's Refusal to Confirm Supreme Court Nominees with Special Emphasis on the Cases of Abe Fortas, Clement F. Haynsworth, and G. Harrold Carswell.” Ph.D. diss., Southern Illinois University, 1973.
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Massaro, John L. “Fortascast: Dark Clouds over President Ford's Forthcoming Supreme Court Nominations.” Federal Bar Journal 34 (Fall 1975): 257-278.
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Massaro, John L. “LBJ and the Fortas Nomination for Chief Justice.” Political Science Quarterly 97 (Winter 1982/1983): 589-621.
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Massaro, John. Supremely Political: The Role of Ideology and Presidential Management in Unsuccessful Supreme Court Nominations. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1990.
The nominations that failed, and why: 272 pages from SUNY Press in 1990 in its series on the presidency, on the parts ideology and presidential management played in the defeats. No copy found online. Not read.
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Massey, Stephen. “Justice Rehnquist's Theory of Property.” Yale Law Journal 93 (January 1984): 541-560.
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Masterson, William E. “Proposal to Enlarge the Membership of the Supreme Court.” Missouri Bar Journal 8 (April 1937): 68-72.
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Mathews, William. “Recollections of Judge Story.” In Hours with Men and Books, 13th ed., edited by William Mathews, 97-116. Chicago: Scott, Foresman, 1879.
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Mathewson, Joe. The Supreme Court and the Press: The Indispensable Conflict. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2011.
Joe Mathewson of Medill on two centuries of a mutually dependent and often dysfunctional relationship between the Court and the press, from the Court's long neglect of press freedom before the 1960s to the argument that restricted access and the camera ban have limited public understanding; Northwestern University Press, January 2011, 501 pages. Not read.
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Matthews, Stanley. The Function of the Legal Profession in the Progress of Civilization. Cincinnati: R. Clarke, 1881.
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Maugham, Frederic H. “Mr. Justice Cardozo.” Columbia Law Review 39 (January 1939): 4.
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Maugham, Frederic H. “Mr. Justice Cardozo.” Harvard Law Review 52 (January 1939): 356.
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Maugham, Frederic H. “Mr. Justice Cardozo.” Yale Law Journal 48 (January 1939): 374.
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Mauney, Connie. “Justice Black and First Amendment Freedoms: Thirty-four Influential Years.” Emporia State Research Studies 35 (Fall 1986): 5-51.
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Mauney, Connie. “Mr. Justice Black and the First Amendment Freedoms: A Study in Constitutional Interpretation.” Ph.D. diss., University of Tennessee, 1975.
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Mauro, Tony. “White's Quiet Trek toward a Record.” Legal Times 9 (April 20, 1987): 87.
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Maury, Nannie-Belle. “Personnel of the Supreme Court.” Cosmopolitan 24 (February 1898): 369-374.
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Maury, Sarah M. “The Honourable John McLean, Associate-Justice in the Supreme Court of the United States.” In The Statesmen of America in 1846, by Sarah M. Maury, 164-182. London: Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1847.
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Maury, Sarah M. “The Honourable Roger B. Taney, Chief Justice of the United States.” In The Statesmen of America in 1846, by Sarah M. Maury, 160-163. London: Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1847.
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Maveety, Nancy. Glass and Gavel: The U.S. Supreme Court and Alcohol. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2019.
Nancy Maveety on the justices' own drinking and the Court's liquor cases together, from taverns as meeting places to bootleggers and sobriety checkpoints; Rowman & Littlefield, 384 pages, dated 2019 by the Library and December 2018 by the publisher. Not read.
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Maveety, Nancy. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor: Strategist on the Supreme Court. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1996.
The political scientist's study of O'Connor's method — the deliberate, accommodationist, case-by-case strategy that made her the Court's median vote and, for years, its most powerful member.
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Maveety, Nancy. Queen's Court: Judicial Power in the Rehnquist Era. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2008.
The argument in the title: that O'Connor's influence on the Rehnquist Court may have exceeded the Chief Justice's own.
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Maverick, Maury, Jr. “Douglas and the First Amendment: Visiting Old Battlegrounds.” Baylor Law Review 28 (Spring 1976): 235-248.
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Maxey, David W. “The Translation of James Wilson.” Journal of Supreme Court History 15 (1990): 29–43.
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May, Daniel L. A Bibliography on the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Warren E. Burger. Hempstead, NY: Hofstra University School of Law, 1985.
Fifty-one pages from the Hofstra law school in 1985, the year before Burger retired: a bibliography of writing on the Court under him, compiled while the Court was still his.
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May, Geoffrey. “Dear Felix.” Harvard Law School Bulletin 14 (April 1963): 3-5.
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Mayer, Jane, and Jill Abramson. Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1994.
The most thorough investigative account of the 1991 confirmation and the Anita Hill hearings, by two distinguished journalists.
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Mayes, Edward. Lucius Q.C. Lamar: His Life, Times, and Speeches, 1825–1893. Nashville: Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1896.
The monumental contemporary life-and-letters, by Lamar's son-in-law — nearly nine hundred pages of biography and speeches published three years after his death.
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Mazie, Steven V. American Justice 2015: The Dramatic Tenth Term of the Roberts Court. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015.
Steven Mazie of the Economist on October Term 2014, the term of King v. Burwell and Obergefell; Penn Press, November 2015, 180 pages, the second of the annual six. Not read.
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McAllister, Henry. “Mr. Justice Campbell's Contribution to the Law of Colorado.” Rocky Mountain Law Review 5 (December 1932): 4-16.
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McAllister, Stephen R. “Wheaton v. Greenleaf: A (Story) Tale of Three Reporters.” Journal of Supreme Court History 23, no. 2 (1998): 53–64.
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McBride, Howard E., and William O. Douglas. Impeach Justice Douglas. Vol. 1 of Subversion. Hicksville, NY: Exposition, 1971.
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McBride, Patrick. “Justice Black's Jurisprudence: A Study of His Interpretations of the Bill of Rights and the Due Process Clause of Amendment XIV.” Ph.D. diss., University of California, Los Angeles, 1969.
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McBride, Patrick. “Mr. Justice Black and His Qualified Absolutes.” Loyola University of Los Angeles Law Review 2 (April 1966): 37-70.
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McCabe, James D. “John Marshall.” In Great Fortunes, edited by James D. McCabe, 417-434. Cincinnati: Hannaford, 1871.
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McCaffree, Floyd E. “The Nomination and Confirmation of Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1789-1849.” Ph.D. diss., University of Michigan, 1938.
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McCaughey, Elizabeth P. “William Samuel Johnson, Loyalist and Founding Father.” Ph.D. diss., Columbia University, 1976.
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McClain, Charles J. In Search of Equality: The Chinese Struggle against Discrimination in Nineteenth-Century America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
The essential context for Yick Wo.
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McClain, Emlin. “Chief Justice Marshall as a Constructive Statesman.” Iowa Journal of History 1 (October 1903): 427-466.
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McClellan, James. Joseph Story and the American Constitution: A Study in Political and Legal Thought. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1971.
The standard study of Story as a thinker: his Christian natural-law foundations, his Burkean conservatism, his nationalism, and the tensions among all three.
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McClellan, James. “Comments on Kent Newmyer's Paper, 'Justice Joseph Story, the Charles River Bridge Case, and the Crisis of Republicanism.'” American Journal of Legal History 17 (June 1973): 271-273.
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McCloskey, Robert G. American Conservatism in the Age of Enterprise: A Study of Sumner, Field, and Carnegie. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1951.
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McCloskey, Robert G. The American Supreme Court. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1960.
In print and revised since 1960, the short interpretive survey built on the claim that the Court's strength lies in never straying far from public sentiment — later editions by Sanford Levinson.
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McCloskey, Robert G. The Modern Supreme Court. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972.
McCloskey's later book on the Court, 376 pages from Harvard in 1972, catalogued under the Court's history, and a separate work from his 1960 survey rather than an edition of it. Search-only at HathiTrust. Not read.
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McCloy, John J. “Owen J. Roberts' Extra Curia Activities.” University of Pennsylvania Law Review 104 (December 1955): 332-349.
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McClure, Fred. “Confirming David Souter.” Miller Center, University of Virginia, Presidential Oral History Program (2001).
How the Bush White House ran the 1990 confirmation, from its director of legislative affairs, in the Miller Center's George H. W. Bush oral history (interview of September 20, 2001): the low profile, the Senate, and the strategy.
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McClurg, Andrew J. “Logical Fallacies and the Supreme Court: A Critical Examination of Justice Rehnquist's Decisions on Criminal Procedure Cases.” University of Colorado Law Review 59 (Autumn 1988): 741-844.
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McConnell, A. Mitchell, Jr. “Haynsworth and Carswell: A New Senate Standard of Excellence.” Kentucky Law Journal 59 (Fall 1970): 7-34.
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McConnell, Michael W. “John Marshall and the Creation of a National Government.” Journal of Supreme Court History 27, no. 3 (2002): 273–285.
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McCormick, Richard P. Experiment in Independence: New Jersey in the Critical Period, 1781-1789. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1950.
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McCowan, George S., Jr. “Chief Justice John Rutledge and the Jay Treaty.” South Carolina Historical Magazine 52 (1961): 10.
The dedicated study of the episode that defines Rutledge — his furious July 1795 speech against the Jay Treaty, delivered weeks after accepting the recess appointment as Chief Justice, which handed the Senate its reason to reject him that December.
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McCracken, Robert T. “Justice Harlan.” University of Pennsylvania Law Review 60 (February 1912): 297-310.
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McCracken, Robert T. “Justice Roberts Leaves the Court.” American Bar Association Journal 31 (August 1945): 407-435.
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McCracken, Robert T. “Owen J. Roberts, 1875-1955.” American Bar Association Journal 41 (July 1955): 616.
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McCracken, Robert T. “Owen J. Roberts: Master Advocate.” University of Pennsylvania Law Review 104 (December 1955): 322-331.
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McCraw, John B. “James Clark McReynolds and the Supreme Court, 1914-1941.” Ph.D. diss., University of Texas, 1951.
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McCulloch, Hugh. “Salmon P. Chase.” In Men and Measures of Half a Century, by Hugh McCulloch, 181-188. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1888.
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McCune, Wesley. The Nine Young Men. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1947.
The answering book on the Roosevelt Court, 299 illustrated pages from Harper & Brothers in 1947, eleven years and one constitutional revolution after Pearson and Allen counted nine old ones. Reprinted by Greenwood in 1969; search-only at HathiTrust. Not read.
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McCurdy, Charles W. “Blatchford, Samuel (1820–1893).” In Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, edited by Leonard W. Levy et al. New York: Macmillan, 1986.
Short, signed, and by a serious historian of Gilded Age law — the only piece of modern analysis of Blatchford that exists outside Arnold Paul's chapter, and the one it cites.
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McCurdy, Charles W. “Economic Growth and Judicial Conservatism in the Age of Enterprise: Studies in the Jurisprudence of Stephen J. Field, 1850-1900.” Ph.D. diss., University of California, San Diego, 1976.
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McCurdy, Charles W. “Justice Field and the Jurisprudence of Government-Business Relations: Some Parameters of Laissez-Faire Constitutionalism, 1863–1897.” Journal of American History 61, no. 4 (1975): 970–1005.
The most influential Field article ever written — McCurdy's demolition of the caricature of Field as a corporate tool, recasting him as a principled Jacksonian drawing a line between public power and private right.
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McCurdy, Charles W. “Stephen J. Field and Public Land Law Development in California, 1850-1866: A Case Study of Judicial Resource Allocation in Nineteenth-Century America.” Law and Society Review 10 (Winter 1976): 235-266.
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McCurdy, Charles W. “The Roots of ‘Liberty of Contract’ Reconsidered: Major Premises in the Law of Employment, 1867-1937.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1984: 20–33.
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McDevitt, Matthew. Joseph McKenna: Associate Justice of the United States. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1946.
The only full biography, from a Catholic University of America dissertation — and frankly protective of its subject, but the sole sustained account of a genuinely unlikely justice.
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McDonald, Kevin D. “Antitrust and Baseball: Stealing Holmes.” Journal of Supreme Court History 23, no. 2 (1998): 88–128.
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McDonough, John R., Jr. “Mr. Justice Jackson and Full Faith and Credit to Divorce Decrees: A Critique.” Columbia Law Review 56 (June 1956): 860-886.
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McDonough, Judith R. “William Henry Moody.” Ph.D. diss., Auburn University, 1983.
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McDougal, Myres S. “The Application of Constitutive Prescriptions: An Addendum to Justice Cardozo.” Record of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York 33 (May/June 1978): 255-297.
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McDowell, Gary L. “Joseph Story's 'Science' of Equity.” Supreme Court Review 1979 (1979): 153-172.
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McElwain, Edwin. “Business of the Supreme Court as Conducted by Chief Justice Hughes.” Harvard Law Review 63 (November 1949): 5-26.
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McFeatters, Ann Carey. Sandra Day O'Connor: Justice in the Balance. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2005.
A concise, readable life for the general reader, tracing the ranch-girl-to-swing-vote arc with a journalist's eye.
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McGill, Ralph. “What Is Jimmy Byrnes Up to Now?” Saturday Evening Post 223 (October 14, 1950): 32-33, 183-188.
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McGinty, Brian. Lincoln and the Court. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008.
The best single book on the wartime Court: Taney's dying resistance, habeas corpus, and the Prize Cases, where one changed vote would have declared the blockade unconstitutional.
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McGinty, Brian. The Body of John Merryman: Abraham Lincoln and the Suspension of Habeas Corpus. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011.
Taney's strange last act: a Maryland secessionist lieutenant arrested in May 1861, a dying Chief Justice riding to Baltimore to order the army to produce him, and a president who declined to obey.
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McGinty, Brian. “The Great Chief Justice.” American History Illustrated 21 (September 1986): 8-14, 46-47.
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McGovney, Dudley O. “Is Hugo L. Black a Supreme Court Justice de Jure?” California Law Review 26 (November 1937): 1-32.
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McGowan, Carl. “Perspectives of Taft's Tenure as Chief Justice and Their Special Relevance Today.” University of Cincinnati Law Review 55 (Spring 1987): 1143-1157.
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McGraw, Thomas K. Prophets of Regulation. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984.
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McGuigan, Patrick B., and Dawn M. Weyrich. Ninth Justice: The Fight for Bork. Washington, DC: Free Congress Research and Education Foundation, 1990.
The fight for Bork told by its own side: 326 pages from the Free Congress Foundation in 1990, with the Judicial Notice interview with Bork and an analysis of the press coverage by R. H. Bork Jr.; the anti-Bork account is on this shelf beside it. Search-only at HathiTrust. Not read.
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McGuire, Kevin T. The Supreme Court Bar: Legal Elites in the Washington Community. Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1993.
Who actually argues before the Court: 254 pages from the University Press of Virginia in 1993 on the specialist bar in Washington, catalogued under lawyers' interviews as well as judicial process, in the Constitutionalism and Democracy series. No copy found online. Not read.
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McGurn, Barrett. “Downstairs at the Court.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1977: 93–100.
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McGurn, Barrett. “Law Clerks–A Professional Elite.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1980: 98–99.
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McGurn, Barrett. “Slogans to Fit the Occasion.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1982: 104–108.
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McHale, Francis. President and Chief Justice: The Life and Public Services of William Howard Taft. Philadelphia: Dorrance and Company, 1931.
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McHargue, Daniel S. “Factors Influencing the Selection and Appointment of Members of the United States Supreme Court, 1784-1932.” Ph.D. diss., University of California at Los Angeles, 1949.
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McHargue, Daniel S. “One of Nine: Mr. Justice Burton's Appointment to the Supreme Court.” Western Reserve Law Review 4 (Winter 1953): 128-131.
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McHargue, Daniel S. “President Taft's Appointments to the Supreme Court.” Journal of Politics 12 (August 1950): 478-510.
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McHargue, Daniel S. “Sectional Representation on the Supreme Court.” Marquette Law Review 35 (Summer 1951): 13-28.
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McHugh, Michael Hudson. “The High Court of Australia.” Journal of Supreme Court History 22, no. 2 (1997): 2–14.
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McKay, Jack. “Livingston v. Jefferson and Jefferson v. Marshall—Defending an Ex-President.” Journal of Supreme Court History 48, no. 3 (2023): 271–298.
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McKay, Robert B. “Mr. Justice Brennan, Baker v. Carr, and the Judicial Function.” Rutgers Camden Law Journal 4 (Fall 1972): 44-57.
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McKay, Robert B. “Selection of United States Supreme Court Justices.” University of Kansas Law Review 9 (December 1960): 109-137.
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McKay, Robert B. “The Judiciary and Non-Judicial Activities.” Law and Contemporary Problems 35 (Winter 1970): 9-36.
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McKenna, Daniel J. “John Marshall, the Man.” University of Detroit Law Journal 34 (October 1956): 70-74.
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McKenna, Marian C. Franklin Roosevelt and the Great Constitutional War: The Court-Packing Crisis of 1937. New York: Fordham University Press, 2002.
The court-packing fight at full length, 612 illustrated pages from Fordham in 2002, in fifteen chapters that run from the fifty-fourth attorney general through Black Monday, the landslide and the Senate hearings to the aftermath. No copy found online. Not read.
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McKeown, M. Margaret. Citizen Justice: The Environmental Legacy of William O. Douglas. Lincoln, NE: Potomac Books, 2022.
A federal judge's study of the conservationist justice — Douglas's decades of activism for wilderness, his famous hikes and protest marches, and the tangled ethics of a sitting justice who lobbied and litigated for the causes he loved.
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McKeown, M. Margaret. “The Trees Are Still Standing: The Backstory of Sierra Club v. Morton.” Journal of Supreme Court History 44, no. 2 (2019): 189–214.
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McKinley, Andrew. “The Taney Bench.” Green Bag 16 (June 1904): 369-372.
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McKinnon, Harold R. “The Secret of Mr. Justice Holmes: An Analysis.” American Bar Association Journal 36 (April 1950): 261-264, 342-346.
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McKoski, Raymond J. David Davis, Abraham Lincoln's Favorite Judge. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2025.
Only the second full biography of Davis ever written — and the first since 1960.
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McLain, J. Dudley. “Supreme Court Controversies of Presidents Roosevelt and Nixon: A Consideration of the Political Nature of the Presidential Power of Judicial Appointment.” Georgia State Bar Journal 8 (November 1971): 145-179.
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McLaughlin, Andrew C. “James Wilson in the Philadelphia Convention.” Political Science Quarterly 12 (March 1897): 1-20.
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McLaughlin, Andrew C. “The Life of John Marshall.” American Bar Association Journal 7 (May 1921): 231-233.
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McLaughlin, James F. “Chief Justice Taney and the Maryland Catholics.” Catholic World 67 (June 1898): 396-404.
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McLaughlin, Jeremy M. “Henry Clay and the Supreme Court.” Journal of Supreme Court History 34, no. 1 (2009): 28–55.
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McLean, Deckle. “Justice White and the First Amendment.” Journalism Quarterly 56 (Summer 1979): 305-310.
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McLean, John. Letters of John McLean to John Teesdale. Edited by William Salter. Oberlin, OH: Bibliotheca Sacra, 1899.
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McLean, Joseph E. William Rufus Day: Supreme Court Justice from Ohio. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1946.
The only book-length life, from a Johns Hopkins study — a slim, careful account of a genuinely modest man.
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McLellan, Donn. “In Memoriam: Chief Justice Warren E. Burger: Biographical Profile.” William Mitchell Law Review 22 (1996): 1.
The life from his own law school's review, the year after his death: Saint Paul, the night classes at St. Paul College of Law, the Minnesota Republican politics, the Justice Department, the D.C. Circuit, and the Chief Justiceship, with the administrative reforms he cared most about.
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McLennen, Edward F. “Louis D. Brandeis as a Lawyer.” Massachusetts Law Quarterly 33 (September 1948): 1-28.
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McMahon, Joel. "Our Good and Faithful Servant": James Moore Wayne and Georgia Unionism. 2017.
Roots Wayne's wartime loyalty in a specifically Georgian unionism running back through the nullification fight, and follows it to the war's end: Wayne never wavered, and never went home.
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McMahon, Kevin J. A Supreme Court Unlike Any Other: The Deepening Divide between the Justices and the People. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024.
Kevin McMahon's account of the democracy gap between the justices and the public, traced to changes in who is nominated, how, and from what pool, Roosevelt to Trump; Chicago, April 2024, 384 pages. Not read.
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McMahon, Kevin J. Nixon's Court: His Challenge to Judicial Liberalism and Its Political Consequences. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Kevin McMahon's case that Nixon's judicial strategy substantially worked, legally and politically: that he put law and order and school desegregation ahead of abortion and school prayer, calibrated the appointments to hold white southerners and northern white ethnics without losing moderate Republicans, and used attacks on the Court to reach the Silent Majority and split the New Deal coalition.
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McMurray, Orrin K. “Field's Work as a Lawyer and Judge in California.” California Law Review 5 (January 1917): 87-107.
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McQuade, Francis P., and Alexander T. Kardos. “Mr. Justice Brennan and His Legal Philosophy.” Notre Dame Lawyer 33 (May 1958): 321-349.
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McRee, Griffith J., ed. Life and Correspondence of James Iredell. 2 vols. New York: D. Appleton, 1857–58.
A major nineteenth-century life built around extensive correspondence — family, political, and judicial letters that made it indispensable to later biographers and still reward consultation.
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McReynolds, James C. “Address.” Tennessee Bar Association Proceedings 54 (1935): 65.
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McReynolds, James C. “Remarks.” Tennessee Bar Association Proceedings 42 (1923): 121.
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McReynolds, James C. “Speech.” Tennessee Bar Association Proceedings 45 (1926): 132.
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Meador, Daniel J. Mr. Justice Black and His Books. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1974.
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Meador, Daniel J. “Justice Black and His Law Clerks.” Alabama Law Review 15 (Fall 1962): 57-63.
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Meador, Daniel J. “Lamar and the Law at the University of Mississippi.” Mississippi Law Journal 34 (May 1963): 227-256.
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Meador, Daniel J. “Lamar to the Court: Last Step to National Reunion.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1986: 27–47.
The standard article-length account of the nomination fight itself — the first ex-Confederate named to the Court, confirmed 32–28 after a battle that previewed the modern ideological confirmation war.
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Means, D. M. “Chief Justice John Marshall.” The Nation 72 (February 7, 1901): 104-105.
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Meck, Andrew H. “An Accident of History: The Fourth Amendment as Applied to Schools and New Jersey v. T.L.O.” Journal of Supreme Court History 47, no. 3 (2022): 305–323.
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Meek, Roy L. “Justices Douglas and Black: Political Liberalism and Judicial Activism.” Ph.D. diss., University of Oregon, 1964.
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Mehling, Harold. “Living Legends.” Today's Health 37 (July 1959): 4, 57.
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Meiklejohn, Donald. “Public Speech in the Burger Court: The Influence of Mr. Justice Black.” University of Toledo Law Review 8 (Winter 1977): 301-341.
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Mell, Wayne A. “James Wilson, Alexander Hamilton, William Blackstone: Organic Principles of Constitutional Liberty.” Ph.D. diss., University of Oregon, 1976.
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Mellen, Francis J., Jr. “Ralph Waldo Emerson, Mr. Justice Holmes, and the Idea of Organic Form in American Law.” New England Law Review 14 (Fall 1978): 147-168.
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Meloney, William B. “Hughes.” Everybody's 35 (October 1916): 385-397.
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Meltsner, Michael. Cruel and Unusual: The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment. New York: Random House, 1973.
The campaign that produced Furman, told the year after it by one of its architects: 338 pages from Random House in 1973, and the Death Penalty Information Center's description of its author as one of the key architects at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund behind the challenge. Paperback from Morrow in 1974, reissued by Quid Pro in 2011. Search-only at HathiTrust. Not read.
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Melusky, Joseph A. “Justice John Paul Stevens' Equal Protection Analysis.” Ph.D. diss., University of Delaware, 1983.
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Melville Weston Fuller Papers — Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1794–1949.
Five thousand items, 'primarily of letters exchanged between Fuller and family members, as well as letters received from Bowdoin classmates and other friends and professional associates,' from his enrollment at Bowdoin in 1849 to his death, with correspondence from Day, Moody, Holmes, Harlan and Gray among the colleagues.
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Memorandum on the death of Mr. Justice Livingston. United States Reports 21 (8 Wheaton), February Term 1823.
The Court's own notice, a page of Wheaton's front matter, and the earliest character of the man as a judge: the soldier who 'had served his country with distinguished military reputation during the war of the revolution,' the advocate 'fruitful in invention, and possessing a brilliant and persuasive elocution,' the judge whose 'genius and taste had directed his principal attention to the maritime and commercial law,' and the close, 'an upright, enlightened, and humane judge, a patriotic citizen, and a bright ornament of the profession,' with a Latin sentence counting him among the orators.
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Menand, Louis. The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001.
Not a biography but the great group portrait of the world that made Holmes — the Pulitzer-winning history of American pragmatism, tracing Holmes alongside William James, Charles Peirce, and John Dewey from the trauma of the Civil War to a new conception of ideas as instruments rather than truths.
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Mendelsohn, Rona H. “Senate Confirmation of Supreme Court Appointments: The Nomination and Rejection of John J. Parker.” Howard Law Journal 14 (Winter 1967): 105-148.
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Mendelson, Wallace, ed. Felix Frankfurter: A Tribute. New York: William Morrow, 1964.
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Mendelson, Wallace, ed. Felix Frankfurter: The Judge. New York: Reynal, 1964.
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Mendelson, Wallace. Justices Black and Frankfurter: Conflict in the Court. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961.
The classic statement of the mid-century divide, by a political scientist sympathetic to Frankfurter — the Black–Frankfurter feud over incorporation, restraint, and the meaning of the First Amendment framed as the defining argument of the modern Court.
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Mendelson, Wallace. “Chief Justice John Marshall and the Mercantile Tradition.” Southwestern Social Science Quarterly 29 (June 1948): 27-37.
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Mendelson, Wallace. “Chief Justice Taney: Jacksonian Judge.” University of Pittsburgh Law Review 12 (Spring 1951): 381-393.
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Mendelson, Wallace. “Hugo Black and Judicial Discretion.” Political Science Quarterly 85 (March 1970): 17-39.
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Mendelson, Wallace. “John Marshall's Short Way with Statutes: A Study in the Judicial Use of Legislation to Expound the Constitution.” Kentucky Law Journal 36 (March 1948): 284-289.
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Mendelson, Wallace. “Justices Black and Frankfurter: Supreme Court Majority and Minority Trends.” Journal of Politics 12 (February 1950): 66-92.
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Mendelson, Wallace. “Mr. Justice Black and the Rule of Law.” Midwest Journal of Political Science 4 (April 1960): 250-266.
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Mendelson, Wallace. “Mr. Justice Black's Fourteenth Amendment.” Minnesota Law Review 53 (March 1969): 711-727.
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Mendelson, Wallace. “Mr. Justice Douglas and Government by the Judiciary.” Journal of Politics 38 (November 1976): 918-937.
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Mendelson, Wallace. “Mr. Justice Field and Laissez-Faire.” Virginia Law Review 36 (February 1950): 45-58.
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Mendelson, Wallace. “Mr. Justice Frankfurter and the Process of Judicial Review.” University of Pennsylvania Law Review 103 (December 1954): 295-320.
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Mendelson, Wallace. “Mr. Justice Frankfurter on Administrative Law.” Journal of Politics 19 (August 1957): 441-460.
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Mendelson, Wallace. “Mr. Justice Frankfurter on the Construction of Statutes.” California Law Review 43 (October 1955): 652-673.
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Mendelson, Wallace. “Mr. Justice Frankfurter on the Distribution of Judicial Power in the United States.” Midwest Journal of Political Science 2 (February 1958): 40-61.
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Mendelson, Wallace. “Mr. Justice Frankfurter: Law and Choice.” Vanderbilt Law Review 10 (February 1961): 333-350.
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Mendelson, Wallace. “Mr. Justice Holmes: Humility, Skepticism, and Democracy.” Minnesota Law Review 36 (March 1952): 343-363.
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Mendelson, Wallace. “Mr. Justice Rutledge's Mark upon the Bill of Rights.” Columbia Law Review 50 (January 1950): 48-51.
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Mendelson, Wallace. “The Influence of James B. Thayer upon the Work of Holmes, Brandeis, and Frankfurter.” Vanderbilt Law Review 31 (January 1978): 71-87.
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Mendenhall, Allen. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Pragmatism, and the Jurisprudence of Agon: Aesthetic Dissent and the Common Law. Bucknell University Press, 2017.
Allen Mendenhall reads the dissents as literature and finds in them two qualities he takes from Emerson, superfluity and the poetics of transition, which made them memorable enough for later judges to reopen settled precedent with.
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Mengler, Thomas M. “Public Relations in the Supreme Court: Justice Tom Clark's Opinion in the School Prayer Case.” Constitutional Commentary 6 (Summer 1989): 331-349.
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Mennel, Robert M., and Christine L. Compston, eds. Holmes and Frankfurter: Their Correspondence, 1912–1934. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1996.
The scholarly edition of the letters between the young professor and his idol — the relationship that shaped Frankfurter's whole conception of judging.
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Mercer, William Davenport. “The Last Days of the Marshall Court.” Journal of Supreme Court History 44, no. 2 (2019): 135–153.
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Merida, Kevin, and Michael A. Fletcher. Supreme Discomfort: The Divided Soul of Clarence Thomas. New York: Doubleday, 2007.
The richest biography — two Washington Post journalists on the anger, isolation, and racial complexity of a man who rose through institutions he distrusts.
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Merrick, Edwin. “Roger B. Taney.” The Bar 10 (May 1903): 33-40.
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Merritt, Deborah Jones. “Justice Sandra Day the Framers’ ‘First Woman.’” Journal of Supreme Court History 31, no. 2 (2006): 107–108.
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Mersky, Roy and Jenni Parrish. “The Court in Recent Literature.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1977: 102–113.
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Mersky, Roy M. Louis Dembitz Brandeis, 1856-1941: A Bibliography. New Haven, CT: Yale Law Library, 1958.
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Mersky, Roy M., and J. Myron Jacobstein. The Supreme Court of the United States: Hearings and Reports on Successful and Unsuccessful Nominations of Supreme Court Justices by the Senate Judiciary Committee, 1916-1972. Buffalo, NY: Hein, 1975.
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Messer, Robert L. The End of an Alliance: James F. Byrnes, Roosevelt, Truman, and the Origins of the Cold War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1982.
The scholarly study of Byrnes at State — Robert Messer on how the South Carolinian's diplomacy helped turn the wartime alliance into the Cold War.
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Messinger, I. Scott. “Legitimating Liberalism: The New Deal Image-makers and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.” Journal of Supreme Court History 20 (1995): 57–72.
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Meyer, Edith P. That Remarkable Man, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. Boston: Little, Brown, 1967.
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Meyer, William B. “Samuel Nelson and Judicial Reputation.” Journal of Supreme Court History 48, no. 3 (2023): 299–316.
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Michelman, Frank I. Brennan and Democracy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999.
The leading book-length treatment of Brennan's constitutional and democratic theory — the Harvard theorist Frank Michelman on Brennan's vision of a 'living' Constitution read anew by each generation, and its answer to the charge of judicial overreach.
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Michelman, Frank I. “States' Rights and States' Roles: Permutations of 'Sovereignty' in National League of Cities v. Usery.” Yale Law Journal 86 (May 1977): 1165-1195.
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Middleton, Kent R. “The Partisan Press and the Rejection of a Chief Justice: John Rutledge.” Journalism Quarterly 53 (Spring 1976): 106-110.
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Mikell, William E. “Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney.” West Virginia Law Quarterly 30 (January 1924): 87-103.
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Mikell, William E. “Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney: 1777-1864.” In South Carolina Bar Association Transactions of the 13th Annual Meeting, February 15-16, 1923, 81-102. Columbia, SC: McCaw of Columbia, 1923.
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Mikell, William E. “Roger Brooke Taney: 1777-1864.” In Great American Lawyers, vol. 4, edited by William D. Lewis, 77-194. Philadelphia: J. C. Winston Company, 1908.
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Mikva, Abner. “In Memoriam Arthur J. Goldberg, The Practitioner.” Journal of Supreme Court History 15 (1990): 1–3.
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Milkis, Sidney M. and Nicholas E. Jacobs. “Answering the Call: Leaving the Bench to Serve the President—James F. Byrnes and Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932-1945.” Journal of Supreme Court History 44, no. 1 (2019): 71–89.
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Millen, William A. “Supreme Court Justices Are Kindly and Human in Conduct on Bench.” I.C.C. Practitioners Journal 14 (December 1946): 225-227.
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Miller, Arthur S. “Lord Chancellor Warren Earl Burger.” Transaction, Social Science, and Modern Society 10 (March/April 1973): 18-27.
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Miller, Arthur S., and Jeffrey H. Bowman. Death by Installments: The Ordeal of Willie Francis. New York: Greenwood Press, 1988.
The case of the man Louisiana electrocuted twice: Willie Francis, whose first execution failed and whose second the Court allowed in Louisiana ex rel. Francis v. Resweber, 329 U.S. 459 (1947). A 179-page narrative from Greenwood in 1988 in the Contributions in Legal Studies series, catalogued under the Saint Martinville murder trial, capital punishment and judicial review. Search-only at HathiTrust. Not read.
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Miller, Arthur S., and Jeffrey H. Bowman. “Break the Monopoly of Lawyers on the Supreme Court.” Vanderbilt Law Review 39 (March 1986): 305-320.
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Miller, Arthur S., and Ronald F. Howell. “The Myth of Neutrality in Constitutional Adjudication.” University of Chicago Law Review 27 (Summer 1960): 661-695.
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Miller, Charles A. The Supreme Court and the Uses of History. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1969.
How the justices use the past, 234 pages from the Belknap Press in 1969 on the Court as a reader and writer of history. Search-only at HathiTrust. Not read.
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Miller, Isabel. “‘Our Leading Feminist’: Dorothy Kenyon and the Origins of Equal Protection for Women in Hoyt v. Florida.” Journal of Supreme Court History 49, no. 3 (2024): 270–287.
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Miller, James D. “Holmes, Pierce, and Legal Pragmatism.” Yale Law Journal 84 (April 1975): 1123-1140.
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Miller, Loren, and Harold J. Sinclair. “Justice Holmes and the Civil War Amendments.” National Bar Journal 6 (June 1948): 95-132.
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Miller, Loren. The Petitioners: The Story of the Supreme Court of the United States and the Negro. New York: Pantheon Books, 1966.
The Court and Black Americans from the Civil War amendments to the 1960s, published by Pantheon in 1966 and written by a lawyer who had argued in front of it: Loren Miller was counsel for the petitioners in Shelley v. Kraemer with Thurgood Marshall. The Library of Congress gives the book as 461 pages and the American Political Science Review's review as 433; no copy was found online. Not read.
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Miller, Margaret A. “Justice Sandra Day O'Connor: Token or Triumph from a Feminist Perspective.” Golden Gate University Law Review 15 (Fall 1985): 493-525.
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Miller, Neville. “Justice Brandeis and the University of Louisville School of Law.” Filson Club Historical Quarterly 34 (April 1960): 156-159.
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Miller, Richard Lawrence. Whittaker: Struggles of a Supreme Court Justice. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002.
The other full Whittaker biography — published three years before Smith's Failing Justice, by a Kansas City historian whose research papers now sit in the Eisenhower Presidential Library.
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Miller, Samuel F. The Supreme Court of the United States. Washington, DC: W. H. Barnes, 1877.
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Miller, Samuel F. “Oration.” In History of the Celebration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Promulgation of the Constitution of the United States, edited by Hampton L. Carson, 262-290. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1889.
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Miller, Samuel F. “The Removal of Judges and the Jury System.” Central Law Journal 8 (January 10, 1879): 35-36.
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Miller, Samuel F. “The Study and Practice of the Law in the United States.” Law Times 48 (January 1, 1870): 171.
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Miller, Samuel Freeman. Lectures on the Constitution of the United States. New York: Banks and Brothers, 1891.
The posthumous book: Miller's lectures at the Columbian University law school in Washington, gathered the year after his death by J. C. Bancroft Davis, the Court's Reporter, who signed the preface and supplied the notes; xxi and 765 pages from Banks and Brothers, 1891.
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Miller, Samuel Freeman. The Constitution and the Supreme Court of the United States of America. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1889.
Two addresses of the centennial year, seventy pages from Appleton in 1889: the memorial oration at Philadelphia on 17 September 1887, a hundred years to the day from the signing, and an address to the University of Michigan's law alumni that June, by the senior Associate Justice on the Court and the Constitution as he had spent twenty-five years reading it.
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Millgramm, Karl-Heinz. “Comparative Law: The Federal Constitutional Court of Germany and the Supreme Court of the United States.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1985: 146–154.
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Millhiser, Ian. Injustices: The Supreme Court's History of Comforting the Comfortable and Afflicting the Afflicted. Nation Books, 2015.
Ian Millhiser on the Reconstruction amendments gutted and then turned into shields for wealthy interests, with the Warren years as an interlude, told through the people the decisions fell on; Nation Books, March 2015, 368 pages. Not read.
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Millhiser, Ian. The Agenda: How a Republican Supreme Court Is Reshaping America. New York: Columbia Global Reports, 2021.
Ian Millhiser of Vox on what he calls the agenda of a Republican Court, across voting rights, campaign finance, the administrative state, church and state and corporate liability; Columbia Global Reports, March 2021, 143 pages in the series' short-report form. Not read.
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Minger, Ralph E. William Howard Taft and United States Foreign Policy: The Apprenticeship Years, 1900-1908. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1975.
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Minger, Ralph E. “Taft's Missions to Japan: A Study in Personal Diplomacy.” Pacific Historical Review 30 (August 1961): 279-294.
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Minger, Ralph E. “William Howard Taft's Forgotten Visit to Russia.” Russian Review 22 (April 1963): 149-156.
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Mirabella, Peter F. “Justice Byron R. White and Fundamental Freedoms.” Ph.D. diss., New School for Social Research, 1980.
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Mitchell, James G. “Hypocrisy of the Disability Argument for Retiring Supreme Court Justices.” Annalist 49 (February 19, 1937): 302-303.
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Mitchell, Jonathon. “Brandeis: Heavenly Visitor.” New Republic 89 (December 2, 1936): 150.
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Mitchell, Morris B. “The Judicial Salary Crisis: An Increase Is Urgently Needed.” American Bar Association Journal 30 (March 1953): 197-200.
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Mitchell, Stephen R. “Mr. Justice Horace Gray.” Ph.D. diss., University of Wisconsin, 1961.
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Mitchell, Stephen R. “The Justices.” Western Political Quarterly 15 (September 1962): 42-43.
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Mizell, Winton R. “The United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary and Presidential Nominations to the Supreme Court, 1965-1971: A Study of Role and Function of a Legislative Subsystem.” Ph.D. diss., University of Oklahoma, 1974.
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Modern judicial assessments: Herbert A. Johnson, Vanderbilt Law Review 62 (2009); David A. Faber, West Virginia Law Review 102 (2000).
Two law-review assessments of Bushrod as a working judge — Johnson's in the same 2009 Vanderbilt symposium that reassessed Samuel Chase, Faber's on his role in early American legal development.
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Moke, Paul. Earl Warren and the Struggle for Justice. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2015.
A political scientist's life of Warren, 363 pages from Lexington in 2015, which credits the progressive turn on race, criminal justice and marital privacy and the innovations in how the Court explained itself, and is critical of the California career and of the Warren Commission, where the publisher says he showed lapses of judgment and deference to authority on national-security questions.
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Moline, Brian. “David Josiah Brewer, Kansas Jurist.” Kansas Bar Association Journal 55 (January/February 1986): 7-11.
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Monagan, John S. “The Grand Panjandrum: Mellow Years of Justice Holmes.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1988: 26–36.
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Monaghan, Frank. John Jay: Defender of Liberty Against Kings & Peoples. New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1935.
For decades this was the major full biography of Jay.
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Monaghan, Frank. The Diary of John Jay during the Peace Negotiations of 1782. New Haven, CT: Bibliographical Press, Yale University, 1934.
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Monaghan, Frank. “Anti-Slavery Papers of John Jay.” Journal of Negro History 17 (October 1932): 481-497.
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Monaghan, Henry P. “The Confirmation Process: Law or Politics?” Harvard Law Review 101 (April 1988): 1146-1229.
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Monroe, Elizabeth Brand. “The Influence of the Dartmouth College Case on the American Law of Educational Charities.” Journal of Supreme Court History 32, no. 1 (2007): 1–21.
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“Monument to the Late Chief Justice Chase.” American Bar Association Journal 8 (April 1922): 198.
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Mooney, Booth. Mr. Speaker. Chicago: Follett, 1964.
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Moore, Allen. “Our Eleventh Chief Justice.” Dicta 7 (April 1930): 11-27.
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Moore, Frank. “John Marshall.” In American Eloquence, vol. 2, edited by Frank Moore, 1-32. New York: D. Appleton, 1862.
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Moore, Frank. “Joseph Story.” In American Eloquence, vol. 2, edited by Frank Moore, 422-437. New York: D. Appleton, 1862.
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Moore, John B. John Marshall. Boston: Ginn and Company, 1901.
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Morel, Lucas E. “Lincoln and the Constitution: A Unionist for the Sake of Liberty.” Journal of Supreme Court History 35, no. 3 (2010): 213–224.
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Morel, Lucas E. “The Dred Scott Dissents: McLean, Curtis, Lincoln, and the Public Mind.” Journal of Supreme Court History 32, no. 2 (2007): 133–151.
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Moreno, Paul D. How the Court Became Supreme: The Origins of American Juristocracy. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2022.
Paul Moreno of Hillsdale on how a minor institution grew into the most powerful judiciary in the world and how the constitutional checks on it fell into disuse; LSU Press, September 2022, 358 pages. Not read.
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Morgan, Donald G. Justice William Johnson, The First Dissenter: The Career and Constitutional Philosophy of a Jeffersonian Judge. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1954.
Morgan reconstructs Johnson's Charleston world, his rise from a blacksmith's household to Jefferson's first Supreme Court appointment at thirty-two, and — the book's lasting contribution — his lonely campaign to keep independent judgment alive inside Marshall's single-opinion Court.
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Morgan, Donald G. “Justice William Johnson on the Treaty- Making Power.” George Washington Law Review 22 (December 1953): 187-215.
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Morgan, Donald G. “Marshall, the Marshall Court, and the Constitution.” In Chief Justice John Marshall: A Reappraisal, edited by William M. Jones, 168-185. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1956.
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Morgan, Donald G. “Mr. Justice William Johnson and the Constitution.” Harvard Law Review 57 (January 1944): 328-361.
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Morgan, Donald G. “The Constitutional Philosophy of Associate Justice William Johnson, 1771-1834.” Ph.D. diss., Harvard University, 1943.
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Morgan, Mathew S., ed. “How Morrison R. Waite Came to Be Nominated Chief Justice of the United States.” Northwest Ohio Quarterly 23 (Summer 1951): 140-144.
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Morgan, Richard. “The Flag Salute Cases Reconsidered.” Journal of Supreme Court History 34, no. 3 (2009): 273–288.
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Morice, Joseph R. “Justice Stephen J. Field and the Fourteenth Amendment: A Re-evaluation.” Ph.D. diss., University of Pittsburgh, 1962.
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Morison, S. E. “The Education of John Marshall.” Atlantic 126 (July 1920): 45-54.
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Morris, Clara. “Some Reminiscences of L.Q.C. Lamar.” Cosmopolitan 36 (March 1904): 566-573.
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Morris, Earl F. “Mr. Justice Stewart.” American Bar Association Journal 44 (December 1950): 1174-1175.
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Morris, George P. “Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jurist.” American Monthly Review of Reviews 26 (September 1902): 307-309.
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Morris, Jeffrey B. “A Lawyer's Lawyer, A Judge's Judge: Justice Potter Stewart and the Fourth Amendment.” University of Cincinnati Law Review 51 (1982): 509.
The leading study of the doctrine Stewart owned — the author of Katz and its 'reasonable expectation of privacy,' assessed by a leading judicial historian.
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Morris, Jeffrey B. “Chief Justice Edward Douglass White and President Taft's Court.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1982: 27–45.
The standard short assessment of the White chief justiceship's strangest feature: the man who appointed him, William Howard Taft, spent the next decade waiting for the seat — and got it when White died.
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Morris, Jeffrey B. “In Memoriam: William F. Swindler.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1984: 5–6.
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Morris, Jeffrey B. “Morrison Waite's Court.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1980 (1980): 39-48.
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Morris, Jeffrey B. “Niles Register and the Supreme Court.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1978: 50–60.
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Morris, Jeffrey B. “The American Jewish Judge: An Appraisal on the Occasion of the Bicentennial.” Jewish Social Studies 38 (Summer/Fall 1976): 195-223.
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Morris, Jeffrey B. “The Era of Melville Weston Fuller.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1981: 37–51.
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Morris, Jeffrey B. “What Heaven Must Be Like: William Howard Taft as Chief Justice, 1921-1930.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1983 (1983): 80-101.
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Morris, Richard B. John Jay, the Nation, and the Court. Boston: Boston University Press, 1967.
A shorter, more academic treatment organized around interpretive essays — especially useful for understanding Jay's nationalism, his conception of government, and his view of the judiciary, though older and less biographically complete than Stahr.
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Morris, Richard B. The Peacemakers: The Great Powers and American Independence. New York: Harper & Row, 1965.
The Bancroft Prize–winning history of the peace negotiations that ended the Revolution — with Jay's defiant decision to negotiate directly with Britain at its center.
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Morris, Richard B. “John Jay and the Adoption of the Federal Constitution in New York: A New Reading of Persons and Events.” New York History 63 (April 1982): 133-164.
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Morris, Richard B. “John Jay and the New England Connection.” Massachusetts Historical Society Proceedings 80 (February 1968): 16-37.
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Morris, Richard B. “The John Jay Court: An Intimate Profile.” Journal of Contemporary Law 5 (Spring 1979): 163-179.
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Morris, Richard B., ed. The Papers of John Jay (2 vols.). New York: Harper & Row, 1975, 1980.
A deeply scholarly and documentary-rich portrait of Jay's years through the Revolution and peace negotiations.
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Morris, Richard B., ed. “The Jay Papers I: Mission to Spain.” American Heritage 19 (February 1968): 8-21.
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Morris, Richard B., ed. “The Jay Papers II: The Forging of the Nation.” American Heritage 20 (December 1968): 24-29.
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Morris, Richard B., ed. “The Jay Papers III: The Trials of Chief Justice Jay.” American Heritage 20 (June 1969): 80-90.
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Morris, Richard B., Paul A. Freund and Herbert Wechsler. “Columbians as Chief Justices: John Jay, Charles Evans Hughes and Harlan Fiske Stone.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1988: 66–77.
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Morrison, A. J. “Judge Bushrod Washington.” Tyler's Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Magazine 4 (July 1922): 32-35.
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Morrison, Alan B., and D. Scott Stenhouse. “The Chief Justice of the United States: More Than Just the Highest Ranking Judge.” Constitutional Commentary 1 (Winter 1984): 57-79.
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Morrison, Toni, ed. Race-ing Justice, En-gendering Power: Essays on Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the Construction of Social Reality. New York: Pantheon Books, 1992.
The landmark scholarly response to the 1991 hearings — essays edited by Toni Morrison on race, gender, and power in the Hill–Thomas confrontation, among the most-cited academic works on the episode.
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Morrow, James B. “The Honorable William H. Moody: The New Justice of the United States Supreme Court.” Law Students' Helper 15 (February 1907): 42-46.
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Morse, John T., Jr. Life and Letters of Oliver Wendell Holmes. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1896.
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Morse, John T., Jr. “Benjamin Robbins Curtis.” Atlantic Monthly 45 (February 1880): 265-270.
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Moses, Adolph. How to Celebrate "John Marshall Day". Chicago: Illinois Bar Association, 1900.
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Moses, Adolph. “The Friendship between Marshall and Story.” American Law Review 35 (May/June 1901): 321-342.
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Moses, Belle. John Marshall, Our Greatest Chief Justice. New York: Appleton-Century, 1938.
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Mosher, Lester E. “Mr. Justice Rutledge's Philosophy of Civil Rights.” New York University Law Quarterly Review 24 (October 1949): 661-706.
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Mosher, Lester E. “Mr. Justice Rutledge's Philosophy of the Commerce Clause.” New York University Law Review 27 (April 1952): 218-247.
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Mosher, Lester E. “The Constitutional Philosophy of Mr. Justice Rutledge: A Study of His Approach to Problems of Civil Rights and the Commerce Clause.” Ph.D. diss., New York University, 1951.
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Mosk, Stanley. “William O. Douglas.” Ecology Law Quarterly 5 (Spring 1976): 229-232.
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Mosnier, Joseph. “The Demise of an ‘Extraordinary Criminal Procedure’: Klopfer v. North Carolina and the Incorporation of the Sixth Amendment’s Speedy Trial Provision.” Journal of Supreme Court History 21, no. 2 (1996): 136–160.
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“Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron TWO: Loss of PT 109 and Subsequent Rescue of Survivors (August 1943).” Naval History and Heritage Command (1943).
The Navy's own file on the sinking of Kennedy's boat, reproduced by the Naval History and Heritage Command: the action reports and, as an enclosure, the intelligence memorandum compiled from the survivors and signed by the flotilla's two intelligence officers, the first of them Lieutenant (jg) B. R. White.
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Mount, Annice P. “Chief Justice Harlan Fiske Stone.” Women Lawyers Journal 32 (June/July 1966): 102.
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Mourtada-Sabbah, Nada, and Bruce E. Cain, eds. The Political Question Doctrine and the Supreme Court of the United States. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2007.
Essays on the political question doctrine, its shifting boundaries and its contemporary application including extraterritorial questions, edited by Nada Mourtada-Sabbah of the American University of Sharjah and Bruce Cain of Berkeley; Lexington Books, January 2007, 273 pages. Not read.
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Mowry, Duane. “Some Qualifications for a Judge of the Supreme Court of the United States.” Albany Law Journal 70 (August 1908): 275.
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“Mr. Justice Arthur J. Goldberg.” American Bar Association Journal 48 (December 1962): 1146.
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“Mr. Justice Brewer.” American Law Review (January/February 1890): 137-140.
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Muller, Henry. “A Reappraisal of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.” California State Bar Journal 26 (March/April 1951): 94-101.
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Mullin, Connor. “Edward Bennett Williams for the Petitioner: Profile of a Supreme Court Advocate.” Journal of Supreme Court History 34, no. 2 (2009): 204–223.
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Mullock, Philip. “Holmes on Contractual Duty.” University of Pittsburgh Law Review 33 (Spring 1972): 471-482.
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Munro, William B. “John Marshall and the Achievement of Nationalism.” In The Makers of the Unwritten Constitution, edited by William B. Munro, 53-84. New York: Macmillan, 1930.
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Murley, John A., and Sean D. Sutton. The Supreme Court Against the Criminal Jury: Social Science and the Palladium of Liberty. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2014.
John Murley and Sean Sutton on the four decisions of the 1970s that allowed six-person juries and non-unanimous verdicts, Williams, Ballew, Apodaca and Johnson, and on the social-science evidence the Court leaned on to reach them; Lexington, 2014, 127 pages. Not read.
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Murphy, Bruce A. “A Supreme Court Justice as Politician: Felix Frankfurter and Federal Court Appointments.” American Journal of Legal History 21 (October 1977): 316-334.
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Murphy, Bruce A. “Supreme Court Justices as Politicians: The Extrajudicial Activities of Justices Louis D. Brandeis and Felix Frankfurter.” Ph.D. diss., University of Virginia, 1978.
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Murphy, Bruce Allen. Fortas: The Rise and Ruin of a Supreme Court Justice. New York: William Morrow, 1988.
The fuller account of the scandal, by the biographer of William O. Douglas.
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Murphy, Bruce Allen. Scalia: A Court of One. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2014.
The other major biography, and the skeptical one — Bruce Allen Murphy argues that Scalia's combativeness and refusal to compromise cost him the majorities his talents deserved, leaving him a brilliant 'court of one.'
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Murphy, Bruce Allen. Scalia: A Court of One. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2014.
The long biography, 644 pages from Simon & Schuster in June 2014, by Bruce Allen Murphy of Lafayette College, who had written lives of Frankfurter, Fortas and Douglas before it: the Cleveland practice, the Ford administration, the D.C. Circuit from 1982 and the appointment of 1986, and an argument that the refusal to compromise cost Scalia the conservative majority he might have led.
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Murphy, Bruce Allen. The Brandeis/Frankfurter Connection: The Secret Political Activities of Two Supreme Court Justices. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.
The book that caused a scandal — Murphy's documentation of the two justices' extensive behind-the-scenes political maneuvering, including Brandeis's secret retainer funding Frankfurter's Washington activity while both sat on the Court.
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Murphy, Bruce Allen. Wild Bill: The Legend and Life of William O. Douglas. New York: Random House, 2003.
The major modern biography, and a bracing, warts-and-all account.
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Murphy, Charles S. “Charles S. Murphy Oral History Interview, July 15, 1969.” Harry S. Truman Library Oral History Program (1969).
The one first-hand account of Truman's wish that Vinson succeed him as President in 1952.
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Murphy, James B. L.Q.C. Lamar: Pragmatic Patriot. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1973.
The standard modern life, in LSU Press's Southern Biography Series.
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Murphy, Paul L. “The Early Social and Political Philosophy of Hugo Black: Liquor as a Test Case.” Alabama Law Review 36 (Spring 1985): 861-880.
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Murphy, Walter F. Congress and the Court: A Case Study in the American Political Process. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962.
Congress against the Court, a case study in the American political process by its subtitle: 307 pages from Chicago in 1962, catalogued under both institutions. Held by the Internet Archive for in-library use only. Not read.
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Murphy, Walter F. Elements of Judicial Strategy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1964.
The book that made the justices strategists: 249 pages from Chicago in 1964 on how a justice with policy ends chooses his means inside an institution of nine. Epstein and Knight, writing the foreword to its 2016 reprint, call it the first strategic account of judicial behavior and count their own The Choices Justices Make among the attempts to test it. Held by the Internet Archive for in-library use only. Not read.
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Murphy, Walter F. “Chief Justice Taft and the Lower Court Bureaucracy: A Study in Judicial Administration.” Journal of Politics 24 (August 1962): 453-476.
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Murphy, Walter F. “In His Own Image: Mr. Chief Justice Taft and Supreme Court Appointments.” Supreme Court Review 1961 (1961): 159-193.
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Murphy, Walter F. “Mr. Justice Jackson, Free Speech, and the Judicial Function.” Vanderbilt Law Review 12 (October 1959): 1019-1046.
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Murray, Nicholas. Romanism at Home: Letters to the Honorable Roger B. Taney. 6th ed. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1852.
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Myers, Gustavus. History of the Supreme Court of the United States. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Company, 1912.
A muckraker's history of the Court, 823 pages published in 1912 by Charles H. Kerr of Chicago, a socialist house, and reprinted by Kerr in 1918 and 1925 and by Burt Franklin in 1968. Free and in the public domain at the Internet Archive, which has the 1918 printing.
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Myers, Minor, III. “The Judicial Service of Retired United States Supreme Court Justices.” Journal of Supreme Court History 32, no. 1 (2007): 46–61.
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Mykkeltvedt, Roald Y. “Justice Black and the Intentions of the Framers of the Fourteenth Amendment's First Section.” Mercer Law Review 20 (Spring 1969): 423-442.
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