The Annotated Bibliography: N
77 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.
Nackenoff, Carol & Julie Novkov. American by Birth: Wong Kim Ark and the Battle for Citizenship. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2021.
The best book on Gray's most consequential hour.
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Nadelmann, Kurt H. “Joseph Story's Sketch of American Law.” American Journal of Comparative Law 3 (Winter 1954): 3-8.
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Nagareda, Richard. “The Appellate Jurisprudence of Justice Antonin Scalia.” University of Chicago Law Review 54 (Spring 1987): 705-739.
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Nagel, Stuart S. “Characteristics of Supreme Court Greatness.” American Bar Association Journal 56 (October 1970): 957-959.
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Nannes, John M. “The ‘Lone Dissenter.’” Journal of Supreme Court History 31, no. 1 (2006): 1–4.
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Nash, Francis C. “Mr. Justice Cardozo and the Law of Torts.” Ph.D. diss., Georgetown University, 1935.
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“Nathan Clifford.” United States Magazine and Democratic Review 21 (October 1847): 360-364.
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Nathanson, Melissa. “‘Standing on the Corner When the Bus Came By:’ Harry A. Blackman’s Appointments to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (1959) and the United States Supreme Court (1970).” Journal of Supreme Court History 44, no. 2 (2019): 215–242.
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Nathanson, Nathaniel L. “Mr. Justice Brandeis: A Law Clerk's Recollection of the October Term, 1934.” American Jewish Archives 15 (April 1963): 6-16.
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Nathanson, Nathaniel L. “Mr. Justice Frankfurter and Administrative Law.” Yale Law Journal 67 (December 1957): 240-265.
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Nathanson, Nathaniel L. “Mr. Justice Frankfurter and the Holmes Chair: A Study in Liberalism and Judicial Self-Restraint.” Northwestern University Law Review 71 (May/June 1976): 135-160.
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Nathanson, Nathaniel L. “Statutory Interpretation and Mr. Justice Rutledge.” Indiana Law Journal 25 (Summer 1950): 462-479.
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Nathanson, Nathaniel L. “The Philosophy of Mr. Justice Brandeis and Civil Liberties Today.” University of Illinois Law Forum 1979 (1979): 261-300.
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Navarrete, George. “The Latin American Policy of Charles Evans Hughes, 1921-1925.” Ph.D. diss., University of California, Berkeley, 1964.
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Neely, Mark E., Jr. “Justice Embattled: The Lincoln Administration and the Constitutional Controversy Over Conscription in 1863.” Journal of Supreme Court History 21 (Special Edition 1996): 47–61.
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Neff, Stephen C. Justice in Blue and Gray: A Legal History of the Civil War. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010.
The standard legal history of the Civil War, with blockade law and the Prize Cases — Grier's one great opinion, upholding Lincoln's blockade by a 5–4 vote in 1863 — at its center.
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Nelles, Walter, and Samuel Mermin. “Holmes and Labor Law.” New York University Law Quarterly Review 13 (May 1936): 517-555.
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Nelson, Adam R. Dartmouth College v. Woodward: Colleges, Corporations, and the Common Good. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2025.
A 2025 study of the Dartmouth College case, Marshall's 1819 opinion that a corporate charter is a contract the state may not impair, by Adam R. Nelson, a historian of education at Wisconsin, in Kansas's Landmark Law Cases & American Society series: New Hampshire's attempt to take over the college, the divergence between the state and federal courts, and the shift the decision marked from commonwealth republicanism to market liberalism.
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Nelson, Dale. “Dateline—Washington: Rehnquist, Scalia, and the First Amendment.” Wilson Library Bulletin 61 (October 1986): 30-31.
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Nelson, Daniel A. “The Supreme Court Appointment of Willis Van Devanter.” Annals of Wyoming 53 (Fall 1981): 2-11.
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Nelson, Garrison. Pathways to the US Supreme Court: From the Arena to the Monastery. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Garrison Nelson's quantitative study of the routes to the Court taken by the hundred and twelve justices who served and the twenty-eight other nominees who were defeated, withdrawn or declined; Palgrave Macmillan, December 2013, 340 pages. Not read.
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Nelson, Michael. Vaulting Ambition: FDR's Campaign to Pack the Supreme Court. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2023.
The court-packing campaign of 1937 from the President's side, as one part of Roosevelt's plan to remake every branch, by Michael Nelson of Rhodes College; Kansas, February 2023, 144 pages, the first of its Landmark Presidential Decisions series. Not read.
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Nelson, Michael. “Fortas’ Nominations: One Era Ends, Another Begins.” Journal of Supreme Court History 48, no. 2 (2023): 239–257.
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Nelson, Michael. “Goldberg v. Kelly: The Case, the Clerk, and the Justice.” Journal of Supreme Court History 47, no. 2 (2022): 162–178.
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Nelson, Paul E. “Constitutional Theory of Mr. Justice Roberts.” Master's thesis, University of Chicago, 1960.
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Nelson, William E. “Marbury v. Madison and the Establishment of Judicial Autonomy.” Journal of Supreme Court History 27, no. 3 (2002): 240–256.
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Nelson, William E. “The Eighteenth Century Background of John Marshall's Constitutional Jurisprudence.” Michigan Law Review 76 (May 1978): 893-960.
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Nelson-Horchler, Joani. “Supreme Court: How Far Will Rehnquist Tilt It to the Right?” Industry Week 230 (July 7, 1986): 24-25.
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Nemacheck, Christine L. Strategic Selection: Presidential Nomination of Supreme Court Justices from Herbert Hoover through George W. Bush. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2007.
Christine Nemacheck on how presidents from Hoover to George W. Bush actually chose their nominees, drawn heavily from the presidential papers, with the argument that they maximise ideological preference while minimising uncertainty and are constrained by divided government and by the institutionalised presidency; Virginia, March 2007, 192 pages. Not read.
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Nettleton, Tully. “The Philosophy of Mr. Justice Holmes on Freedom of Speech.” Southwestern Social Science Quarterly 3 (March 1923): 287-305.
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Neuberger, Richard L. “Much-Discussed 'Bill' Douglas.” New York Times Magazine 91 (April 19, 1942): 10-11.
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Nevin, David R. “James Wilson, of Pennsylvania.” In Continental Sketches of Distinguished Pennsylvanians, edited by David R. Nevin, 76-84. Philadelphia: Porter and Coates, 1875.
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New York State Bar Association. Judiciary Centennial Committee. Centennial Celebration of the Organization of the Federal Judiciary, Held in the City of New York February 4, 1890: Addresses of Chief Justice Fuller and Associate Justice Field, Delivered at the Metropolitan Opera House, Together with the Speech of Associate Justice Harlan, Made at the Banquet in the Evening. Washington, DC: New York State Bar Association, 1890.
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Newell, William. A Discourse Occasioned by the Death of the Honorable Joseph Story, LL.D. Cambridge, MA: Metcalf, 1845.
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Newland, Chester A. “Innovation in Judicial Technique: The Brandeis Opinion.” Southwestern Social Science Quarterly 42 (June 1961): 22-31.
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Newman, Jon O. “Citators Beware: Stylistic Variations in Different Publisher’s Versions of Early Supreme Court Opinions.” Journal of Supreme Court History 26, no. 1 (2001): 1–8.
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Newman, Jon O. “Mr. Justice Frankfurter.” Connecticut Bar Journal 36 (December 1962): 527-532.
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Newman, Roger K. Hugo Black: A Biography. New York: Pantheon Books, 1994.
The definitive biography, exhaustively researched and unflinching.
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Newmyer, R. Kent. John Marshall and the Heroic Age of the Supreme Court. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001.
The leading scholarly judicial biography — law and politics interwoven at full depth, strongest on the great constitutional cases and Marshall's decades-long duel with the Jeffersonians.
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Newmyer, R. Kent. Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story: Statesman of the Old Republic. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985.
Holds together every Story there was: the Marblehead Republican whom Jefferson distrusted, Marshall's indispensable scholarly partner, the Dane Professor who made Harvard Law School the national seminary of American law, the author of nine series of Commentaries that organized whole fields from scratch, and the judge whose record on slavery ran from denouncing the slave trade as against natural law to writing Prigg v. Pennsylvania.
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Newmyer, R. Kent. The Supreme Court under Marshall and Taney. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1968.
The Marshall and Taney Courts in 184 pages, from Crowell in 1968 and reprinted by Harlan Davidson in 1986 in its American History Series; the short survey by the biographer of Story and of Marshall. Search-only at HathiTrust. Not read.
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Newmyer, R. Kent. The Treason Trial of Aaron Burr: Law, Politics, and the Character Wars of the New Nation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Marshall presiding over the most sensational trial of the century — Burr in the dock, Jefferson pressing for a conviction, and the Chief Justice defining constitutional treason so narrowly that the case collapsed.
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Newmyer, R. Kent. “Chief Justice John Marshall’s Last Campaign: Georgia, Jackson, and the Cherokee Cases.” Journal of Supreme Court History 24, no. 1 (1999): 76–94.
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Newmyer, R. Kent. “Joseph Story and the War of 1812: A Judicial Nationalist.” Historian 26 (August 1964): 486-501.
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Newmyer, R. Kent. “Justice Joseph Story, the Charles River Bridge Case, and the Crisis of Republicanism.” American Journal of Legal History 17 (July 1973): 232-245.
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Newmyer, R. Kent. “Justice Joseph Story: A Political and Constitutional Study.” Ph.D. diss., University of Nebraska, 1959.
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Newmyer, R. Kent. “Note on the Whig Politics of Justice Joseph Story.” Mississippi Valley Historical Review 48 (December 1961): 480-491.
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Newmyer, R. Kent. “Thomas Jefferson and the Rise of the Supreme Court.” Journal of Supreme Court History 31, no. 2 (2006): 126–140.
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Newton, Jim. Justice for All: Earl Warren and the Nation He Made. New York: Riverhead Books, 2006.
The best one-volume modern biography, by a Los Angeles Times journalist with a feel for California and for power.
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Nicoletti, Cynthia. “Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase and the Permanency of the Unions.” Journal of Supreme Court History 44, no. 2 (2019): 154–169.
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Niebuhr, Reinhold. “Tribute to Felix Frankfurter.” Harvard Law Review 76 (November 1962): 20-21.
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Nielson, James A. “Robert H. Jackson: The Middle Ground.” Louisiana Law Review 6 (May 1945): 381-405.
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Niven, John, ed. The Salmon P. Chase Papers (5 vols.). Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1993.
The scholarly edition — five volumes of Chase's journals and correspondence (1993–1998), edited by his biographer John Niven, and the documentary foundation for all modern work.
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Niven, John. Salmon P. Chase: A Biography. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
The standard scholarly biography, and the fruit of the same historian's years editing the Chase papers.
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Noble, Iris. Firebrand for Justice, a Biography of Louis Dembitz Brandeis. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1969.
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Nock, Albert J. “The State of the Union: The Picking of Hugo Black.” American Mercury 42 (October 1937): 229-233.
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Noonan, John T., Jr. Narrowing the Nation's Power: The Supreme Court Sides with the States. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2002.
A Ninth Circuit judge's case against the Rehnquist Court's federalism, 203 pages from California in 2002, catalogued under state governments' privileges and immunities and the liability of government to the states. Noonan had sat on the court of appeals since 1985 and wrote this as a senior judge. Search-only at HathiTrust. Not read.
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Noonan, John T., Jr. Persons and Masks of the Law: Cardozo, Holmes, Jefferson, and Wythe as Makers of the Masks. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1976.
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Noonan, John T., Jr. “Catholic Justices of the United States Supreme Court.” Catholic Historical Review 67 (July 1981): 369-385.
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Nordham, George Washington. “President George Washington and the First Supreme Court.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1984: 7–11.
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Norgren, Jill. The Cherokee Cases: The Confrontation of Law and Politics. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1996.
The standard accessible account of Cherokee Nation v. Georgia and Worcester v. Georgia — the litigation that produced Thompson's finest hour.
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Norgren, Jill. “Before It Was Merely Difficult: Belva Lockwood’s Life in Law and Politics.” Journal of Supreme Court History 24, no. 1 (1999): 16–42.
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Norgren, Jill. “Ladies of Legend: The First Generation of American Women Attorneys.” Journal of Supreme Court History 35, no. 1 (2010): 71–90.
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Norgren, Jill. “The Cherokee Nation Cases of the 1830s.” Journal of Supreme Court History 19 (1994): 65–82.
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Norris, Harold. Mr. Justice Murphy and the Bill of Rights. Dobbs Ferry, NY: Oceana Publications, 1965.
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Norris, Harold. “Mr. Justice Frank Murphy: A Michigan Contribution to Law and Politics.” Michigan Bar Journal 64 (August 1985): 55-56.
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Northrup, Clark S. “Mr. Hughes' Career.” Phi Beta Kappa Key 5 (March 1925): 683-690.
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Norton, John J. “Changes on the High Court.” Police Chief 53 (August 1986): 8.
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Nott, C. C. “Chief Justice Chase.” Nation 16 (May 15, 1873): 330-331.
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Novak, Andrew. “Courtroom to Classroom: Justice Harlan’s Lectures at George Washington University Law School.” Journal of Supreme Court History 30, no. 3 (2005): 211–225.
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Novick, Sheldon M. Honorable Justice: The Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes. Boston: Little, Brown, 1989.
The first full modern biography, and the first to work through the complete papers — Novick is unsentimental about the coldness and the vanity, and definitive on the Civil War wounds that shaped Holmes's skepticism.
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Novkov, Julie. The Supreme Court and the Presidency: Struggles for Supremacy. Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2013.
Julie Novkov's documentary volume on the Court and the presidency, analytical narrative with primary sources, covering executive power, appointments, emergency and war powers, treaties, executive privilege, impeachment and pardons; CQ Press, March 2013, 472 pages, in the Supreme Court's Power in American Politics series. Not read.
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Nowak, John E. “Resurrecting Realist Jurisprudence: The Political Bias of Burger Court Justices.” Suffolk University Law Review 17 (Fall 1983): 549-620.
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Nunn, Sam. “Judicial Tenure.” Chicago-Kent Law Review 54 (1977): 29-44.
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Nurick, Gilbert. “Impeach John Marshall.” North Carolina Central Law Journal 2 (Spring 1970): 100-109.
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Nutting, Charles B. “John Marshall and the Federal Union.” Carnegie Magazine 29 (September 1955): 232-235.
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Nuxoll, Elizabeth M., et al., eds. The Selected Papers of John Jay (7 vols.). Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2010–2020.
The essential resource for serious research — the modern annotated edition from the University of Virginia Press, superseding the Morris volumes.
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