The Annotated Bibliography: O
78 of 5159 works · revised October 26, 2026
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O'Brian, John L. “Charles Evans Hughes as Governor.” American Bar Association Journal 27 (July 1941): 412-413.
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O'Brien, David M. Justice Robert H. Jackson's Unpublished Opinion in Brown v. Board: Conflict, Compromise, and Constitutional Interpretation. 2017.
A book-length study of the concurrence Jackson drafted for Brown and never filed — wrestling honestly with whether desegregation could be commanded as law rather than politics — before joining Warren's unanimous opinion from a hospital bed.
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O'Brien, David M. “Filling Justice William O. Douglas’s Seat: President Gerald R. Ford’s Appointment of Justice John Paul Stevens.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1989: 20–39.
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O'Brien, David M. “John Marshall Harlan’s Unpublished Opinions: Reflections of a Supreme Court at Work.” Journal of Supreme Court History 16 (1991): 27–49.
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O'Brien, David M. “Packing the Supreme Court.” Virginia Quarterly Review 62 (Spring 1986): 189-212.
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O'Brien, David M. “Sutherland’s Recollections of Justice Holmes.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1988: 18–25.
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O'Brien, David M. “‘He Travels Fastest Who Travels Alone:’ Justice Robert H. Jackson—One of the Court’s Finest Advocates and Writers.” Journal of Supreme Court History 37, no. 3 (2012): 305–321.
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O'Brien, David. “The Supreme Court: A Co-Equal Branch of Government.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1984: 90–105.
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O'Brien, F. William. “Justice Cushing's Undelivered Speech on the Federal Constitution.” William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd ser., 15 (1958): 74.
O'Brien's publication of a speech Cushing drafted for the Massachusetts ratifying convention but never delivered — one of the few windows into the constitutional thinking of a justice who left almost nothing on paper.
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O'Brien, F. William. “Mr. Justice Reed and Democratic Pluralism.” Georgetown Law Journal 45 (Spring 1957): 364-387.
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O'Brien, F. William. “Mr. Justice Reed and the Liberties of the First Amendment.” Ph.D. diss., Georgetown University, 1956.
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O'Brien, F. William. “The Nine Rejected Men.” Baylor Law Review 19 (Winter 1967): 1-19.
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O'Brien, F. William. “Unshaken Reed.” America 96 (February 23, 1957): 571.
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O'Connell, Daniel. Liberty or Slavery? Daniel O'Connell on American Slavery: Reply to O'Connell by Honorable S. P. Chase. Cincinnati: Chronicle Print, 1863.
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O'Connell, Jeffrey, and Nancy Dart. “The House of Truth: Home of the Young Frankfurter and Lippmann.” Catholic University Law Review 35 (Fall 1985): 79-95.
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O'Connor, Alice. During Good Behavior: Judicial Independence and Accountability: A Guide for Discussion of Proposals to Establish Terms of Office for the Federal Judiciary. Washington, DC: Jefferson Foundation, 1984.
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O'Connor, John E. William Paterson: Lawyer and Statesman, 1745–1806. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1979.
The standard full-length biography and the clear place to begin — from immigrant childhood and New Jersey legal practice through the Revolution, Convention, Senate, governorship, and Court.
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O'Connor, John E. “William Paterson and the American Revolution, 1763-1787.” Ph.D. diss., City University of New York, 1974.
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O'Connor, Sandra D. “Foreword: The Changing Role of the Circuit Justice.” University of Toledo Law Review 17 (Spring 1986): 521-526.
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O'Connor, Sandra D. “Swinford Lecture.” Kentucky Bench and Bar 49 (Summer 1985): 20-22, 51-53.
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O'Connor, Sandra Day, and H. Alan Day. Lazy B: Growing Up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest. New York: Random House, 2002.
O'Connor's memoir of the Arizona ranch where she grew up, written with her brother — not a book about the Court, but the key to the character who ran it from the center.
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O'Connor, Sandra Day. "Supreme Court Justices from Georgia." Georgia Journal of Southern Legal History 1, no. 2 (1991): 395–406.
A short appreciation of Georgia's justices — Wayne foremost — by a sitting justice, as the FJC's bibliography lists it.
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O'Connor, Sandra Day. Out of Order: Stories from the History of the Supreme Court. New York: Random House, 2013.
The retired justice's affectionate tour of Supreme Court history and lore — the customs, personalities, and turning points of the institution, told with warmth by someone who reshaped it.
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O'Connor, Sandra Day. The Majesty of the Law: Reflections of a Supreme Court Justice. New York: Random House, 2003.
O'Connor's reflections on the Court, its history, and the rule of law — accessible essays on the institution she helped steer, written in the middle of her decisive final decade.
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O'Connor, Sandra Day. “Commencement Address, Stanford University, June 13, 2004.” Stanford Report (2004).
The no-job story in her own words, to the class of 2004 at the university that had produced the graduate no firm would hire as a lawyer, and a case for public service built on the people she calls bridge builders.
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O'Connor, Sandra Day. “Establishing Justice.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1988: 5–10.
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O'Connor, Sandra Day. “Remembering Rehnquist.” Journal of Supreme Court History 31, no. 1 (2006): 5–8.
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O'Connor, Sandra Day. “Thurgood Marshall: The Influence of a Raconteur.” Journal of Supreme Court History 17 (1992): 9–13.
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O'Connor, Sandra Day. “Tribute to Justice Souter.” Journal of Supreme Court History 35, no. 1 (2010): 1–3.
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O'Connor, Sandra Day. “William Howard Taft and the Importance of Unanimity.” Journal of Supreme Court History 28, no. 2 (2003): 157–164.
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O'Donnell, Alice L. “Tom Clark's Unique Vision.” Judges Journal 27 (Fall 1988): 8-10.
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O'Donnell, Alice. “Women and Other Strangers at the Bar.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1977: 59–62, 114.
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O'Donnell, May G. James Wilson and the Natural Law Basis of Positive Law. New York: Fordham University Press, 1937.
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O'Fallon, James M., ed. Nature's Justice: Writings of William O. Douglas. Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University Press, 2000.
The standard one-volume Douglas reader — judicial opinions and mountain prose side by side, which is the only honest way to present him.
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O'Fallon, James M., ed. Nature's Justice: Writings of William O. Douglas. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2000.
A reader assembled by James O'Fallon from the books, the political writing and the opinions: the press describes 'selections from his autobiographical and political books, and opinions from landmark cases', chosen to show 'his roots in the Northwest and his lifelong commitment to the environment.'
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O'Hara, James B. “Out of the Shadow: Roger Brooke Taney as Chief Justice.” Journal of Supreme Court History 23, no. 1 (1998): 21–34.
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O'Hara, James B. “The Supreme Court Fleet.” Journal of Supreme Court History 17 (1992): 87–97.
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O'Hara, James. "Reluctant Justice: Thomas Johnson of Maryland." Supreme Court Historical Society Quarterly 12, no. 4 (1991).
The best focused narrative of Johnson's judicial service: his hesitation about accepting, the Southern Circuit assignment, his work in Ware v. Hylton (on circuit) and Georgia v. Brailsford, and the resignation letter describing circuit riding as excessively fatiguing.
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O'Hara, James. “The Gilded Age and the Supreme Court: An Overview.” Journal of Supreme Court History 33, no. 2 (2008): 123–133.
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O'Hea, Olivia. “Earl Warren’s Last Stand: Powell v. McCormack, Race, and the Political Question Doctrine.” Journal of Supreme Court History 47, no. 1 (2022): 4464.
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O'Neall, John B. “John Rutledge.” In Biographical Sketches of the Bench and Bar of South Carolina, vol. 1, by John B. O'Neall, 17-27. Charleston, SC: S. G. Courtenay, 1859.
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O'Neall, John B. “William Johnson.” In Biographical Sketches of the Bench and Bar of South Carolina, vol. 1, by John B. O'Neall, 72-79. Charleston, SC: S. G. Courtenay, 1859.
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O'Neil, Robert. “Clerking for Justice Brennan.” Journal of Supreme Court History 16 (1991): 3–4.
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O'Neill, Robert M. “Mr. Justice Brennan and the Conditions of Unconstitutional Conditions.” Rutgers Camden Law Journal 4 (Fall 1972): 58-84.
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O'Rear, Edward C. "Justice Thomas Todd." Register of the Kentucky State Historical Society 38, no. 123 (1940): 112–119.
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O'Rourke, Basil. “An Historical Interpretation of Some of Justice Frank Murphy's Decisions.” Ph.D. diss., St. John's University, 1959.
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O'Shaughnessy, James B. “Justice Holmes and Chancellor More.” Catholic University of America Law Review 3 (May 1953): 145-148.
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Obering, William F. The Philosophy of Law of James Wilson, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, 1789-1798: A Study in Comparative Jurisprudence. Washington, DC: American Catholic Philosophical Association, Catholic University of America, 1938.
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Obermayer, Herman J. Rehnquist: A Personal Portrait of the Distinguished Chief Justice of the United States. New York: Threshold Editions, 2009.
An affectionate memoir by a friend of Rehnquist's later years — the private man of poker, painting, bad ties, and dry wit behind the austere public Chief.
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O’Brien, F. William, S.J. Justice Reed and the First Amendment: The Religion Clauses. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1958.
The only book-length study of Reed besides Fassett's biography — a Jesuit scholar's analysis of the religion-clause record of the justice who dissented from the school-prayer-adjacent released-time cases with the era's most quoted plea for accommodation.
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O’Brien, F. William. “Justice Cushing and the Treaty-Making Power.” Vanderbilt Law Review 10, no. 2 (1957): 351–68; “Justice Cushing and State Sovereignty.” South Carolina Law Quarterly 9, no. 4 (1957): 572–90; “The Pre-Marshall Court and the Role of William Cushing.” Massachusetts Law Quarterly 43, no. 1 (1958): 52–63.
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Oddo, Gilbert L. “Justice Douglas and the Roosevelt Court.” Ph.D. diss., Georgetown University, 1952.
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Oddo, Gilbert L. “The Judicial Opinions of Mr. Justice Douglas Concerning the Question of Civil Liberty.” Master's thesis, Georgetown University, 1950.
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Odom, Luther W. “Justice Holmes, the Fourteenth Amendment, and the Reasonable Man Standard.” Ph.D. diss., University of Texas, 1966.
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Offutt, T. Scott. "Thomas Johnson and Constitutional Government." Constitutional Review 13 (1929).
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Oko, A. S. “Mr. Brandeis.” Nation 102 (March 2, 1916): 251-252.
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“Old Judge and the New.” Albany Law Journal 6 (December 14, 1872): 400-401.
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Olivarius, Ann. “Absolutely Black: A Judicial Philosophy.” Beverly Hills Bar Association Journal 11 (November/December 1977): 11-24.
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Oliver Ellsworth Family Papers — Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1762–1907.
Small and candid about its limits: 900 items, of which 'seventeen letters written to Ellsworth and one written by him recount details of his career as a Connecticut lawyer and judge but lack information regarding his public and political life,' the finding aid says; the rest is the estate, the family and 'land interests in Connecticut's Western Reserve.'
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Oliver, Andrew. The Portraits of John Marshall. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1976.
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Oliver, Philip D. “Systematic Justice: A Proposed Constitutional Amendment to Establish Fixed, Staggered Terms for Members of the United States Supreme Court.” Ohio State Law Journal 47 (1986): 799-834.
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Oliver, William W. “Vinson in Congress.” Northwestern University Law Review 49 (1954): 62.
The fourteen House years, by his last law clerk, who stayed on as senior clerk to Warren; it opens, 'Fred M. Vinson served with high honor in all three branches of our national government.'
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Olken, Samuel R. “John Marshall and Spencer Roane: An Historical Analysis of their Conflict over U. S. Supreme Court Appellate Jurisdiction.” Journal of Supreme Court History 15 (1990): 125–141.
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Olken, Samuel R. “Justice George Sutherland and Economic Liberty: Constitutional Conservatism and the Problem of Factions.” William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal 6, no. 1 (1997).
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Olney, Richard. “Chief Justice Marshall.” Outlook 67 (March 9, 1901): 573-576.
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Olney, Warren. “Chief Justice Marshall.” American Law Review 34 (July/August 1900): 550-561.
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Olsson, George C. “Judge William Cushing.” Case and Comment 46 (July 1940): 19-20.
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Oppenheim, Leonard. “The Civil Liberties Doctrines of Mr. Justice Holmes and Mr. Justice Cardozo.” Tulane Law Review 20 (December 1945): 177-219.
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Orth, John V. “The Judicial Amendment.” Journal of Supreme Court History 37, no. 2 (2012): 125–133.
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Ostrow, Donald. “Burger and the Press.” Nieman Reports 24 (September 1970): 3-5.
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Otis, Merrill E. “Benjamin N. Cardozo.” Missouri Bar Journal 3 (March 1932): 36-38.
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Overmeyer, Philip H. “Attorney General George H. Williams and the Chief Justiceship.” Pacific Northwest Quarterly 28 (July 1937): 251-262.
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“Owen J. Roberts, 1875-1955.” American Bar Association Journal 41 (July 1955): 616.
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“Owen J. Roberts: In Memoriam.” University of Pennsylvania Law Review 104 (December 1955): 311-317.
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Owen, Robert D. “Letter from Honorable S. P. Chase to the Loyal National League.” In The Conditions of Reconstruction, by Robert D. Owen, 22-24. New York: W. C. Bryant and Company, 1863.
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Owens, John B. “The Clerk, the Thief, His Life as a Baker: Ashton Embry and the Supreme Court Leak Scandal.” Journal of Supreme Court History 27, no. 1 (2002): 14–44.
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O’Brien, David M. Storm Center: The Supreme Court in American Politics. New York: W. W. Norton, 1986.
Drawn from the papers of fifty-five justices and six presidents, an account of the Court as a political institution, arguing that rising caseloads have made it more bureaucratic and less collegial.
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O’Neill, Jonathan. “Property Rights and the American Founding: An Overview.” Journal of Supreme Court History 38, no. 3 (2013): 309–329.
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