The Annotated Bibliography: R
240 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.
Rabban, David M. “Free Speech: The Lost Years.” Journal of Supreme Court History 25, no. 2 (2000): 145–160.
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Rabinove, Samuel. “Justice Douglas and the DeFunis Case: A Critique.” Humanist 35 (March 1975): 25-26.
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Rabinowitz, Ezekiel. Justice Louis D. Brandeis, the Zionist Chapter of His Life. New York: Philosophical Library, 1968.
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Radcliff, William Franklin. Sherman Minton: Indiana's Supreme Court Justice. Indianapolis: Guild Press of Indiana, 1996.
A second biography for a shelf that had one: 252 illustrated pages from the Guild Press of Indiana in 1996, a year before Gugin and St. Clair's, and written from the home state, as the subtitle says.
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Rader, Benjamin G., and Barbara K. Rader. “The Ely-Holmes Friendship, 1901-1912.” American Journal of Legal History 10 (April 1966): 128-147.
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Raff, Lawrence B. “Charles Evans Hughes: Public Servant.” Case and Comment 54 (May/June 1949): 17-23.
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Ragan, Allen E. Chief Justice Taft. Columbus, OH: Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, 1938.
The chief justiceship alone, in 139 pages from the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society in 1938, eight years after Taft's death, in its Ohio Historical Collections series; the subject headings pair the biography with constitutional cases.
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Ragan, Allen E. “Free Chief Justice Taft.” Ph.D. diss., Ohio State University, 1932.
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Ragan, Allen E. “Mr. Justice Sanford.” Eastern Tennessee Historical Society Publications 15 (1943): 74-88.
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Ragan, Fred D. “Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Zechariah Chafee, Jr., and the Clear and Present Danger Test for Free Speech: The First Year, 1919.” Journal of American History 58 (June 1971): 24-45.
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Ramage, C. J. “John Marshall.” Central Law Journal 92 (May 13, 1921): 336-339.
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Raman, Sujit. “Felix Frankfurter and his Protégés: Re-examining the ‘Happy Hot Dogs.’” Journal of Supreme Court History 39, no. 1 (2014): 79–106.
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Ramke, Diedrich. “Edward Douglass White, Statesman and Jurist.” Ph.D. diss., Louisiana State University, 1940.
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Rand, I. C. “Louis D. Brandeis.” Canadian Bar Review 25 (March 1947): 240-250.
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Ranney, Joseph A. “‘This Law, Though, Did Speak’: The Civil Rights Cases and Their Unseen Aftermath.” Journal of Supreme Court History 49, no. 1 (2024): 8–25.
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Ransdell, Joseph E. “Reminiscences of Edward Douglass White.” Loyola Law Journal 7 (April 1926): 69-73.
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Ransom, William L. Charles E. Hughes, the Statesman, as Shown in the Opinions of the Jurist. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1916.
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Ransom, William L. “Associate Justice Robert H. Jackson.” American Bar Association Journal 27 (August 1941): 478-482.
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Ransom, William L. “Roger Brooke Taney: Chief Justice of the United States.” Georgetown Law Journal 24 (May 1936): 809-847.
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Rantoul, Robert. Eulogy on the Honorable Levi Woodbury Pronounced at Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Portsmouth, NH: Published by Vote of the City Council, 1852.
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Rantoul, Robert. “Mr. Justice Woodbury.” Law Reporter 14 (November 1851): 349-361.
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Ratner, Sidney. Was the Supreme Court Packed by President Grant? Political Science Quarterly 50, no. 3 (1935): 343-358.
Sixteen pages in the Political Science Quarterly for 1935 asking whether Grant packed the Court, which is to say whether the two appointments of 1870 were made to reverse the Legal Tender decision; the question was two years from being asked about another president. No free copy found. Not read.
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Rau, Donald. “Three Cheers for Father Cummings.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1977: 20–28.
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Rauchberg, Ronald S. “Berea College v. Kentucky: Scientific Racism in the Supreme Court.” Journal of Supreme Court History 45, no. 3 (2020): 262–286.
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Rauh, Joseph L., Jr. “A Personalized View of the Court-Packing Episode.” Journal of Supreme Court History 15 (1990): 93–98.
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Rauh, Joseph L., Jr. “Felix Frankfurter: Civil Libertarian.” Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 11 (Summer 1976): 496-500.
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Rawle, William. Unveiling of the Statue of Chief Justice Marshall, at Washington, May 10, 1884 Oration. Philadelphia: Allen, Lane, and Scott's Printing House, 1884.
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Rawls, James J. “The Earl Warren Oral History Project: An Appraisal.” Pacific Historical Review 56 (February 1987): 87-97.
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Ray, Ben F. “Justice Black Adorns the Bench.” Alabama Lawyer 10 (October 1949): 455-457.
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Ray, Clyde H. John Marshall's Constitutionalism. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2019.
A short study of Marshall as a political thinker rather than a judge, reading the constitutional theory out of the major opinions: the Constitution's fundamental legitimacy, its supremacy over national and state policy, its part in defining citizenship, and its contribution to American nationalism.
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Ray, Laura Krugman. “The History of the Per Curiam Opinion: Consensus and Individual Expression on the Supreme Court.” Journal of Supreme Court History 27, no. 2 (2002): 176–193.
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Ray, Laura Krugman. “The Legacy of a Supreme Court Clerkship: Stephen Breyer and Arthur Goldberg.” Penn State Law Review 115 (2010): 83.
What the clerk took from the justice: Breyer's 1964-65 year in Goldberg's chambers set against his own later method, with Breyer's recollection of a man 'happy on the Court; indeed he was in his element.'
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Read, William E., and William C. Berman. “Papers of the First Justice Harlan at the University of Louisville.” American Journal of Legal History 11 (January 1967): 57-68.
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Reardon, Paul. “Chief Justice Burger and the National Center for State Courts.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1986: 11–13.
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Rebe, Ryan J. The Partisan Court: The Era of Political Partisanship on the U.S. Supreme Court. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2021.
Ryan Rebe of William Paterson aggregates two decades of election-law decisions to show party-line voting, and argues that the results sit badly with the originalism and stare decisis the majority professes; Lexington, October 2021, 112 pages. Not read.
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Redfield, Isaac F. “Chief Justice Chase.” North American Review 122 (April 1876): 337-357.
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Reed, Stanley F. “Our Constitutional Philosophy: Concerning the Significance of Judicial Review in the Evolution of American Democracy.” Kentucky State Bar Journal 2 (June 1961): 136-146.
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Reeder, Robert F. “Chief Justice Fuller.” University of Pennsylvania Law Review 59 (October 1910): 1-14.
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Reese, William E. “Mr. Justice Jackson.” Federal Bar Association Journal 4 (November 1941): 226-229, 259.
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Reft, Ryan. “United States v. Nixon.” Law and History Review, The Docket (2024).
The drafting of the tapes opinion from the justices' papers, on the fiftieth anniversary: how a Court that might have produced several opinions for a unanimous result produced one, and whose hands were in it.
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Regan, John J. “Freedom of the Mind and Justice Brennan.” Catholic Lawyer 9 (Autumn 1963): 269-296.
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Regan, Richard J. A Constitutional History of the U.S. Supreme Court. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2015.
Richard Regan of Fordham on the Court through its landmark decisions, court by court from Marbury to the Affordable Care Act, with brief lives of the justices opening each section; Catholic University of America Press, April 2015, 394 pages. Not read.
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Rehnquist, William H. All the Laws but One: Civil Liberties in Wartime. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998.
Rehnquist on civil liberties under the pressure of war — from Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus to the Japanese-American internment — arguing that the Constitution's protections have always bent, and perhaps should, in wartime.
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Rehnquist, William H. Centennial Crisis: The Disputed Election of 1876. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.
His last book — a study of the Hayes–Tilden deadlock of 1876 and the electoral commission that broke it, written by the Chief Justice who had just presided over Bush v. Gore.
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Rehnquist, William H. Grand Inquests: The Historic Impeachments of Justice Samuel Chase and President Andrew Johnson. New York: William Morrow, 1992.
A sitting Chief Justice's lucid narrative comparison of the two great early impeachments — of Justice Samuel Chase and of President Andrew Johnson.
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Rehnquist, William H. The Supreme Court, 1988. New York: Morrow, 1988.
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Rehnquist, William H. The Supreme Court: How It Was, How It Is. 1987; rev. ed., The Supreme Court, 2001.
Rehnquist's own accessible history of the institution he led — part narrative, part memoir, revised and expanded from his 1987 original.
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Rehnquist, William H. “'All Discord Harmony Not Understood': The Performance of the Supreme Court of the United States.” Arizona Law Review 22 (1980): 973-986.
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Rehnquist, William H. “A Comment on the Instruction of Constitutional Law.” Pepperdine Law Review 14 (March 1987): 563-566.
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Rehnquist, William H. “A Plea for Help: Solutions to Serious Problems Currently Experienced by the Federal Judicial System.” St. Louis University Law Journal 28 (February 1984): 1-10.
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Rehnquist, William H. “A Tribute to Harry A. Blackmun.” Journal of Supreme Court History 19 (1994): 1–4.
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Rehnquist, William H. “A Tribute to Justice Byron R. White.” Journal of Supreme Court History 18 (1993): 2–4.
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Rehnquist, William H. “Act Well Your Part: Therein All Honor Lies.” Human Rights 9 (Spring 1980): 42-47.
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Rehnquist, William H. “Act Well Your Part: Therein All Honor Lies.” Pepperdine Law Review 7 (Winter 1980): 227-239.
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Rehnquist, William H. “Civility and Freedom of Speech.” Indiana Law Journal 49 (Fall 1973): 1-7.
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Rehnquist, William H. “Constitutional Law and Public Opinion.” Suffolk University Law Review 20 (Winter 1986): 751-769.
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Rehnquist, William H. “Daniel Webster and the Oratorical Tradition.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1989: 5–12.
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Rehnquist, William H. “Is an Expanded Right of Privacy Consistent with Fair and Effective Law Enforcement?” Kansas Law Review 23 (Fall 1974): 1-22.
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Rehnquist, William H. “Political Battles for Judicial Independence.” Washington Law Review 50 (August 1975): 835-851.
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Rehnquist, William H. “Presidential Appointments to the Supreme Court.” Constitutional Commentary 2 (Summer 1985): 319-330.
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Rehnquist, William H. “Sense and Nonsense about Judicial Ethics.” Record of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York 28 (November 1973): 694-713.
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Rehnquist, William H. “Sunshine in the Third Branch.” Washburn Law Journal 16 (Spring 1977): 559-570.
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Rehnquist, William H. “Supreme Court of the United States: The Ohio Connection.” University of Dayton Law Review 4 (Summer 1979): 271-281.
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Rehnquist, William H. “Supreme Court: Past and Present.” American Bar Association Journal 59 (April 1973): 361-364.
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Rehnquist, William H. “The Bar Admission Cases: A Strange Judicial Aberration.” American Bar Association Journal 44 (March 1958): 229-232.
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Rehnquist, William H. “The Changing Role of the Supreme Court.” Florida State University Law Review 14 (Spring 1986): 1-14.
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Rehnquist, William H. “The First Amendment: Freedom, Philosophy, and the Law.” Gonzaga Law Review 12 (Fall 1976): 1-18.
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Rehnquist, William H. “The Making of a Supreme Court Justice.” Harvard Law Record 29 (October 8, 1959): 7-10.
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Rehnquist, William H. “The Notion of a Living Constitution.” Texas Law Review 54 (May 1976): 693-706.
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Rehnquist, William H. “The Old Order Changeth: The Department of Justice under John Mitchell.” Arizona Law Review 12 (Summer 1970): 251-259.
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Rehnquist, William H. “The Supreme Court in the Nineteenth Century.” Journal of Supreme Court History 27, no. 1 (2002): 1–13.
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Rehnquist, William H. “Whither the Courts.” American Bar Association Journal 60 (July 1974): 787-790.
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Rehnquist, William H. “Who Writes Decisions of the Supreme Court?” U.S. News and World Report 43 (December 13, 1957): 74-75.
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Rehnquist, William H. “William J. Brennan, Jr.” Journal of Supreme Court History 16 (1991): 1–2.
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Rehnquist, William H., Anthony L. Mondello, and Marvin D. Hugan. “Rights in Conflict: Reconciling Privacy with the Public's Right to Know: A Panel at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the American Association of Law Libraries.” Law Library Journal 63 (November 1970): 551-563.
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Reiblich, G. Kenneth. “Conflict of Laws, Philosophy of Mr. Justice Holmes.” Georgetown Law Journal 28 (October 1939): 1-23.
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Reich, Charles A. “Mr. Justice Black and the Living Constitution.” Harvard Law Review 76 (February 1963): 673-754.
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Reich, Charles A. “Mr. Justice Black as One Who Saw the Future.” Southwestern Law Review 9 (1977): 845-858.
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Reid, John P. “Brandy in His Water: Correspondence between Doe, Holmes, and Wigmore.” Northwestern University Law Review 57 (September/October 1962): 522-535.
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Reid, John P. “Experience or Reason: The Tort Theories of Holmes and Doe.” Vanderbilt Law Review 18 (March 1965): 405-436.
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Reid, Sydney, and George P. Morris. “Oliver Wendell Holmes, a Biographical Sketch: Jurist and Stylist.” Independent 54 (August 28, 1902): 2057-2059.
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Reid, Whitelaw. Ohio in the War: Her Statesmen, Her Generals, and Soldiers (2 vols.). Cincinnati: Moore, Wilstach & Baldwin, 1868.
The contemporaneous account, published while Woods was still a circuit judge and written by a journalist who had covered Ohio politics himself.
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Reitano, Joanne. Charles Evans Hughes and the Dawning of Modern America. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2025.
The first comprehensive Hughes biography in over seventy years — since Pusey won the Pulitzer in 1952.
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Renstrom, Peter G. The Stone Court: Justices, Rulings, and Legacy. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2001.
The reference study of the brief, fractious Court Stone led as Chief (1941–46) — Renstrom on the wartime cases, the Japanese-American internment, and the bitter Black–Jackson feud that erupted on his watch.
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Renstrom, Peter G. The Taft Court: Justices, Rulings, and Legacy. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2003.
The Taft Court in the ABC-CLIO handbook form, 331 pages with portraits from 2003 in four parts: the Court and the period, the justices, significant decisions, legacy and impact; with it the series on this bibliography runs Taney, Chase, Taft, Hughes, Stone, Vinson.
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Renwick, Henry B., and James Renwick. Lives of John Jay and Alexander Hamilton. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1840.
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Resnik, Judith and Dennis Curtis. “Inventing Democratic Courts: A New and Iconic Supreme Court.” Journal of Supreme Court History 38, no. 2 (2013): 207–251.
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Resnik, Solomon. “Black and Douglas: Variations in Dissent.” Western Political Quarterly 16 (June 1963): 305-322.
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“Retired Justice Felix Frankfurter Receives American Bar Association Medal.” American Bar Association Journal 49 (September 1963): 876-877.
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“Retirement of Justice Brennan.” United States Reports 498 (1990).
The Court's own record of the retirement: Rehnquist from the bench on the first Monday of October 1990, that 'for the first time in 34 years, a Term of the Court commences without our colleague Justice William J. Brennan sitting beside us on the bench'; the eight Justices' letter of September 6, with its 'period exceeded by only four other members of the Court'; and Brennan's reply of September 25, that the service had been 'a rare privilege, but equally rare has been the chance to form so many rich friendships in the course of that work.'
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“Retirement of Mr. Chief Justice Warren.” United States Reports 395 (1969).
We serve no minority.
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“Retirement of Mr. Justice Clark.” United States Reports 388 (1967).
The leave-taking, in the Court's record: Warren's 'we view his departure with mixed feelings' and 'He has been a great companion for us,' and Clark's reply, with its thanks to 'the best client of my life, President Harry S Truman,' to thirty-six clerks and to Mary, and the Crier's words to close.
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“Retirement of Mr. Justice Harlan.” United States Reports 404 (1971).
The Court's two notices, in the Chief Justice's words from the bench: on October 4, 1971, that 'Ill health led Mr. Justice Harlan to submit to retirement when his high sense of duty persuaded him he could not continue to carry out his obligations to the Court'; and on January 10, 1972, 'the departure of a beloved friend whose warmth and gaiety lightened all the burdens and cheered all the gatherings of the Justices of this Court for 16 years.'
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“Retirement of Mr. Justice Minton.” United States Reports 352 (1956).
The leave-taking in the Court's own record: Warren's 'He has been more than our associate.
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Reuschlein, Harold G. “An Outline of Taught Law Notes on American Legal Philosophy: The Beginnings to Holmes and Pound.” Minnesota Law Review 28 (December 1943): 1-42.
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Reuter, Frank R. “William Howard Taft and the Separation of Church and State in the Philippines.” Journal of Church and State 24 (Winter 1982): 105-117.
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Rezneck, Daniel A. “Justice Brennan and Discovery in Criminal Cases.” Rutgers Law Review 4 (Fall 1972): 85-102.
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Rhee, Jeannie. “In Black and White: Chinese in the Mississippi Delta.” Journal of Supreme Court History 19 (1994): 117–132.
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Rhode Island Bar Association. John Marshall Day: Celebration by the Rhode Island Bar Association and Brown University, February 4, 1901: Address by Le Baron Bradford Colt. Providence: Rhode Island Printing Company, 1901.
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Rhodes, Irwin S., ed. The Papers of John Marshall, a Descriptive Calendar. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.
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Ribble, F.D.G. “James Clark McReynolds.” Virginia Law Review 32 (August 1946): 909.
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Ribble, F.D.G. “The Constitutional Doctrines of Chief Justice Hughes.” Columbia Law Review 41 (November 1941): 1190-1215.
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Rice, Charles E. “Justice Black, the Demonstrators, and a Constitutional Rule of Law.” UCLA Law Review 14 (1967): 454-466.
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Rice, Clinton. “Salmon Portland Chase, Chief Justice of the United States.” In Sketches of Representative Men, North and South, edited by Augustus C. Rogers, 129-134. New York: Atlantic Publishing Company, 1872.
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Rice, Daniel. “Felix Frankfurter and Reinhold Niebuhr: 1940-1964.” Journal of Law and Religion 1 (1983): 325-426.
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Rice, Mary C. “Holmes and Laski on Natural Law.” Ph.D. diss., Boston University, 1962.
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Richards, David R. “Justice Douglas and the Availability of the Federal Forum to Civil Rights Litigants.” Baylor Law Review 28 (Spring 1976): 221-234.
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Richards, Gale L. “A Criticism of the Public Speaking of John Marshall Prior to 1801.” Ph.D. diss., State University of Iowa, 1954.
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Richards, Gale L. “Alexander Hamilton's Influence on John Marshall's Judiciary Speech in the 1788 Virginia Federal Ratifying Convention.” Quarterly Journal of Speech 44 (February 1958): 31-39.
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Richards, Gale L. “Invention in John Marshall's Legal Speaking.” Southern Speech Journal 19 (December 1953): 108-115.
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Richards, Mark J. The Politics of Freedom of Expression: The Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Mark Richards of Grand Valley State on freedom-of-expression decisions from the Warren Court to 2012, and on the jurisprudential regimes he argues shape how content-based and content-neutral restrictions are treated; Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, 220 pages. Not read.
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Richardson, Dorsey. Constitutional Doctrines of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1924.
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Richardson, William A. “Chief Justice of the United States, or Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.” New England Historical and Genealogical Register 49 (July 1895): 275-279.
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Richberg, Donald R. “The Industrial Liberalism of Justice Brandeis.” Columbia Law Review 31 (November 1931): 1094-1103.
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Richotte, Keith, Jr. The Worst Trickster Story Ever Told: Native America, the Supreme Court, and the U.S. Constitution. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2025.
How the Court's justification for plenary power over Native nations moved from race in the 1880s to the Constitution by the 2000s, told through trickster-story conventions by Keith Richotte of Arizona; Stanford, 2025, 296 pages. Not read.
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Ridge, Albert A. “Charles Evans Whittaker: A Personal Tribute.” Texas Law Review 40 (June 1962): 749-750.
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Riemenschneider, John. “The Judicial Philosophy of William H. Rehnquist.” Mississippi Law Journal 45 (January 1974): 224-245.
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Riggs, Robert E. “Justice O'Connor: A First Term Appraisal.” Brigham Young University Law Review 1983 (Winter 1983): 1-46.
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Riggs, Robert E., and Thomas D. Proffitt. “The Judicial Philosophy of Justice Rehnquist.” Akron Law Review 16 (Spring 1983): 555-604.
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Riley, Angela R. “The History of Native American Lands and the Supreme Court.” Journal of Supreme Court History 38, no. 3 (2013): 369–385.
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Rioch, Margaret J. “In Memoriam: Abe Fortas.” Psychiatry 46 (February 1983): 83-86.
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Ripple, Kenneth F. “'Fitting In' at the Court: Some Reflections on the Selection of Supreme Court Justices.” Res Gestae 25 (March 1981): 120-123.
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Ripple, Kenneth F. “Thurgood Marshall and the Forgotten Legacy of Brown v. Board of Education.” Notre Dame Law Review 55 (April 1980): 471-484.
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Rivers, Christina R. The Congressional Black Caucus, Minority Voting Rights, and the U.S. Supreme Court. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2012.
Christina Rivers setting the Congressional Black Caucus's constitutional position on race-conscious districting against the Court's, from the Voting Rights Act of 1965 through Shaw v. Reno and the cases after it; Michigan, 2012, 228 pages. Not read.
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Robarge, David. A Chief Justice's Progress: John Marshall from Revolutionary Virginia to the Supreme Court. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2000.
Marshall before the Court: 364 illustrated pages from Greenwood in 2000 in its Contributions in American History series, catalogued under the Revolution as well as the judge, and stopping, as the subtitle says, at the appointment.
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Robbins, Alexander H. “Louis D. Brandeis, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.” Central Law Journal 82 (June 9, 1916): 403-404.
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Robbins, Alexander H. “Louis D. Brandeis, the Apostle of Efficiency in the Management of Public Service Corporations.” Central Law Journal 80 (January 22, 1915): 78-79.
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Robbins, Chandler. “Memoir of the Honorable Benjamin Robbins Curtis, LL.D.” Massachusetts Historical Society Proceedings 16 (January 1878): 16-35.
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Robbins, Donald C. “Joseph Story: The Early Years, 1779-1811.” Ph.D. diss., University of Kentucky, 1965.
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Robert H. Jackson Papers — Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1816–1983.
The Library's collection, 75,015 items in 259 containers and 110 linear feet by the finding aid's count (the catalog now says 77,000), bulk 1934 to 1954: 'Jackson's papers are complete for his years on the court except for the 1945 term when he was United States Chief of Counsel at the Nuremberg Trials,' and the biographical file holds 'an autobiography started by Jackson in 1944 which covers his life through his appointment as attorney general' beside the transcript of the Columbia oral history of 1952 and 1953.
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“Robert Houghwout Jackson, 1892-1954.” Albany Law Review 19 (January 1955): 1.
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Robert, Joseph C. “The Many-Sided Attorney General.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1976: 51–60.
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Roberts, E. F. “Mining with Mr. Justice Holmes.” Vanderbilt Law Review 39 (March 1986): 287-304.
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Roberts, John G. Jr. “Tribute to William H. Rehnquist.” Journal of Supreme Court History 31, no. 1 (2006): 15–17.
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Roberts, John G., Jr. Confirmation Opening Statement (“An Umpire Calls Balls and Strikes”). 2005.
Roberts's brief, famous statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee, the credo by which his whole tenure has been measured.
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Roberts, John G., Jr. “Oral Advocacy and the Re-emergence of a Supreme Court Bar.” Journal of Supreme Court History 30, no. 1 (2005): 68–81.
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Roberts, John G., Jr., Stephen Breyer, Kevin Newsom, et al. “In Memoriam: Justice David H. Souter.” Harvard Law Review 139: 454. 2025.
The tributes published after Souter's death in May 2025 — the Chief Justice, Justice Breyer, a former clerk now on the Eleventh Circuit, and three leading scholars, incorporating the Court's own memorial remarks.
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Roberts, Owen J. The Court and the Constitution. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1951.
Roberts's one book, 122 pages of lectures published by Harvard in 1951, six years after he left the Court to be dean at Pennsylvania: the man of the switch on the Court, the Constitution, taxation and the police power, as the record catalogs it.
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Roberts, Owen J. “American Constitutional Government: The Blueprint and Structure.” In Gaspar G. Bacon Lectures on the Constitution of the United States, 1940-1950. by Arthur N. Holcombe, et al., 379-422. Boston: Boston University Press, 1953.
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Roberts, Owen J. “Now Is the Time: Fortifying the Supreme Court's Independence.” American Bar Association Journal 35 (January 1949): 1-4.
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Roberts, William A. “John Marshall and the New Deal.” Federal Bar Association Journal 2 (April 1934): 33-36.
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Roberts, William H. “Justice Cardozo Revisited: Phenomenological Contributions to Jurisprudence.” Catholic University of America Law Review 12 (May 1963): 92-113.
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Robertson, David. Sly and Able: A Political Biography of James F. Byrnes. New York: W. W. Norton, 1994.
The definitive biography, and a gripping one about a consummate political operator.
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Robertson, Lindsay G. Conquest by Law: How the Discovery of America Dispossessed Indigenous Peoples of Their Lands. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Johnson v. M'Intosh from the land-company papers: the Illinois and Wabash companies, their petitions, the case before the Court and the opinion of 1823 that made discovery into title, in a book from Oxford in 2005 with the 1810 memorial and the agreed statement of facts as appendices. Search-only at HathiTrust. Not read.
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Robertson, Lindsay G. “Justice Henry Baldwin's ‘Lost Opinion’ in Worcester v. Georgia.” Journal of Supreme Court History 24, no. 1 (1999): 50–75.
The one substantial modern study of Baldwin's jurisprudence — Robertson's discovery of Baldwin's unpublished opinion in the great Cherokee case, and what it reveals about the Court's fractures in 1832.
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Robin, Corey. The Enigma of Clarence Thomas. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2019.
The most illuminating single book on how Thomas thinks, and a serious attempt to take his ideas seriously.
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Robins, William M. “A Bibliography of Associate Justice William J. Brennan, Jr.” Seton Hall Law Review 12 (1982): 430.
The checklist for everything Brennan wrote and everything written about him through 1981, in sections: his articles, his pamphlets, his speeches, and the appraisals of him.
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Robinson, Kimberly. American Justice 2017: The Supreme Court in Crisis. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017.
Kimberly Robinson of U.S. Law Week on October Term 2016, Gorsuch's first; Penn Press, October 2017, 176 pages, the fourth of the annual six. Not read.
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Robson, Charles, ed. “Melville W. Fuller.” In A Biographical Encyclopedia of Illinois of the Nineteenth Century, edited by Charles Robson, 34-35. Philadelphia: Galaxy, 1875.
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Roche, John P. John Marshall: Major Opinions and Other Writings. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1966.
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Roche, John P. “The Utopian Pilgrimage of Mr. Justice Murphy.” Vanderbilt Law Review 10 (February 1957): 369-394.
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Rockwell, Landon G. “Justice Rutledge on Civil Liberties.” Yale Law Journal 59 (December 1949): 27-59.
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Rockwell, Landon G. “Justice Rutledge on State Taxation of Interstate Commerce.” Cornell Law Quarterly 35 (Spring 1950): 493-513.
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Rodell, Fred. Nine Men: A Political History of the Supreme Court from 1790 to 1955. New York: Random House, 1955.
A political history of the Court in 338 pages from Random House in 1955, from 1790 to the year of writing. Reprinted by Rothman in 1988. No copy found online. Not read.
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Rodell, Fred. “A Sprig of Laurel for Hugo Black at 75.” American University Law Review 10 (January 1961): 1-6.
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Rodell, Fred. “As Justice Bill Douglas Completes His First Thirty Years on the Court: Herewith a Random Anniversary Sample, Complete with Casual Commentary, of Divers Scraps, Sherds, and Shards, Gleaned from a Forty-Year Friendship.” UCLA Law Review 16 (1969): 704-715.
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Rodell, Fred. “Bill Douglas, American.” American Mercury (December 1945): 656-665.
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Rodell, Fred. “Gallery of Justices.” Saturday Review 41 (November 15, 1958): 9-11.
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Rodell, Fred. “Holmes and His Hecklers.” Progressive 15 (April 1951): 9-11.
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Rodell, Fred. “I'd Prefer Bill Douglas.” Nation 174 (April 26, 1952): 400-402.
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Rodell, Fred. “Justice Douglas: An Anniversary Fragment for a Friend.” University of Chicago Law Review 26 (Autumn 1958): 2-6.
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Rodell, Fred. “Justice Holmes and His Hecklers.” Yale Law Journal 60 (April 1951): 620-624.
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Rodell, Fred. “The Great Chief Justice.” American Heritage 7 (December 1955): 10-13, 106-111.
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Rodgers, Raymond S. “Absolutism and Natural Law Argument: William O. Douglas on Freedom of Expression.” Southern Speech Communication Journal 48 (Fall 1982): 22-37.
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Rodgers, Raymond S. “Generic Tendencies in Majority and Non-Majority Supreme Court Opinions: The Case of Justice Douglas.” Communication Quarterly Journal 30 (Summer 1982): 232-236.
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Rodgers, Raymond S. “Justice William O. Douglas on the First Amendment: Rhetorical Genres in Judicial Opinions.” Ph.D. diss., University of Oklahoma, 1979.
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Roebuck, James R. “The United States and East Asia, 1909-1913: A Study of the Far Eastern Diplomacy of William Howard Taft.” Ph.D. diss., University of Virginia, 1977.
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Roelofs, Vernon W. “Justice William R. Day and Federal Regulation.” Mississippi Valley Historical Review 37 (June 1950): 39-60.
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Roelofs, Vernon W. “William R. Day: A Study in Constitutional History.” Ph.D. diss., University of Michigan, 1942.
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Rogat, Yosal. “Mr. Justice Holmes: A Dissenting Opinion.” Stanford Law Review 15 (December 1962): 3-44.
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Rogat, Yosal. “Mr. Justice Holmes: Some Modern Views; A Symposium: The Judge as Spectator.” University of Chicago Law Review 31 (Winter 1964): 213-256.
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Rogers, Donald W. “Workers Against the City: The Fight for Free Speech in Hague v. CIO.” Journal of Supreme Court History 46, no. 1 (2021): 131–135.
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Rogers, James G. “Hughes as Secretary of State.” American Bar Association Journal 27 (July 1941): 411-412.
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Rogers, James R., Roy B. Flemming, and Jon R. Bond, eds. Institutional Games and the U.S. Supreme Court. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2006.
Game-theoretic and formal studies of the Court's relations with Congress, the president and the lower courts, edited by James R. Rogers, Roy B. Flemming and Jon R. Bond, with Shepsle, Martin, Zorn, Vanberg, Carrubba, Hammond, Bonneau, Sheehan, Cameron, Kornhauser, Bueno de Mesquita, Stephenson, Lindquist, Haire and Baum among the contributors; Virginia, 2006, 320 pages, in the Constitutionalism and Democracy series. Not read.
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Rogers, William P. “Judicial Appointments in the Eisenhower Administration.” American Judicature Society Journal 41 (August 1957): 38-42.
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Romero, Patricia W. “A Look at Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas.” Negro History Bulletin 29 (March 1966): 129-130, 137.
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Romine, Ronald H. “The Politics of Supreme Court Nominations from Theodore Roosevelt to Ronald Reagan: The Construction of a 'Politicization Index.'” Ph.D. diss., University of South Carolina, 1984.
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Roosevelt, Kermit, III. The Myth of Judicial Activism: Making Sense of Supreme Court Decisions. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006.
Kermit Roosevelt III on judicial activism as a label that explains nothing, with a model of how courts build doctrine to implement constitutional meaning that sets out to reconcile a fixed Constitution with an evolving one and then sorts the controversial decisions by whether they can be legitimately justified; Yale, 2006, 262 pages. Not read.
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Roosevelt, Kermit. “David Souter: A Clerk’s View.” Journal of Supreme Court History 35, no. 1 (2010): 7–9.
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Roosevelt, Theodore. “Beveridge's Life of Marshall: A Review.” Outlook 116 (July 18, 1917): 448-449.
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Root, Damon. Overruled: The Long War for Control of the U.S. Supreme Court. Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Damon Root's libertarian history of the long argument between judicial restraint and judicial engagement, traced from Reconstruction to the modern fights over guns, gay rights and health care, and cutting across party lines; Palgrave Macmillan, November 2014, 274 pages. Not read.
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Roper, Donald M. “Justice Smith Thompson: Politics and the New York Supreme Court in the Early Nineteenth Century.” New York Historical Society Quarterly 51 (April 1967): 119-140.
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Roper, Donald Malcolm. Mr. Justice Thompson and the Constitution. New York: Garland, 1987.
The whole arc: the Poughkeepsie law office shared with Gilbert Livingston, the New York bench under and after Kent, the Navy Department, the presidential itch, and twenty years of judicial work — including the Cherokee dissent.
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Roper, Donald. “Livingston, Henry Brockholst (1757–1823).” Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, ed. Leonard W. Levy et al. (New York: Macmillan, 1986).
The one modern essay that takes the silence as a problem to be explained.
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Rosen, James. Scalia: Rise to Greatness, 1936 to 1986. Regnery, 2023.
The first major Scalia biography since Murphy — volume one of Rosen's two-volume life, written with extensive family cooperation, carrying Scalia from Queens through the appellate bench to the 1986 appointment.
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Rosen, James. Scalia: Supreme Court Years, 1986 to 2001. Regnery, 2026.
Published in February 2026 — the first fifteen Court years: the dissents that built a movement, the Thomas alliance, the feuds and friendships.
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Rosen, Jeffrey. Conversations with RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Life, Love, Liberty, and Law. New York: Henry Holt, 2019.
Two decades of interviews with Jeffrey Rosen, edited into a warm, wide-ranging portrait of her thinking on the Constitution, marriage, opera, and the craft of dissent — Ginsburg in her own measured voice.
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Rosen, Jeffrey. Louis D. Brandeis: American Prophet. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2016.
The best brief introduction — Jeffrey Rosen's compact life in Yale's Jewish Lives series, framing Brandeis as a moral prophet of privacy, free speech, and 'the curse of bigness' whose warnings read as freshly today as a century ago.
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Rosen, Jeffrey. The Supreme Court: The Personalities and Rivalries That Defined America. New York: Times Books, 2007.
Jeffrey Rosen's history of the Court told through four rivalries, Marshall against Jefferson, the first Harlan against Holmes, Black against Douglas and Rehnquist against Scalia, with the argument that the collegial temperament proved more influential on the bench than the rigid one; Times Books, January 2007, 274 pages. Not read.
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Rosen, Jeffrey. William Howard Taft (The American Presidents Series). New York: Times Books, 2018.
The best brief introduction to the whole career — Jeffrey Rosen's compact life in the American Presidents series, unusually attentive to the constitutional convictions that made Taft a reluctant president and a contented Chief Justice.
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Rosenberg, Gerald N. “African-American Rights After Brown.” Journal of Supreme Court History 24, no. 2 (1999): 201–225.
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Rosenberg, Leonard B. “The Political Thought of William Paterson.” Ph.D. diss., New School for Social Research, 1967.
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Rosenberg, Leonard B. “William Paterson: New Jersey's Nation-Maker.” New Jersey History 85 (Spring 1967): 7-40.
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Rosenberger, Homer T. “James Wilson's Theories of Punishment.” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 73 (January 1949): 45-63.
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Rosenfalb, Joseph. “Reflections on a Visit to Mr. Justice Brandeis.” Iowa Law Review 27 (March 1942): 359-366.
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Rosenkranz, E. Joshua, and Bernard Schwartz, eds. Reason and Passion: Justice Brennan's Enduring Influence. New York: W. W. Norton, 1997.
A Brennan Center collection of essays by judges, scholars, and advocates assessing his influence across the whole span of constitutional law — the fullest measure of his reach, taken just after his retirement.
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Ross, Charles G. “The Philosophy of Justice Brandeis, Credited with Fathering Woodrow Wilson's Theory of Regulated Competition.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch (June 19, 1927): 1B.
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Ross, Ishbel. An American Family: The Tafts, 1678-1964. Cleveland: World Publishing Company, 1964.
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Ross, Michael A. Justice of Shattered Dreams: Samuel Freeman Miller and the Supreme Court during the Civil War Era. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003.
The modern biography and the natural first read — the first full life of Miller in over sixty years.
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Ross, Michael A. “Melancholy Justice: Samuel Freeman Miller and the Supreme Court during the Gilded Age.” Journal of Supreme Court History 33, no. 2 (2008): 134–148.
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Ross, Michael A. “Obstructing Reconstruction: John Archibald Campbell and the Legal Campaign against Louisiana's Republican Government, 1868–1873.” Civil War History 49, no. 3 (2003).
The definitive modern account of Campbell's post-war career — showing that Slaughterhouse was not a one-off argument but a front in his deliberate litigation war against Louisiana's Reconstruction government.
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Ross, Michael A. “The Supreme Court, Reconstruction, and the Meaning of the Civil War.” Journal of Supreme Court History 41, no. 3 (2016): 275–294.
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Ross, Steve. “A Question of Judgement: Rehnquist and Scalia Advance toward Supreme Court Posts Despite Their Dismal Church-State Opinions.” Church and State 39 (September 1986): 4-6.
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Ross, William G. The Chief Justiceship of Charles Evans Hughes, 1930-1941. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2007.
The South Carolina volume on the chief justiceship, by William Ross of Samford's Cumberland School of Law: the Hughes Court's passage from arbiter of economic regulation to guardian of personal liberty, with new protections for speech, press, religion, criminal defendants and racial minorities.
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Ross, William G. “The Functions, Roles, and Duties of the Senate in the Supreme Court Appointment Process.” William and Mary Law Review 28 (Summer 1987): 633-682.
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Ross, William G. “The Supreme Court as an Issue in Presidential Campaigns.” Journal of Supreme Court History 37, no. 3 (2012): 322–334.
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Rossum, Ralph A. Antonin Scalia's Jurisprudence: Text and Tradition. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2006.
The systematic account of the theory — Rossum on how originalism and textualism actually operate across Scalia's opinions, and where the two commitments pull against each other.
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Rossum, Ralph A. Understanding Clarence Thomas: The Jurisprudence of Constitutional Restoration. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2014.
The fullest account of Thomas's originalism — Rossum on his willingness, unmatched on the Court, to discard precedent and return doctrine to the Constitution's original meaning, from the Commerce Clause to the Establishment Clause.
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Rostow, Eugene V. “Judge Clark.” Yale Law Journal 73 (November 1963): 1.
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Rostow, Eugene V. “Mr. Justice Black: Some Introductory Observations.” Yale Law Journal 65 (February 1956): 450-453.
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Roth, Larry M. “Remembering 1965: Abe Fortas and the Supreme Court.” Mercer Law Review 28 (1977): 967.
The 1965 appointment told as a case study in cronyism: Johnson's refusals refused, the Goldberg seat emptied for the purpose, and the friend who did not want the job.
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Roth, Larry M. “Touched with Fire, Forged in Flame: Holmes and a Different Perspective.” University of Florida Law Review 28 (Winter 1976): 365-375.
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Rothblatt, Morris. “Mr. Justice Brennan and the First Amendment.” Ph.D. diss., New School for Social Research, 1967.
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Rothe, Anna, ed. Current Biography: Who's News and Why, 1949. New York: H. W. Wilson, 1950.
Friedman and Israel's source for 'a useful account of his career before he joined the Court': the year's Current Biography entry, written in the season of the appointment.
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Rothera, Evan C. “The Tenacious ‘Twin Relic’: Republicans, Polygamy, and The Late Corporation of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints v. United States.” Journal of Supreme Court History 41, no. 1 (2016): 21–28.
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Rotunda, Ronald D. and John E. Nowak. “Joseph Story: A Man For All Seasons.” Journal of Supreme Court History 15 (1990): 17–24.
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Rotunda, Ronald D., ed. Six Justices on Civil Rights. London; New York: Oceana Publications, 1983.
Six David C. Baum Memorial Lectures on six justices and civil rights, collected by Ronald Rotunda in 1983: Frank on Black, Kurland on Jackson, Coleman on Frankfurter, Countryman on Douglas, Nathanson on Brandeis, Pollak on Rutledge; 211 pages with portraits from Oceana.
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Rotunda, Ronald. John Marshall and the Cases That United the States of America. Twelve Tables Press, 2018.
Ronald Rotunda's abridgement of Beveridge, published by Twelve Tables Press in 2018: the four volumes of 1916 to 1919 cut to one and organised around the cases that made a nation out of a confederation, for readers who will not face the monument whole.
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Rountree, Clarke. Judging the Supreme Court: Constructions of Motives in Bush v. Gore. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2007.
Clarke Rountree's rhetorical analysis of how the opinions in Bush v. Gore, and the commentary that followed them, attribute motive to judges; Michigan State University Press, East Lansing, 2007, xvi and 510 pages, in the Rhetoric and Public Affairs series. Not read.
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Rountree, Clarke. Overturned: The Rhetoric of Overruling in the United States Supreme Court. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2025.
How the Court has justified overruling nearly three hundred of its own precedents, read as rhetoric by Clarke Rountree of Alabama in Huntsville; University of Alabama Press, 2025, 384 pages. Not read.
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Rowan, Carl T. Dream Makers, Dream Breakers: The World of Justice Thurgood Marshall. Boston: Little, Brown, 1993.
An intimate close-up by the pioneering Black journalist Carl Rowan, who knew Marshall for decades and drew on long, candid interviews.
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Roy, Deborah Ann. “The 1963 Good Friday Parade in Birmingham, Alabama: Walker v. City of Birmingham (1967) and Shuttlesworth v. City of Birmingham (1969).” Journal of Supreme Court History 38, no. 3 (2013): 413–431.
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Roy, Jessie H. “Pin Point Portrait of Attorney Thurgood Marshall.” Negro History Bulletin 25 (1961): 20.
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Rubin, Thea E., and Albert P. Melone. “Justice Antonin Scalia: A First Year Freshman Effect?” Judicature 72 (August/September 1988): 98-102.
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Rudman, Warren B. Combat: Twelve Years in the U.S. Senate. New York: Random House, 1996.
The sponsor's memoir: the New Hampshire senator who put Souter's name in front of the Bush White House and shepherded the 1990 confirmation, on that and on twelve years of Senate fights.
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Ruger, Todd. American Justice 2018: The Shifting Supreme Court. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018.
Todd Ruger of CQ Roll Call on October Term 2017 and Kennedy's retirement at the end of it; Penn Press, October 2018, 144 pages, the fifth and shortest of the annual six. Not read.
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Rugg, Arthur P. "William Cushing," Yale Law Journal 30, no. 2 (1920).
Written by the sitting Chief Justice of Massachusetts, who had access to family papers and contemporaneous accounts no longer easily available — the manuscript sketch by Charles Cushing Paine, the New England Palladium obituary of 1810, and Josiah Quincy's personal assessment.
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Rumble, Wilfrid E., Jr. “Legal Realism: Sociological Jurisprudence and Mr. Justice Holmes.” Journal of the History of Ideas 26 (October/December 1965): 547-566.
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Ruskowski, C. W. “Catholics on the United States Supreme Court.” University of Detroit Law Journal 34 (April 1957): 650-658.
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Russell, Alfred. “John Marshall.” American Law Review 35 (January/February 1901): 1-7.
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Russomanno, Joseph. The "Stench" of Politics: Polarization and Worldview on the Supreme Court. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2023.
Joseph Russomanno of Arizona State's Cronkite School on the Court's politicisation and the repairs he proposes, among them a Court of thirteen or fifteen sitting in panels; Lexington, 2023, with a foreword by Rodney Smolla. Not read.
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Rutherglen, George. “Textual Corruption in the Civil Rights Cases.” Journal of Supreme Court History 34, no. 2 (2009): 164–169.
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Rutherglen, George. “What Happened to the Framers of the Federal Rules? Generational Change and the Transformation of the Rulemaking Process.” Journal of Supreme Court History 42, no. 2 (2017): 193–201.
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Rutland, George H., ed. Supreme Court of the United States: A Bibliography with Indexes. 2006.
The only attempt anyone has made to update Martin & Goehlert, and a cautionary one: an unannotated alphabetical list whose index the Oxford Bibliographies survey calls “extremely cursory and rather idiosyncratic,” skipping scholarly works in favor of film and television entries. On this shelf because it exists, not because it competes.
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Rutledge, Ivan C. “Justice Black and Labor Law.” UCLA Law Review 14 (1967): 501-523.
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Rutledge, John. Cyclopedia of Eminent and Representative Men of the Carolinas of the Nineteenth Century. Vol. 1. Madison: Brant and Fuller, 1892.
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Rutledge, Wiley B. “Foreword to a Symposium on Constitutional Rights in Wartime.” Iowa Law Review 29 (March 1944): 379-382.
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Rutledge, Wiley B. “Harlan Fiske Stone: A Great American Judge.” Temple Law Quarterly 19 (April 1946): 9-10.
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Rutledge, Wiley. A Declaration of Legal Faith. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1947.
Rutledge's one book, the lectures the University of Kansas Press published in 1947, two years before his death at fifty-five: the Lawbook Exchange, which reprinted it in 2004, calls him 'a staunch defender of the New Deal' who 'states his faith in judicial and governmental activism', with a second part on 'The Commerce Clause: A Chapter in Democratic Living'.
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Rydell, John R., II. “Mr. Justice Rehnquist and Judicial Self-Restraint.” Hastings Law Journal 26 (February 1975): 875-915.
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