The Annotated Bibliography: U
96 of 5159 works · revised October 26, 2026
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U.S. Supreme Court Bar. Dinner Given by the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States to Mr. Justice John Marshall Harlan, in Recognition of the Completion of Twenty-five years of Distinguished Service on the Bench, December 9, 1902. New York: Press of Cameron and Bulkeley, 1902.
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U.S. War Department. Special Report of William H. Taft, Secretary of War, to the President, on the Philippines. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1908.
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Uhle, John B. “Bushrod Washington.” Current Comment 2 (June 15, 1890): 321-325.
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Uhle, John B. “John Blair.” Current Comment 3 (April 15, 1891): 193-194.
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Uhle, John B. “John Jay.” Current Comment 1 (November 15, 1889): 411-415.
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Uhle, John B. “John Rutledge.” Current Comment 1 (December 15, 1889): 443-446.
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Uhle, John B. “Oliver Ellsworth.” Current Comment 2 (February 15, 1890): 65-76.
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Uhle, John B. “Roger Brooke Taney.” Current Comment 2 (September 15, 1890): 513-517.
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Uhle, John B. “The Opinions of Chief Justice Waite.” Current Comment 2 (May 15, 1890): 257-261.
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Ulmer, S. Sidney. Social Background as an Indicator. American Journal of Political Science 17, no. 3 (1973): 622–630.
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Ulmer, S. Sidney. “Earl Warren and the Brown Decision.” Journal of Politics 33 (August 1971): 689-702.
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Ulmer, S. Sidney. “Parabolic Support of Civil Liberty Claims: The Case of William O. Douglas.” Journal of Politics 41 (May 1979): 634-639.
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Ulmer, S. Sidney. “Public Office in the Social Background of Supreme Court Justices.” American Journal of Economics and Sociology 21 (January 1962): 57-68.
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Ulmer, S. Sidney. “Support for Negro Claimants in the Warren Court: The Case of the Chief Justice.” Jurimetrics Journal 11 (June 1971): 179-188.
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Ulmer, S. Sidney. “Supreme Court Appointments as a Poisson Distribution.” American Journal of Political Science 26 (February 1982): 113-116.
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Ulmer, S. Sidney. “Supreme Court Justices as Strict and Not-So-Strict Constructionists: Some Implications.” Law and Society Review 8 (Fall 1973): 13-32.
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Ulmer, S. Sidney. “The Longitudinal Behavior of Hugo Lafayette Black: Parabolic Support for Civil Liberties, 1937-1971.” Florida State University Law Review 1 (Winter 1973): 131-153.
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Ulrich, Walter. “The Creation of a Legacy: Brandeis' Concurring Opinion in Whitney v. California.” Southern Speech Communication Journal 50 (Winter 1945): 143-155.
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Umbanhowar, Charles E. “Marshall on Judging.” American Journal of Legal History 7 (July 1963): 210-227.
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Umbreit, Kenneth B. Our Eleven Chief Justices: A History of the Supreme Court in Terms of Their Personalities. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1969.
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Umbreit, Kenneth B. “Review of Roger B. Taney by Carl Brent Swisher.” American Bar Association Journal 22 (March 1936): 206-207.
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Umbreit, Kenneth B. “Review of the Commerce Clause under Marshall, Taney, and White by Felix Frankfurter.” American Bar Association Journal 23 (September 1937): 706.
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Unger, Harlow Giles. John Marshall: The Chief Justice Who Saved the Nation. Boston: Da Capo Press, 2016.
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United States Congress. Antonin Scalia, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States: Memorial Tributes in the Congress of the United States. Washington, DC: Government Publishing Office, 2017.
The official memorial volume, Senate Document 114-12, printed by order of S. Res.
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United States Congress. Thurgood Marshall, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court: Memorial Tributes in the Congress of the United States. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1994.
Congress's memorial volume: 304 pages from the Government Printing Office in 1994, House Document 103-244, with a portrait, collecting the tributes spoken in both houses after Marshall's death in January 1993.
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United States House of Representatives, Committee on Natural Resources. H. Res. 279, “Insular Cases Resolution”: Legislative Hearing before the Committee on Natural Resources, House of Representatives, 117th Congress, 1st Session, May 12, 2021. Washington, DC: Government Publishing Office, 2021.
The House Natural Resources Committee's May 2021 hearing on a resolution declaring the Insular Cases and the territorial incorporation doctrine contrary to the Constitution, with officials from American Samoa and Guam, Rose Cuison-Villazor, Daniel Immerwahr and Neil Weare as witnesses; 74 pages, free at govinfo.
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United States House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary. Building Confidence in the Supreme Court through Ethics and Recusal Reforms: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, 117th Congress, 2nd Session, April 27, 2022. Washington, DC: Government Publishing Office, 2022.
The House Judiciary subcommittee's April 2022 hearing on an ethics code and recusal rules for the Court, with Gabe Roth of Fix the Court, Donald Sherman of CREW, Mark Paoletta and Stephen Gillers of NYU as witnesses; 150 pages, free at govinfo.
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United States House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary. Maintaining Judicial Independence and the Rule of Law: Examining the Causes and Consequences of Court Capture: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, 116th Congress, 2nd Session, September 22, 2020. Washington, DC: Government Publishing Office, 2022.
The House Judiciary subcommittee's September 2020 hearing on what it called court capture, with Senator Whitehouse, Tom Ginsburg of Chicago, Ilya Shapiro of Cato, the retired judge Nancy Gertner and Amanda Hollis-Brusky of Pomona as witnesses; 281 pages, printed in 2022 and free at govinfo.
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United States House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary. The Supreme Court's Shadow Docket: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, 117th Congress, 1st Session, February 18, 2021. Washington, DC: Government Publishing Office, 2022.
The House Judiciary subcommittee's February 2021 hearing on the shadow docket, the first congressional hearing on the subject, with Stephen Vladeck, Amir Ali, Michael Morley and the District of Columbia's solicitor general Loren AliKhan as witnesses; 502 pages with the submissions, printed in 2022 and free at govinfo.
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United States House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary. Undue Influence: Operation Higher Court and Politicking at SCOTUS: Hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, 117th Congress, 2nd Session, December 8, 2022. Washington, DC: Government Publishing Office, 2023.
The House Judiciary Committee's December 2022 hearing on Operation Higher Court, the campaign to cultivate justices socially, with the Reverend Robert Schenck, Caroline Fredrickson, Mark Paoletta and Donald Sherman as witnesses; 236 pages, printed in 2023 and free at govinfo.
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United States Senate, Committee on the Judiciary. Access to the Court: Televising the Supreme Court: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, 112th Congress, 1st Session, December 6, 2011. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 2012.
The Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing of 6 December 2011 on the Durbin and Grassley Cameras in the Courtroom Act, with former Senator Arlen Specter, Tom Goldstein, Chief Justice Mark Cady of the Iowa Supreme Court, Chief Judge J. Anthony Scirica of the Third Circuit and Maureen Mahoney testifying; Government Printing Office, 2012, 97 pages, free at govinfo. Not read.
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United States Senate, Committee on the Judiciary. Barriers to Justice and Accountability: How the Supreme Court's Recent Rulings Will Affect Corporate Behavior: Hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, 112th Congress, 1st Session, June 29, 2011. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 2012.
The Senate Judiciary Committee hearing of 29 June 2011 on what the Court's recent decisions would mean for corporate behaviour, with Betty Dukes, the named plaintiff in Wal-Mart v. Dukes, Melissa Hart of Colorado, James D. Cox of Duke, Robert Alt of the Heritage Foundation and Andrew Pincus testifying; Government Printing Office, 2012, 166 pages, free at govinfo. Not read.
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United States Senate, Committee on the Judiciary. Confirmation Hearing on the Nomination of Hon. Amy Coney Barrett to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States: Hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, 116th Congress, 2nd Session, October 12-15, 2020. Washington, DC: Government Publishing Office, 2024.
The printed record of the four October 2020 days, published by the Government Publishing Office in 2024 as S. Hrg.
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United States Senate, Committee on the Judiciary. Confirmation Hearing on the Nomination of Hon. Brett M. Kavanaugh to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States: Hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, 115th Congress, 2nd Session, September 4, 5, 6, 7, and 27, 2018. Washington: Government Printing Office, 2020.
The printed record, published in 2020: the four September days and the September 27 session with Dr. Ford, from which the chapter's quotations are taken.
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United States Senate, Committee on the Judiciary. Confirmation Hearing on the Nomination of Hon. Ketanji Brown Jackson to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States: Hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, 117th Congress, 2nd Session, March 21, 22, 23, and 24, 2022. Washington, DC: Government Publishing Office, 2023.
The printed record of the four March 2022 days, published by the Government Publishing Office in 2023 as S. Hrg.
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United States Senate, Committee on the Judiciary. Confirmation Hearing on the Nomination of Hon. Neil M. Gorsuch to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States: Hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, 115th Congress, 1st Session, March 20, 21, 22, and 23, 2017. Washington, DC: Government Publishing Office, 2018.
The printed record of the four March 2017 days, published by the Government Publishing Office in 2018 as S. Hrg.
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United States Senate, Committee on the Judiciary. Confirmation Hearing on the Nomination of Hon. Sonia Sotomayor, to Be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States: Hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, 111th Congress, 1st Session, July 13-16, 2009. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 2010.
The confirmation hearing itself, 13 to 16 July 2009, 1,388 pages, free at govinfo.
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United States Senate, Committee on the Judiciary. Confirmation Hearing on the Nomination of Samuel A. Alito, Jr. to Be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States: Hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, 109th Congress, 2nd Session, January 9-13, 2006. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 2006.
The confirmation hearing itself, 9 to 13 January 2006, 1,598 pages, free at govinfo.
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United States Senate, Committee on the Judiciary. Hearings before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, on the Nomination of William J. Brennan, Jr., to be an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 85th Congress, 1st Session. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1957.
The confirmation hearing, with Senator McCarthy's statement that 'I believe that Justice Brennan has demonstrated an underlying hostility to congressional attempts to expose the Communist conspiracy,' Brennan's answer that 'I cannot think of a more vital function of the Congress than the investigatory function of its committees,' and, on whether a Catholic could sit, that 'what shall control me is the oath that I took to support the Constitution and laws of the United States.'
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United States Senate, Committee on the Judiciary. Nomination of Byron R. White, of Colorado, to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States: Hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, 87th Congress, 2nd Session, April 11, 1962. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1962.
The whole hearing, 10:30 to 12:05 on April 11, 1962, with the Senate confirming him the same day: two Colorado senators, a congressman, the ABA's Bernard Segal, and the nominee, who told Senator Long that 'the judicial power is exercised by deciding cases.'
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United States Senate, Committee on the Judiciary. Nomination of David H. Souter to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States: Hearings before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, 101st Congress, 2nd Session, September 13-19, 1990. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1990.
The hearings on the nominee with no paper trail, and the record that includes the McGuigan memorandum's 'home run' report as submitted.
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United States Senate, Committee on the Judiciary. Nomination of John Marshall Harlan: Hearings before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, 84th Congress, 1st Session, on Nomination of John Marshall Harlan, of New York, to be Associate Justice of Supreme Court of United States, February 24 and 25, 1955. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1955.
The confirmation hearings of February 24 and 25, 1955, 182 pages, the first at which a nominee was made to answer a committee's questions as a matter of course: the isolationists on world government and Chairman Eastland, indirectly, on Brown, to whom the nominee put back the question whether that was what he was being asked.
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United States Senate, Committee on the Judiciary. Nomination of Judge Antonin Scalia to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States: Hearings before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, 99th Congress, 2nd Session, August 5 and 6, 1986. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1987.
Two days in August 1986, in the shadow of the Rehnquist fight the same summer, and a 98-0 vote: the hearing at which almost nothing was asked and the biographical record (Georgetown first in class, the marriage, Cleveland) was entered.
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United States Senate, Committee on the Judiciary. Nomination of Justice William Hubbs Rehnquist to be Chief Justice of the United States: Hearings before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, 99th Congress, 2nd Session, July 29, 30, 31, and August 1, 1986. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1986.
The four days of 1986: the Jackson memorandum again, the Phoenix poll-watching allegations, the deed covenants, and the 65-33 vote that followed.
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United States Senate, Committee on the Judiciary. Nominations of William H. Rehnquist and Lewis F. Powell, Jr.: Hearings before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, 92nd Congress, 1st Session, November 3, 4, 8, 9, and 10, 1971. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1971.
The Senate Judiciary Committee's printed record of the joint hearings on Nixon's two October 1971 nominees, five days in November, with the 1952 'Random Thought on the Segregation Cases' memorandum reprinted in it; free at govinfo.
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United States Senate, Committee on the Judiciary. Supreme Court Ethics Reform: Hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, 118th Congress, 1st Session, May 2, 2023. Washington, DC: Government Publishing Office, 2025.
The Senate Judiciary Committee's May 2023 hearing on a binding ethics code for the Court, Durbin presiding, with Jeremy Fogel, Kedric Payne and Amanda Frost for reform and Michael Mukasey and Thomas Dupree against; printed by GPO in 2025 as S. Hrg. 118-35, and free at govinfo.
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United States Senate, Committee on the Judiciary. Supreme Court Fact-Finding and the Distortion of American Democracy: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action and Federal Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, 117th Congress, 1st Session, April 27, 2021. Washington, DC: Government Publishing Office, 2026.
The Senate Judiciary subcommittee's April 2021 hearing on how the Court finds facts, Allison Orr Larsen's work on factual precedents its occasion, with Thomas Fisher, Theodore Shaw, Ilya Shapiro and Paul Smith as the other witnesses; printed by GPO in 2026 as S. Hrg. 117-781, 101 pages, and free at govinfo.
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United States Senate, Committee on the Judiciary. Texas's Unconstitutional Abortion Ban and the Role of the Shadow Docket: Hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, 117th Congress, 1st Session, September 29, 2021. Washington, DC: Government Publishing Office, 2024.
The Senate Judiciary Committee's September 2021 hearing on Texas S.B. 8 and the order that let it stand, Durbin presiding, with Stephen Vladeck among the witnesses; printed by GPO in 2024 as S. Hrg. 117-851, and free at govinfo.
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United States Senate, Committee on the Judiciary. The Nomination of Elena Kagan to Be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States: Hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, 111th Congress, 2nd Session, June 28-30 and July 1, 2010. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 2010.
The confirmation hearing itself, 28 June to 1 July 2010, free at govinfo.
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United States Senate, Committee on the Judiciary. What Is Wrong with the Supreme Court: The Big-Money Assault on Our Judiciary: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, 117th Congress, 1st Session, March 10, 2021. Washington, DC: Government Publishing Office, 2025.
The Senate Judiciary subcommittee's March 2021 hearing on anonymous money in nominations, confirmation campaigns and amicus briefs, Whitehouse presiding, with Lisa Graves, Michael Klarman, Benjamin Jealous, Scott Walter and Jonathan Adler as witnesses; printed by GPO in 2025 as S. Hrg. 117-687, and free at govinfo.
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United States Senate, Committee on the Judiciary. With Prejudice: Supreme Court Activism and Possible Solutions: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Oversight, Agency Action, Federal Rights, and Federal Courts of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, 114th Congress, 1st Session, July 22, 2015. Washington, DC: Government Publishing Office, 2025.
The Senate Judiciary subcommittee's July 2015 hearing on judicial activism after King v. Burwell and Obergefell, Cruz presiding, with John Eastman, Neil Siegel and Ed Whelan as witnesses; printed by GPO ten years later as S. Hrg. 114-888, and free at govinfo.
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United States. Supreme Court. In Memoriam: Samuel Blatchford — Proceedings of the Bar and Bench of the Supreme Court of the United States, October 13, 1893.
Sixty pages, free, and the only sustained contemporary account of Blatchford there is — which makes it, by default, the closest thing he has to a biography.
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United States. Supreme Court. In Memoriam: Samuel Blatchford, LL.D. — Appendix, 150 U.S. 707 (1893).
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United States. Supreme Court. In Memoriam: William Burnham Woods, LL.D. — Appendix, 123 U.S. 761 (1887).
The memorial session of Monday, 7 November 1887, printed as an appendix to volume 123 of the United States Reports.
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University of Virginia. Barrett Library. Oliver Wendell Holmes: A Checklist of Printed and Manuscript Works of Oliver W. Holmes in the Library of the University of Virginia. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1960.
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Unsigned. "Hon. James M. Wayne." United States Monthly Law Magazine 5, no. 3 (1852): 382–399.
A long profile from the height of his mid-career, in the antebellum legal press's florid style.
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Unsigned; Francis R. Jones. "Robert C. Grier" (U.S. Monthly Law Journal, 1852) & "Robert Cooper Grier" (Green Bag 16, 1904).
Two period portraits, as the FJC's bibliography lists them: the 1852 profile from the same magazine series that covered Wayne and Catron on earlier pages — the antebellum bar surveying the sitting Court, justice by justice — and the Green Bag's retrospective a generation later.
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Unsigned; long attributed to Joseph Story. "Memoir of Judge Trimble." American Jurist, and Law Magazine 1, no. 1 (1829): 149–157.
Published months after his death in the very first issue of the young republic's leading law magazine — a measure, in itself, of how seriously the profession took the loss.
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Upshur, Abel P. A Brief Enquiry into the True Nature and Charter of Our Federal Government: Being a Review of Judge Story's Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States. New York: Da Capo Press, 1971.
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Urofsky, Melvin I. A Conflict of Rights: The Supreme Court and Affirmative Action. New York: Scribner, 1991.
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Urofsky, Melvin I. A Mind of One Piece: Brandeis and American Reform. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1971.
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Urofsky, Melvin I. Dissent and the Supreme Court: Its Role in the Court’s History and the Nation’s Constitutional Dialogue. New York: Pantheon Books, 2015.
Traces dissent from an era when open disagreement was discouraged to a Court where separate opinions abound, arguing that yesterday's dissent — on speech, race, liberty — often becomes today's law.
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Urofsky, Melvin I. Division and Discord: The Supreme Court under Stone and Vinson, 1941–1953. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1997.
The Stone and Vinson years taken on their own terms, internment through the Rosenbergs, in the South Carolina chief-justiceships series; Powe's review called it 'a book we all should have in our libraries.'
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Urofsky, Melvin I. Felix Frankfurter: Judicial Restraint and Individual Liberties. Boston: Twayne, 1991.
A compact, balanced assessment of the central puzzle: how the fiery civil-libertarian of the 1920s became the bench's great apostle of deference.
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Urofsky, Melvin I. Louis D. Brandeis and the Progressive Tradition. Boston: Little, Brown, 1981.
Urofsky's earlier, shorter study — the concise argument for Brandeis as the pivotal figure of American progressivism, written a generation before his monumental 2009 life.
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Urofsky, Melvin I. Louis D. Brandeis: A Life. New York: Pantheon Books, 2009.
The definitive modern biography — nearly a thousand pages, three decades in the making, and the product of the leading Brandeis scholar of his generation.
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Urofsky, Melvin I. Supreme Decisions: Great Constitutional Cases and Their Impact. Westview Press, 2012.
Twenty-four constitutional cases treated for student readers, each with the background, the decision and what followed, by Melvin Urofsky; Westview Press, 2012, two volumes of 256 and 272 pages divided at 1896, with a combined volume of 448. Not read.
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Urofsky, Melvin I. “A Note from the Editor (Emeritus).” Journal of Supreme Court History 46, no. 2 (2021): 143–145.
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Urofsky, Melvin I. “Beyond the Bottom Line: The Value of Judicial Biography.” Journal of Supreme Court History 23, no. 2 (1998): 143–156.
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Urofsky, Melvin I. “Book Review: Two Views on Court-Packing.” Journal of Supreme Court History 49, no. 1 (2024): 85–93.
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Urofsky, Melvin I. “Conflict among the Brethren: Felix Frankfurter, William O. Douglas and the Clash of Personalities and Philosophies on the United States Supreme Court.” Duke Law Journal 1988 (February 1988): 71-113.
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Urofsky, Melvin I. “Conservatism of Mr. Justice Brandeis.” Modern Age 23 (Winter 1979): 39-48.
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Urofsky, Melvin I. “Hugo L. Black’s Dissents: From Betts to Gideon.” Journal of Supreme Court History 41, no. 1 (2016): 90–102.
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Urofsky, Melvin I. “Introduction: ‘All the Facts That Surround.’” Journal of Supreme Court History 26, no. 3 (2001): v–vi.
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Urofsky, Melvin I. “Louis D. Brandeis: Advocate Before and On the Bench.” Journal of Supreme Court History 30, no. 1 (2005): 31–46.
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Urofsky, Melvin I. “Mr. Justice Powell and Education: The Balancing of Competing Values.” Journal of Law and Education 13 (October 1984): 581-627.
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Urofsky, Melvin I. “Myth and Reality: The Supreme Court and Protective Legislation in the Progressive Era.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1983: 53–72.
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Urofsky, Melvin I. “Review of Edward A. Purcell, Jr., Brandeis and the Progressive Constitution: Erie, the Judicial Power, and the Politics of Federal Courts in the Twentieth-Century America.” Journal of Supreme Court History 27, no. 1 (2002): 83–90.
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Urofsky, Melvin I. “Revivifying Political Science: Lucas A. Powe, Jr., on the Warren Court.” Journal of Supreme Court History 26, no. 1 (2001): 89–94.
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Urofsky, Melvin I. “The 'Outrageous' Brandeis Nomination.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1979 (1979): 8-19.
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Urofsky, Melvin I. “The Brandeis-Frankfurter Conversations.” Supreme Court Review 1985 (1985): 299-339.
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Urofsky, Melvin I. “The Court at War, and the War at the Court.” Journal of Supreme Court History 21, no. 1 (1996): 1–18.
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Urofsky, Melvin I. “The Court Diary of Justice William O. Douglas: Introduction.” Journal of Supreme Court History 20 (1995): 78–79.
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Urofsky, Melvin I. “The Great War, the Constitution, and the Court.” Journal of Supreme Court History 44, no. 3 (2019): 251–266.
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Urofsky, Melvin I. “The Incomparable Felix.” Reviews in American History 11 (March 1983): 118-123.
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Urofsky, Melvin I. “The Lawyer-Qua-Citizen: The Relevance of Brandeis Today.” Filson Club Historical Quarterly 47 (January 1973): 5-13.
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Urofsky, Melvin I. “The Yankee from Olympus Redivivus. Book Reviews.” Journal of Supreme Court History 47, no. 2 (2022): 215–230.
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Urofsky, Melvin I. “Thomas Jefferson and John Marshall: What Kind of Constitution Shall We Have?” Journal of Supreme Court History 31, no. 2 (2006): 109–125.
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Urofsky, Melvin I. “Wilson, Brandeis, and the Supreme Court Nomination.” Journal of Supreme Court History 28, no. 2 (2003): 145–156.
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Urofsky, Melvin I. “Wilson, Brandeis, and the Trust Issue, 1912-1914.” Mid-America 49 (January 1967): 3-28.
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Urofsky, Melvin I., and David W. Levy, eds. Letters of Louis D. Brandeis (5 vols.). Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1971.
The definitive edition of the correspondence (five volumes, 1971–1978), the documentary foundation for all modern Brandeis scholarship — and the place to watch the lawyer, Zionist, and justice think and organize across sixty years.
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Urofsky, Melvin I., and David W. Levy, eds. “Half Brother, Half Son”: The Letters of Louis D. Brandeis to Felix Frankfurter. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991.
Brandeis's letters to Frankfurter, one side of the correspondence, edited by Melvin I. Urofsky and David W. Levy for the University of Oklahoma Press in 1991, with references and index.
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Urofsky, Melvin I., and Philip E. Urofsky, eds. The Douglas Letters: Selections from the Private Papers of Justice William O. Douglas. Bethesda, MD: Adler & Adler, 1987.
Selections from the vast private papers — Douglas in correspondence with presidents, colleagues, and admirers, the candid record behind the public performances.
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Urofsky, Melvin I., ed. Biographical Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court: The Lives and Legal Philosophies of the Justices. Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2006.
Alphabetical entries covering every justice past and present, each giving the appointment facts and then an essay on that justice's opinions and legal philosophy; Roberts and Alito added to a 1994 predecessor.
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Urofsky, Melvin I., ed. The Public Debate over Controversial Supreme Court Decisions. Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2006.
More than forty cases from McCulloch v. Maryland to Lawrence v. Texas, each with an introductory essay and then the newspaper accounts, polls, letters to the justices and politicians' statements that followed it, edited by Melvin Urofsky for school and library readers; CQ Press, November 2005, 432 pages. Not read.
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Urofsky, Phillip E. “The Diary of Wm. O. Douglas.” Journal of Supreme Court History 20 (1995): 80–112.
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