The Annotated Bibliography: V
40 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.
Valladao, Haroldo. “The Influence of Joseph Story on Latin-American Rules of Conflict of Law.” American Journal of Comparative Law 3 (Winter 1954): 27-41.
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Valle, Gabriel. “A Hero Forgotten: Gus Garcia and the Litigation of Hernandez v. Texas (1954).” Journal of Supreme Court History 48, no. 1 (2023): 31–53.
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Van Alstyne, William W. “Mr. Justice Black, Constitutional Review, and the Talisman of State Action.” Duke Law Journal 1965 (Spring 1965): 219-247.
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Van Devanter, Willis. “Justice Van Devanter’s Remarks to the Montana and Wyoming Bar Associations in 1937.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1986: 64–76.
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Van Devanter, Willis. “The Supreme Court of the United States.” Indiana Law Journal 5 (May 1930): 553-562.
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Van Doren, Charles. Letters to Mother. Manhasset, NY: Channel Press, 1959.
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Van Ee, Daun. “Harry A. Blackmun, Justice: Supreme Court Justice's Papers Opened for Research.” Library of Congress Information Bulletin (2004).
The Library's own announcement of the opening, March 4, 2004, five years to the day after his death: 1,585 containers, 630 linear feet, the case files, correspondence, drafts, and the videotaped interviews.
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Van Hook, Matthew. “Founding the Third Branch: Judicial Greatness and John Jay’s Reluctance.” Journal of Supreme Court History 40, no. 1 (2015): 1–19.
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Van Orden, James F. “‘Jehovah Will Provide’: Lillian Gobitas and Freedom of Religion.” Journal of Supreme Court History 29, no. 2 (2004): 136–144.
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Van Santvoord, George. Sketches of the Lives, Times, and Judicial Services of the Chief Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States: Jay, Rutledge, Ellsworth, Marshall, Taney, Chase, and Waite. 2d ed. Albany, NY: W. C. Little, 1882.
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VanBurkleo, Sandra F. “Honour, Justice, and Interest: John Jay's Republican Politics and Statesmanship of the Federal Bench.” Journal of the Early Republic 4 (Fall 1984): 239-274.
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VanBurkleo, Sandra F. “In Defense of ‘Public Reason’: Supreme Court Justice William Johnson.” Journal of Supreme Court History 32, no. 2 (2007): 115–132.
The major modern reinterpretation: Johnson's separate opinions weren't proto-modern dissents but an older, Anti-Federalist conviction that judges must speak for themselves rather than hide behind one institutional voice.
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Vanderbilt, Arthur T., and Jacob M. Lashly. “New Members of the Supreme Court of the United States.” American Bar Association Journal 43 (June 1957): 526-527, 545.
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VanderVelde, Lea. “The Dred Scott Case in Context.” Journal of Supreme Court History 40, no. 3 (2015): 263–281.
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Varney, Harold L. “Frankfurter: The Man Behind the Scenes.” American Mercury 84 (May 1957): 113-118.
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Vasicko, Sally J. “John Marshall Harlan: Neglected Advocate of Federalism.” Modern Age 24 (Fall 1980): 387-395.
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Vasicko, Sally Jo. “Justice Harlan and the Equal Protection Clause.” Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 1982: 46–56.
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Vatz, Richard E., and Theodore O. Windt. “The Defeats of Judges Haynsworth and Carswell: Rejection of Supreme Court Nominees.” Quarterly Journal of Speech 60 (December 1974): 477-488.
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Verplanck, Julian C. “Biographical Memoir of Oliver Ellsworth.” Analectic Magazine 3 (May 1814): 382-403.
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Vestal, Theodore M. “Public Diplomacy in the U. S. Supreme Court: The Warren Years, Part II.” Journal of Supreme Court History 34, no. 1 (2009): 98–124.
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Vestal, Theodore M. “Public Diplomacy in the U. S. Supreme Court: The Warren Years–Part I.” Journal of Supreme Court History 33, no. 3 (2008): 371–393.
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Viele, Egbert L. “A Trip with Lincoln, Chase, and Stanton.” Scribner's Monthly 16 (October 1878): 813-822.
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Vigilante, Richard. “Beyond the Burger Court: Four Supreme Court Candidates Who Could Lead a Judicial Counterrevolution.” Policy Review 28 (Spring 1984): 20-26.
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Vinson, Fred M. “An Observation about Judge Stone's Judicial Life.” University of Kansas City Law Review 16 (1947-1948): 1.
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Vinson, Fred M. “Mr. Justice Murphy.” Michigan Law Review 48 (April 1950): 738.
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Vinson, Frederick M. “Mr. Justice Rutledge.” Indiana Law Journal 25 (Summer 1950): 421-422.
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Vinson, Frederick M. “Our Enduring Constitution.” Washington and Lee Law Review 6 (1949): 1-11.
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Vinson, Frederick M. “Supreme Court Work: Opinion on Dissents.” Oklahoma Bar Association Journal 20 (September 1949): 1269-1275.
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Vinson, Frederick M. “The Work of the United States Supreme Court.” Texas Bar Journal 12 (December 1949): 551-553.
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Vinson, John C. Charles Evans Hughes. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1961.
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Virelli, Louis J., III. Disqualifying the High Court: Supreme Court Recusal and the Constitution. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2016.
Louis Virelli of Stetson treats recusal as a constitutional question and argues that separation of powers bars Congress from regulating it, leaving it to each justice within due process and First Amendment limits; Kansas, June 2016, 296 pages. Not read.
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Viscusi, W. Kip. “Regulatory Economics in the Courts: An Analysis of Judge Scalia's NHTSA Bumper Decision.” Law and Contemporary Problems 50 (Autumn 1987): 17-31.
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Vladeck, Stephen I. Putting the Shadow Docket in Perspective. Harvard Law and Policy Review 17, no. 2 (2023): 289–299.
Eleven pages restating the case against the practice, in the Harvard Law and Policy Review's “Reaching the Merits” issue of 2023, opening on the first Monday of October Term 2022 and crediting Will Baude with the phrase. Free from the journal; opening and citation read, not the whole.
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Vladeck, Stephen I. The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic. New York: Basic Books, 2023.
The case against the Court's unsigned, unexplained emergency orders — travel ban, COVID rules, election cases — and their sharp rise after 2017, made by a federal courts scholar.
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Vladeck, Stephen I. The Solicitor General and the Shadow Docket. Harvard Law Review 133 (2019): 123–163.
The Solicitor General's turn to emergency relief, forty-one pages in the Harvard Law Review in 2019: roughly eight stay applications across the sixteen combined Bush and Obama years against at least twenty-one in the first thirty-two months of the first Trump administration, ten of them in October Term 2018. Free from the Harvard Law Review; the counts were taken from the essay's own text.
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Volz, Marlin M. “Mr. Justice Whittaker.” Notre Dame Lawyer 33 (March 1958): 159-179.
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Voorhees, Theodore. “It's Time for Merit Selection of Supreme Court Justices.” American Bar Association Journal 61 (June 1975): 705-708.
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Voorhis, John Van. “Cardozo and the Judicial Process Today.” Yale Law Journal 71 (December 1961): 202-217.
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Vorspan, Albert. Giants of Justice. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1960.
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Vose, Clement E. “The National Consumers' League and the Brandeis Brief.” Midwest Journal of Political Science 1 (November 1957): 267-290.
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