The Annotated Bibliography: Y
21 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.
Yackle, Larry W. “Thoughts on Rodriguez: Mr. Justice Powell and the Demise of Equal Protection Analysis in the Supreme Court.” University of Richmond Law Review 9 (Winter 1975): 181-247.
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Yackle, Larry. Regulatory Rights: Supreme Court Activism, the Public Interest, and the Making of Constitutional Law. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Larry Yackle's claim that constitutional protections come from judicial standards of review and rational instrumentalism rather than from fixed textual guarantees, worked through the precedents on racial discrimination, capital punishment and sexual autonomy and the doctrines of due process, equal protection and free expression; Chicago, October 2007, 256 pages. Not read.
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Yalof, David Alistair. Pursuit of Justices: Presidential Politics and the Selection of Supreme Court Nominees. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.
The stage before the Senate ever sees a name: how presidents from Truman through Reagan actually chose, reconstructed from presidential papers and interviews with participants up to and including President Ford. Winner of the Neustadt Award for the year's best book on the presidency.
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Yarbrough, Tinsley E. David Hackett Souter: Traditional Republican on the Rehnquist Court. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
The fullest biography of a justice who guarded his privacy fiercely, by a prolific scholar of the Court.
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Yarbrough, Tinsley E. Harry A. Blackmun: The Outsider Justice. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
The full scholarly biography, drawing on Blackmun's vast papers — Tinsley Yarbrough on the anxious, self-doubting 'outsider' who wrote Roe and drifted left across twenty-four years.
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Yarbrough, Tinsley E. John Marshall Harlan: Great Dissenter of the Warren Court. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
The definitive biography, and a thorough one, by a leading scholar of the modern Court.
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Yarbrough, Tinsley E. Judicial Enigma: The First Justice Harlan. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Tinsley Yarbrough's biography wrestles with the central puzzle: how a former slaveholder and Kentucky Unionist became the Supreme Court's greatest nineteenth-century champion of Black civil rights.
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Yarbrough, Tinsley E. Mr. Justice Black and His Critics. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1988.
The book for the arguments — Yarbrough lays out the great scholarly debates over Black's jurisprudence: total incorporation, First Amendment absolutism, the literalism that could protect speech and, in his last years, refuse it to protesters.
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Yarbrough, Tinsley E. The Rehnquist Court and the Constitution. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
The standard study of the Court Rehnquist led — Tinsley Yarbrough on the federalism revival, the retreat on rights, and the consolidation of a conservative majority across two decades.
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Yarbrough, Tinsley E. “Justice Black and Equal Protection.” Southwestern University Law Review 9 (1977): 899-936.
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Yarbrough, Tinsley E. “Justice Black, the First Amendment, and the Burger Court.” Mississippi Law Journal 46 (Spring 1975): 203-246.
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Yarbrough, Tinsley E. “Justice Black, the Fourteenth Amendment, and Incorporation.” University of Miami Law Review 30 (Winter 1976): 231-276.
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Yarbrough, Tinsley E. “Justices Black and Douglas: The Judicial Function and the Scope of Constitutional Liberties.” Duke Law Journal 1973 (June 1973): 441-486.
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Yarbrough, Tinsley E. “Mr. Justice Black and Legal Positivism.” Virginia Law Review 57 (April 1971): 375-407.
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Yntema, Hessel E. “Mr. Justice Holmes' View of Legal Science.” Yale Law Journal 40 (March 1931): 696-703.
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Yoo, John, and Robert J. Delahunty. The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Supreme Court. Washington, DC: Regnery, 2023.
A history of the Court from the right by John Yoo and Robert Delahunty, in a series whose title announces its stance, from Hamilton's least dangerous branch to the present; Regnery, June 2023, 256 pages. Not read.
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Yoo, John. “Merryman and Milligan (and McCardle).” Journal of Supreme Court History 34, no. 3 (2009): 243–260.
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York, City of New; A. Everett Peterson, ed. Minutes of the Common Council of the City of New York, 1784–1831, vol. 1 (February 10, 1784 to May 9, 1831 series; this volume 1784–1793). New York: City of New York, 1917.
The only contemporary record of the 1785 attempt on his life that this site has reached, and the one the reference works compress to a phrase: at its meeting of October 6, 1785, the Board recorded that 'a most violent Assault hath last Night been committed on Brockholst Livingston' with 'Circumstances which evince an Intention of assassinating him,' and resolved, if the Governor would proclaim a reward, to 'chear fully contribute 125 Dollars' toward the discovery of 'the Perpetrator or Perpetrators or Abettor or Abettors of the said malignant & dangerous Act.'
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Young, George L. “The Services of James Wilson in the Continental Congress.” Ph.D. diss., Lehigh University, 1954.
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Young, Margaret B. The Picture Life of Thurgood Marshall. New York: Watts, 1971.
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Yurs, Dale. “The Early Supreme Court and the Challenge of Riding Circuit.” Journal of Supreme Court History 36, no. 3 (2011): 181–192.
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