The Annotated Bibliography: Z
13 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.
Zelden, Charles L. The Supreme Court and Elections: Into the Political Thicket. Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2010.
Edited decisions with introductions on redistricting, the franchise and the election cases, by Charles Zelden of Nova Southeastern; CQ Press, 385 pages, in the Supreme Court's Power in American Politics series, dated September 2009 by the carriers and 2010 by the Library. Not read.
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Zelden, Charles L. Thurgood Marshall: Race, Rights, and the Struggle for a More Perfect Union. Routledge, 2013.
A short life with the documents attached, in Routledge's Historical Americans series: Charles Zelden of Nova Southeastern on the NAACP advocate who won twenty-nine of thirty-two cases at the Court, the federal judge, and the first African American justice, followed by a set of primary sources that put Marshall in his own words.
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Zelden, Charles. “How Do You Feel About Writing Dissents: Thurgood Marshall’s Dissenting Vision for America.” Journal of Supreme Court History 42, no. 1 (2017): 77–100.
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Zelnick, Robert. “Whizzer White and the Fearsome Foursome.” Washington Monthly 4 (December 1972): 46-54.
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Ziegler, Benjamin Munn. The International Law of John Marshall: A Study of First Principles. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1939.
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Zilber, Harry. “Mr. Justice Clarke.” Master's thesis, University of Wisconsin, 1949.
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Zilis, Michael A. The Limits of Legitimacy: Dissenting Opinions, Media Coverage, and Public Responses to Supreme Court Decisions. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2015.
Michael Zilis on how coverage shapes acceptance: journalists emphasise dissent over majority reasoning, and the more divided the Court the likelier a ruling is to be called activist; Michigan, September 2015, 254 pages, with case studies, content analysis and framing experiments. Not read.
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Zilis, Michael A. The Rights Paradox: How Group Attitudes Shape US Supreme Court Legitimacy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Michael Zilis of Kentucky on the paradox that the Court must protect minorities while depending on majority support, and on group antipathy as the thing that actually drives public support for it; Cambridge, 176 pages, dated 2020 by the Library and 2021 by the publisher. Not read.
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Zimmerman, Joseph F. Interstate Disputes: The Supreme Court's Original Jurisdiction. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2006.
Joseph Zimmerman on the Court's original jurisdiction over disputes between states: the criteria applied, the role of special masters, the boundary, financial and water cases surveyed, and the argument that interstate compacts would settle most of them better; State University of New York Press, July 2006, 244 pages. Not read.
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Zion, Sidney. “Burger v. Bill of Rights.” Bill of Rights Journal 16 (December 1983): 15-27.
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Zipes, Greg. Justice and Faith: The Frank Murphy Story. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2021.
The first Murphy biography since Fine's trilogy — a single-volume modern life of the Court's great bleeding heart, the justice who put 'legalized racism' into the U.S. Reports dissenting in Korematsu.
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Zirin, James D. Supremely Partisan: How Raw Politics Tips the Scales in the United States Supreme Court. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016.
James Zirin, a New York litigator, argues that the justices deploy originalism, textualism, natural law and precedent selectively to reach ends already chosen, across Hobby Lobby, the Affordable Care Act, same-sex marriage and the death penalty; Rowman & Littlefield, September 2016, 299 pages. Not read.
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Zuver, John H. The Earthly Pilgrimage of John Jay. Battle Creek, MI: Associated Lawyer's Publishing Company, 1904.
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