Presents an alphabetical listing of Supreme Court justices with a short biography on each person.
Offering a wealth of information never before collected, Leaving the Bench provides substantial grist for that debate and will serve as an unimpeachable reference on the Court.
410 U.S. 959 (1973); Epstein and Knight, The Choices Justices Make, 131–35. ... Important treatments of the issue include Lawrence G. Sager, Justice in Plainclothes: A Theory of American Constitutional Practice (New Haven: Yale ...
LEWIS FRANKLIN POWELL JR . ( 1907–1998 ) : “ A Tribute to Justice Lewis F. Powell , Jr. ” 101 Harvard Law Review 395 ( 1987 ) . “ A Tribute to Justice Lewis F. Powell , Jr. ” 68 Virginia Law Review 161 ( 1982 ) .
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When did the Supreme Court invalidate a ban on interracial marriages? Why was the decision in Roe v. Wade not the leading story in many newspapers on the date of its decision?
The First One Hundred Justices: Statistical Studies on the Supreme Court of the United States
Kluger, Richard. Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and the History of Black America's Struggle for Equality. New York: Vintage, 2004. Knowles, Helen J. The Tie Goes to Freedom: Justice Anthony M. Kennedy on ...
He then earned his Juris Doctor degree from the University of New Mexico Law School in 1966. This is his first published work.
This is Grodin's account of a brilliant career cut short by the last thing that is supposed to influence a judge's tenure- partisan politics. It is a tale filled with intelligence, wit and, inevitably, a measure of sadness.
As the eminent law and politics scholars Neal Devins and Lawrence Baum show in The Company They Keep, justices today are reacting far more to subtle social forces in their own elite legal world than to pressure from the other branches of ...