Adult Readers

*Hard-signed By Michael G. Long Collected together for the first time in Marshalling Justice, here are selected letters written by one of the most influential and important activists in the...

*Hard-signed By Pamela Brandwein American constitutional lawyers and legal historians routinely assert that the Supreme Court's state action doctrine halted Reconstruction in its tracks. But it didn't. Rethinking the Judicial...

*Hard-signed By Mark R. Killenbeck Federalism—including its meanings and limits—remains one of the most contested principles in constitutional law. To fully understand its importance, we must turn to a landmark...

*Hard-signed By James W. Ely, Jr. The Guardian of Every Other Right chronicles the pivotal role of property rights in fashioning the American constitutional order from the colonial era to...

*Hard-signed By Judith Resnik and Dennis Curtis By mapping the remarkable run of the icon of Justice, a woman with scales and sword, and by tracing the development of public...

*Hard-signed By Philippa Strum While Brown v. Board of Education remains much more famous, Mendez v. Westminster School District (1947) was actually the first case in which segregation in education...

*Hard-signed By Brad Snyder In 1912, a group of ambitious young men, including future Supreme Court justice Felix Frankfurter and future journalistic giant Walter Lippmann, became disillusioned by the sluggish...

*Hard-signed By Laura Weinrib In the early decades of the twentieth century, business leaders condemned civil liberties as masks for subversive activity, while labor sympathizers denounced the courts as shills...