Adult Readers

  By Mark V. Tushnet *Signed Bookplate From the 1930s to the early 1960s civil rights law was made primarily through constitutional litigation. Before Rosa Parks could ignite a Montgomery...

By Jose Anderson (Author) Dr. Charles Hamilton Houston was an outstanding Harvard-trained Supreme Court lawyer for the NAACP. As Dean of Howard University Law School, he mentored future Supreme Court...

By Charles F. Hobson John Marshall remains one of the towering figures in the landscape of American law. From the Revolution to the age of Jackson, he played a critical...

By Chad Noreuil (Author) The Zen of Passing the Bar Exam offers a comprehensive approach to studying for (and passing) the bar exam. Couched in neuroscience and Zen principles of focus, discipline,...

By Ross E. Davies The early 20th century also saw the beginning of the long and ongoing run of Casey at Bat as an analogical-metaphorical-comical device in commentary about the...

By Marlene Trestman (Author) Through a life that spanned every decade of the twentieth century, Supreme Court advocate Bessie Margolin shaped modern American labor policy while creating a place for...

By Lea VanderVelde Among the most infamous U.S. Supreme Court decisions is Dred Scott v. Sandford . Despite the case's signal importance as a turning point in America's history, the...

By Brian J. Daugherity (Editor), Brian Grogan (Editor) In the twentieth-century struggle for racial equality, there was perhaps no setting more fraught and contentious than the public schools of the American...

By David W. Levy (Author) For nearly sixty years, the University of Oklahoma, in obedience to state law, denied admission to African Americans. Only in October 1948 did this racial...