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Lochner v. New York: Economic Regulation on Trial
$16.95
By Paul Kens Lochner v. New York (1905), which pitted a conservative activist judiciary against a reform-minded legislature, remains one of the most important and most frequently cited cases in...
The Free Press Crisis of 1800: Thomas Cooper's Trial for Seditious Libel
$14.95
By Peter Charles Hoffer The far-reaching Sedition Act of 1798 was introduced by Federalists to suppress Republican support of French revolutionaries and imposed fines and imprisonment "if any person shall...
Mrs. Dred Scott: A Life on Slavery's Frontier
$31.95
By Lea VanderVelde More than a biography, the book is a deep social history that freshly illuminates some of the major issues confronting antebellum America, including the status of women,...
Fighting Foreclosure: The Blaisdell Case, the Contract Clause, and the Great Depression
$19.95
By John A. Fliter and Derek S. Hoff In the depths of the Great Depression, when foreclosure rates skyrocketed across the United States, more than two dozen states passed mortgage-extension...
Antonin Scalia's Jurisprudence: Text and Tradition
$39.95
By Ralph A. Rossum Lionized by the right and demonized by the left, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is the high court's quintessential conservative. Witty, outspoken, often abrasive, he is...
Supreme Conflict: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Control of the United States Supreme Court
$17.00
By Jan Crawford Greenburg Drawing on unprecedented access to the Supreme Court justices themselves and their inner circles, acclaimed ABC News legal correspondent Jan Crawford Greenburg offers an explosive news...
Becoming Justice Blackmun
$22.00
By Linda Greenhouse *Signed Bookplate In this acclaimed biography, Linda Greenhouse of The New York Times draws back the curtain on America's most private branch of government, the Supreme...
The Plessy Case: A Legal-Historical Interpretation
$67.00
By Charles A. Lofgren In 1896 the U.S. Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson upheld "equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races" on all passenger railways within...
The Creation of American Law: John Jay, Oliver Ellsworth and the 1790s Supreme Court
$19.95
By Jude M. Pfister With the Constitutional Convention in 1787, America was set on a course to develop a unique system of law with roots in the English common law...
The First Chief Justice: John Jay and the Struggle of a New Nation. Mark C. Dillon
$29.95
The first Chief Justice of the United States, John Jay faced many unique challenges. When the stability and success of the new nation were far from certain, a body of...
Liberty & Union: The Civil War Era and American Constitutionalism
$26.95
*Signed Bookplate By Timothy S. Huebner “This book is about the relationship between the Civil War generation and the founding generation,” Timothy S. Huebner states at the outset of this...
Centennial Crisis: The Disputed Election of 1876
$15.00
By William H. Rehnquist Near midnight on Election Day in November 1876, the returns coming into Republican National headquarters signaled a victory for the Democratic presidential candidate, Samuel J. Tilden....
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