Summer Reading

  By Philippa Strum *Signed Bookplate In June 2001, there was a decidedly new look to the graduating class at Virginia Military Institute. For the first time ever, the line...

By John Greenya (Author)  The first comprehensive biography of Neil Gorsuch, President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee and the youngest Supreme Court justice at the time of confirmation in twenty-five years.Born...

By Brad Snyder (Author) The story of a young, Black Communist Party organizer wrongly convicted of attempting to incite insurrection and the landmark case that made him a civil rights hero....

By Robert G. McCloskey (Author), Sanford Levinson (Author). For more than fifty years, Robert G. McCloskey’s classic work on the Supreme Court’s role in constructing the US Constitution has introduced...

  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 Daniel A. Cotter (Author) Since the beginning of the Supreme Court of the United States in 1789, seventeen men have held the Chief Justice position. The first three held...

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

By David Bruce Smith From David Bruce Smith, author of American Hero: John Marshall, Chief Justice of the United States, and his mother Clarice Smith, world renowned artist, comes this...

By Nancy Maveety In Glass and Gavel, noted legal expert Nancy Maveety has written the first book devoted to alcohol in the nation’s highest court of law, the United States Supreme...

By John Charles Thomas (Author), W. Taylor Reveley III (Foreword) This inspiring memoir begins in 1983, on the day John Charles Thomas was sworn in as the first Black―and, at...

Richard Gergel’s Unexampled Courage details the impact of the blinding of Sergeant Woodard on the racial awakening of President Truman and Judge Waring, and traces their influential roles in changing the course...

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...