Summer Reading

By Lisa Fairchild Jones Esq. (Author), Timothy B. Francis (Author), Walter C. Jones (Author) Written by three experienced lawyers, this book will help you understand the types of problems facing law students...

By the late Bernard Schwartz (Author) When the first Supreme Court convened in 1790, it was so ill-esteemed that its justices frequently resigned in favor of other pursuits. John Rutledge...

By Mark Curriden and Leroy Phillips In this profound and fascinating book, the authors revisit an overlooked Supreme Court decision that changed forever how justice is carried out in the...

By David Miles (Author) Do you know what's actually in the full Declaration of Independence? How it was written? What was happening at the time? How to read the formal language? Don't...

By Lisa Paddock (Author) Gives you the scoop on how the Court reaches its decisionsGet involved and track a case through the systemThis fun and easy guide demystifies the federal...

By Seth Stern  Before his death, William Brennan granted Stephen Wermiel access to volumes of personal and court materials that are sealed to the public until 2017. These are what...

By Jamin B. Raskin We the Students is a highly acclaimed resource that has introduced thousands of students to the field of legal studies by covering Supreme Court issues that directly...

  By Walter Stahr *Signed Bookplate Salmon P. Chase is best remembered as a rival of Lincoln’s for the Republican nomination in 1860—but there would not have been a national Republican Party,...

By Jean Edward Smith It was in tolling the death of Chief Justice John Marshall in 1835 that the Liberty Bell cracked, never to ring again. An apt symbol of...

By Jeffrey S. Sutton *Signed Bookplate When we think of constitutional law, we invariably think of the United States Supreme Court and the federal court system. Yet much of our...

Hardcover By Kermit L. Hall and John J. Patrick With a survey of the thirty Supreme Court cases that, in the opinion of U.S. Supreme Court justices and leading civics...

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....