Summer Reading

  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 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 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...

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 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...

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...

Hardcover Edited by Clare Cushman The Supreme Court Justices: Illustrated Biographies 1789-2012, Third Edition provides a single-volume reference profiling every Supreme Court justice from John Jay through Elena Kagan. An...

The first comprehensive historical treatment of resignations, retirements and and deaths explaining when and why justices have stepped down.

By Jane Sherron de Hart In this large, comprehensive, revelatory biography, Jane De Hart explores the central experiences that crucially shaped Ginsburg’s passion for justice, her advocacy for gender equality,...

By Alexander Tsesis (Author) The history of America’s successes and failures in the battles for civil rights, from the Revolutionary period to today.Despite America’s commitment to civil rights from the earliest...

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...