15 October 2009

Additional Resources

Books, articles, and Web sites on the U.S. Supreme Court

BOOKS AND ARTICLES

Borgen, Christopher J., ed. “A Decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind …,” Selected Speeches by Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court on Foreign and International Law. Washington, DC: American Society of International Law, 2007.
http://www.asil.org/files/DecentRespectForeword.pdf (90KB)

Collins, Paul M., Jr. Friends of the Supreme Court: Interest Groups and Judicial Decision Making. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2008.

Eisgruber, Christopher L. The Next Justice: Repairing the Supreme Court Appointments. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007.

Epstein, Richard A. Supreme Neglect: How to Revive Constitutional Protection for Private Property. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2008.

Greenberg, Jan Crawford. Supreme Conflict: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Control of the United States Supreme Court. New York, NY: Penguin Press, 2007.

Greenhouse, Linda. Becoming Justice Blackmun: Harry Blackmun’s Supreme Court Journey. New York, NY: Time Books/ Henry Holt, 2005.

Hall, Kermit. The Pursuit of Justice: Supreme Court Decisions That Shaped America. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Hoffer, Peter Charles. The Supreme Court: An Essential History. Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press, 2007.

Lindquist, Stefanie A. Measuring Judicial Activism. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, c2009.

Marshall, Thomas R. Public Opinion and the Rehnquist Court. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2008.

Peppers, Todd C. Courtiers of the Marble Palace: The Rise and Influence of the Supreme Court Law Clerk. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006.

Powe, Lucas A., Jr. The Supreme Court and the American Elite, 1789-2008. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009.

Sloan, Cliff, and David McKean. The Great Decision: Jefferson, Adams, Marshall, and the Battle for the Supreme Court. New York, NY: Public Affairs, 2009.

Toobin, Jeffrey. The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court. New York, NY: Doubleday, 2009.

Toobin, Jeffrey. “No More Mr. Nice Guy: The Supreme Court’s Stealth Hard-liner.” The New Yorker (May 5, 2009).
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/05/25/090525fa_fact_toobin?currentPage=all

Van Geel, Tyll. Understanding Supreme Court Opinions. New York, NY: Pearson/Longman, c2009.

Wald, Patricia M. “The Use of International Law in the American Adjudicative Process.” Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, vol. 27, no. 2 (Spring 2004).

Ward, Artemus. Sorcerers’ Apprentices: 100 Years of Law Clerks at the United States Supreme Court. New York, NY: New York University Press, 2006.

Woodward, Bob. The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1979.

WEB SITES

About the Court

Supreme Court of the United States
The Supreme Court’s official Web site.
http://www.supremecourtus.gov/

The Supreme Court Historical Society
http://www.supremecourthistory.org/

Associations

American Association for Justice
www.justice.org

American Bar Association
www.abanet.org

American Judicature Society
www.ajs.org

American Tort Reform Association
www.atra.org

Brennan Center for Justice
www.brennancenter.org

Justice at Stake Campaign
www.justiceatstake.org

Cases

Landmark Supreme Court Cases
A joint project of Street Law and the Supreme Court Historical Society.
http://www.landmarkcases.org/

On the Docket
Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism provides summaries of cases on the Supreme Court’s docket in partnership with the Oyez Project.
http://journalism.medill.northwestern.edu/docket/

Oyez: U.S. Supreme Court Multimedia
A complete and authoritative source for all audio recorded in the Court since the installation of a recording system in October 1955.
http://www.oyez.org/

Preview of U.S. Supreme Court Cases
http://www.abanet.org/publiced/preview/home.html

U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs
Supreme Court records and briefs and other relevant materials from selected cases from the Lillian Goldman Law Library, Yale Law School.
http://curiae.law.yale.edu

Web Guide to U.S. Supreme Court Research
A selection of annotated links to the most reliable, substantive sites for U.S. Supreme Court research.
http://www.llrx.com/features/supremectwebguide.htm

The Judges

Interviews of U.S. Supreme Court Justices
Law professor Bryan Garner interviewed eight of the nine justices about legal writing and advocacy.
http://lawprose.org/interviews/supreme_court.php

News

NewsHour Supreme Court Watch
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/indepth_coverage/law/supreme_court/

Supreme Court: New York Times Topics
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/s/supreme_court/index.html?inline=nyt-org

Nominations

Supreme Court Nominations
Resources about the nomination process for replacement of U.S. Supreme Court justices. It includes lists of nominees confirmed and not confirmed by Congress, a bibliography on the nomination process, and material on 2009 nominee Sonia Sotomayor.
From the Law Library of Congress.
http://www.loc.gov/law/find/court-nominations.php

Supreme Court Nominations Research Guide
“This guide is designed to explain the nomination process and to suggest resources for further research in the nomination process” for U.S. Supreme Court justices.
From Georgetown Law Library.
http://www.ll.georgetown.edu/guides/supreme_court_nominations.cfm

United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary: The Supreme Court of the United States
The official Senate Judiciary Committee Web site for information on Supreme Court nominations.
http://judiciary.senate.gov/nominations/SupremeCourt/SupremeCourt.cfm