With the start of the Supreme Court term this week, what better time to look into Court history? In The Great Dissenter, author Peter S. Canellos delves into the life and times of Justice John Marshall Harlan on the bench …
The Insular Cases were a series of Supreme Court decisions that decreed limits to the rights of U.S. citizens in territories based largely on their race. The cases arose from the U.S. acquisition of new territories from Spain after the …
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The law library has two useful databases for researchers from Gale: U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs and Landmark Records and Briefs of the U.S. Courts of Appeals. U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs contains briefs and related documents from Supreme …
A recent New York Times article (via Yahoo) titled A Powerful Court asks the question if the U.S. Supreme Court is too powerful and should the justices’ time on the bench be limited with a term of years or a …
Judicature is a scholarly journal focused on the judiciary, the administration of justice, and the rule of law. The Bolch Judicial Institute of Duke Law School is responsible for the publication of Judicature. Judicature’s mission is to create a forum …
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