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EVENT DETAIL
The State of Supreme Court History
Monday, November 13, 2006 7 pm
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This program will survey and evaluate the state of historical scholarship on the Supreme Court of the United States. Recent developments include:
• publication earlier this year of the most recent volume, covering the eras of Chief Justices Harlan Fiske Stone and Fred M. Vinson (1941-1953), of the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Court;
• imminent completion of the Supreme Court Historical Society’s 8-volume Documentary History of the Supreme Court , 1789-1800; and
• a profusion of excellent books and articles, aimed at scholarly, legal profession and general audiences, on the Court, its decisions and its justices.
Moderator:
JOHN Q. BARRETT
Professor of Law, St. John's University; Elizabeth S. Lenna Fellow, Robert H. Jackson Center; and editor of Justice Jackson’s That Man: An Insider’s Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt (2003).
Speakers:
WILLIAM M. WIECEK
Congdon Professor of Law and Professor of History, Syracuse University; author of The Birth of the Modern Constitution: The United States Supreme Court, 1941-1953 (2006), volume 12 in the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court of the United States
MAEVA MARCUS
Director and Editor of The Documentary History of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1789-1800; author, Truman and the Steel Seizure Case (1977); and Director, Institute for Constitutional Studies, George Washington University Law School
GEOFFREY R. STONE
Harry Kalven, Jr. Distinguished Service Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School; Visiting Professor of Law, New York University School of Law; author of Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism (2004); co-editor of the Supreme Court Review; and law clerk to Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. (1972-1973)
JAMES F. SIMON
Martin Professor of Law and Dean Emeritus, New York Law School; author of Lincoln and Chief Justice Taney: Slavery, Secession, and the President’s War Powers (2006), What Kind of Nation: Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, and the Epic Struggle to Create a United States (2002), The Center Holds: The Power Struggle Inside the Rehnquist Court (1995), and Independent Journey: The Life of William O. Douglas (1980); and former Time magazine legal correspondent
Sponsored by:
Committee on Legal History
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