The Supreme Court in United States History

The Supreme Court in United States History
Author: Charles Warren
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
Total Pages: 578
Release: 2011-03-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 161640518X

The Supreme Court in United States History is a three-volume history of the U.S. Supreme Court, detailing its establishment, the major cases reviewed and decided by the Court, the historical events surrounding cases and decisions, and the effects that Supreme Court decisions had on the public. Author Charles Warren often references newspaper and magazine articles and letters in an attempt to capture the spirit of the times. Written with one eye on the Court and one eye on people, The Supreme Court in United States History was "an attempt to revivify the important cases decided by the Court and to picture the Court itself from year to year in its contemporary setting." Volume II describes Supreme Court History from 1821-1855, including International and Constitutional law, Judiciary Reform, the Steamboat Monopoly Case, Virginia and Kentucky vs. the Supreme Court, the Cherokee cases, the rule of Chief Justices Marshall and Taney, and Slavery. CHARLES WARREN (1868-1954) was an American legal historian and lawyer. Warren graduated from Harvard University and Harvard Law School, and received his Doctorate from Columbia University. In 1894, he founded the Immigration Restriction League with fellow Harvard graduates Prescott Hall and Robert DeCourcy Ward. He authored several legal history books, including A History of the American Bar, The Supreme Court in United States History, and The Making of the Constitution, and won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1923. Warren was the Assistant Attorney General from 1914 to 1918 during Woodrow Wilson's Presidency and drafted the Espionage Act of 1917.

The Supreme Court Yearbook

The Supreme Court Yearbook
Author: Kenneth Jost
Publisher: CQ-Roll Call Group Books
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2000-01-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781568025308

Written in non-legal language, The Supreme Court Yearbook contains easy to access summaries of all cases handed down in the term to give readers essential coverage of the Court's decisions, activities, and impact on American life. Now for the first time, an archive containing the contents of this edition, as well as the last nine editions of The Supreme Court Yearbook is available on CD-ROM. The CD-ROM will allow for effortless searching by case, subject category, and tracking of issue through the last decade of the court's cases. This new edition of The Supreme Court Yearbook has been redesigned to provide comprehensive information on the 1998-1999 term in a highly readable style that brings students and interested citizens a quick understanding of the cases, events, trends, procedures, and people that shaped the Supreme Court's most recent term. Readers will find capsule summaries of every opinion written during the recent term; plus an in-depth and engaging analysis that highlights the legal, social and political implications of the term's most significant cases; discussions of the justices' voting patterns; and previews of significant issues of the upcoming term. Excerpts from the term's major decisions, a glossary of legal terms, brief biographies of the justices, and an explanation of how the Court works provide further information on the people and procedures involved in the nation's highest court.