Monday, March 18, 2024

JSCH 49:1

The Journal of Supreme Court History, 49:1, has been published.  Here is the TOC:

Introduction
Timothy S. Huebner

“This Law, Though Dead, Did Speak”: The Civil Rights Cases and their Unforeseen Aftermath
Joseph A. Ranney

How to Avoid Dictatorship: The Public Debate Over Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Court-packing Plan and Its International Context
Leon Julius Biela

Caustic, Comical, Candid, and Insightful Commentary from Chief Justice William Howard Taft, 1921–1929: Excerpts
Jonathan Lurie

Drew Pearson’s “Predictions”: Assessing the Stone Court’s Press Leaks
Abby R. West

Two Views on Court-Packing
Melvin I. Urofsky

[Professor Urofksy reviews Laura Kalman’s FDR’s Gambit: The Courtpacking Fight and the Rise of Legal Liberalism (Oxford University Press, 2022) and Michael Nelson’s Vaulting Ambition: FDR’s Campaign to Pack the Supreme Court (University Press of Kansas, 2023).]

--Dan Ernst