Archive for the 'Harlan' Category
I feel like I’ve been neglecting Harlan in this blog lately. There’s actually a technological reason for that. When I started this blog I created 2 Westclip searches: one for Brandeis and another for Harlan. My email inbox soon started filling up with notices about Brandeis. I wasn’t particularly disturbed by the fact that I [...]
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Harlan’s dissents in Plessy v. Ferguson and the Civil Rights Cases are well known, but the June 2009 issue of the ABA Journal has a story about Harlan’s role in another little known, but significant, civil rights case: United States v. Shipp.
In Chattanooga, Tennessee in 1906, a black man named Ed Johnson was accused of [...]
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Earlier in this blog I mentioned how the NY Times had posted their articles that had fallen in the public domain and how that was a good resource for contemporary newspaper articles on the two justices. Now that research has gotten even easier. CQ Press has just released The New York Times on the Supreme [...]
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Fun With Statistics
HeinOnline is a legal database that among other things has an extensive database of court opinions and legal journal articles. Recently thay began posting citation analysis to the articles and opinions in their database. They also have a blog in which they occasionally publish interesting findings from their collection.
For instance: What is the most cited [...]
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I realize I’m arriving a little late to this party, but I just found out about this article. Last year, Valparaiso professor Robert Blomquist published “Thinking About Law and Creativity: on the 100 Most Creative Moments in American Law” in 30 Whittier Law Review (2008) 119. Jumping off from a Posner decision in U.S. v. [...]
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Among the Harlan papers collected by the Library of Congress is a listing of his father’s personal effects at the time of his death. Harlan’s father, James Harlan, was a former Kentucky Attorney General and Congressman as well as an avid book collector. The inventory takes up 15 pages, 9 of which are filled with [...]
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The latest issue of the Journal of Supreme Court History (vol. 33 no. 3) has another memoir by Harlan in it. This one covers his political career both before and after the Civil War. It’s a pretty fun read, filled with debates, election day shenanigans, duels and the political ramifications of eating dinner with Frederick [...]
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This is an old one, but I just found it so I’m going ahead and posting it. Reason Magazine asked 14 leading libertarians who their favorite US Supreme Court justices were: past present and future. 4 of the respondents picked Brandeis, primarily, it seems for his dissent in Olmstead. Interestingly, Randy Barnett claimed not to [...]
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Since I’ve always suspected that the real purpose of blogging was self-promotion, it gives me great pleasure to announced that a collection of Harlan’s writings edited by myself has been published in the latest issue of the Journal of Supreme Court History (volume 32, number 3.) Harlan wrote about 7 or 8 essays about [...]
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A tip of the hat to Kurt Metzmeier, who pointed this out to me. While many of the archival articles available on the NY Times web are only available for a fee, the articles that have fallen into the public domain (1851 to somewhere in the 1920’s) are all available for free. That means that [...]
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