In chambers : stories of Supreme Court law clerks and their Justices / edited by Todd C. Peppers and Artemus Ward.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Peppers, Todd C., editor.

Ward, Artemus, 1971- editor.

Series:

Constitutionalism and democracy.

Constitutionalism and democracy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Judges--United States--Biography.

Judges.

Law clerks--United States--Biography.

Law clerks.

United States. Supreme Court--Employees--Biography.

United States.

United States. Supreme Court--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (472 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, [2012]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Sharing their insights, anecdotes, and experiences in a clear, accessible style, the contributors provide readers with a rare glimpse into the inner workings of the Supreme Court.

Contents:

Birth of an institution : Horace Gray and the lost law clerks / Todd C. Peppers

The judge as mentor : Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. and his law clerks / I. Scott Messinger

Isaiah and his young disciples : Justice Louis Brandeis and his law clerks / Todd C. Peppers

Benjamin Cardozo and his law clerks / Andrew L. Kaufman

The family of Stone law clerks / Bennett Boskey

A passion for justice : living with and clerking for Justice Hugo Black / Charles A. Reich

Clerking for Justice Hugo Black / Daniel J. Meador

Half clerk, half son : Justice Felix Frankfurter and his law clerks / Todd C. Peppers and Beth See Driver

William Thaddeus Coleman Jr. : breaking the color barrier at the United States Supreme Court / Todd C. Peppers

Fifty-two weeks of boot camp / Bruce Allen Murphy

Lucile Lomen : the first female United States Supreme Court law clerk / Jennie Berry Chandra

Wiley Blount Rutledge Jr. and his law clerks / John M. Ferren

Strained relations : Justice Charles Evans Whittaker and his law clerks / Craig Alan Smith

Clerking for Chief Justice Earl Warren / Jesse H. Choper

Charting civil liberties and protecting free expression : learning from and working with Justice William J. Brennan / Robert M. O'Neil

Justice Arthur Goldberg and his law clerks / Alan M. Dershowitz

Shirt-tales : clerking for Byron White / Kevin J. Worthen

Thurgood Marshall and his clerks / Deborah L. Rhode

Good old number three : Harry Blackmun and his clerks / Randall P. Bezanson

Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. : a personal view by a former clerk / J. Harvie Wilkinson III

Making work for idle hands : William H. Rehnquist and his law clerks / Artemus Ward

The modern clerkship : Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and her law clerks / Todd C. Peppers.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786613584618

9781280489389

1280489383

9780813932668

0813932661

OCLC:

903554033