Books:
The
Birth of the Modern Constitution: The United States Supreme Court, 1941–1953
(volume 12 of the Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court of the United
States)
(2006)
Winner
of the
John Phillip Reid Prize
awarded by the American Society for Legal History for the best book in legal history published
during the calendar year 2006
Oliver Wendell
Holmes, Jr.: The Supreme Court And American Legal Thought
(2004)
(Co-Author: Sophie Littlefield, My Daughter)
The Lost World
Of Classical Legal Thought: Law And Ideology In
America, 1886-1937
(1998)
American Legal
History: Cases And Materials
(2nd Ed. 1996)
(Co-Authors: Kermit L. Hall And Paul Finkelman)
The Oxford
Companion To The Supreme Court Of The United States
(1992) (Kermit Hall, General Editor; James W. Ely Jr., Joel B. Groomsman,
And William M. Wiecek, Editors) (Includes Fifty-Three Articles By Wiecek).
Liberty Under
Law: The Supreme Court In American Life (1988)
Constitutional
Development In A Modernizing Society:
The United States, 1803 To 1917
(1985)
Nuclear America:
Military And Civilian Nuclear Power In The United States, 1940-1980
(1984)
Equal Justice
Under Law: Constitutional Development, 1835-1982 (1982)
The Sources Of
Antislavery Constitutionalism In America, 1760-1848 (1977)
The Guarantee
Clause Of The U.S. Constitution (1972)
Articles & Chapters:
The
Debut of Modern Constitutional Procedure,
26 REVIEW
OF LITIGATION 641 (2007)
The Emergence of Equality as a
Constitutional Value: The First Century,
82 CHICAGO-KENT LAW REVIEW 233 (2007)
The Stone and Vinson
Courts,
in THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT: THE PURSUIT OF JUSTICE (Christopher Tomlins,
ed., 2005), 249-276
The Rise and Fall of
Classical Legal Thought,
in CONSTITUTIONALISM AND AMERICAN CULTURE (Sandra. Van Burkleo et al., eds.,
2002), 64-96
American
Jurisprudence After the War: “Reason Called Law”,
37 TULSA LAW REVIEW
857 (2002)
Sabotage, Treason, and Military Tribunals in World War II, in TOTAL WAR
AND THE CONSTITUTION (Daniel Ernst & Victor Jew, eds., 2002), 43-73
The Legal Foundations of Domestic Anticommunism: The Background of Dennis v.
United
States,
2002 SUPREME COURT REVIEW 375
Felix Frankfurter, Incorporation, and the Willie Francis Case, 25 JOURNAL
OF SUPREME COURT HISTORY 53 (2001)
America in the
Post-War Years: Transition and Transformation,
50 SYRACUSE LAW REVIEW 1203 (2000)
The Origins of the Law of Slavery in British North America, 17 CARDOZO
LAW REVIEW 1711 (1996)
Murdock v.
Memphis: Section 25
of the 1789 Judiciary Act and Judicial Federalism,
in ORIGINS OF THE FEDERAL JUDICIARY: ESSAYS ON THE JUDICIARY ACT OF 1789 (Maeva
Marcus, ed., 1992), 223-247
State Protection of
Personal Liberty: Remembering the Future,
in TOWARD A USABLE PAST: LIBERTY UNDER STATE CONSTITUTIONS (Paul Finkelman and
Stephen E. Gottlieb, eds. 1991), 371-387
The Liberal Critique of the
U.S. Supreme Court,
in GERMAN AND AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL THOUGHT: CONTEXTS, INTERACTION, AND
HISTORICAL REALITIES (Hermann Wellenreuther, ed., 1990). German version: Die
liberate Kritik am Obersten Gerichtshof der Vereinigten Staaten, in DIE
AMERIKANISCHE VERFASSUNG UND DEUTSCH AMERIKANISCHES VERFASSUNGSDENKEN (Wellenreuther
and Claudia Schnurmann, eds., 1991), 435-459
Old Times There Are Not Forgotten: The Distinctiveness of the Southern
Constitutional Experience, in AN UNCERTAIN TRADITION: CONSTITUTIONALISM AND
THE HISTORY OF THE SOUTH (Kermit L. Hall and James W. Ely, Jr., eds., 1989),
159-197
Slavery and the United States Constitution, in ANGLISTIK AND ENGLISHUNTERRICHT.
BAND 34: ZWEIHUNDERT JAHRE AMERIKANISCHE VERFASSUNG (1988), 83-98
The Blessings of Liberty: Slavery in the American Constitutional Order,
in SLAVERY AND ITS CONSEQUENCES: THE CONSTITUTION, EQUALITY, AND RACE (Robert A.
Goldwin and Art Kaufman, eds., 1988), 23-44
Clio as Hostage: The United States Supreme Court and the Uses of History,
24 CALifornia WESTERN LAW REVIEW
227 (1988)
The Witch at the Christening. Slavery and the Constitution's Origins,
in THE FRAMING AND RATIFICATION OF THE CONSTITUTION (Leonard W. Levy and Dennis
J. Mahoney, eds., 1987), 167-184
‘The Imperial Judiciary' in Historical Perspective, in YEARBOOK 1984
SUPREME COURT HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 61-89
Latimer: Lawyers, Abolitionists, and the Problem of Unjust Law,
in ANTISLAVERY RECONSIDERED: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON THE ABOLITIONISTS (Lewis Perry
and Michael Fellman, eds., 1979), 319-237; paperback back reprint, 1981
A Peculiar Conservatism and the Dorr Rebellion: Constitutional Clash in
Jacksonian America, 22 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF LEGAL HISTORY 237 (1978)
Slavery and Abolition Before the United States Supreme Court,
1820-1860, 65 JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY 34 (1978)
The Statutory Law of Slavery and Race in the Thirteen Mainland Colonies of
British America, 34 WILLIAM AND MARY QUARTERLY 258
(1977)
Somerset: Lord Mansfield and the Legitimacy of Slavery in the Anglo-American
World, 24 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW REVIEW 86 (1974)
Popular Sovereignty in the Dorr War: Conservative Counterblast, 32 RHODE
ISLAND HISTORY 35 (1973)
The Place of Chief Judge Irving Lehman in American Constitutional Development,
60 AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL QUARTERLY 280
(1971)
The Great Writ and Reconstruction: The Habeas Corpus Act of 1867, 36
JOURNAL OF SOUTHERN HISTORY 530 (1970)
The Reconstruction of Federal Judicial Power 1863-1876, 13
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF LEGAL HISTORY 333 (1969). Reprinted in Lawrence M. Friedman
and Harry N. Scheiber, eds., AMERICAN LAW AND THE CONSTITUTIONAL ORDER (1977)
Voice of Troubled Intellectuals, SATURDAY REVIEW, January 3, 1970, 23-25.
The Nation and the
State:
1868, 1968 WISCONSIN LAW REVIEW 312 (1968)
The Origin of the
United States Court
of Claims,
20 ADMINISTRATIVE LAW REVIEW 38 (1968)
Encyclopedia
articles in DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY, DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN HISTORY,
OXFORD COMPANION TO AMERICAN LAW, AMERICAN NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY, ENCYCLOPEDIA OF
AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY, HARRY S. TRUMAN ENCYCLOPEDIA, ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE AMERICAN
CONSTITUTION, WRITER’S HANDBOOK, ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SOUTHERN HISTORY AND OTHERS
