David A Dorsen

Bertram E. Seidlitz, Petitioner, v. United States. U.S. Supreme Court Transcript of Record with Supporting Pleadings

The Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978 contains the world's most comprehensive collection of records and briefs brought before the nation's highest court by leading legal practitioners - many who later became judges and associates of the court. It includes transc...

Henry Friendly, Greatest Judge of His Era

Henry Friendly is frequently grouped with Oliver Wendell Holmes, Louis Brandeis, Benjamin Cardozo, and Learned Hand as the best American jurists of the twentieth century. In this first, comprehensive biography of Friendly, David M. Dorsen opens a unique window onto how a judge of this caliber thinks...

Henry Friendly, Greatest Judge of His Era by David M. Dorsen (2012-03-27)

The Unexpected Scalia: A Conservative Justice's Liberal Opinions

Antonin Scalia was one of the most important, outspoken, and controversial Justices in the past century. His endorsements of originalism, which requires deciding cases as they would have been decided in 1789, and textualism, which limits judges in what they could consider in interpreting text, cause...