Videos

Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer and his brother, federal Judge Charles Breyer, discussed their San Francisco upbringing and legal careers with the Supreme Court Historical …

Joel Richard Paul looked back at the life of the Supreme Court’s fourth chief justice, John Marshall, in his book, Precedent: Chief Justice John Marshall and His Times. The Supreme Court His…

Columbia Law School Professor Sarah Seo talked about her book, Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom. In this presentation, Professor Seo focused on a chapter in the …

A panel of legal experts discussed the importance of the Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson and the evolution of civil rights test cases. The American College of Trial Lawyers and …

“Dissenting at the Supreme Court” is a lecture series hosted by the Supreme Court Historical Society. In this program, University of Arkansas Law professor Mark Killenbeck discussed several …

University of Chicago law Professor Laura Weinrib talked about how the U.S. Supreme Court addressed free speech cases during World War I. She is the author of the book, The Taming of Free Sp…

University of Michigan Politics Professor Pamela Brandwein discussed Justice Bradley’s dissent in the Slaughterhouse Cases, which concerned New Orleans butchers' right to practice their trad…

University of Virginia law professor Saikrishna Prakash lectured on John Jay and John Marshall, who each served as Chief Justice of the United States. In the early years of the republic, the…