Beverly Blair Cook
2009-004

Summary Information

Repository
Newcomb Archives
Creator - Creator
Cook, Beverly "Bev" Blair
Title
Beverly Blair Cook
ID
2009-004
Date [inclusive]
1974-1994
Extent
90.5 Cubic feet The collection contains 88 cartons and 5 boxes.
Language
English

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Biographical/Historical note

Beverly Blair Cook was a political scientist who taught at Iowa State University and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She was considered an expert on judicial appointments and practices. Her obituary, published in 2008, was written be Marcus E. Ethridge. In it, he praises Cook’s work advancing the studies of judicial behavior and gender. He calls Cook an “innovator” in addressing the impact of public opinion on judicial politics. She authored The Judicial Process in California (1967). She was the founder of the National Association of Women Judges, and served as Vice-President of the American Political Science Association from 1986-1987. She received a Lifetime Achievement Award from APSA in 2000.

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Administrative Information

Publication Information

Newcomb Archives

Newcomb Center for Research on Women
Seltzer-Gerard Reading Room
62 Newcomb Place
New Orleans, Louisiana, 70118
504 865 5762
vorhoff@tulane.edu

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Controlled Access Headings

Personal Name(s)

  • Blackmun, Harry -- Archives
  • O'Connor, Sandra Day -- Archives
  • Rehnquist, William -- Archives
  • Vinson, Frederick -- Archives
  • Warren, Burger -- Archives
  • Warren, Earl -- Archives
  • White, Byron -- Archives

Subject(s)

  • Law
  • Women and the judiciary
  • Women in Academia
  • Women in Politics

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Collection Inventory

Series 1, Cabinet 1 

Series 1, Cabinet 1, Drawer 1 

Series 1, Cabinet 1, Drawer 1, Box 1 

General note

Box 1 [part 1 of original Box #1 – Cabinet #1 / Drawer #1, “My Famous Career”]

1. Donations: Includes letter from Israeli prime minister’s office, other misc. letters about research

2. Comparative Judicial Group Research: Letters, articles, misc. papers

3. Copyrights for Books

4. Misc.

5. Fulbright/ Rock-Como: Brochures about Fulbright program, Cook’s personalized form for residential program**, correspondences about Fulbright program & Cook’s proposed project, Cook’s Fulbright application

6. FAC Friends / Tenure Reviews: Former Students, Correspondences, CV’s of other professors

7. Our Golden O-Book: “The Fiftieth Reunion of the Class of 1944”- Central High School, Omaha, Nebraska; **contains bio of Cook w/ high school picture

8. Project ’87: Meeting minutes from conference, information for “200th Annual Convening of Convention”, correspondences on this topic

9. Berkshire: Letter, brochure, clipping about Berkshire Conference on the History of Women

10. Women in Legal History- Society for Study of: Newsletter, letter to Cook about being keynote speaker at convention**

11. Task Force- feminist teachings: Correspondences, minutes, newsletters relating to APSA Task Force on Women and American Politics

12. Wellesley Judges: Profiles, clippings, articles about judges who are Wellesley graduates

13. Wellesley: Magazines about Wellesly alumni, **includes 1922 Wellesley magazine “Judge”

14. T-Shirts: Correspondences, designs, T-shirt order forms

15. Spaeth – NSF: Correspondences, information about accessing Supreme Court databases

16. Emeritus- Service: Misc. papers, correspondences about essay critiques, Cook’s Emeritus status certificate**, newspaper clipping with Cook’s picture portraying Justice O’Connor**, newspaper clipping about Cook (awarded 1992 AAUW Public Policy Award) **, bio of Cook prepared by Lee Epstein**, various letters to Cook

17. American National Biography: Cook’s manuscripts for American National Biography, correspondences, data

18. Correspondence: Letters from DC** (Supreme Court, Library of Congress, etc), correspondences with other professionals

19. Democratic and Republican Major County Follow-Up Calls – SPAETH- NSF: Various memos, correspondences

20. Professional: Program pamphlets, brochures, invitation to 1969 Presidential inaugural ball**

21. Professional Activities 1967-1989: Correspondences, clippings, articles, Wisconsin periodical with article & picture of Cook**, conference pamphlets, original photo of Cook

Series 1, Cabinet 1, Drawer 1, Box 2 

General note

Box 2 [part 2 of original Box #1 – Cabinet #1 / Drawer #1, “My Famous Career”]

1. Female Research Com – IPSA Round Table: Professional correspondences, papers relating to IPSA Round Table on Women and Politics

2. Annual Summary of Academic Activities: Newspaper articles about Cook’s academic activities (survey, etc) **, correspondences, pamphlets, other misc. papers

3. Jellyby Notes: Manuscript “Mrs. Jellyby”**, correspondences, handwritten notes

4. World War II – W.D. Wisconsin: Handwritten notes, copy of letter correspondence between Wisconsin Justice & attorney

5. Cal State Fullerton: Class record books 1962-1966, professional correspondences, newspapers (1962)

6. Oral History: Guideline booklets, pamphlets

7. Grants: Grant applications, correspondences

8. Misc. – Class Record Books (1967-1989)

9. Future Opinion Work: Handwritten notes, copy of article

10. Notes: Handwritten notes (including “how to count dissents”), article clippings, essay copy

11. Conference: Voting Order – SCT: Handwritten notes, articles, copies of SCT correspondences about conferences

12. SCT Conference: Articles, correspondences, clippings, essays about “what goes on behind closed doors”

13. SCT- Opinions: Handwritten notes, article copies, essays

14. OP ASGN ANALYSIS: Data tables of justice decisions, valid observations, copies of articles & essays about opinion assignment

Series 1, Cabinet 1, Drawer 2 

Series 1, Cabinet 1, Drawer 2, Box 3 

General note

Box 3 [part 1 of original Box #2 – Cabinet #1 / Drawer #2, “Votes—Opinions—Assign.—Dissents”]

1. Opas Process: Copies of SCT correspondences & memos, data sheets, handwritten notes

2. Lists- ASGN Sheets: Handwritten notes (data, tallies)

3. Burger Ct. – Assignment Sheets: Copies of case assignments

4. OLD – OP Assignment Sheets: Various cases, opinion assignments dating back to 1941 – 1955

5. Assignment Sheets - OT 1986 – Rehnqist CT.: 1986-1990 Supreme Court case assignments

6. WORK – Caseload, Inc. Opinion Writing – Supreme Court: Articles, clippings, essays about Supreme Court caseload

7. JJ Reliance on Human Authorities: Handwritten notes

8. J. Orientation: Fact or Doctrine: Single page of handwritten notes

9. Circulation Sheets: Copies of circulation sheets for Supreme Court Opinions 1970 through 1980s

10. CIRC Sheets ’85-’86: Circulation sheets for year 1985-1986

11. Statistics – OP & Vote: Data, Statistics on Justice Opinion & Voting patterns in 20th century

12. OLD Courts: Handwritten notes, statistics

13. Vinson CT – Opinion Statistics: Article about Vinson Ct. era (1946-1953), statistics

14. Warren Court- Opinion Statistics

15. Burger Court- Opinion Statistics

16. Opinion- Self-Assign: Articles about self-assignment of judicial opinion

17. Writing Opinions: Articles, essays, handwritten notes, correspondences

18. OPAS- Investment, Specialty: Handwritten notes, articles, essays on opinion assignment, investment types, specialization

19. Vote Change: Articles, handwritten notes, copies of memos from Supreme Court

20. Activism – Retroactive: Single document on retroactive Supreme Court cases, 1963-1966

Series 1, Cabinet 1, Drawer 2, Box 4 

General note

Box 4 [part 2 of original Box #2 – Cabinet #1 / Drawer #2, “Votes—Opinions—Assign.—Dissents”]

1. Unanimous Opinions: Essays about consensus on Supreme Court

2. Plurality OP’s: Handwritten notes, article clippings, essays

3. SCT: Per Curiam: Handwritten notes, essays

4. Marginal J – Swinger Center J / Repute: Handwritten notes, data sheet, article on Justice Powell

5. 5-4 / 4-3 Minimum Winning Coalition: Essays, data, articles on consensus, marginal Supreme Court votes, importance of justices

6. 4-4 Votes – ID of JJ: Copies of court records, votes, handwritten notes

7. Concurring OP: Essay on Justice O’Connor’s Concurring Opinions (by Nancy Maveety!)**, concurring opinions of SC

8. Law and Literature: “Herecles’ Bow” -essays by James Boyd White

9. Misc.: Various essays on underpinnings of Supreme Court opinions

Series 1, Cabinet 1, Drawer 3 

Series 1, Cabinet 1, Drawer 3, Box 7 

General note

Box 7 [part 1 of original Box #3 – Cabinet #1 / Drawer #3, “Outsiders Fem JJ”]

**Note the contents of Box 7 & 8 are clippings & articles about the folder topics. None of these boxes contains anything personalized to Cook.

1. Misc. Papers

2. “Outsider”

3. Boundary > crossing / surface / separation of sexes

4. Fem “Voice”

5. Differences / Bio- Morals

6. Exclusion: Private Club

7. Separate Fem. Orgs.

8. Segregated Professions – Library, Teacher, Soc. Worker

9. Sex & Mixed Inst.

10. Methods of Exclusion

11. FSC – NAME

12. Sex Segregation “Places”

13. Political Places: saloon, barbershop (male)

14. Women as Citizens

15. ALIENS on the INSIDE – Status-Treatment

Series 1, Cabinet 1, Drawer 3, Box 8 

General note

Box 8 [part 2 of original Box #3 – Cabinet #1 / Drawer #3, “Outsiders Fem JJ”]

1. EP – Private Assoc.

2. NEPOTISM- General – Non-judge

3. COUPLES – ID jobs – Assortive Mating – LAW

4. RELIGION

5. Women’s Court – Not LA (NYC: Solomon)

6. Military

7. (US) Federal Marshal

8. Fire & Policewomen

Series 1, Cabinet 1, Drawer 4 

Series 1, Cabinet 1, Drawer 4, Box 43 

General note

Box 43 [part 1 of original Box #4– Cabinet #1 / Drawer #4, “Personal Finance”]

1. NAWJ: Personal correspondences re. judicial surveys, proposal funding, National Association of Women Judges brochures, articles, and professional correspondences, newspaper / magazine clippings, 1979 address at NAWJ meeting, essays re. women on the federal bench, judicial selection, 1982 NAWJ goals and objectives, ****opening address rough draft by Cook for 1982 NAWJ annual meeting, handwritten notes, 1980 Conference notes, minutes, brochures

2. MISC: Personal letters to Cook, program with notes and correspondences for 1982 Wingspread Symposium for Women Judges

3. IRS 2001: Cook’s income tax returns, bank statements, expenses (personal and professional)

4. IRS 2000: Cook’s 2000 state & federal income tax returns, expenses (personal and professional)

5. Income Tax – 1999: Cook’s 1999 state& federal income tax returns, expenses (personal and professional)

6. 1998 Tax: Cook’s 1999 state & federal income tax returns, expenses (personal and professional)

7. 1997 Tax: Cook’s 1997 state & federal income tax returns, expenses (personal and professional)

8. 1996 IRS: Cook’s 1996 state & federal income tax returns, expenses (personal and professional)

Series 1, Cabinet 1, Drawer 4, Box 44 

General note

Box 44 [part 2 of original Box #4– Cabinet #1 / Drawer #4, “Personal Finance”]

1. 1995 Taxes I: Cook’s 1995 state & federal income tax returns, expenses (personal and professional)

2. 1995 Taxes II: Continuation of Cook’s 1995 state & federal income tax returns, expenses (personal and professional)

3. 1994 I: Cook’s 1994 state & federal income tax returns, expenses (personal and professional)

4. 1994 II: Continuation of Cook’s 1994 state & federal income tax returns, expenses (personal and professional)

5. ’94, ’95 Audit: Misc. personal financial papers, federal tax forms

6. 1993 Taxes: Cook’s 1993 state & federal income tax returns, expenses (personal and professional)

7. 1992: Cook’s 1992 state & federal income tax returns, expenses (personal and professional)

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Series 1, Cabinet 2 

Series 1, Cabinet 2, Drawer 1 

Series 1, Cabinet 2, Drawer 1, Box 5A 

General note

Box 5A [part 1 of original Box #5 – Cabinet #2 / Drawer #1, “Federal Court History—Structure—Special Courts”]

1. Federal Court History: Journals, essays, article clippings, handwritten notes

2. Federal Jurisdiction: Journals, essays, article clippings,

3. Federal Court Structure: Articles, newspaper clippings, essays (all with historical basis) handwritten notes

4. (Class- Fem. Law) Equal Pay – Employment: Clippings on judicial appts., articles, essays

5. Support: Handwritten notes, article entitled “Judges as Lobbyists”

6. Reorganization of Circuits & Districts: Articles, essays, data about jurisdictions, handwritten notes, copies of correspondences

7. AOC- Committees – Reports: Articles on judicial administration, handwritten notes, copies of government correspondences, including letter to FDR**

8. Henry Chandler: Essays, articles on judicial administration, probation, copies of correspondences

9. Federal Court System: Newspaper clippings, essays, articles

10. Magistrate: Articles, clippings, essays about role of magistrate, Magistrate Act of 1979

Series 1, Cabinet 2, Drawer 1, Box 5B 

General note

Box 5B [part 2 of original Box #5 – Cabinet #2 / Drawer #1, “Federal Court History—Structure—Special Courts”]

1. Magistrates: Memorandum / reports / recommendations concerning magistrate, hearing booklet by US Commissioner System, essays, federal reports

2. US Tax Court: Newspaper clippings, essays, articles

3. Ct. of International Trade – US Customs Court: Newspaper clippings, report on Customs Court Act of 1980, essay

4. US Military Courts: Newspaper clippings, report from Committee on Armed Services, essays, articles

Series 1, Cabinet 2, Drawer 2 

Series 1, Cabinet 2, Drawer 2, Box 6 

General note

Box 6 [part 1 of original Box #6 – Cabinet #2 / Drawer #2, “Congress/ Pres – Judicial Review—Restraint—Role Theories”]

1. District Judges – Wisconsin – Dead: Historical articles, newspaper clippings

2. James E. Doyle- WD Wisconsin; appointed May 22, 1965: Articles, correspondences, clippings about Justice Doyle

3. Myron Garden – ED Wisconsin; appointed 3/15/1967: Articles, clippings

4. John W. Reynolds – ED Wisconsin; appointed October 21, 1965: Newspaper articles & clippings about Justice Reynolds

5. Robert E Tehan CJ ED Wisconsin; appointed May 19, 1949: Newspaper clippings, correspondences, memorandums relating to Judge Tehan

6. William E. Steekler CJ SD Indiana; appointed April 7, 1950 (Indianapolis): Articles, correspondences about Justice Steekler

7. George N. Beamer ND Indiana; appointed April 12, 1962: Handwritten notes, essays correspondences about Justice Beamer, data table about Indiana cases

8. Gleason Davis: Newspaper clippings, articles about Rep. Davis

9.Robert Warren – ED Wis.: Articles, clippings, correspondences regarding Robert Warren

10. Terrence Evans – ED Wis.: Newspaper article clipping about Justice Evans

11. District Judges- Indiana: Contains rulebook of the US District Court for N. Indiana

12. James E. Noland- SD Indiana (oath 11/11/1964): Personal letter to Cook from Justice Noland

13. S. Hugh Dillis – SD Indiana; appointed September 22, 1961: Articles, newspaper clippings, data sheet

14. UW-M Campus Plan. Com. Miscellaneous: Interview sheets, federal judges questionnaires**

15. Interviews: Handwritten notes, interviews with (female) judges

16. Federal Judges Questionnaire**: Completed surveys by federal judges

17. Boundary Interchange between Teaching & Research in Judicial Process: Paper by Cook**

18. Appendix A: Paper (by Cook?) -“The Role Concept in Judicial Research”

19. Federal District Judges in the 7th Circuit: Paper by Cook**

20. Judicial Decision-Making in Federal Trial Courts: Research proposal by Cook**

21. Decision-Making by Federal Trial Judges: Papers by Cook**

22. Sentencing the Unpatriotic: Papers by Cook**

23. Judicial Selection for the Judge Role of the 80s: Paper by Cook**

24. Clippings: Clippings about marriage law

25. Women on Supreme Courts: Papers by Cook**

26. Early Women in Political Science: Paper by Cook**

27. Women’s Issues Before Women Judges: Paper by Cook**

28. Panel on Socialization & Recruitment of Women in Local Politics: Paper by Cook**

29. Foundation Proposal: Proposal for women’s judges conference

30. Address: Address to National Women Judges’ Association Organizational meeting (1979); program

31. Beverly Blair Cook Roundtable: Bio of Cook**

32. Kenwood: Picture of Cook in 1987 Kenwood magazine

33. Political Science & Politics: March 1994 Journal

34. Public Opinion & Federal Judicial Policy: Essay by cook published in American Journal of Political Science in August 1977

35. American Journal of Political Science: See #34

36. Law & Society Review: Essay by Cook in Law & Review journal – “The Independent Trial Judge Role”

37. Perceptions of the Independent Trial Judge Role in the 7th Circuit: See #36

38. Judicature: Essay by Cook in 1970 Judicature journal – “The Politics of Piecemeal Reform of Kansas Courts”

Series 1, Cabinet 2, Drawer 2, Box 11 

General note

Box 11 [part 1 of original Box #6 – Cabinet #2- / Drawer #2, “Congress/Pres—Jud. Review—Restraint—Role Theories”]

1. Role Theory: Copies of essays, articles, handwritten notes

2. Judicial Decision Theory- Role: Copies of essays, handwritten notes

3. Policy Output: Copies of articles about Congress, the Courts, and the public

4. Role- Judicial – Supreme Court: Copies of articles, essays, newspaper clippings re: role of court in society, jurisprudence

5. SCT Outsider Role: Article, handwritten note on % of lifetime votes: single dissenter

6. SCT: Freshmen Role: Papers, essays about newcomer justices to Supreme Court & effects

7. Senior J. Role: Article about senior justices, handwritten notes with data about seniority

8. Advisor Role: Re: book by Stewart Jay about this

9. Circuit Justice- SCT Role: Article + notes about circuit justice

10. Judicial Activism- not US SCT: Articles, papers, handwritten notes about topic

11. Wasby article- “Judicial Imperialism”

12. Immunity: Copies of articles, clippings about judicial immunity

13. Judicial Independence: **Cook’s essay on judicial independence, other articles, clippings, notes

14. Judicial Restraint: Articles, essays, handwritten notes about judicial restraint

Series 1, Cabinet 2, Drawer 2, Box 12 

General note

Box 12 [part 2 of original Box #6 – Cabinet #2- / Drawer #2, “Congress/Pres—Jud. Review—Restraint—Role Theories”]

1. Precedent – Stare Decisis: Articles, essays about stare decisis

2. Reversals: Articles, handwritten notes

3. Judicial Review: Const. Int.: Articles, essays (**essay from James R. Stoner has personalized note to Cook)

4. Judicial Review- Supreme Court: Articles, clippings, essays

5. Impact: Articles, clippings, essays about impact of Court on society

6. Impact II

Series 1, Cabinet 2, Drawer 3 

Series 1, Cabinet 2, Drawer 3, Box 13 

General note

Box 13 [part 1 of original Box #7 – Cabinet #2 / Drawer #3, “Fed Circuit”]

1. Courts of Appeals: Articles, data, essays about federal courts of appeals, judges

2. Court of Customs & Patent Appeals: Essays, articles, pamphlets, program from judicial conference on patent appeals, clippings, other ABA publications

3. Ct. & C Pat. App- Federal Circuit: Newspaper clippings regarding jurisprudence & federal circuit court

4. DC Circuit: Newspaper clippings, articles

5. DC Circuit II: Correspondences (copies), essays, articles about DC Circuit Court; two articles on psychology of criminal court

6. 1st Circuit: Copies of data, correspondences, articles

7. 1st Circuit II: Newspaper clippings about First Circuit judge

8. 2nd Circuit: Clippings, articles, essays on 2nd Circuit, 1985 Judicature magazine

9. 2nd Circuit II: Copies of correspondences (including 1950s correspondences from White House about Court nominees), articles, clippings, journals

10. 3rd Circuit: Articles, clippings, personal letters to Cook from judges

11. 3rd Circuit: Articles, clippings, essays, copies of conference programs

12. William Hastie: Oral history with William Hastie, essay by Hastie, articles, newspaper clippings

Series 1, Cabinet 2, Drawer 3, Box 14 

General note

Box 14 [part 2 of original Box #7 – Cabinet #2 / Drawer #3, “Fed Circuit”]

1. 4th Circuit: Articles, clippings, essays

2. 5th Circuit: Articles, letter to Cook from Circuit Court judge, clippings, response to questionnaire of potential circuit judgeship, 1967 Time magazine, essays

3. 5th Circuit II: April 1947 ABA Journal, essays, 5th Circuit conference programs, copies of articles, correspondences (copy of letter to president)

4. 6th Circuit: Articles, clippings, “Proceedings” paper

5. 6th Circuit II: Essays, articles, journal articles, correspondence copies re. 6th Circuit,

6. 7th Circuit: Newspaper clippings, articles re. 7th Circuit, essay “Policy Toward Public School Teachers in the US Circuit Courts of Appeals”

7. 8th Circuit: Newspaper, magazine clippings, essay ‘The Schop & Function of Intra-Circuit Judicial Communication” about 8th Circuit

8. 8th Circuit II: 1947 ABA Journal copy, 1970 proceedings of 8th Circuit, essays, correspondences, Research reports on 8th Circuit

9. 9th Circuit: Articles, 1987 Puget Sound Law Review, clippings, essays

10. 7th Circuit – Dead: Essays, data, copies of federal government correspondences (federal courts, White House)

11. 9th Circuit II: Articles, clippings, correspondences, ABA March 1947 Journal

12. 10th Circuit: Newspaper clippings, letter to Cook from 10th Circuit Court Judge

13. 11th C.A.: Magazine article, newspaper clipping

14. 10th Circuit: Essay on Judicial behavior, 10th Circuit conference program copies, federal government correspondences, 1946 ABA Journal, magazine articles, Court Rules

15. 11th C.A.: Magazine article

Series 1, Cabinet 2, Drawer 4 

Series 1, Cabinet 2, Drawer 3, Box 15 

General note

Box 15 [part 1 of original Box #8– Cabinet #2 / Drawer #4, “SCT—Impact—Compliance—Theory Models—Method Status”]

1. Theory Construction: Essays on Social Theories, Construction models, political theory relating to the justice system

2. My General Theory: Handwritten notes, Tocqueville essay, notecard research notes, social theory essays

3. Law: Newspaper clippings, law review articles, essays on social systems & precepts for law, criminal law reform

4. Institutional Analysis: Handwritten notes, political theory essays

5. Legal Crits.: Political Theory & Jurisprudence essays, magazine article

6. Moral Reform / Moral Theory: Handwritten notes, essays on moral theory and women

7. Courts (Techno) Organization Theory: Essays on organizational theory and court system, 1986 judges of federal courts & dates of appointment

8. Organization Theory – Courts: Essays on organizational and negotiation models relating to courts

9. Attitudes & Other Non-Legal Expl.: Essays about political beliefs, perceptions, and attitude formation

10. Weber Model for Courts- Objective, Universal: Essays on development of law, political and legal career patterns, essay “Max Weber’s Tragic Modernism and the Study of Law in Society”

Series 1, Cabinet 2, Drawer 3, Box 16 

General note

Box 16 [part 2 of original Box #8– Cabinet #2 / Drawer #4, “SCT—Impact—Compliance—Theory Models—Method Status”]

1. Reliability: Handwritten notes, essays on statistical methods

2. Methods / Stats: Articles and essays on statistical methods, surveys in political science, handwritten notes

3. Scalogram and Q-Technique: Essays about methodology for research on judicial behavior, patterns, techniques, and data analysis; handwritten notes

4. Census – Region: Handwritten notes, newspaper clippings, articles about population and demographics

5. Survey Qu.: Articles on survey design, University of Wisconsin questionnaire

6. Measures – Formulas – Equations: Articles, essays about data analysis, research design in political science and judicial studies

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Series 1, Cabinet 3 

Series 1, Cabinet 3, Drawer 3 

Series 1, Cabinet 3, Drawer 3, Box 17 

General note

Box 17 [part 1 of original Box #11– Cabinet #3 / Drawer #3, “P.O. + Culture—Dist J—Chicago 7”]

1. Federal Judge- Criminal Pros.: Newspaper / magazine clippings, essay

2. Extra- Judicial Roles: Newspaper clippings, articles, essays, handwritten notes on extra-judicial roles of judges

3. Ethics: Judicial code of conduct, rules, newspaper clippings, law review articles on ethics, program for University of Chicago Conference on Judicial Ethics, essays

4. Federal- Judicial Socialization: Handwritten notes, copies of correspondences, essays on judicial socialization, draft of Cook’s Ford Foundation Faculty Fellowship Application about Socialization of Federal District Judges**

5. Ethics Cases- Judges: Copies of correspondences between judges, newspaper clippings, articles, case opinion(s)

6. Chandler Case: 1970 SC opinion, newspaper clippings about Judge Chandler, essays, handwritten notes, memorandum about case

7. Federal Seminars: Handwritten notes, proceedings of the seminar for judicial administration, copies of correspondences, program for 1962 seminar, other seminar programs, newspaper clippings, Cook’s essay “The Socialization of New Federal Judges: Impact on District Court Business”**

8. Socialization – Seminars: Newspaper clippings, Cook essay (see #7)**, articles on socialization, 1973 reports for district court conference, essays about socialization

9. Judicial Demeanor: Essays and papers about demeanor & personality of judges, newspaper clippings

10. Black Federal: Newspaper clippings, correspondences, essays, data sheets

11. Fed.-Judge Lists – District: Book/article- “Federal District Court Judges & the History of their Court”, article clippings, list of federal judge appointments, DC Circuit judges

Series 1, Cabinet 3, Drawer 4 

Series 1, Cabinet 3, Drawer 4, Box 23 

General note

Box 23 [part 1 of original Box #12– Cabinet #3 / Drawer #4, “Sentencing”]

1. Theory, Models of Discipline – Sentence: Newspaper articles, clippings, essays on social role theory, theories of punishment, sentencing models; handwritten notes

2. Disparity & Reform (Guidelines): Newspaper clippings, 1995 Judicature magazine, essays and articles on disparity in sentencing, Sentencing Guidelines from US Dept. of Justice, summary report on determinate sentencing, handwritten notes

3. (Creative) Sentence Alternatives: Newspaper clippings, publication “Sentencing to Community Ser vice,” essays and articles on use of probation, victim-compensation, labor, and restitution

4. Sentence Studies: Essays, articles on assessment of sentencing, dispositions, plea-bargaining, determinants of judges’ decisions; sentencing publications; analysis of public views about sentencing

5. Sentencing (State Courts) Punishment: Newspaper clippings, August 1972 Osgoode Hall Law Journal, 1977 Wisconsin Seminar booklet, essays about penalties, sentencing process, judicial discretion, publications- “Issues in Sentencing” and “Bronx Sentencing Project,” 1969 Judicature magazine

6. Political / Economic White- Collar Sentencing: Newspaper clippings, articles on white-collar crime, employee theft, antitrust acts; description of 1971 Presidential Campaign Finance Act

7. Empirical Studies – State Sentencing: Newspaper clippings; articles & essays about statistical analysis of sentencing, influences on decision-making, measuring output of courts, sentencing guidelines; handwritten notes, data sheets, case studies

Series 1, Cabinet 3, Drawer 4, Box 24 

General note

Box 24 [part 2 of original Box #12– Cabinet #3 / Drawer #4, “Sentencing”]

1. Sentencing – Defendant Characteristics: Handwritten notes, essays on disparities in sentencing, sentence determination, public policy, non-stranger crime, and race; newspaper clipping

2. Empirical Studies of Federal Sentences: Publications on sentencing patterns and geographic variations, after-trial convictions, sentencing analysis; handwritten notes; essays on sentencing policy, determining factors of sentence severity

3. Sentence Chapter – Nardulli Book: Nardulli bibliography, rough drafts of Cook’s paper “Sentencing Problems and Internal Court Reforms”**, data sheets, Cook’s paper “Sentencing: Judicial Response to External Demands for Sentence Equity & Efficacy,” other misc. essays on sentence choice, disparity, copies of correspondences on this topic

4. Mandatory Sentence Guidelines – Fed.: Newspaper clippings, 1993 Wake Forest Law Review, essay on appellate review of sentences

5. Sentence – Appellate Review: Newspaper clippings, handwritten notes, case summaries & opinions; essays on cruel & unusual punishment laws & substantive criminal law, judicial review, accountability, data sheets, the fifth amendment

6. Federal Sentencing: Newspaper clippings, essays about federal sentencing, influences, due process, sentencing options; handwritten notes, data sheets

7. Misc.: US Dept. of Justice Sentencing Publications

8. Sentencing Statistics 1940-1949: Statistics, data sheets; handwritten notes

9. Sentencing Statistics 1950-1959: Data sheets, analyses, handwritten notes

10. Sentencing Statistics 1960-1969: 1962 Report of Persons Under the Supervision of the Federal Probation System, 1963 Federal Offenders, handwritten notes, data sheets, statistics

11. Sentencing Statistics 1970- : Data sheets, statistics, handwritten notes

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Series 1, Cabinet 4 

Series 1, Cabinet 4, Drawer 1 

Series 1, Cabinet 4, Drawer 1, Box 25 

General note

Box 25 [part 1 of original Box #13– Cabinet #4 / Drawer #1, “JJ—ECON Theory—Game Rat”]

1. My Notes: Essays, articles on opinion assignment & Burger court, models of political science; handwritten notes, newspaper clippings

2. Language (Fuzzy & Foreign) & Literature: SC report on Const. interpretation, articles on legal/ Constitutional language, understanding

3. SCT Norms: Handwritten notes, essays on political jurisprudence, court norms

4. Emotion in Opinions/ Decisions: Handwritten notes

5. Fuzzy Set Articles: Articles, essays on “fuzzy set theory” in political science, constitutional studies

6. Rational Choice – Game Theories: Articles, essays on responses, decisions (re. policymaking), economic approaches, prisoner’s dilemma, law and society, strategic interactions in Supreme Court

7. Judicial Strategies: Articles, essays on original intent, judicial strategies, data sheets, papers on judicial appointments, handwritten notes

8. Rational Actor: Articles on psychological and rational analyses of SC, strategic behavior, judicial ideology

9. Public Choice – Courts – Rational Choice: Essays, articles on opinion formation, rational actors, political theory, behavioral models, legislative actions

10. CJ Bloc – Rational Bloc: Handwritten notes, newspaper clippings, data sheets (game theory & SC), articles &essays on behavioral theory & rational choices of SC, strategic interactions

11. Judicial Interpretation- Sct.: Essays on policymaking by Courts, interpretation, civic responsibility

12. Economic Theory of Politics: Handwritten notes, articles & essays on public choice & political science, economic models of decision-making, liberalism, legislative process, economics of SC & elections

Series 1, Cabinet 4, Drawer 1, Box 26 

General note

Box 26 [part 2 of original Box #13– Cabinet #4 / Drawer #1, “JJ—ECON Theory—Game Rat”]

1. Policy Issues in Econ & Law: Articles & essays on law & economics, law & social science, regulation, jurisprudence, case studies; handwritten notes

2. Rational Choice – Econ Theories: Essays, articles on behavioral models; handwritten notes

3. Economic Jurisprudence: Articles, essays on legal theory, rationality, values, wealth, economic perception of law

4. Economic Models – Court / Legislature / Exec: Articles, essays on role of SC, actors, incentives, strategies and choices, institutions, overriding interpretations, restraint

5. Judicial Notice: Essay on appellate courts & judicial notice

6. Small Group: Articles & essays on group interaction, competition, decision-making, size (relating to Courts); handwritten notes, SC justices postcards

7. Legal Culture – Role – Law & Facts: Essays on “How SC Justice Votes,” models of judicial decision-making, “Personal Stare Decisis,” socialization, jurisprudence, culture & the courts; handwritten notes

8. Explaining Decisions – Jud., Legis., Exec. Similarities: Essays on voting patterns, policymaking, handwritten notes, relationship between legislative & judicial branch

Series 1, Cabinet 4, Drawer 2 

Series 1, Cabinet 4, Drawer 2, Box 27 

General note

Box 27 [part 1 of original Box #14– Cabinet #4 / Drawer #2,”Poli Sci—Comp. Fem JJ—Archives”]

1. “Irrational” Voting – Multi-Issue – Comp. JJ – Data Code: Handwritten notes, data sheets, index of illegitimacy

2. IAJW: Handwritten notes, letter to Cook from International Association of Women Judges, Center for Public Service, UC San Diego; postcard, articles, 1985 grant proposal from Cook, newspaper clippings

3. FEM Supreme Justices: Handwritten notes, articles on foreign female supreme court justices, foreign correspondences to Cook, newspaper clippings, constitution makeup, data sheets; paper by Cook “Women on Supreme Courts: A Cross-National Analysis”**, photos of foreign female supreme court justices

4. Australia-English Women Judges: Newspaper clippings, articles about female justices from respective countries, essays about feminism, foreign law; biographies of female justices

5. India: Handwritten notes, 1969 Law & Society Review, articles about Indian Supreme Court, government institutions

6. Ireland: Articles about Irish constitution, jurisprudence, female justices; handwritten notes, newspaper clippings

7. Feminist Philosophy / Theory – Politics: Articles, essays about roles of women and the courts, sex differences, political science, feminist paradigms, sex discrimination, political theory, political participation; misc. newspaper clippings

8. Social / Political – Feminist Theories: Handwritten notes, articles, papers on women’s rights, political theory, newspaper clippings, handwritten notes

9. What is Poli Sci?: Essays, articles on role of the field of political science in society, contemporary political theory, courses taught in political science, behavioral research, newspaper clippings

Series 1, Cabinet 4, Drawer 2, Box 28 

General note

Cook Box 28 [part 2 of original Box #14– Cabinet #4 / Drawer #2,”Poli Sci—Comp. Fem JJ—Archives”]

1. Poli Sci as Discipline: Handwritten notes, articles & essays on the discipline of political science, training, approaches; data sheets, book reviews

2. Socio Biology – FEM: Essays including “Biological Perspectives in Human Conflict” and other topics in evolution, book reviews

3. Political Scientists and Their Ideas & Politics: Essays on field of political science, women, professors, letter to Cook, methodologies, APSA publications, other social science publications

4. PS Giants – outfield: Articles and essays – misc., Francis Lieber, penitentiary system, constitutionalism

5. Foucault Theory: Essays on Foucault’s theory of politics and power

6. Wellesley Poli Sci: Report of Wellesley Poli Sci PhD recipients, political science / history course offerings, newspaper & magazine clippings, Professor biography & questionnaire, handwritten notes, correspondences to Cook, alumni records

7. Library of Congress – DC: Correspondences to Cook, newspaper clippings, abstract of judicial collection findings, paper on SC Justice paper archives

8. USA – GSA; DC & Regional- Archives: DC Researcher’s guide to National Archives, lists of available legal papers, handwritten notes, data sheets, correspondences to Cook, handwritten notes, research pamphlets, special collections guides

9. Presidential Libraries: Finding aid, historical material of Ford Library, resources & policies of Ford Library, newspaper, Kennedy Library pamphlet

10. Hoover Library: Correspondences to Cook, copies of federal correspondences

11. FDR Library: Pamphlet from Eleanor Roosevelt Institute, letter to Cook from ER Institute, booklet on materials at FDR Library, newspaper clipping, library information sheets

12. Truman Library: Postcards, letters to Cook, handwritten notes, Truman Library newsletters, Cook’s application for Grant-in-Aid**, list of materials at Truman Library, data sheets

13. Eisenhower Library: Eisenhower Library guide to citations of research material, letters to Cook re. research material, brochures

14. JFK: Historical Materials in JFK Library

15. LBJ: Brochures, regulation guides to LBJ Library, book “Addresses by Mrs. Johnson”, correspondences to Cook, finding aids, material guides

16. Women’s Archives in Radcliffe: Newspaper clippings, material information sheets, letters to Cook, manuscript request forms, collection lists, Radcliffe College data resources guide

Series 1, Cabinet 4, Drawer 3 

Series 1, Cabinet 4, Drawer 3, Box 29 

General note

Cook Box 29 [part 1 of original Box #15– Cabinet #4 / Drawer #3, “OT 1978-84”]

1. Misc.: 1974 Women Law Reporter magazine copy, newspaper clipping

2. OT 1976 Sig. Cases: Data table, government correspondence copies, newspaper clippings, handwritten notes, case summaries and opinions

3. OT 1977 Sig. Cases: Data sheets, case index, case assignments, case summaries and opinions, articles

4. OT 1978 Sig. Cases: Case summaries and opinions, government correspondence copies, handwritten notes, data sheets

5. 1979- Sig. Cases: Overview of significant decisions, case summaries and opinions, handwritten notes, government correspondence copies, data sheets

6. OT 1980 – Sig. Cases: Articles, index of cases, newspaper clippings, government correspondences, handwritten notes, case summaries and opinions, data sheets

7. Burger Court- Cases / OT 1981: Handwritten notes, case summaries and opinions

8. OT 81: Article about O’Connor, newspaper clippings, handwritten notes, government correspondences, data sheets

9. 1982 Term Cases: Handwritten notes, case summaries and opinions

10. Burger Court – OT 1982: Government correspondences, handwritten notes, articles on major decisions, Harvard Law Review article on Supreme Court cases and methodologies, newspaper clipping

11. Burger Court – OT 1983: Handwritten notes, government correspondences, Harvard Law Review article on 1983 cases, SC methodologies; newspaper / magazine clippings, outline of cases, data sheets

Series 1, Cabinet 4, Drawer 3, Box 30 

General note

Box 30 [part 2 of original Box #15– Cabinet #4 / Drawer #3, “OT 1978-84”]

1. OT 1983 Cases: Case summaries and opinions, handwritten notes

2. Burger Court – OT 1984: Voting Alignments: 1984-85; handwritten notes, ’84-’85 decisions, data sheets, newspaper clippings, Harvard Law Review report on leading cases this term

3. Misc. (1984 Cases): Docket sheets on 1984 SC cases

4. OT 1984 Cases: 1984 case summaries and opinions, handwritten notes

5. OT ’85 Cases: Case summaries and opinions, Lexis Nexis slip opinions

6. OT ’85: Newspaper clippings, handwritten notes, government correspondences / memorandums, case summaries

7. Burger Court – OT 1985: SC Report, newspaper clippings, review of SC term, copy of 1987 Army Lawyer publication, case summaries and opinions, 1985 Preview of SC cases, correspondences / memorandums

8. OT 1986: 1987 National Law Journal, newspaper clippings, 1986-87 decisions, article about court division, data / case information sheets

Series 1, Cabinet 4, Drawer 4 

Series 1, Cabinet 4, Drawer 4, Box 37 

General note

Box 37 [part 1 of original Box #16– Cabinet #4 / Drawer #4, “Fed Ct. Stat. + Circuit”]

1. US Circuit Judge Nominating Commissioners’ Handbook (1979)

2. Merit Selection – Circuit: May 1979 Judicature magazine, newspaper clippings on selection of (female) judges, essays and articles on effectiveness of judicial selection system (1970s-1980s), reforms in judicial selection, the federal merit system, political influences; 1979 study of US Circuit Judge Nominating Commission, Judicature nominating commission district findings; Slotnick papers “The Carter Presidency and the US Circuit Judge Nominating Commission,” “The US Circuit Judge Nominating Commission,” “Judicial Selection Systems and Nomination Outcomes: Does the Process Make a Difference?”; Judicial Selection Project brochure; “Federal Appellate Judge Selection: Recruitment Reforms & Unanswered Questions,” comparison of panels of US Circuit Judge Nominating Commission, Berkson essay “The US Circuit Judge Nominating Commission: The Candidates’ Perspective,” 1979 Report Card on Judicial Selection, copy of 1983 Yale Law & Policy Review, Solomon article “The Politics of Appointment and the Federal Courts’ Role in Regulating America”

3. Federal Courts and Policy Areas: Lumbard 1966 article “New Standards for Criminal Justice,” essay on courts & urban renewal, article on public interest and judiciary, articles on lawmaking- legislative and judicial interaction, policy analysis, newspaper clippings (re. court policy), Ralphe Sharpe “Report on Southern Judges and Negro Voting Rights,” Nagel essay “Environmental Policy and Constitutional Law,” Rainey essay “Dimensions of Policy-Making in Courts and Legislatures,” Croyle essay “Tort Law Doctrine, Courts and Social Expenditures: The Courts as Primary Policy Makers,” Murphy essay “Civil Liberties in the 1963 Term,” Oaks essay “Exclusionary Rule in Search and Seizure,” Canon essay on exclusionary rule, Stumpf & Janowitz essay “Bench Responses to Federally Financed Legal Services,” Schlesinger essay “The US Supreme Court: Fact, Evidence, and Applicable Law,” Wasby paper “Vote Dilution, Minority Voting Rights, and the Courts,” Lamb article on Fair Housing Act of 1968 in Villanova Law Review, Giles article “Judicial Policy-Making and Southern School Segregation,” other misc. clippings / essays on role of federal judges

4. Ministry of Justice: WV Law Review 1972 “National Institute of Justice: A Proposal,” Exon essay “National Institute of Justice: Another Layer of Federal Government,” proposal for creation of national institute of justice, 1973 congressional record- senate

5. Court Output- productivity / delay: 1970 State Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction- Personal Injury Jury Cases, newspaper clippings, 1976 Anthony Partridge Criminal Justice Records Workshop remarks, essays re. court productivity, delays and lagtime in proceedings, caseloads, efficiency; Hoeber essay “The Courts on Trial: Verdict and Remedy,” 1970 Life article “Logjam In,” essay draft “Dimensions of Institutional Participation: A Tale From Five Courts,” study “Effects of Case Characteristics on Case Processing Time”

6. Time- Studies: Report on study of time spent by district judges on different types of cases, correspondences re. time-study, newspaper clippings, McCafferty paper “Statistical Measurements Used by the Administrative Office of the US Courts,” Clark essays “Measuring the Duration of Judicial and Administrative Proceedings” and “Federal Trial Judges. Judicial Workload, and the Pace of Litigation in the Twentieth Century,” Don Vito paper on use of court statistics, Hardy essay “Explaining the Litigation Explosion in Federal District Courts,” Ebersole essay “Planning and Organizing a Court Study”

7. Case Statistics & Weighting: Federal Judicial Statistics paper (1978 revision), Goldman essay “Caseload Forecasting Models for Federal District Courts,” statistics / data sheets, US State Courts Office letter to Cook about weighted caseloads & judges, McCafferty “Federal Probation Statistics,” “Court Statistics- The Need for Them,” “Weighting,” US Judiciary Committee reports, judicial correspondences & memorandums involving statistics, newspaper clippings, essays on public information and access, 1975 District Court Caseload Forecasting: An Executive Summary, Taillefer essay “The Annual Report: Molding Effective Communication”

8. Fed. Judge Lists – Circuit: 1995 Appeals Court Coding, lists of Appeals Court justices, handwritten notes, 1937-1982 Federal Circuit Court Judge lists

9. Oriental: Newspaper clippings, Haas essay “Comparing paradigms of Ethnic Politics in the US: The Case of Hawaii,” Wong essay “The Cost of Being Chinese, Japanese, and Filipino in the United States,” 1982 National Asian American Roster, Petersen essay “Chinese and Japanese Americans,” Thulin essay “Ethnicity and the Judicial Decision-Making Process,” other articles on underrepresentation in the judicial profession

Series 1, Cabinet 4, Drawer 4, Box 38 

General note

Box 38 [part 2 of original Box #16– Cabinet #4 / Drawer #4, “Fed Ct. Stat. + Circuit”]

1. Mexican-American Fed. J & State: Newspaper clippings,1979-1980, 1981-1982, 1983-1984, 1985-1986, 1987-1988 state office holders- Chicano, Marquez essay “The Politics of Race and Assimilation: The League of United Latin American Citizens 1929-1940”

2. National CA Proposal: Newspaper clippings, Levin & Fickler article “A New Proposal for a National Court of Appeals,” other essays and analyses on the possibility of creating a national court of appeals (to aid Supreme Court)

3. Chief Judge – Circuit: Judiciary Committee Report on Judicial Councils Reform and Judicial Conduct and Disability Act of 1980, Report on Federal Courts Improvement Act of 1979, Judicial correspondences, articles on district judge roles and duties, judicial approaches; 1978 Federal Judicial Center Publication “Operation of the Federal Judicial Councils”

4. Circuit Court Executive: 1970 Judiciary Committee Hearings for the appointment of a Circuit Court Executive, other reports, essays on circuit executives, 1971 report “Implementing the Circuit Executive Act,” Federal Judicial Center “Central Legal Staffs in the US Courts of Appeals,” 1976 Federal Judicial Center “Report on Survey of Circuit Executive Activities”

5. AOC- Circuit-District Relations: Federal judicial / legal professional correspondences, newspaper clippings, Shafroth essay on developments in judicial administration, Shelton essay “Hobbled Justice,” Chandler essay “Making the Judicial Machinery Function Effectively,” Baar essay “The Growth of Federal Judicial Administrative Structures: Implications for Judicial Behavior,” Olney article “New Directions in Judicial Administration” 1966 / ’67 Congressional Record

6. Chandler – AO Correspondence – 7th Circuit: Professional correspondences of Judge Chandler

7. Circuit Judicial Conferences: Morse “Federal Judicial Conferences and Councils: Their Creation and Reports,” 9th Circuit Judicial Conference Federal Rules Decisions, Stone essay “Functions of the Circuit Conferences,” 1975 Report of the Committee on Reorganization of the Circuit Conference and Conference Committees, 1977 Proceedings of the 38th Annual Judicial Conference of DC Circuit

8. Cotter Report- Impact: Congressional- Judicial correspondences, 1959 Field Study of the Operations of US Courts Report to Senate Appropriations Committee

9. Misc. Files:

-A. Paper on selection of justices, handwritten notes, other misc. clippings about judicial selection

-B. Handwritten notes, Values Code, letter from Cook, values code instructions,

-C. Handwritten notes (re. judicial behavior and values)

-D. Handwritten notes (re. blocs, opinion assignment)

-E. Handwritten notes, paper (excerpt?) “Appointment / Senate”

-F. Handwritten notes (re. institutional models)

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Series 1, Cabinet 5 

Series 1, Cabinet 5, Drawer 1 

Series 1, Cabinet 5, Drawer 1, Box 31 

General note

Box 31 [part 1 of original Box #17– Cabinet #5 / Drawer #1, “English Speaking Canada—Comparative Eminent Women and Comparative Courts”]

1. Description of Courts – Comparative: Articles, essays on court construction and comparison, legitimacy, political culture, law, judicial fitness, society, judicial review; chapter book excerpts on judiciary, handwritten notes, working paper on selected European courts, newspaper clippings

2. Abortion – Cross-National (Comp. Data Fem): Excerpts from book of world rankings, data / statistics sheets (focus on women), newspaper clippings, handwritten notes, 1985 Neglect Resource, IPSA 1986 Women Progress Report, articles on economic development, excerpts from World Handbook of Political and Social Indicators

3. Canada – Fem.: Articles, essays (incl. comparison to US) about women in Canadian politics, sex differences, women’s status, right to privacy, abortion; newspaper clippings, letter to Cook from Canada re. essay, brochure about Canadian Constitution

4. Canada Cts.: Handwritten notes, essays and articles on Canadian courts, political system, policymaking, theories on decision-making; booklets on SC of Canada; newspaper clippings; rules of Canadian SC, guide to (political) public opinion

5. State Court Research: Papers on State Supreme Courts, policymaking, organization, federalism and the court system, procedures, comparisons, case studies, and social behaviors in court system

6. Jokes: Newspaper clippings (including comic sections)

7. Biography: Newspaper / magazine clippings, book reviews, selected collection of doctoral dissertations

Series 1, Cabinet 5, Drawer 1, Box 32 

General note

Box 32 [part 2 of original Box #17– Cabinet #5 / Drawer #1, “English Speaking Canada—Comparative Eminent Women and Comparative Courts”]

1. Awards: Newspaper / magazine clippings, handwritten notes, 1980 Guggenheim Fellows brochures, article on Wisconsin Academy history

2. Eminents (Women): Newspaper clippings, statistical summaries, studies of “outstanding” women (& men), essay “Tocqueville’s Heir, Mary Parker Follet,” brochure, bibliography of autobiographies of women, postcards from London National Portrait gallery, Madame Ganna Walska postcards

3. Women as Intellectuals: Essay “Who are the elite intellectuals?” by Charles Kadushin, August 25, 1985 NYT Magazine, newspaper clippings on various 20th century women, biography of Mary Astell, Linda Kerber essays of intellectual women, Smith essay on denial of access to women, handwritten notes

4. Hannah Arendt: Handwritten notes, newspaper clippings re. German political scientist Hannah Arendt, misc. essays on Hannah Arendt and her political theories, values; “Scenes from a Marriage” essay about Hannah Arendt by Amos Elon

5. Intellect – Soc. Sci / Theorist – Mary Follett: Essays about Political Theorist Mary Follett

6. Nobel Prize – Economists: Newspaper clippings, Becker essay on economic behavior, 2001 Los Angeles Times magazine

7. Women Detectives: Newspaper / magazine clippings re. notable female detective & mystery novelists, University of Wisconsin list of women mystery writers, 1985 “Cloak” newsletter of mystery writer society, handwritten notes, list of books by Arthur Upfield, biography of Arthur Upfield by John Ball, reading list for mystery lovers, biography of Sara Paretsky

8. Susan Sontag: Review of In America by author Susan Sontag, reviews of other works by Sontag, 1997 Civilization magazine biography of Susan Sontag, newspaper clippings re. Sontag

9. Alice Paul: Biographical articles about Alice Paul, history of Sewall-Belmont House (Headquarters of National Women’s Party), Sally Graham article “Woodrow Wilson, Alice Paul, and the Woman Suffrage Movement,” newspaper clippings, 1974 American Heritage article “I was arrested, of Course”

10. Women Artist Biography: Letter to Cook from Midtown Galleries studio in New York, newspaper clippings, articles about female artists (Georgia O’Keefe, Zona Gale, Isabel Bishop, Rita Dove, Angelica Kauffman, Lavinia Fontana) and writers, art postcards, artist women class description, Sandra Langer article “Against the Grain: A Working Feminist Art Criticism,” booklet “The Arts and the Small Community,” 1985 New Yorker magazine cover

Series 1, Cabinet 5, Drawer 2 

Series 1, Cabinet 5, Drawer 2, Box 33 

General note

Box 33 [part 1 of original Box #18– Cabinet #5 / Drawer #2, “7th CA? / District”]

1. 7th Circ. Judicial Conference 1939-1959: Essay “Organization of the Judicial Circuit,” “Policymaking”, handwritten notes, data sheets on Seventh Circuit judges, government correspondences, minutes from Seventh Circuit judicial conferences

2. 7th Circuit: Casper Ooms Judicial Conference remarks “History is a Ragbag of Odds and Ends,” government correspondences, newspaper clippings about Seventh Circuit rulings, copy of 1947 Notre Dame Lawyer, Julia Dolan article “Laurels for Legal Aiders”, biography of Judge W. L. Parkinson, Philip J. Finnegan, Walter C. Lindley, Nathan Swaim, essay “Political Influences in the Selection of Federal Judges, 1949 Chicago Daily Tribune clipping with 7th Circuit justices

3. 1960-date 7th Circuit Judicial Conference: 1970 programs from Bar Association of Seventh Federal Circuit annual meeting, minutes from respective conference, minutes from 7th Circuit Conference 1960-1970, program from 1974 conference, newspaper clippings re. conference

4. WW I – Politics: Handwritten notes, Cook’s outline of “Federal District Judge: Role and Control in the 7th Circuit”**, essay “A Plea for the Preservation of the ‘Worm’s Eye View’ in Multidistrict Aviation Litigation,” case summaries and opinions, other misc. newspaper clippings, essay “An Organizational Theory of Judicial Impact” by Lawrence Baum, copies of government correspondences, rough draft of essay “Structural Parameters of Role and Control,” Jack P Gibbs essay “Social Control”, quotations from judges, essay “Position-Set”, essay “A Garbage Can Model of Organizational Choice”

5. Register – Federal Courts- Dept. of Justice: 1969 Illinois District judges meeting minutes, handwritten notes, 7th Circuit District judges Role Adjustment table, rough draft of essay “The Chicago Court: Judicial Opportunity Structure and Output”

6. Misc.: Handwritten notes, 1965 Time Magazine article, other misc. newspaper clippings, papers

7. AO Draft Strategies: 1945 Sentences Imposed, data sheets

8. 7th Circuit Statistics – 7 Districts: Statistics sheets 1965-1970

9. Coding- 7th District: Handwritten notes on federal circuit codes, data sheets

10. 7th –Clerk Report of Business: US Court of Appeals letter to Cook, 1973 Judicial Business of 7th Circuit Courts, Business Reports from 7th Circuit Courts 1952-1970

11. Book Notes: Theory & Concepts for Ct. Studies: Handwritten notes, Herbert Kaufman essay “The Limits of Organizational Change”

12. RAPE (?) (notes and drafts of Cook’s book Federal District Judge):

- Section 1: handwritten notes, “The Brotherhood” chapter excerpt, outline of “The Federal District Judge: Role and Control in the 7th Circuit” by Cook**, letter to Cook from Bobbs-Merrill Company editor, other correspondences to Cook about her book / essay, copies of federal judge questionnaire (blank), rough draft of Ch. 1 of Cook’s book The Federal District Judge, “Jurisdiction” paper

-Section 2: Rough draft of “The Brotherhood” chapter, “Jurisdiction” excerpt, “Uniform Federal Rules” excerpt, “Jurisdiction” excerpt, rough draft of “Legal Precedent Isolation”

-Section 3: rough draft of chapter “Recruitment of Federal Judges”

-Section 4: draft of Chapter II “Structural Parameters of Role and Control”

-Section 5: draft of Ch.1 “Role and Control in the Federal Courts,” Frankfurter article “Ambitions of Judges,” “Cost-Benefit Analysis of Judicial Recruitment: Eleventh Judicial Circuit of Florida” by Mary Volcansek, handwritten notes

13. Intro.: Handwritten notes, rough draft of preface for study on treatment of federal courts by political scientists, handwritten notes

14. Misc. II: Handwritten notes, rough draft of chapter “Characteristics of Judicial Candidates,” article about Kennedy appointees, newspaper clippings, “Personal Demeanor” chapter, “Terminal Nature of District Judgeship,” notes on family of 7th Circuit District judges, minutes of 1963 judge meeting for 2nd district, Chapter III “Personal Dimensions of Judicial Role” rough draft

Series 1, Cabinet 5, Drawer 2, Box 34 

General note

Box 34 [part 2 of original Box #18– Cabinet #5 / Drawer #2, “7th CA? / District”]

1. Misc.: 1971 Roundtable Seminar for Newly Appointed US District Judges – “Management of Civil Case Flow from Filing to Trial”; handwritten notes, sentencing council table, paragraph on “task of visiting judge,” case opinions, essay on judicial patronage, federal judicial correspondences, 1789-1970 federal court structure spreadsheet, 1960s judicial conference draft agendas, essay “The Electrical Equipment Antitrust Cases: Novel Judicial Administration” by Neal & Goldberg, conference quote on “judicial role,” other conference descriptions of judge tasks, 1960s circuit judges trial dates

2. COALITION – 7th: Rough draft of essay “Coalitions in the Seventh Circuit,” handwritten notes, data sheets of case studies, Cook’s code for coalition study, paper “Dissent in the Third Circuit Courts of Appeal” by P. Caruso

3. Association of State University and Land Grant Coll.: Copies of misc. correspondences between federal judges

4. Stone Papers – MFRC: Federal judicial correspondences, US attorney, Evans-Stone correspondences

5. Misc.: Handwritten notes, case opinions, 1969 American Law Institute address by Justice Warren, newspaper clippings, misc. Chicago Circuit court opinions, Justice Burger essay “The Courts on Trial,” essays on district judges behavior, 1972 Chicago Journalism Review copy, Robert Ainsworth article “Judicial Ethics—The Federal Judiciary Takes a Historic Step Forward,” Judge Edwin Robson 1958 special report on civil case docket, 1959 paper “Lower Court Checks on Supreme Court Power” by Walter P Murphy, Chicago District Judicial Council study, federal judicial correspondences

6. Vacation: Digest of circuit court judicial vacations 1950-1954, federal judicial correspondences about judicial vacations, recommendations

7. Interview- Paul Douglas: Handwritten notes, excerpts from In the Fullness of Time by Paul Douglas, 1972 letter to Cook from Paul Douglas

8. Judicial Poll: Copy of 1949 newspaper article on judicial poll, data sheet on integrity / civil cases

9. Basic Data: Demographic data sheets, description of analyses methods, 1801-1958 legislative history of US Circuit Court of Appeals, handwritten notes & data collected re. judges, newspaper clippings on population, composition of Congress

10. Grants: Pennings essay “Measures of Organizational Structure,” draft chapters (from Cook’s book) “Recruitment of Federal Judges,” “Kinds of Appointments,” “Applicants for the Judgeship,” “Judicial Participation in Recruitment to the Bench,” copies of federal correspondences, draft excerpt on salary

11. Control: Handwritten notes, federal government / judicial correspondence copies, newspaper clippings, essay excerpts on judicial control methods, 1969 GA Law Review article “The Power of District Judges and the Responsibility of Courts of Appeals,” copy of the Chandler case -78th Circuit

12. Terminal Position: Handwritten notes, essay “The Terminal Nature of the District Judgeship”

13. Brotherhood: Newspaper clipping, chapter “The Brotherhood” (excerpt from Cook’s book) re. judicial brotherhood

14. Misc.: 1973 Preliminary Report “The Geographical Boundaries of the Several Judicial Circuits: Alternative Proposals,” 1971 Hearings on HR 7378 “to establish a commission on revision of the judicial circuits of the United States,” handwritten notes, essay clipping re. District Court of Illinois, notecards re. isolation of district courts, labeled county maps Illinois region

15. Boundary Ex. – Linkage: Essay/ excerpt (Cook) “External Linkages,” “Bar Linkage,” Judicial Circuit map, federal judicial correspondences, newspaper clippings, Bickel essay clipping “The Law Clerks” on linkage

16. Policy: Newspaper clipping, handwritten notes, federal government / judicial correspondence copies

Series 1, Cabinet 5, Drawer 3 

Series 1, Cabinet 5, Drawer 3, Box 39 

General note

Box 39 [part 1 of original Box #19– Cabinet #5 / Drawer #3, “Concepts A-K”]

1. Accountability – Immunity: Newspaper clippings on judicial immunity, role of the courts, legislature

2. Rational Choice / Arrow Theorem: Handwritten notes, newspaper clippings, Radcliff article “Liberalism, Populism, and Collective Choice” (Arrow Theory), Palace article “Methods of Decision,” Senate voting record, MacKay article “Impossibility and Infinity” re. Arrow’s Theorem, Frohock article “Rationality, Morality, and Impossibility Theorems”

3. Authority and Hierarchy: Handwritten notes, Karlen essay “Disorder in the Courtroom,” Nizer article “What to Do When the Judge is Put Up Against the Wall,” Yale Law Journal article “Public Landlords and Private Tenants,” Shklar article “Rousseau’s Images of Authority,” Eckstein article “Authority Patterns: A Structural Basis for Political Inquiry,” Nadel article “Social Control and Self-Regulation,” other articles on social and political theories of authority, newspaper clippings

4. Value: Autonomy: Newspaper clippings, excerpts on “Peonage,” essay “Prevention Detention Before Trial,” essay by Ira Glasser “Benevolent Coercion: Arresting People for Their Own Good,” Chambliss article “A Sociological Analysis of the Law of Vagrancy,” handwritten notes, Mindle article “Liberalism, Privacy, and Autonomy”

5. Bureaucratization: Latham article “The Managerization of the Campus”

6. Centralization: Newspaper clippings, “A Bibliography on Decentralization” by UW Institute of Gov’t Affairs

7. Role: Prof. & Intra-Court Institutions: Newspaper clippings, Christenson essay “Uncertainty in Law and Its Negation: Reflections,” handwritten notes

8. Change: Newspaper clippings, essays re. law, social change, society, charitable immunity, judicial doctrine, social revolution, culture surrounding political change

9. Citizenship – Calvert: Spiro article “Dual Nationality and the Meaning of Citizenship,” Sebastian article “Friends and Fascists”

10. Classification: Handwritten notes, Gibbs essay “Norms: The Problem of Definition and Classification,” Cook essay re. procedure in conflicts of law, Kessler & McKenna essay quotations, Fox essay “Alternative to Dichotomous Thought,” Morgan essay, “Blood Types,” handwritten notes

11. Commons: Smith essay, “Semicommon Property Rights and Scattering in the Open Fields,” Buchanan and Yoon essays, “Symmetric Tragedies: Commons and Anticommons”

12. Communications: Handwritten notes, Cotter literary commentary, Godsil and Neiman essay, “A Communications Model of Response Innovation: A First Approximation,” essay “A Causal Mode of Democratic Political Development,” Daedalus Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Wasby essay “From Supreme Court to Policeman: A Partial Inventory of Materials,” Miller essay draft “Some Extensions and Interpretations of the Condorcet Jury Theorem,” essay “Issue Information v. Imagery,” 1972 Criminal Law Bulletin

13. Community: Lund essay, “Communitarian Politics and the Problem of Equality,” Rosenau essay “Compatibility, Consensus, and an Emerging Political Science of Adaptation,” Booth article “Communities of Memory: On Identity, Memory, and Debt,” Parsons essay, “The Professions and Social Structure”

14. Concept: McCool essay, “The Subsystem Family of Concepts: A Critique and a Proposal”

15. Conflict Resolution: Article re. 1980 Dispute Resolution Act, Coleman article “Community Conflict,” Halperin essay “Arbitration of Superior Court Cases,” Rintala article “The Two Faces of Compromises,” Abel “Comparative Theory of Dispute Institutions in Society,” Mather essay “Determinants of Method of Case Disposition,” 1986 Judicature magazine, other essays re. case studies of dispute resolution, Kiddler and Hostetler essay “Managing Ideologies: Harmony as Ideology in Amish and Japanese Societies,” magazine clipping “The Origins and Development of Courts”

16. Self-Concept – “Consciousness”: Essay excerpt “Self-Recognition in Man,” Schubert essay “Some Implications of Brain Science for Political Science,” White essay “The Neurobiological Basis of Human Action,” Gallup article, “Self-Recognition in Primates,” Science magazine article “ ‘ Self-Awareness’ in the Pigeon,” essays on brain capacity, symmetry

17. Constitution: Articles re. original intent, creation, political theory and the constitution, “ ‘Higher Law’ Background of American Constitutional Law,” institutions, neutrality, bureaucracy and the constitution, Berns essay “The Writing of the Constitution,” Bicentennial articles, Judiciary Committee report, newspaper clippings, Chicago-Kent Law Review Symposium on Interpreting the Ninth Amendment, ABA correspondence and proposal, description / critiques of Constitution literature

18. Institution – Contract: Newspaper clippings, Murray article “The Realism of Behaviorism Under the Uniform Commercial Code,” Kessler essay “Contracts and Power in America,” “The Continuing Vitality of the Contract Clause,” other essays re. freedom of contract, status in the law of contract, liberty in contract, commercial contract, self-governance, religious toleration, Supreme Court and legislation, handwritten notes, Shanley essay “Marriage Contract in Seventeenth Century Political Thought”

19. Political Culture: Public Interest – The American Commonwealth 1976, cross-cultural study of human rights & proportionality, Renteln article “Culture and Culpability,” Staal article “The Irony of Modern Conservatism,” essays re. allocation values, meaning, rebirth of political culture, ideology, race, diversity in legislature, early American thought, political subcultures, social theory, formulation of culture, respect, policy positions, newspaper clippings

20. Decentralization: Studenski and Mort essay, “Centralization and Decentralization,” 1969 Civil Liberties magazine, newspaper clippings, Symposium article “Alienation, Decentralization, and Participation,” Van Dyke article “Self-Determination and Minority Rights” in Laboratory for Political Research, Rice paper “Calhoun’s Conservative Critique of Constitutionalism,” Flanders article, “Court executives and decentralization of the federal judiciary”

Series 1, Cabinet 5, Drawer 3, Box 40 

General note

Box 40 [part 2 of original Box #19– Cabinet #5 / Drawer #3, “Concepts A-K”]

1. Democracy: Joseph essay “The Workshop: Democratic Revisionism Revisited,” Mueller essay “Democracy and Ralph’s Pretty Good Grocery: Elections, Equality, and the Minimal Human Being,” book review on election law

2. Value: Dignity: Daniel M’Naghten’s Case (insanity- crim.), US SC case summaries and opinions, articles on psychiatric role in legal system, Yale Law Journal essay “Notes and Comments: Judicial Control of Secret Agents,” 1967 Houston Law Review “Police Detection Practice of Encouragement: Lewis v. US and Beyond,” article “Pre-Dawn Welfare Inspections and the Right of Privacy,” social programs and equal protection article, Handler and Hollingsworth essays “Stigma, Privacy, and Other Attitudes of Welfare Recipients” and “How Obnoxious is the ‘Obnoxious Means Test?’”, Gill paper “Immigrants, Consent, and Citizenship”

3. Elite: Misc. brochures, Kim essay “Intra-Elite Cleavages in the Korean National Assembly,” Edinger and Searing “Social Background in Elite Analysis: A Methodological Inquiry,” Walker APSA article “Critique of the Elitist Theory of Democracy,” Seligman essay “Recruiting Political Elites,” Conrad and Stewart “The Dimensionality of Soviet Elite Careers: The Refinement of Conventional Wisdom,” other essays on political change, European government institutions, elitist theories, budgetary priorities, community power dynamics, publication Superconcentration / Supercorporation, Kohfeld essay “Elite Perceptions as Systems Specifications,” Janowitz essay “Community Power and ‘Policy Science’ Research”

4. Emotion: Koziak essay “Homeric Thumos: The Early History of Gender, Emotion, and Politics”

5. Value- Equality: Essays on philosophy, political theories of equality, welfare protection, American values, welfare distribution, the constitution, court system, Supreme Court case summaries and opinions, Mendelson essay “From Warren to Burger: The Rise and Decline of Equal Protection,” Gilman essay “A Biology of Equality”

6. Value: Fairness as Procedure: Newspaper clippings, SC case summaries and opinions (incl. Gideon v. Wainwright, Miranda v. Arizona, and Adamson v. California), Shapiro essay “The Elusive Path to Criminal Prosecution for White-Collar Offenders,” essays re. indigent appeals, defense, right to counsel, race, police interrogation, criminal process “models,” victim-witness assistance programs; Hedblom essay “Returning Fairness to the Broadcast Media”

7. Value- Federalism: Essays re. federalism, Congress, social reform, judicial federalism and state supreme courts, case studies (incl. “Offshore Oil Cases”), judicial power, state sovereignty habeas corpus, judicial policy, Burger Court view, out-of-state counsel; Posner essay “The Federal Courts: Crisis and Reform,” O’Connor essay “Trends in the Relationship Between the Federal and State Courts from the Perspective of a State Court Judge”***, newspaper clippings

8. Federalism: Articles, essays, government correspondences on federal structure of government, the Burger Court, Rehnquist Court, Constitutional basis for federalism, dual federalism, community decision-making, judicial parity, civil liberties, quantitative analyses of new judicial federalism, ; SC case summaries and opinions

Series 1, Cabinet 5, Drawer 4 

Series 1, Cabinet 5, Drawer 4, Box 45 

General note

Box 45 [part 1 of original Box #20– Cabinet #5 / Drawer #4, “F-P”]

1. Value- Freedom: Pamphlet “Dissent in Crisis: The Anti-Riot Act,” newspaper clippings, articles about unpopular / neglected clients, essay “Freedom and Necessity in Poetry,” “In Defense of Liberalism,” and “The Rhetoric of Politics of Liberty”; handwritten notes

2. Group – James Godsil: Essays—Nicholas “The Group Basis of Politics: Notes for a Theory,” Westin “The Supreme Court and Group Conflict,” Lowi “The Public Philosophy: Interest Group Liberalism,” Rothman “Systematic Political Theory: Observations on the Group Approach,” Dowling “Pressure Group Theory: Its Methodological Range”

3. Political Concept: Individualism / Rights: Essay by Willoughby “The Individual and the State,” Williams “Crisis and Renewal in the Social Sciences and the Colonies of Ourselves,” Dupre and O’Neill “Social Structures and Structural Ethics,” Grant “Locke’s Political Athropology and Lockean Individualism,” Huntington “How Countries Democratize,” misc. book review

4. Institution- Oklahoma: Crawford and Ostrom essay “A Grammar of Institutions,” Knight and Sened essay “Explaining Social Institutions”

5. Justice: Multiple essays on the subject of justice, including Lyons “On Formal Justice,” Merritt “Justice as Fairness,” Silverman “The Trial Judge: Pilot, Participant, or Umpire,” Klonoski and Mendelsohn “The Allocation of Justice: A Political Approach,” Hazard “Social Justice Through Civil Justice,”Barton and Mendlovitz “The Experience of Injustice as a Research Problem,” Schubert “Justice and Reasoning: A Political Science Perspective,” Blumstein and Weinstein “The Redress of Distributive Injustice,” Pauly and Willet “Two Concepts of Equity and Their Implications for Public Policy,” Winthrop “Aristotle and Theories of Justice,” Stone “Justice in the Slough of Equality,” Chapman “Rawl’s Theory of Justice,” Gardner “The Renaissance of Retribution,” Mueller and Bersharov “Bifurcation: The Two Phase System of Criminal Procedure in the United States,” Galvin and Lockhart “Discrete Idiosyncratic Goods and Structural Principles of Distributive Justice,” Honig “Rawls on Politics and Punishment,” Grafstein “Justice Between Institutions,” Lane “Market Justice, Political Justice,” Tigar “2020 Vision: A Bifocal View,” Chapman “Rawl’s Theory of Justice,” Klosko “Rawl’s ‘Political’ Philosophy and American Democracy,” Wingenbach “Unjust Context: The Priority of Stability in Rawl’s Contextualized Theory of Justice,” Steinberger “The Impossibility of a ‘Political’ Conception,” misc. newspaper clippings on this subject

6. Law – Neutral Principles, Linguistics: Essays incl. Journal of Public Law “Professor Kurland, the Supreme Court, and Political Science” by Kommers, Mermin essay “On Defining ‘Law’—A Dissent From Fuller’s Approach,” Field “Law as an Objective Political Concept,” Friedman “Legal Rules and the Process of Social Change,” Brigham essay “Meaning and Structure: The Linguistic Dimension in Judicial Behavior,” Bezanson “Some Thoughts on the Emerging Irrebuttable Presumption Doctrine,” Holmes “Law in Science and Science in Law,” Edelman “The Language of Law,” Dibble “What is and What Ought to Be: A Comparison of Certain Characteristics of the Ideological and Legal Styles of Thought,” Mather and Yngvesson “Language, Audience, and the Transformation of Disputes,” Edelman and Elshtain “The Relationship Between Political Language and Political Reality,” Champagne and Nagel “Law and Social Change,” “Transcendental Nonsense and the Functional Approach,” Perkins “ ‘Knowledge’ as a Mens Rea Requirement,” “Rule-Centrism Versus Legal Creativity: The Skewing of Legal Ideology Through Language,” Haltom “The Structure of Judicial Rhetoric: Research and Teaching of Selected Racial Justice Opinions,” Whelan “Language and Its Abuses in Hobbes’ Political Philosophy,” “Language in Legal Process,” Brigham “Right, Rage, and Remedy: Forms of Law in Political Discourse,” Martin “Context and Contradiction: Toward a Political Theory of Conceptual Change”

7. Law- Latent Consequences: Essays incl. Clark “The Impact Study: A Friendly Evaluation of the State of the Art,” Merton “The Unanticipated Consequences of Purposive Social Action,” Dennis “Obscenity Law and the Conditions of Freedom in the Nineteenth Century United States”

8. Law: Essays incl. Nonet “For Jurisprudential Sociology,” 1976 Law and Society Review, Stinchcombe essay, Myers “Predicting the Behavior of Law: A Test of Two Models,” Shapiro “Toward a Theory of Stare Decisis,” Teubner “Substantive and Reflexive Elements in Modern Law,” Lasswell and McGougal “The Identification and Appraisal of Diverse Systems of Public Order,” Bennett “The Constitution and Moral Order,” Reid “Governance of the Elephant: Constitutional Theory on the Overland Trail,” 1979 Law and Political Science Quarterly, Gerstein “The Practice of Fidelity to Law,” Greenberg “Donald Black’s Sociology of Law: A Critique,” Blankenburg “The Poverty of Evolutionism,” Schwartz and Miller “Legal Evolution and Societal Complexity,” “The Pure Theory of Law,” Gibbs “Definitions of Law and Empirical Questions,” 1985 Law & Society Review, Friedman “On Legalistic Reasoning—A Footnote to Weber,” Thompson “The Contemporary Validity of a Progressive Critique,” Friedrich and Horwitz “Some Thoughts on the Relation of Political Theory to Anthropology,” 1971 Journal of Developing Areas, Rudolph “The Modernity of Tradition: The Democratic Incarnation of Caste in India,” Manley “The House Committee on Ways and Means: Conflict Management in a Congressional Committee,” Davis “The Myth of Functional Analysis as a Special Method in Sociology and Anthropology,” Pospisil “E. Adamson Hoebel and the Anthropology of Law,” Twining “Law and Anthropology: A Case Study in Interdisciplinary Collaboration,” Grossber “Legal History and Social Science,” Tribe “Law’s Geometry and the Curvature of Constitutional Space,” Comaroff “Contested States,” Epstein “Baron Bramwell at the End of the Twentieth Century,” McCormick “Three Ways of Thinking ‘Critically’ about the Law,” Mehrotra “Law and the ‘Other’”, Litowitz “Franz Kafka’s Outsider Jurisprudence”

9. Liberalism as Continuum and Change in Meanings: Essay “Learning from Failed ‘Reforms’”, Mara and Dovi “Mill, Nietzche, and the Identity of Postmodern Liberalism,” Nederman “Tolerance and Community: A Medieval Communal Functionalist Argument for Religious Toleration,” Sinopoli “Liberalism and Contested Conceptions of the Good: The Limits of Neutrality”

10. Linkage: Boynton, Hedlund, and Patterson essay “The Missing Links in Legislative Politics: Attentive Constituents,” Cnudde and McCrone “The Linkage Between Contituency Attitudes and Congressional Voting: A Casual Model”

11. Military—Power / Coercion: Finer “The Man On Horseback: The Role of the Military in Politics”

12. Brain Mind/ Body: Handwritten notes, newspaper articles about brain / neurons, etc.

13. Modernization – Innovation Reform: Essays incl. Polsby “The Institutionalization of the US House of Representatives,” Haute “Dimensions of Modernization in the American States,” Nye “Corruption and Political Development: A Cost-Benefit Analysis,” Downs “Toward a Theory of Innovation,” Gray “Innovation in the States: A Diffusion Study,” Savage “Policy Innovativeness as a Trait of American States,” Hurst “The Release of Energy,” Reagan “The Politics of Regulatory Reform”

14. Obligation / Consent: Essays incl. Pitkin “Obligation and Consent- II,” Schlesinger “Civil Disobedience: The Problem of Selective Obedience to Law,” Vaughn, “Public Employees and the Right to Disobey,” Hadari “A Rousseauan Approach to the Insoluble Problem of Social Contract,” Hirschmann “Freedom, Recognition, and Obligation: A Feminist Approach to Political Theory,” “Political Obligation and Feminism,” Hall “Political Obligation and the United States Supreme Court”

15. Oligarchy: Cassinelli essay “The Law of Oligarchy”

16. Value- Order: Article “Two Models of the Criminal Justice System: An Organizational Perspective,” Philips essay “The Question Voluntariness in the Plea Bargaining Controversy,” Supreme Court case summary and opinion Camilo Weston Leyra v. Wilfred L. Dinno- Wardn of Sing Sing Prison, essay “Procedural Protections of the Criminal Defendant,” March 1966 Harvard Law Review, Hofstadter essay “The Fifth Amendment and the Immunity Act of 1954,” Way article “The Supreme Court and State Coerced Confessions,” Excobedo v. Illinois SC case summary and opinion, Chambers v. Florida SC case summary and opinion, Kamisar essay “A Dissent From the Miranda Dissents,” Griswold essay “The Fifth Amendment,” Williams essay “Problems of the Fifth Amendment,” essay “Annals of Law: Taking the Fifth,” lecture outline on “The Melding of Amendments,” Kaci and Rush article “At What Price Will We Obtain Confessions?”, Chappell and Walsh essay “No Questions Asked,” Dallmayr essay “Voegelin’s Search for Order,” Kirschner essay “The Ambiguous Legacy: Social Justice and Social Control in the Progressive Era,” Zuckert essay “On Reading Classic American Novelists as Political Thinkers”

Series 1, Cabinet 5, Drawer 4, Box 46 

General note

Box 46 [part 2 of original Box #20– Cabinet #5 / Drawer #4, “F-P”]

1. Paradigm / Ruhn: Essays and articles, incl.: Modigliani and Gamson “Thinking About Politics,” Stephens “The Kuhnian Paradigm and Political Inquiry,” Kuhn “Reflections on my Critics,” Ricci “Reading Thomas Kuhn in the Post-Behavioral Era,” Hines “Slouching Toward Synthesis,” Noble “Theoretical Commensurability and the Problems of Mannheim’s Paradox,” Nelson “Meaning and Measurement Across Paradigms: Metaphor and Irony in Political Inquiry,” Gross abstract “Preface to a Metatheoretical Framework for Sociology,” Lockwood essay “Some Remarks on ‘The Social System,’” Paris “Fact, Theory, and Democratic Theory,” Turkel “Testing Durkheim: Some Theoretical Considerations”

2. Patriotism: Misc. article clippings, Johnson essay “In the Name of the Fatherland: An Analysis of Kin Term Usage in Patriotic Speech and Literature” 3. Value- Pluralism: Bonfield essay “Representation for the Poor in Federal Rulemaking,” Review Symposium on Democracy and Its Critics” by Robert Dahl, Ellis essay “The Pluralistic State,” Gibson essay “Pluralism, Federalism, and the Protection of Civil Liberties,” Bohman essay “Complexity, Pluralism, and the Constitutional State,” Schlosberg essay “Resurrecting the Pluralist Universe”

4. Policy Approaches: Essays inc.- “Policy Outputs of Illinois Trial Courts: An Exploratory Examination,” Van Dyke “Process and Policy as Focal Concepts in Political Research,” Lineberry and Fowler “Reformism and Public Policies in American Cities,” Jones “The Minority Party and Policy-Making in the House of Representatives,” Nagel and Neef “Operations Research Methods” and “The Application of Mixed Strategies: Civil Rights and Other Multiple-Activity Policies” and “Allocating Resources Geographically for Optimum Results” and “Bridging Funding Sources and Applicants Together in Policy Evaluation Research” and “Finding an Optimum Choice, Level, or Mix in Public Policy Analysis,” Spring 1976 “Policy Analysis,” McCrone and Cnudde “On Measuring Public Policy,” Nagel “Choosing Among Alternative Public Policies” and “Policy Studies in America and Elsewhere” and “A Graphic Look at the Legal Services Program” and “Policy Studies and the Social Sciences” and “Improving the Legal Process,” Dye “Malapportionment and Public Policy in the United States,” Benson “The Policy Sciences and Problem Solving,” Kirkpatrick “Multidimensional Aspects of Local Political Systems,” Shklar “Politics and the Intellect,” Steinberger “Typologies of Public Policy: Meaning Construction and the Policy Process,” Heckathorn and Maser “The Contractual Architecture of Public Policy: A Critical Reconstruction of Lowi’s Typology,” Schneider and Ingram “Behavioral Assumptions of Policy Tools”

5. Value: Popson / Repr.: Essays incl.- Kaase “The Challenge of the ‘Participatory Revolution’ in Pluralist Democracies,” Orum “Social Constraints in the Political Arena: A Theoretical Inquiry into Their Form and Manner,” Kuklinski, Metlay, and Kay “Enduring Question, New Issue: Participatory Decisionmaking in the Nuclear Energy Controversy,” Miller “Direct Democracy and the Puritan Theory of Membership,” Davis “Justice Rehnquist’s Judicial Philosophy: Democracy v. Equality,” Goldstein “Popular Sovereignty, the Origins of Judicial Review, and the Revival of Unwritten Law,” Sunstein “Naked Preferences and the Constitution,” West “Authority, Autonomy, and Choice,” misc. newspaper articles, handwritten notes

6. Post-Modern: Essays incl.- “The Philosophical Politics of the Post-Modern Debate,” Villa “Postmodernism and the Public Sphere,” White “Focault’s Challenge to Critical Theory,” Pickett “Focaultian Masks and Contested Interpretations”

7. Power + Influence: Essays incl.- Ricci “Receiving Ideas in Political Analysis: The Case of Community Power Studies, 1950-1970,” Oppenheim “Power Revisited,” Burtenshaw “The Political Theory of Pluralist Democracy,” Garvey “The Domain of Politics,” Dye, DeClerq, and Pickering “Concentration, Specialization, and Interlocking Among Institutional Elites,” Walton “A Methodology for the Comparative Study of Power,” Baldwin “Power and Social Exchange,” Snyder “Political Power and the Ability to Win Supreme Court Decisions,” Coleman “Comment on ‘On the Concept of Influence’,” Merelman “On the Neo-Elitist Criti9que of Community Power,” “Psychology of Power,” Szanton “The Humanities and the Social Sciences: A Symposium,” Bendix “Bureaucracy and the Problem of Power,” Homans “Social Behavior as Exchange,” Gouldner “The Norm of Reciprocity: A Preliminary Statement,” Chambliss “Vice, Corruption, Bureaucracy, and Power,” Bayley “The Police and Political Change in Comparative Perspective,” Haller “Historical Roots of Police Behavior: Chicago, 1890-1925,” Robinson and Scaglion “The Origin and Evolution of the Police Function in Society: Notes Toward a Theory,” Riker “Some Ambiguities in the Notion of Power,” Smith “Pragmatism and the Group Theory of Politics,” Wolfinger “Nondecisions and the Study of Local Politics”

8. Body- Contraception – Right to Privacy: Misc. newspaper clippings re. birth control, women’s right to privacy, the law; essay “Anglican and Protestant Opinion in the Law,” report “The Issue of Birth Control in Wisconsin,” essay “History,” legal histories of contraception, essay “Beyond the Dalkon Shield: Proving Causation Against IUD Manufacturers for PID Related Injury,” essay “Misfeasance in the Pharmacy,” Snortland “The Supreme Court and the Constitutional Right to Privacy”

9. Privacy – Case Data: Handwritten notes re. court cases on privacy

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Series 1, Cabinet 6 

Series 1, Cabinet 6, Drawer 1 

Series 1, Cabinet 6, Drawer 1, Box 35 

General note

Box 35 [part 1 of original Box #21– Cabinet #6 / Drawer #1, “JUD BEHAVIOR—Scholarship—Alpha By Author—Subfield: G?/ Grants”]

1. Scholars: Public Law – GIANTS: “Trivia” essay from New Historical Atlas, Vines chapter 5 “Judicial Behavior Research,” “Whither Political Jurisprudence” essay by multiple authors, Slotnick “Review Essay on Judicial Recruitment and Selection,” Hensley & Rhoads “Studying the Studies: An Assessment of Judicial Politics Research in Four Major Political Science Journals, 1960-1987,” recipients of Edwards S. Corwin Award, Emory Journal of Public Law- Table of Attributes of Models, article “Judicial Behavior,” Shapiro essay “From Public Law to Public Policy, or the ‘Public’ in ‘Public Law’”, 1946 research report to Panel on Public Law, Becker essay “Judicial Structure and Its Political Functioning in Society: New Approaches to Teaching Research in Public Law,” Dixon essay “Political Science Research in Public Law: Who is Listening?”, Funston essay “Political Science, The Judicial Process, and a Legal Education,” Witt essay “Behavioral Research in Public Law 1963-1967,” Schubert essay “Behavioral Research in Public Law,” Provine essay “Research on the Judicial Process, 1970-82: What Have We Learned?”, Snowiss essay “The Roosevelt Court: New Directions in Judicial Research,” 1972 Review- Articles, 1931 Iowa Law Review article “The Purview of Research in the Administration of Justice,” Baum essay “Judicial Politics in the 1980s: One View of the Field,” other misc. essays on judicial politics research, handwritten notes

2. Research in Progress- Biblio + Leading Scholars: Handwritten envelopes with source citations on related topics, Hensley essay on political science research on judicial politics, 1961-1980, Gibson paper “The Social Science of Judicial Politics,” Gibson article on study of judicial behavior, letter to Cook from Syracuse Poli Sci Dept., Slotnick article “Judicial Politics Theme Paper” + bibliography, Stephenson article “The Judicial Bookshelf,” Slotnick essay “Federal judicial recruitment and selection research,” Volumes of Oliver Holmes list, recommended judicial biographies, bibliography for judicial backgrounds & personality study, other bibliographies on judicial review, practice, and political science studies

3. Index to Legal Periodicals/ Biblios: Periodical reference sheets, indexes

4. Dissertations & Biblios: Handwritten notes, interlibrary loan request form, bibliography of sources, list of dissertations on US Federal Courts, 1861-1972 Comprehensive Dissertation Index

5. Jilda Aliotta: Aliotta paper s“Integrating Quantitative and Case Analysis for Studying Burger Court Establishment Clause Decisions,” “Impact of Case Characteristics and Judicial Ideologies,” “Combining judges’ attributes and case characteristics,” “Social Backgrounds, Social Motives, and Participation on the Supreme Court,” “O’Connor and the Equal Protection Clause,” “Unfinished Feminist Agenda,” Aliotta’s CV

6. Barrow: Hellman essay “Deciding Who Decides: Understanding the Realities of Judicial Reform”

7. Baum: Baum essays “Policy Goals in Judicial Gatekeeping,” “Measuring Policy Change in the US Supreme Court,” handwritten notes

8. Personal ’67 – Brenner: Brenner essay “Reasons for the Defection of the Marginal Justice in Minimum Winning Original Decision Coalitions on the Warren Court,” other essays on coalitions, jurisprudential fluidity, court indecisiveness, docket books, opinion assignment, policy leadership, voting and stare decisis; letter to Cook from Brenner with responses to questions

9. Caldeira: Caldeira essays “Dynamics of Public Confidence in the Supreme Court,” “Interest Groups and Agenda Setting,” “Organized Interests and the Discuss List in the Supreme Court,” “Parties, Direct Representatives, and Agenda-Setting in the Supreme Court,” “Transmission of Legal Precedent: A Study of State Supreme Courts”

10. Canon: Canon essays “External Variables, Institutional Structure, and Dissent on State Supreme Courts,” “Reactions of State Supreme Courts to a US Supreme Court Civil Liberties Decision,” “Dissent on State Supreme Courts”

11. Danelski: Essays by Danelski “Leadership in the Warren Court,” “Explorations of Some Causes and Consequences of Conflict and Its Resolution in the Supreme Court”; brief analyses of Danelski essays; Ulmer essays on 1903-1968 terms, Canon and Giles essay “Recurring Litigants: Federal Agencies Before the Supreme Court”

12. Binion: Binion essay “The Disadvantaged Before the Burger Court”

13. Ducat + Flango: Essays by Ducat about Burger Court & policymaking; Ducat and Flango essay on Public Law & Judicial Behavior, and “Outsider on the Court” (role in small group)

14. Epstein: Epstein essays on consensual norms in SC, jurisprudential disputes, judicial mind, issue salience; research proposal on war crisis and Supreme Court “free” decisions

15. Gibson – PhD Dissertation: Judicial decisions, Iowa Criminal Court, Social & Psychological Correlates

16. Gillman: Gillman in-progress paper “The Problem of Political Development for Constitutional Theory,” book reviews

17. Goldman: Essay by Goldman “Systems Analysis & Judicial Systems,” other misc. Goldman essays about judicial selection & influence of Presidents George H W Bush and Bill CLlinton; critique of Goldman

18. Grossman: Wells & Grossman essay “The Concept of Judicial Policy-Making: A Critique”

19. Hall & Heck: Hall essays about influences on judicial choices, models of voting behavior, capital punishment decision-making, comparative state supreme courts, role of justices, opinion assignment, freshman role, consensus, constituent influence, dissent in state supreme courts; Melinda Hall’s CV; Heck essays about voting patterns in Warren and Burger Courts, political expression

20. Handberg: Essay “Decision-Making in a Natural Court, 1916-1921”

21. Harrington: Essay “Patterns of Appellate Litigation, 1945-1985: Do National or Regional Politics Matter?”

22. Hensley: (joint) Hensley essays “Studying the Studies: An Assessment” in Law, Courts, and Judicial Process Section Newsletter, Spring 1989; “A Description of the Burger Court’s Unanimous Decision-Making in Civil Rights / Liberties and Economics Cases”

Series 1, Cabinet 6, Drawer 1, Box 36 

General note

Box 36 [part 2 of original Box #21– Cabinet #6 / Drawer #1, “JUD BEHAVIOR—Scholarship—Alpha By Author—Subfield: G?/ Grants”]

1. Howard: Essay “Adjudication Considered as a Process of Conflict Resolution: A Variation on Separation of Powers”

2. C. Johnson: Papers “Certiorari Decisions by Warren and Burger Courts,” “Content Analytic Techniques and Judicial Research,” and “Strategies for Judicial Research”

3. Sally Kenney: Grant proposal for “Comparative Study of the Selection of Women Judges”

4. Kort: Articles “Analysis of Judicial Opinions and Rules of Law,” paper “Natural Selection and Civil Rights and Liberties”

5. Mendelson: Requests for reproduction of documents, White House- Congressional correspondence copies, other federal government / judicial correspondences, copy of oral history of James P. Coleman, oral history of Homer Thornberry, oral history interview with Ramsey Clark (re. district judge appointments), “The Neo-Behavioral Approach to the Judicial Process: A Critique” by Mendelson, Mendelson essay on Ninth Amendment rights, article “Separation, Politics, and Judicial Activism”

6. Murphy: Article on judicial values, “Motivation in the Decisional Process,” “Modes of Research and Analysis,” “An Ordering of Constitutional Values”

7. Richard Posner: “Philosophy & Monica Lewinsky” article by Dworkin re. Richard Posner, other articles about jurisprudence of Judge Richard Posner, newspaper clippings

8. Burger Court – Pritchett: Pritchett essay “Public Law and Judicial Behavior,” “Libertarian Motivations on the Vinson Court,” “The Roosevelt Court: Votes and Values”

9. Sarat: Sarat & Cavanagh article “Thinking About Courts: Toward and Beyond a Jurisprudence of Judicial Competence”

10. Schmidhauser: Essay by Schmidhauser “Power, Legal Imperialism, and Dependency: A Review Essay,” “Dependency Theory, Families of Law, and Legal and Judicial Elites of Periphery and Semi-Periphery Nations,” “Dependency Theory…. Selected Third World and Developed Nations,” comparative “Development of Competing Conceptual Frameworks,” “Third World Appellate Courts and Human Rights,” “The Circulation of Judicial Elites,” “Supreme Courts and Congress,” “Power, Legal Imperialism, and Dependency”

11. Schubert: 1968 Encyclopedia article on judicial behavior, mindset, data sheets, tables with justice jurisprudence / political affiliations, empirical data and methodology, Warren Court voting blocs, Schubert article on ideologies and attitudes, judicial decision-making (+surveys), behavioral models, 1968 Law and Society Review (with Schubert’s “Behavioral Jurisprudence”), “The Future of Public Law,” “Future Stress, Constitutional Strain, and the American Judicial System,” “The Rhetoric of Constitutional Change,” “Bipolitical Behavior: The Nature of the Political Animal,” “Evolutionary Politics,” “Ethological Politics,” “The Biopolitics of Sex,” “Biocultural Model of Activism and Restraint,” “Brain Science and Political Thinking,” “Judicial Process and Behavior”

12. Segal: Essays by Segal “Decisional trends on the Warren and Burger Courts,” “Amicus Briefs by Solicitor General during Warren and Burger Courts,” “Burger Court and Sex Discrimination Litigation,” “Confirmation of Supreme Court Justices,” “Justices as Human Decision-Makers,” “Search and Seizure Cases, 1962-1981,” “Separation of Powers Games in the Positive Theory of Congress and Courts,” “Measuring Change on Supreme Court: Examining Alternative Models”

13. Shapiro: Shapiro articles on judicial decision-making, political jurisprudence, the Supreme Court and Public Policy, SC role from Warren-Burger

14. Songer: Essays by Songer “Concern for Policy Outputs as a Cure for Supreme Court Decisions on Certiorari,” “Impact of SC on Trends in Policy Making in US Courts of Appeals,” “Law and Politics in Judicial Oversight of Federal Administrative Agencies”

15. Spaeth: Articles about influences on Court decisions, Rehnquist, Warren, and Burger Courts, voting behavior, motivations of justices, effects of attitude, policy making, models of judicial and political phenomena, opinion coalitions, opinion assignment, Spaeth NSF proposal, newspaper clippings, Burger Court review of State Court Civil Liberties decisions, SC Disposition of Federal Court Decisions, book review

16. Tanenhaus: Essay “Supreme Court Attitudes Toward Federal Administrative Agencies”

17. Tate: Handberg & Tate essays “Time Binding and Theory Building in Personal Attribute Models of Supreme Court Voting Behavior,” “The Influence of Time and Events on the US Supreme Court”

18. Ulmer: Essays by Sidney Ulmer “SC’s Certiorari Decisions: Conflict as a Predictive Value,” “Nixon’s Legacy: Statistical Analysis of Judicial Behavior”; other essays on conflict & judicial behavior, ramifications of decisions to grant certiorari, civil liberties 1903-1968, analyses of approaches used by Ulmer, democratic pluralism and Supreme Court, sectional impact of judicial review, impact of Supreme Court on states, case selection methodology, and social backgrounds

19. Wasby: Essays by Wasby “A Transformed Triangle: Court, Congress, and Presidency in Civil Rights,” “The Supreme Court’s Impact on Litigation” (in 1993 Akron Law Review), “Civil Rights and the Supreme Court: A Return of the Past”

20. Letter Wenner: NSF Grant Proposal for study “Contextual and Demographic Theories in Competition”

21. Sandra Wood: Sandra Wood essays “Mustering the Minority: The Dissent Assignments of William J. Brennan, Jr.,” “Out of the Limelight: The Role of the Senior Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court,” “Power and the Senior Associate Justice: The Majority Opinion Assignments of Hugo L. Black, William O. Douglas, and William LJ. Brennan Jr.

Series 1, Cabinet 6, Drawer 2 

Series 1, Cabinet 6, Drawer 2, Box 47 

General note

Box 47 [part 1 of original Box #22– Cabinet #6 / Drawer #2,“ Fed Jud.- Selection, Psych. / ‘Mind’”]

1. Congress and Courts: Misc. essays, articles, and newspaper clippings re. Congress and the court system. Includes: Clayton essay “Separate Branches—Separate Politics: Judicial Enforcement of Congressional Intent,” Adamany “Legitimacy, Realigning Elections, and the Supreme Court,” The Indianapolis Star, Dickinson “Judicial Characteristics of Administrative Regulation,” Grant “Judicial Control of the Legislative Process: The Federal Rule,” Haines “Judicial Review of Acts of Congress and the Need for Constitutional Reform,” Ulmer “Judicial Review as Political Behavior: A Temporary Check on Congress,” Dionisopoulos “A Commentary on the Constitutional Issues in the Powell and Related Cases,” Brady, Berg, and Schmidhauser “Lawyers in Congress: A New Look at Some Old Assumptions” and “House Lawyers and Support for the Supreme Court,” Schmidhauser, Berg, and Melone “The Impact of Judicial Decisions in Supreme Court- Congressional Relations 1945-1968,” Perkins “Member Recruitment to a Mixed Goal Committee: The House Judiciary Committee,” Choper “The Supreme Court and the Political Branches: Democratic Theory and Practice,” article “When Federal Judges Lobby, Congressmen Usually Listen,” Perkins “Bucking the Winds of Change: Congressional Reform, Member Goals, and the House Judiciary Committee,” Smith essay “Legislative Intent: In search of the Holy Grail,” Stumpf “The Political Efficacy of Judicial Symbolism,” Mendelson “Judicial Review and Party Politics,” essay “Congressional Reversal of Supreme Court Decisions: 1945-1957,” Kurland “The Court of the Union or Julius Caesar Revised,” Giles “Lawyers and the Supreme Court: A Comparative Look at Some Attitudinal Linkages,” Henschen essay “Supreme Court-Congressional Interaction in the Interpretation of Statutes,” Summer 1989 Journal of Law and Politics, Katzman essay “Judges and Legislators: Toward Institutional Comity,” Dahl essay “Decision-making in a Democracy: The Supreme Court as a National Policymaker,” CJS Index: “A Record Vote of the 98th Congress,” Rubin “Congress in the Courts,” Handberg and Hill “Court Curbing, Court Reversals, and Judicial Review,” Rabinowitz “The Dynamics of Structural Realignment,” Moore “In Whose Court?”, Winkle “Judges Before Congress: Reform Politics and Individual Freedom,” Cohen and Spitzer “Solving the Chevron Puzzle,” Miller “Congressional Committees and the Federal Courts,” Ignagni and Meernik “Explaining Congressional Attempts to Reverse Supreme Court Decisions” and “Congressional Attacks on Supreme Court Rulings Involving Unconstitutional State Laws,” misc. newspaper clippings

2. “Legislative Impact” Statement on Courts: NSF Proposal for the support of a Panel on Legislative Impact on Courts, Davis and Nejelski “Justice Impact Statements: Determining How New Laws,” Toma “Congressional Influence and the Supreme Court: The Budget as a Signaling Device,” O’Neill “The Imperial Judiciary Meets the Impotent Congress?”, Berg and Schmidhauser “The Burger Court and Congress,” Nejelski “Judicial Impact Statements: Ten Critical Questions We Must Not Overlook,” Lasser “The Supreme Court in Crisis,” Perkins “Member Recruitment to a Mixed Goal Committee: the House Judiciary Committee” 3. Pres. – SCT, other selection: Longaker essay “Andrew Jackson and the Judiciary,” Ducat and Dudley “Federal District Judges and the Presidential Power During the Postwar Era,” Capital University Law Review- Vol. 6, Number 1, Heck and Shull “Policy Preferences of Justices and Presidents: The Case of Civil Rights” and “Justices and Presidents: Issue Salience and Policy Agreement,” Thomas “Jefferson and the Judiciary,” Casey “The Theory of Presidential Association: A Replication,” Hill and Handberg “Predicting the Judicial Performance of Presidential Appointments to the US Supreme Court,” federal correspondence copies, newspaper clippings, Thompson essay “The Kennedy Court: Left and Right of Center,” McBain “The Constitution and the New Deal,” SC case summary and opinion US v. US District Court , Orman and Rudoni “Exercise of the President’s Discretionary Power in Criminal Justice Policy,” Schultz “Goldwater v. Carter: The Separation of Powers and The Problem of Executive Prerogative,” “The Value Basis of Judicial Appointments,” Seigliano “The Presidency and the Judiciary,” Brishin “The Supreme Court and Executive Authority,” Pfiffner “Impoundment and the Courts: The Judiciary Enters the Budgetary Process,” Ducat “Federal Appellate Judges and Presidential Power,” Nelson “The President and the Court: Reinterpreting the Court-Packing Episode of 1937,” Brayman “The President Speaks Off-the-Record,” McGuire “Explaining Executive Success in the US Supreme Court,” King and Meernik “The Supreme Court and the Powers of the Executive: The Adjudication of Foreign Policy,” other misc. handwritten notes

4. PR 321 – Pursuing a Litigative Strategy: President and the Courts: Handwritten notes, newspaper clippings and articles, Dudley essay “Federal District Judges and Presidential Power: A Multivariate Analysis,” Meese “The Attorney General’s View of the Supreme Court: Toward a Jurisprudence of Original Intention,” Dolan “Congress, the Executive, and the Court: The Great Resale Price Maintenance Affair of 1983,” Schnapper “An Exercise in Judicial Restraint,” Shapiro “The Presidency and the Federal Courts,” “Constitutional Crisis: Truman Seizes the Steel Industry,” Hankin – Editorial Research Reports “The Supreme Court and the New Deal,” Strum “Watergate and the Federal Judiciary: Authoritarianism or Discretion?”

5. MISC: Newspaper clippings, handwritten notes; articles and essays incl. Ducat and Dudley “Federal Judges and Presidential Power: Truman to Reagan,” “The Impact of the Solicitor General’s Office on United States Supreme Court Economic Regulation,” Caplan “The Solicitor General and the Rule of Law,” “The President Over the Judiciary,” Richardson and Scheb “Divided Government and the Supreme Court,” Sundquist “Needed: A Political Theory for the New Era of Coalition Government,” McInnis ‘The Federal Judiciary and the Clinton Administration,” Supreme Court case lists, data sheets, correspondence copies, litigative strategies

6. Appointment and Senate Judiciary Committee: Essays and articles incl.: Holsinger “The Appointment of Supreme Court Justice Van Devanter,” Mendelsohn “Senate Confirmation of Supreme Court Appointments,” Patch “Supreme Court Appointments,” “Must a Supreme Court Justice Refuse to Answer Senator’s Questions?”, Grossman and Wasby “The Senate and Supreme Court Nominations: Some Reflections,” Parris “The President, The Senate, and the Judges,” Slotnick “Reforming the Judicial Selection Process,” Watson and Stookey “Supreme Court Confirmation hearings: a view from the Senate,” Songer “The Relevance of Policy Values for the Confirmation of Supreme Court Nominees,” Cameron, Cover, and Segal “The Puzzle of Roll Cal Voting on Supreme Court Nominees,” Haltom and Watson “Sealing Judge Bork’s Doom: The Role of the Usual Suspects,” 1989 Journal of Law and Politics- Volume V, No. 2, Segal “Senate Confirmation of Supreme Court Justices: Partisan and Institutional Politics,” Danelski “Ideology as a Ground for the Rejection of the Bork Nomination,” Ruckman “The Supreme Court, Critical Nominations, and the Senate Confirmation Process,” Bussiere “The Failure of Constitutional Welfare Rights in the Warren Court,” Hartley and Holmes “The Increasing Senate Scrutiny of Lower Federal Court Nominees,” Martinek, Kemper, Van Winkle “To Advise and Consent,”Judicial nomination hearing reports, 1972 – Number 3 Duke Law Journal, articles, newspaper clippings re. court appointments, data sheets, correspondences

Series 1, Cabinet 6, Drawer 2, Box 48 

General note

Box 48 [part 2 of original Box #22– Cabinet #6 / Drawer #2,“ Fed Jud.- Selection, Psych. / ‘Mind’”]

1. Pres. Values / rc JJ: Essays incl.- Ulmer “Supreme Court Appointments as a Poisson Distribution,” Valley “A History and Analysis of Democratic Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speeches to 1968,” Heck and Shull “Policy Preferences of Justices and Presidents,” Goldman and Slotnick “Picking Judges Under Fire,” Moraski and Shipan “The Politics of Supreme Court Nominations,” Goldman “Reagan’s Second Term Judicial Appointments: the Battle at Midway,” misc. newspaper clippings & articles

2. Clinton – Truman & Fed. Judge Fem.: Truman correspondence copies 1948-1950

3. (ABA- etc.) S. Ct. Jud. Selection: Essays incl.- Kahn “The Appointment of a Supreme Court Justice,” Frank “The Appointment of Supreme Court Justices,” “Was the Supreme Court Packed by President Grant?”, Melone “The Senate’s Confirmation Role in Supreme Court Nominations,” DeGregorio and Rossotti “The Nomination of Judge Robert H. Bork,” O’Brien “The Politics of Professionalism: President Gerald R. Ford’s Appointment of Justice John Paul Stevens,” Ruckman “The Supreme Court, Critical Nominations, and the Senate Confirmation Process,” Wolf “Few are Chosen,” Silverstein and Haltom “You Can’t Always Get What You Want,” Maltese “The Emergence of the Modern Supreme Court Appointment Process,” Grossman “Federal Judicial Selection: The Work of the ABA Committee,” Cohen “Missing in Action: Interest Groups and Federal Judicial Appointments,” Caldeira and Wright “Lobbying for Justice,” Judicature- March/ April 2001, misc. newspaper clippings, Abraham article in 1983 Judicature magazine, November 1971 ABA News

4. Nomination- to Pres – S. Ct.: Essays incl.- Frank “The Appointment of Supreme Court Justices: Prestige, Principles, and Politics,” Sulfridge “Ideology as a Factor in Senate Consideration of Supreme Court Nominations,” Saylor “ ‘Court Packing’ Prior to FDR,” Mitchell “Appointment of Federal Judges,” Goldman “Reagan’s Second Term Judicial Appointments: the battle at Midway,” Hulbary and Walker “The Supreme Court Selection Process: Presidential Motivations and Judicial Performance,” Allen “Women as Supreme Court candidates,” Wisconsin Law Review- 1941, No. 2, Guthman and Shulman “The Unpublished Recollections of the Kennedy Years,” Kahn “Shattering Myth About President Eisenhower’s Supreme Court Appointments,”misc. newspaper clippings, handwritten notes

5. Congressional Use of the Courts in Contests with the President: Essays and articles incl.- Harriger “The Separation of Powers and Politics of Independent Counsels,” Rubin “Congress in the Courts: Interinstitutional Lawsuits and the Separation of Powers,” Carter “Major Determinants of Congressional Foreign Policy Behavior,” information sheets re. division of powers, const. interpretation, misc. newspaper / magazine clippings

6. Senior Judge – Age- Federal Retirement: Newspaper clippings, Graves “Compensation, Activity, Retirement, and Mortality of US Federal Judges, 1974-1975,” Schmidhauser “Age and Judicial Behavior: American Higher Appellate Judges,” Acheson “Professional Responsibility and the Workload of the Federal District Courts,” Callahan study of age factors “Nine Old Men,” March 3, 1970 House Judiciary Subcommittee hearings, misc. newspaper clippings

7. Tenure: Essay “Judicial Disability and the Good Behavior Clause,” Carp “The Relationship Between Length of Judicial Tenure and Liberal-Conservative Voting Patterns,” Handberg and Tate “Length of Service and the Behavior of US Supreme Court Justices,” newspaper clippings, articles

8. Resignation: Misc. newspaper clippings, 1979 Remarks at Ford-Stein Award Dinner, essays incl.: “Supreme Court Vacancies and the Decision to Step Down,” Johnson and Rosenblum “Retirements by Federal Judges: Exploring the Issue of Political Timing,” Atkinson “Bowing to the Inevitable: Supreme Court Deaths and Resignations, 1979-1984,” Barrow and Zuk “Explaining Judicial Retirement Rates in the US District Circuit Courts, 1900-1987,” Sprigs and Wahlbeck “Calling It Quits: Strategic Retirement on the Federal Courts of Appeals, 1893-1991”

Series 1, Cabinet 6, Drawer 3 

Series 1, Cabinet 6, Drawer 3, Box 49 

General note

Box 49 [part 1 of original Box #23– Cabinet #6 / Drawer #3,“Sig / Ep”]

1. MISC.: Abstract of “Measuring Salience on the Supreme Court: A Research Note”

2. Burger – Sig. Data print out: Data sheets re. judicial terms, opinions, handwritten notes

3. RHNQ CT- Monos- Surveys: Cornell Legal Institute bulletin, survey of the 1986-1987 term, 1987-1988 term, 1988-1989 term, 1989-1990 term, 1990-1991 term, handwritten notes

4. Harvard L. Review- REHNQ Ct. : 1986 term review / statistics, 1987 / 1988 / 1989 / 1990 / 1991 / 1992 / 1993 term review / statistics

5. Con Law Texts – Sig. for RHNQ Ct.: Handwritten notes, table of cases from Rehnquist Court, index of cases (esp. Con. Law cases)

6. Published Work – Sig. + How to Measure SIG – OP Asgn.: Handwritten notes, Chicago Law Review article (1957), Amlund essay “Development of a Theoretical Decision-Significance Index for the International Tribunal,” Spaeth essay “The Warren Court: Cases and Commentary”

7. Sig. – REHNQ S.CT.: Opinions supplement clipping

8. Landmark- Historical: Handwritten notes, Schwartz- early cases (list of cases), “Landmark briefs and arguments of the Supreme Court of the United States: Constitutional Law” (Index of Cases vol. 1-175), table of contents from Johnson Historic US Const. Cases, 1690-1990

9. Sig. Vinson Ct.: Handwritten notes, Frank / Rottschaefer Cases and Materials on Con. Law table of contents, Evans Cases on American Constitutional Law table of contents, “The Supreme Court, 1948 Term: The Business of the Court” chapter excerpt, 1951/52/53 business of the court print-out, 1937-1966 assorted constitutional case indexes

10. Decision Policy – Warren CT., Monos – Pres. JJ Apt.: Warren Court case indexes, citations, handwritten notes

11. Con. Law – Overlap BRG.: Warren Court case indexes, selected constitutional law case indexes, Public Policy cases and essays index, selected cases tables of contents

12. Harvard L. Rev. – lists + Warren Ct.: Handwritten notes, case lists, 1952 / 1953 term summaries, 1956 / 1957 / 1958 / 1961 business of the court term reviews

13. Burger Ct. – “Authorities” – 20 in Analysis – 10 Casebooks: Wasby tables of cases -1978, 1984, 1962-1989 case tables / indexes

14. Authorities in Analysis – Monographs: Handwritten notes, 1981 Term Summary, 1965- 1990 case indexes

15. Sig. List – Burger only- Harvard LR (Nov.): Burger Court tables of cases and statistics

Series 1, Cabinet 6, Drawer 3, Box 50 

General note

Box 50 [part 2 of original Box #23– Cabinet #6 / Drawer #3,“Sig / Ep”]

1. CQ Lists: Major decision lists / descriptions for 1980s constitutional law cases, criminal law cases, business law cases, “label-defying” cases, handwritten notes

2. Nat. Law J. – Annual SCT Review – OT 1984: Newspaper articles, clippings, SC judicial profiles and case reversal records

3. Sig. Burg. – Law Casebooks: Case index lists, tables of cases (misc. court terms – 2nd half of 20th century)

4. Value- Truth: Essays incl.- Cooney “Evidence as Partisanship,” “Crime and Punishment: Justice for the Innocent and Guilty Alike?”, Aguilar v. Texas Supreme Court case opinion, Fletcher “Two Kinds of Legal Rules,” Traynor “Review of ‘Ground Lost and Found in Criminal Discovery,’” Brodsky “Search Warrants, Hearsay Evidence, and the Federal Constitution: A Critique Based on California Experience,” Sutherland “Crime and Confession,” Pfaff “The Polygraph: An Invaluable Judicial Aid,” Saks and Kidd “Human Information Processing and Adjudication: Trial By Heuristics”

5. School Records & Materials (Janis) – Value + Value Change: Essays and articles incl.- Davis “Federalism and Property Rights: An Examination of Justice Rehnquist’s Legal Positivism,” Rowland “The Impact of Contemporary Conservatism on Modern Political Thought,” Smith “The Limits of Liberal Citizenship in the United States,” Grant “Felix Frankfurter: A Dissenting Opinion,” Way “The Study of Judicial Attitudes: The Case of Mr. Justice Douglas,” Atkins “The ‘New’ Hugo Black & the Warren Court,” Conrad “Polite Foundation,” Greenstone “Political Culture and American Political Development,” Trasnea “Norms and Values,” “Some Alternative Conceptions of Value,” Powe “Mass Speech and the Newer First Amendment,” Glennon “Will the Real Conservatives Please Stand Up?”, Rokeach “Stability and Change in American Value Priorities,” Schwarzschild “Value Pluralism and the Constitution,” Ball and Pocock “Introduction,” Hadari “Value Trade-off,” LaPalombara “Decline of Ideology: A Dissent and an Interpretation,” Galston “Value Pluralsim and Liberal Political Theory,” Schwarzschild “Value Pluralism and the Constitution”

6. Value- Welfare: Essays and articles incl.- “Right to Counsel in Public Welfare Hearings,” Cutright “Political Structure, Economic Development, and National Social Security Programs,” Daniel “Freedom, Equity, and the War on Poverty,” Beck “Welfare as a Moral Category,” Simmel “The Poor,” Wasby “Welfare Policy and the Supreme Court: An Era of Uncertainty,” Handler and Goodstein “The Legislative Development of Public Assistance,” Drew “The Abolition of Child Labor and the Origins of Child-Centered Welfare Programs,” Nelson “The Gender, Race, and Class Origins of Early Welfare Policy and the Welfare State”

Series 1, Cabinet 6, Drawer 4 

Series 1, Cabinet 6, Drawer 4, Box 51 

General note

Box 51 [part 1 of original Box #24– Cabinet #6 / Drawer #4,“Cont. From #23”]

1. Tribal Court: Newspaper clippings, articles and essays incl.- Bielski “Tribal Justice,” Goldberg-Ambrose “The Impact of Law on Indian Group Life,” Janiewski “Gender, Ethnicity, and the State in the Inland Northwest,” Shattuck and Norgren “Partial Justice,” Bannan “ ‘True Womanhood’ on the Reservation: Field Matrons in the US Indian Service,” McCulloch “Tribal Rights and States Rights: A Federalism Interpretation of Federal Indian Policy,” Lonewolf v. Lonewolf Supreme Court case opinion, US Indian Claims Commission: Final Report (1946-1978), 1995 Judicature- Indian Tribal Courts and Justice, Pommersheim “A Path Near the Clearing: An Essay on Constitutional Adjudication in Tribal Courts,” Haines “Outlaws of Humanity and Perpetual Enemies,” Muskrat “The Constitution and the American Indian: Past and Prologue,” Mettler “A Unified Theory of Indian Tribal Sovereignty,” Mechler Report to Select Committee on Indian Affairs, Tso “Moral Principles, traditions, and fairness in the Navajo Nation Code of Judicial Conduct”

2. Private Courts: Essays and articles incl.:- Galanter “Justice in Many Rooms,” Nelken “Review Essay: Beyond the Study of ‘Law and Society,” Beresford and Cooper “A Neighborhood Court for Neighborhood Suits,” Tackett “The Citizen Priest: Politics and Ideology among the Parish Clergy of Eighteenth Century Dauphine,” Knight “Private Judging,” Cline “Comparative Aspects of Internal Judicial Systems of Minority Groups,” Cole, Hanson, and Silbert “Mediation: is it an effective alternative to adjudication in resolving prisoner complaints?” Abrahams “Mediation: the new move toward justice without judges,” Merry “The Social Organization of Mediation in Non-Industrial Societies,” Salas and Schneider “Evaluating the Dade County Citizen Dispute Settlement Program,” “Compulsory Judicial Arbitration in California,” Gnaizda “secret justice for the privileged few,” Kritzer and Anderson “The Arbitration Alternative,” misc. newspaper and magazine clippings

3. Horse-Racing – Judiciary: Newspaper clipping question re. race track in California

4. State Religion: Newspaper clippings re. religion and the state

5. MISC. (i): Photocopies- newspaper clippings, federal government correspondences, addresses, handwritten notes

6. MISC (ii): Photocopies- newspaper clippings, federal government correspondences, addresses, handwritten notes

7. MISC (iii): Photocopies- newspaper clippings, articles, federal government correspondences, addresses, handwritten notes

8. MISC (iv): Photocopies- newspaper clippings, articles, federal government correspondences, addresses, handwritten notes

9. MISC (v): Photocopies- newspaper clippings, articles, federal government correspondences, addresses, handwritten notes

10. MISC (vi): Photocopies- newspaper clippings, articles, federal government correspondences, addresses, handwritten notes

Series 1, Cabinet 6, Drawer 4, Box 52 

General note

Box 52 [part 2 of original Box #24– Cabinet #6 / Drawer #4,“Cont. From #23”]

1. Purchasing Office: Photocopies- federal criminal processing forms and records, case records

2. Judge Ident. No.: Handwritten notes, misc. data sheets, federal correspondences (incl. Cook requests for defendant dispositions, selective service cases), district judges deciding draft cases

3. Pres. / Fed. Judges: Ducat and Dudley essay “Federal Judges and Presidential Power: Truman to Reagan”

4. Federal-State Court Relations: Misc. newspaper clippings, 1958 Report of the Committee on Federal-State Relationships as Affected by Judicial Decisions, 1958 Report of the Conference of Chief Justices; essays incl: Schaefer “Courts and the Commonplaces of Federalism,” Bell “State Courts and the Federal System,” “The Louisiana Compromise, Abstention and Vagueness,” Roberts “A State Judge Looks at the Federal Courts,” Frankfurter “Distribution of Judicial Power Between US and State Courts,” Wright “The Federal Courts and the Nature and Quality of State Law,” Warren “The Supreme Court and Disputes Between States,” Aldisert “Judicial Expansion of Federal Jurisdiction,” Porter “State Supreme Courts and the Legacy of the Warren Court,” Tarr “State Supreme Courts and the US Supreme Court: The Problem of Compliance,” Tarr and Porter “State Supreme Court Policymaking and Federalism,”1982 Los Angeles County transcripts of court proceedings, May 1971 Judicature

5. Fed-State – Habeas Corpus: Misc. clippings and essays incl.- 1972, 1973 Congressional Record,“State Post-Conviction Remedies and Federal Habeus Corpus,” Doub “The Case Against Modern Federal Habeas Corpus,” 1972 Proceedings at the National Judicial Conference on Standards for Administration of Criminal Justice, Haas “Supreme Court Prisoners’ Rights Decisions and the Lower Federal and State Courts,” Younger “Separate but Unequal: State Convictions and the Federal System,” Wright “Procedure for Habeas Corpus,” Galie “State Constitutional Guarantees and the Alaska Supreme Court: Criminal Procedure Rights and the New Federalism 1960-1980,” Wasby “Legal Notes,” handwritten notes

6. State-Federal Councils: Correspondences to Cook (Opala of Oklahoma SC, Simpson of New Jersey SC), Judicial Council lists – Washington, Oregon, Arkansas, newspaper clippings

7. Impact of Fed. Cts. in State Gov. Pol. / Finances: Straussman essay “The Courts and the Public Purse Strings: Have Our Portraits of Budgeting Missed Something?”

8. Fed.-State Ct. Relations: Handwritten notes, misc. newspaper clippings, Essays incl.- Cooper “Between the Legal Rock and the Political Hard Place: Interactions of Federal District Court Judges and State and Local Officials,” Thompson and Johnston “The Burger Court and Federalism: A Revolution in 1976?”, Haas “The ‘New Federalism’ and Prisoners’ Rights,” Kahn “The Burger Court, Boundary Setting, and Local/ State Government Power,” Grant “Donaldson, Dangerousness, and the Right to Treatment,” Hart “The Relations Between State and Federal Law,” Catz and Lenard “The Demise of the Implied Federal Preemption Doctrine,” Solimine and Walker “Constitutional Litigation and State Courts: An Empirical Analysis of Judicial Parity,” Joiner “Corporations as citizens of every state where they do business,” Moss “The Catalytic Effect of a Federal Court Decision on a State Legislature,” Scheiber “Federalism and Legal Process”

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Series 1, Cabinet 7 

Series 1, Cabinet 7, Drawer 1 

Series 1, Cabinet 7, Drawer 1, Box 41 

General note

Box 41 [part 1 of original Box #25– Cabinet #7 / Drawer #1, “JJ— Behavioral Models”]

1. Natural Courts: Handwritten notes

2. Post-Modern Judicial Studies: Judicial Decision Model article “How Harvard Destroyed Rhetoric,” Sarat essay “Beyond Validity and Reliability in the Search for a Post-empiricist Sociology of Law,” Macaulay essay “Law and the Behavioral Sciences: Is there any there there,” “Interpretive Sociological Research,” Trubeck and Esser article “Critical Empiricism,” Knight essay “Institutions and Social Conflict,” Esler essay “Progress and Rationality in Judicial Behaviorism,” Spence essay “Textualism as Power Struggle”

3. Approaches – Public Law Research: Essays re. behavioral approaches to political science, Burger Court ideology (and business decisions), presidential appointment ramifications, public law, judicial behavior, Gibson representational model of decision-making, government institutions / encounters with courtroom, criminal justice models, research into legal order perspectives, post-realignment era Supreme Court, book reviews, consistency in public law, Ignani essay on Burger Court establishment clause cases, 2000 Judicature magazine, handwritten notes

4. Behavioral Studies: Essays, articles re. influences of judicial decisionmaking in US state courts of appeals, policy change measurement, ideological change measurement, Ulmer essay “Dimensionality and Change in Judicial Behavior,” misc. studies in SC behavior, jurisprudential approaches of justices, policymaking in environmental civil law, Leavitt essay “Changing Issues, Ideological and Political Influences on the US Supreme Court, 1893-1945,” Walker essay “Behavioral Tendencies in the Three-Judge District Courts,” 1974 Journal of Urban Law, Harris essay “Judicial Decision Making and Computers,” Nagel essay “Predicting Court Cases Quantitatively,” other articles re. mathematical/ statistical theories and methods of predictions of judicial decisions, judicial attitudes analysis in Warren Court

5. Models- Explaining SC Decisions: Articles, essays re. intent in constitutional opinions, impact of state political environment, federalism, ideology, pluralism, the polity, stare decisis, political jurisprudence, party linkages, presidential power, Sigler “A Cybernetic Model of the Judicial System,” decisional trends in SC, Brenner essay “The Size Principle and Supreme Court Decision-Making” and “Minority-Majority Voting on the US Supreme Court 1946-1975”

6. Public Law Models- Legal: Handwritten notes, 1991 Santa Clara Law Review, Fiss article “Objectivity and Interpretation,” Shapiro essay “On the Regrettable Decline of Law French,” traditional American judicial transition, Stone essay “Man and Machine in the Search for Justice,” Allen and Caldwell essay “Modern Logic and Judicial Decisionmaking: A Sketch of One View,” Schwartz essay “The Challenge of Peremptory Challenges,” Jorgensen essay “A Comment on the Positive Canons Project,” 1994 Law and Contemporary Politics, Study of Voting Patterns of SC Justices in Separation of Powers Cases 1952-1997, 2001 Law and Social Inquiry publication (signed with note to Cook by author Howard Gillman)***, Esler and Stookey essay “Situational Analysis in Judicial Research”

7. Legal Model- Stare Decisis: Rogers essay “Lower Court Application of the ‘Overruling Law’ of Higher Courts,” McMahon and Paris essay “The Politics of Rights Revisited: Rosenberf, McCann, and the New Institutionalism,” Lindquist and Songer paper on legal models of stare decisis, O’Hara essay “Toward a Game Theoretic Analysis of Stare Decisis,” Snowiss essay “From Fundamental Law to the Supreme Law of the Land: A Reinterpretation of the Origin of Judicial Review,” Schauer essay “Playing by the Rules,” Chaudhuri essay “Elements of a Democratic Theory”

8. Study with Grad. Stu. of Values and O’Connor: Newspaper clippings, papers / essays (incl. drafts) re. virtues, value identification, judicial virtue, structure, interests vs attitudes, decisionmaking (dimensions), ideology

9. Attitude – Variables – Values: Articles, essays re. ideology and adjudication, measurement of attitudes, role of judge, personal attribute theory and decisionmaking, 20th century SC terms litigants, etc., dimensions of conceptualization of decisions, case studies, behavioral approaches, judicial values, federalism, attitudes, conflict resolution, political preferences of justices / formation of, constitutional values held by public, representational paradigm of Supreme Court; newspaper clippings, handwritten notes

Series 1, Cabinet 7, Drawer 1, Box 42 

General note

Box 42 [part 2 of original Box #25– Cabinet #7 / Drawer #1, “JJ— Behavioral Models”]

1. Cardozo- Judicial Mind / Personality Psych.: 1994 Syracuse Law Review, 1961 Yale Law Journal, Christie essay “Objectivity in the Law,” other essays re. judicial decisionmaking, psychology of judging, jurisprudential character, personality and political behavior, creative role of judge, Nicholls “Individual Decisional Consistency Across Collegial Courts,” handwritten notes

2. Errors on Scalograms: Handwritten notes

3. Dimensionality: Handwritten notes, Spaeth and Peterson “Analysis of Interpretation of Dimensionality: The Case of Civil Liberties Decision Making”

4. Psychological Factors: Articles, essays, book reviews re. political psychology, power, personality, perception, political ideology, judging, incentives, risk, attitude measurement, interactions, motivations, “The Logic and Rhetoric of Constitutional Law”

5. Liberal / Cons. Continuum: American Political Science Review articles “The Court and Conflicting Concepts of the Political Process” and “Libertarian Motivations on the Vinson Court,” Brisbon essay “Conservative Jurists and the Problem of Opportunism,” Smith and Hensley essay “Assessing the conservatism of the Rehnquist Court”

6. Environmental Explanations: Articles, essays re. SC periods of realignment, ethnography and trial courts, property law, party competition, political culture, judicial ideology, economic policymaking, public opinion and attitudinal model, NSF Grant proposal by Lettie Wenner

7. Work Accepted for Publication: Handwritten notes only

8. Cook- Poli Sci 471 – Part I: Handwritten notes, misc. newspaper clippings

9. Misc.: US SC brochure, Supreme Court class syllabus and study guide, short answer questions, SC building layout, biographical chart of the justices, table of justices, information sheets re. SC justices, political courts, judicial selection, data sheets, bibliographies for US Supreme Court, key terms, influences on court nominations, newspaper clippings, handwritten notes, book reviews

Series 1, Cabinet 7, Drawer 2 

Series 1, Cabinet 7, Drawer 2, Box 53 

General note

Box 53 [part 1 of original Box #26– Cabinet #7 / Drawer #2,“Death Penalty [Architecture]”]

1. Simulation of Public Opinion: Essays incl.- Mooney and Lee “The Influence of Values on Consensus and Contentious Morality Policy: US Death Penalty Reform, 1956-82,” Cook** “Justice Blackmun and the Attitudinal Model,” Brace and Hall “Party, Ideology, and the Death Verdict: The Interplay of Preferences, Structures, and Rules in the Politics of Judicial Choice,” Wolbrecht “Capital Punishment and the States: Explaining Variation in Sentencing and Execution,” Langbein “Politics, Rules, and Death Row: Why States Eschew or Execute Executions,” Mooney “Why Not Swing? The Diffusion of Death Penalty Legislation in the American States Since 1838,” Brigham “Bodies of Law: The Supreme Court, the Justices, and Death,” Tauber “On Behalf of the Condemned? The Impact of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund on Capital Punishment Decision Making in the US Courts of Appeals,” McCoy and Lichtenberg “Management Note: Providing Effective Habeas Counsel for Indigents in Capital Cases,” Bowers “The Capital Jury: Is it tilted toward death?”, Hager “Counsel for the Condemned,” Baldus Keynote Address in Indiana Law Journal “The Death Penalty Dialogue Between Law and Social Science,” Motley “Race Discrimination Cases: The Legacy of Justice Lewis F. Powell,” ed. Smolla “A Year in the Life of the Supreme Court,” handwritten notes

2. BLM & Death Penalty: Newspaper and magazine clippings, SC case opinion Grubbs v. Delo 1992, handwritten notes, 1995 Akron Law Review- Wasby “Justice Blackmun and Criminal Justice: A Modest Overview”

3. Powell Papers: Essays incl.- Jeffries “Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr.,” Washington & Lee Archives Rules and Information / user’s guide, letter from Powell to Cook giving her access to his papers at the W & L law library archives**

4. J. White – DP Study: Handwritten notes, data sheets, statistics, Cook essay “Justice Byron White: Fuzzy Rational Actor”**

5. Cert. 2-7 BRN / MAR: US Supreme Court case report photo copies, memorandums

6. Cert. Denial- Death Penalty with Opinions: Data sheets, SC Reports, case memorandums,

7. D.P. Relation of SCT. To Inferior Cts. / Judges: 1992 In Re James Blodgett case summary

8. Method of Execution: SC case reports, Kaufman-Osborn essay “From Noose to Needle: On the Means of Legitimate Violence”

9. Cert / Stay –Vote N00P [not BRN / MAR 7-2]: Case memorandums – esp. Roderick Herman Frey v. Pennsylvania

10. Memos- Death Penalty – Denied Certs. – N00P’s except BRN / MAR 8 A Statement – no Ops: Misc. US SC caser reports and memorandums

11. Application for Stay to Vacate Stay with Ops: Misc. SC case memorandums, reports, judicial opinions

12. “Next Friend”: Misc. SC memorandums, reports, opinions, applications for stay

13. Death Penalty – Not Guilt Issues: Misc. US SC Reports, case opinions, memorandums

14. SCT Death Pen.: Essays incl.- Schwartz “Deciding Who Decides Who Dies: Capital Punishment as a Social Choice Problem,” Bowers “The Pervasiveness of Arbitrariness and Discrimination Under Post-Furman Capital Statutes,” Gewerth and Dorne “Imposing the death penalty on juvenile murderers,” Daniels “Social Science and Death Penalty Cases,” “The California Supreme Court and the Death Penalty: Integrating Streams of Judicial Research,” Prettyman “The Electric-Chair Case,” Paternoster “Prosecutorial Discretion in Requesting the Death Penalty: A Case of Victim-Based Racial Discrimination,” “A Few Observations on the Meaning of the Eighth Amendment,” Chambliss “Types of Deviance and the Effectiveness of Legal Sanctions,” Wolfgang, Kelly, and Nolde “Comparison of the Executed and the Commuted among Admissions to Death Row,” Glaser and Zeigler “Use of the Death Penalty v. Outrage at Murder,” Partington “The Incidence of the Death Penalty for Rape in Virginia,” Passell “The Deterrent Effect of the Death Penalty: A Statistical Test,” Sarat “Deterrence and the Constitution: On the Limits of Capital Punishment,” Noble “The Burger Court and the Death Penalty,” Baldus, Pulaski, and Woodworth “Comparative Review of Death Sentences: An Empirical Study of the Georgia Experience,” Kozinksi “Tinkering with Death,” “Innocence and the Death Penalty”

15. Death Penalty: Misc. newspaper clippings re. death penalty, 1963 Address by California Governor Edmund G. Brown, handwritten notes

16. PO Women: Misc. newspaper clippings, correspondences (personal) to Cook, handwritten notes

17. Women – Jury Service: Misc. photocopies, clippings, essays incl.: “Sex Discrimination in the Voir Dire Process: The Rights of Prospective Female Jurors,” Mallery, Constantini, and Yapundich “Gender and juror partiality; are women more likely to prejudge guilt?”, Macauley and Heubel “Achieving representative juries: a system that works,” Lederle “Abolish Unnecessary Court Appendages to Improve the Administration of Justice,” Dantico “When Information is Constant, How do People Decide: The Relative Affect and Information on Decision Making,” Rudolph “Women on Juries: Voluntary or Compulsory?” Holberg and Stires “The Effect of Several Types of Pretrial Publicity on the Guilt Attributions of Simulated Jurors,” Levine and Schweber-Koren “Jury Selection in Erie County: Changing a Sexist System,”Alker, Hosticka, and Mitchell “Jury Selection as a Biased Social Process,” handwritten notes

Series 1, Cabinet 7, Drawer 2, Box 54 

General note

Box 54 [part 2 of original Box #26– Cabinet #7 / Drawer #2,“Death Penalty [Architecture]”]

1. Eugenics: Misc. articles / essays, incl.- Annals of Eugenics, Bacchi “Evolution, Eugenics, and Women,” George “The Biology of the Race Problem,” Fino “Eugenics in Modern Dress: Interest Groups and the Transformation of Conflict in the Courts,” Blumstein and Smith “A Jurisdictional Approach”

2. Sterilization: Misc. newspaper clippings, essays incl.- “Sterilization and Other Modifications of Man,” Grosboll “Sterilization Abuse: Current State of the Law and Remedies for Abuse,” “Contraceptive Sterilization: The Doctor, the Patient, and the US Constitution,” US SC case reports and summaries, “Medical Rights,” Blank “ Biopolicy and the Courts: Reversible Sterilization and Reproductive Choice,” Fino and Curley “Are Three Generations of Imbeciles Enough? Sterilization Policy in the Courts”

3. Court Architecture: Newspaper clippings, courthouse architecture & design brochures / pamphlets, essays incl.: Harper “The Antebellum Courthouses of Tennessee,” Van der Ryn “An Analysis of Courtroom Design Criteria,” Sobel “The American Courthouse: Planning and Design for the Judicial Process,” Malech “Testing a new courtroom,” Harbinger “Courtroom-in-the-Round,” Greenberg “Selecting – Courtroom Design,” Woodlock “The ‘Peculiar Embarrassment’: An Architectural History of the Federal Courts in MA,” ABA Journal covers with courthouses

4. Architecture 4/28 – 5/3: Misc. clippings / articles / essays on courthouse designs

5. Architecture & Politics: Newspaper clipping, essays- Freeman “The Architectural Context of Governmental Experience,” Blitzakov “Architecture of the Totalitarian State”

6. WIS Courthouse: Courthouse brochures, newspaper clippings, Wisconsin Courthouse reports, essay “Two Courthouses on Main Street Waukesha County, Wisconsin 1846-1959”, handwritten notes

7. Kansas Courthouse Case: Article photocopies, misc. correspondences, case briefs, memorandums, and opinions, Kansas Courthouses of 1976 brochure

8. Henderson – Mural Santa Fe, N. Mex.: Henderson brochure, mural copies, handwritten notes, photographs, photos mailed to Cook

Series 1, Cabinet 7, Drawer 3 

Series 1, Cabinet 7, Drawer 3, Box 63 

General note

Box 63 [first half of original Box #27—Cabinet #7 / Drawer #3]

1. [No file folder]: Notecards on phrasing in judicial opinions re. “duty and dissent”

2. Dissent [formerly titled “Party Transformation Project Log: Notes, Memos, Agenda, etc. in Chronological Order”]: Journal articles on the uses of dissent, social background of judges, history of dissent patterns; excerpts from judicial opinions; opinion pieces on value of dissent; handwritten notes on dissent behavior; Cook’s charts scoring individualism on the court; newspaper clippings on above

3. Dissent: Vote & OP. [(Opinion)]: Handwritten notes on dissent as the norm, Cook’s scaling on voting patterns; journal articles on incidents of dissent (by court); excerpts from misc. judicial opinions

4. Dissent OP. [(Opinion)]: Handwritten notes with quantitative analysis of dissent assignments; journal articles on dissent assignments motivated by ideology, organizational needs of courts; correspondence with other scholars; memos between Supreme Ct. justices on opinion writing; copies of cases

5. Dissent Blocs: Journal articles, research papers on voting coalitions, attitudinal model, variables in winning blocs; table on blocs of particular justices; handwritten notes, Cook’s paper on blocs

6. Loyalty to BRG = Bloc Score: Handwritten notes with tables scoring degree of loyalty by judicial term; typed analysis of same

7. Baumscor& Bloc: Handwritten notes on bloc behavior, various theories explaining bloc formation, tables scoring voting patterns of coalitions; typed tables with bloc scoring; copies of Cook’s paper analyzing said research

8. Dissent from Cert. [(Certiorari)] [formerly titled “Personal Materials”]: Paper on dissents from certiorari granting; excerpt from journal re. cases concerning sexual mores

9. Politics Cases (Party, Districting, Vote etc.) [(formerly titled “Republican State Party Chairman Lists 1958-1971”)]: Journal articles on various cases re.equal protection, gerrymandering; U.S. Supreme Court Reports on misc. cases; handwritten notes on the court and political parties, analysis of specific cases; scholarly papers, newspaper clippings on reapportionment

10. Political Trial: Various law review, journal articles on political tolerance and lack thereof, free speech, problems in the Amer. penal system; newspaper clippings on political trials; papers on criminal liberalism; handwritten notes analyzing misc. cases

11. Free Press — Fair Trial: Journal articles on freedom of the press during various courts, sedition, computers and the law; newspaper clippings on role of press in trials; papers on same

Series 1, Cabinet 7, Drawer 3, Box 64 

General note

Box 64 [second half of original Box #27—Cabinet #7 / Drawer #3]

1. Right To Protect Confidential Sources — Popkin Case — Info: Amicus Curiae motion for Popkin case; Report to American Political Science Assoc. on Popkin case; newspaper clippings on confidentiality of academic research; assorted correspondence between academic associations and government officials re. Popkin; draft of Cook’s paper on Popkin

2. S CT [Supreme Court] + Porn — Obscenity: Journal articles on libertarian values and Supreme Court decision making, censorship and 1st Amendment rights; Supreme Court memos; summaries of misc. obscenity cases; newspaper clippings on obscenity cases; Cook’s table charting distribution of judicial rationales

3. Speech + + + : Paper on 1st Amendment and change in law; newspaper, journal articles on protected rights, symbolic speech; Cook’s typed, handwritten notes on 1st and 14thAmd.rights and censorship, misc. cases; copies of black panther pamphlet; lecture copies from misc. political science courses

4. Right To Travel: Journal articles on 1stAmd.and restrictions on international travel, interstate commerce; ACLU reports on passport validations and right to travel

5. Libel — Truth: Journal articles on judicial rulings re.hearsay, privacy; memos from the Ant-Defamation League and Amer. Jewish Committee on libel re. New York Times v. Sullivan; newspaper clippings on greater burden for proof of libel

6. 1st Amend. [Amendment]: Journal articles on rights against the state, incrementalism in judicial rulings, the Gitlow doctrine, freedom of association, civil liberties law; handwritten notes on due process clause; newspaper articles on first amend. rights; paper on popular conception of rights; tables scoring Burger Court on above

7. Religion in Schools: Journal articles on public piety cases(salute to flag, Sunday closings), historical background; papers on church-state relations; summary of misc. related cases; various newspaper clippings on religion in textbooks, school prayer; handwritten notes on particular cases

8. 1st A [Amendment] — Loyalty: Supreme Court reports with summary of misc. cases; assorted law reviews on constitutional liberty and seditious activity, loyalty defendants; newspaper clipping on particular case; various papers on loyalty oath rulings (including Cook’s)

9. Freedom of Religion: Newspaper clippings on religious freedoms re.time off, taxes, schools; journal articles on religious interest group politics; Cook’s notes on separation of church and state, establishment clause

Series 1, Cabinet 7, Drawer 4 

Series 1, Cabinet 7, Drawer 4, Box 73 

General note

Box 73[first half of original Box #28—Cabinet #7 / Drawer #4]

1. 86-94: Copies from U.S. Supreme Crt. Reports (1986-1994) with lists of cases, short case summaries, tables of referenced cases

2. Research Proposals / O.T. [(October Term)] 1987: Newspaper, magazine clippings withopinion pieces on rulings, discussion of policy deadlock/polarization; Library of Congress records of cert votes on misc. cases

3. Student Help / OT [(October Term)] 1988: Law journal excerpts with case summaries; handwritten notes listing misc. cases; newspaper clippings with opinion pieces on rulings; Library of Congress records of cert votes on misc. cases

4. OT [(October Term)] 1989: Magazine pieces analyzing justices’ voting patterns, opinion pieces on rulings; newspaper articles on ideological blocs; paper on judicial voting paradigm; opinions for particular ruling; Library of Congress records of cert votes on misc. cases

5. 1990 [(much crossed out)]: Newspaper clippings,magazine articles with opinion pieces on various cases; Law Week tables with name and docket number of cases; Library of Congress records of cert votes on misc. cases

6. OT [(October Term)] 1991: Newspaper clippings with opinion pieces on misc. cases; National Law Journal article on Sandra Day O’Connor; Library of Congress records of cert votes in various cases

7. OT [(October Term)] 1992: Newspaper clippings on various rulings, policy trends; law journal article on ideological shift right

8. OT 93 [(October Term 1993)]: Journal table charting voting alignments of justices; newspaper clippings on various case rulings, moderate core of court

9. OT 94 [(October Term 1994)]: Newspaper clippings and magazine articles on various case rulings, profiles of 1994 Supreme Crt. justices, moderate ideological trend in cases

10. OT ’95 [(October Term 1995)]: Law journal articles on Supreme Crt. “swing voters”; tables charting cases, number of full opinions written, ideological splits in rulings; newspaper clippings on misc. cases

11. OT 96 [(October Term 1996)]: Newspaper clippings on 1996 case rulings re. swing votes in decisions, lack of landmark decisions, pro-choice cases, misc. other rulings

Series 1, Cabinet 7, Drawer 4, Box 74 

General note

Box 74[second half of original Box #28—Cabinet #7 / Drawer #4]

1. OT [(October Term)] — 1997: Newspaper clippings of articles on affirmative action, antitrust cases, attorney-client privilege, conservatism, misc. other rulings 2. OT [(October Term)] 98: Newspaper clippings on cases involving states rights, sexual harassment, Title VII, misc. other rulings

3. OT [(October Term)] 99: Newspaper clippings re.campaign finance regulation, diminished congressional commerce powers, abortion, misc. other cases; handwritten notes classifying rulings

4. 2000: Newspaper clippings re. Fourth Amendment rights, alien tort claims, role of lawyers in elections, free speech, misc. other rulings; handwritten notes on Hastie interview

5. OT [(October Term)] 2001: Newspaper clippings with articles re.imprisonment of sex offenders, religious discrimination, military courts, misc. other cases

6. OT [(October Term)] 2002: Newspaper clippings on rulings re.pledge of allegiance, California’s “three strikes law”

7. E.P. [(Equal Protection)] — General: Newspaper articles on racial discrimination case, citizenship, integration; handwritten notes on enforceability of laws, 14th Amendment; Law Review articles on equal protection, intent; typed notes on Civil Rights Act of 1964, commerce clause; C.A. Dept. of Justice pamphlet; paper on strict scrutiny

8. E.P. [(Equal Protection)] Voting: Newspaper clipping of article on AL election; typed notes on right to vote; U.S. Supreme Ct. Reports on misc. cases; journal excerpts on at-large voting barriers, the South and black voting rights; handwritten notes on discriminatory electoral barriers; LA Dept. of Justice memo

9. E.P. [(Equal Protection)] Justice: Papers on common law, discrimination against African Americans, the federal injunction; newspaper clippings on special victims legislation, discrimination in jury rights; journal articles on Civil Rights Act and Pape

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Series 1, Cabinet 8 

Series 1, Cabinet 8, Drawer 1 

Series 1, Cabinet 8, Drawer 1, Box 67 

General note

Box 67 [first half of original Box #29—Cabinet #8 / Drawer #1]

1. Agenda — Cert: Handwritten notes on agenda stages, variables for agenda study; journal articles on Supreme Court cert process, efforts to reduce caseload, “substantive access doctrine”; magazine, newspaper articles on same; papers on agenda-setting in Supreme Court; Cook’s lecture notes

2. Pacelle / Agenda: Copy of Richard Pacelle’s book on transformation of Supreme Court agenda; intro to book on agenda formation; journal article on assessment of qualitative research

3. Cert- Choosing Cases: Papers on Supreme Court access issues, cue theory, discretionary jurisdiction, Judges’ Bill; journal , law review articles on policy concern as cert trigger, historical background, “underdog model;” handwritten notes on system analysis, “political question”; statistical tables from cert study; newspaper articles on selectivity of case selection, decision not to decide

4. Sup [(Supreme)] Court Invitation To Appeal: Newspaper clipping on Supreme Court invitation to hear case; journal article on Supreme Court call for Congressional action

5. Docket Shuts Data — Brg CT [(Burger Court)] — Cert — Conf Vote: Statistical tables on Burger and Rehnquist Courts and coded voting patterns of justices

6. Brennan / Palmer Cert Study + Data: Journal articles on certiorari voting; schedule for political science conference; magazine articles on certiorari; Supreme Court internal memos on opinion writing; official review of Supreme Court cases; list of cert votes

7. Agenda- Penalty: U.S. Supreme Court Reports on amendment to limit case filings, denial of further in forma pauperis petitions in specific case; sample in forma pauperis petition; Supreme Court memos on monitoring same

8. Justice Reasons for Cert: Handwritten notes on reasons for granting cert by coded categories; newspaper articles on access to Supreme Court; paper on intercircuit conflicts

9. Agenda- Rule of Four: Supreme Court memos on changing rules for cert granting; summary of case granted limited cert; journal article on historical background of rule of four; email correspondence with other scholars on relevancy of rule of four

10. Doing Justice- Cert Reason: Supreme Court Report list, analysis of cases related to Federal Employers’ Liability Act

11. AGN [(Agenda)]- S-G [(Solicitor General)] Confession of Error: Supreme Court Report case summary

12. Agenda Studies: Handwritten notes on agenda votes; journal articles on Supreme Court docket, interest groups and agenda setting,certiorari jurisdiction, “error correction” of lower courts; papers on parties and agenda setting, policy evolution re. civil liberties, obscenity

13. NYU Project / Agenda Article: Various drafts of Cook’s article on the five models re.case choice; papers critiquing Supreme Court agenda, workload; handwritten notes analyzing specific cases; typed, coded charts on cases; journal article on certiorari

Series 1, Cabinet 8, Drawer 1, Box 68 

General note

Box 68 [second half of original Box #29—Cabinet #8 / Drawer #1]

1. 1991: Library of Congress records listing cases; Law Week case status reports by term; typed notes on cases by agenda; extensive list on cases for which review was granted (also with amicus involvement)

2. Treatment — Wealth / E.P.: Access To Courts: Newspaper clipping on ruling re. wealth and court fines, need for reform; journal articles on financial barriers and access to courts; journal on specific cases; research report on court costs; Justice Reports on minority participation in justice system

3. [Agenda and Cert-Granting][titled by A.R., original blank]: List of cases granted cert; letters between Supreme Court justices re.rule of four, dissent to denial of cert, reargument, hold, agenda change and Congress, vote change; journal articles on politics of judicial process

4. [Docket Records][titled by A.R., original blank]: Library of Congress records of justices’ votes on certiorari, 1982-1983

5. Cert Votes — OT 82: Library of Congress records of certiorari voting, 1981-1983

6. 1982 — S CT [(Supreme Court)] Agenda Study: Handwritten notes on agenda decisions and cert, list of variables, holds re. specific cases; records of cases granted cert, with timelines of proceedings 7. Conference / Discuss Lists: Handwritten notes on conference lists, agenda; Library of Congress records on Supreme Court schedule; Supreme Court memos on rehearings, response requests; Discuss Lists for various conferences

8. OT 1982 Journal + Summary of Orders: U.S. Law Week newsletter with list and summary of cases acted on (review granted, summary action, review denied), 1982 and 1983

9. Section: Law and Courts / AGN [Agenda]: Docket #s Voted OT 1982, Law Week: U.S. Law Week newsletter with list of cases docketed, 1982 and 1983

10. Books / AAUW Movie:

-[smaller file inserted in file 10] Docket Tables — S-G [(Solicitor General)] + Law Week

--Handwritten notes with statistics on agenda and amici, appeals, tables on solicitor general and US government participation; tables of Supreme Court, Solicitor General workload

-[smaller file inserted in file 10] Agenda: Dissent to Cert + Cert Memos + Votes

--Handwritten notes on drafts and opinions on cert re.specific justices; Library of Congress memos between justices on cert; official cert opinions

11. Mass Media / Agenda Study- Add to Discuss List: Handwritten notes with sources for agenda data, lists of various docket numbers to add to discuss list file; Library of Congress records of Supreme Court memos on cases re.obscenity, stays re. cert, sit-in cases, capital cases

12. [Agenda and Cert][titled by A.R., original blank]:

-[smaller file inserted in file 12] Agenda Study: Amici for Cert

--Copy of official rule on amici filing briefs for cert; handwritten notes on amici measures

-[smaller file inserted in file 12] LOWI — Meta-Policy on AGN [(Agenda)]

--Paper on the changing agenda of the courts; handwritten notes on agenda motivations

-[smaller file inserted in file 12] Microfiche — OT 1982

--Handwritten notes with statistical data on number of cases in which cert was denied, number of votes, agenda in specific cases

13. 1990 / OT 1982 Amici: Official Supreme Court briefs, petitions filed in 1982 cases, both from intervenors and amici; official records of proceedings re. specific cases

Series 1, Cabinet 8, Drawer 3 

Series 1, Cabinet 8, Drawer 3, Box 69 

General note

Box 69 [first half of original Box #31—Cabinet #8 / Drawer #3]

1. OT [(October Term)] 1910: Handwritten notes on separation of powers in misc. cases

2. OT [(October Term)] 1925: Original Constitutional Law journal, 1925-1926

3. OT [(October Term)] 1927: Law Review article on Supreme Ct. and Judiciary Act of 1925

4. OT [(October Term)] 1928: Journal articles on 1928-1929 constitutional law, Supreme Ct.’s October term

5. OT [(October Term)] 1929: Journal articles on the business of the Supreme Ct. in 1929, constitutional law in 1929-1930

6. OT [(October Term)] 1930: Journal on constitutional law in 1930-1931

7. OT [(October Term)] 1931: Journal on constitutional law in 1931-1932

8. OT [(October Term)] 1932: Journal on constitutional law in 1932-1933

9. OT [(October Term)] 1933: Journal on constitutional law in 1933-1934

10. OT [(October Term)] 1934: Journals on constitutional law in 1934-1935, significant Supreme Ct. decisions 1934-1937

11. OT [(October Term)] 1935: Journal on constitutional law in 1935-1936

12. OT [(October Term)] 1936: Journal on constitutional law in 1936-1937

13. OT [(October Term)] 1937: Journal on constitutional law in 1937-1938

14. OT [(October Term)] 1938: Journal on constitutional law in 1938-1939; Library of Congress record of 1938 Supreme Court term assignments

15. OT [(October Term)] 1939: Journal of constitutional law in 1939-1940

16. OT [(October Term)] 1940: Library of Congress records of Supreme Court’s 1940 October term assignments

17. OT [(October Term)] 1941: Library of Congress records of Supreme Court’s 1941 October term assignments

18. OT [(October Term)] 1942: Library of Congress records of Supreme Court’s 1942 October term assignments

19. OT [(October Term)] 1943: Library of Congress records of Supreme Court’s 1943 October term assignments

20. OT [(October Term)] 1944: Library of Congress records of Supreme Court’s 1944 October term assignments

21. OT [(October Term)] 1945: Library of Congress records of Supreme Court’s 1945 October term assignments

22. OT [(October Term)] 1946: Library of Congress records of Supreme Court’s 1946 October term assignments; law review article on Supreme Ct.’s 1946-1947 term

23. Work Accepted For Publication / S 16 / OT [(October Term)] 1947: Library of Congress records of Supreme Court’s 1947 October term assignments; law review article on Supreme Ct.’s 1947-1948 term

24. Research In Progress / OT[(October Term)] 1948: Library of Congress records of Supreme Court’s 1948 October term assignments; law review, journal articles on Supreme Ct.’s 1948-1949 term

25. OT [(October Term)] 1949: Law review article on Supreme Court’s 1949-1950 term; handwritten notes on 1949 votes re.specific cases; Library of Congress records of Court’s 1949 October term

26. OT [(October Term)] 1950: Journal of constitutional law in 1950-1951; Library of Congress records of Supreme Court’s 1950 October term; law review articles on same

27. OT [(October Term)] 1951: Library of Congress records of Supreme Court’s 1951 October term assignments; law review articles on 1952 term, constitutional law

28. OT [(October Term)] 1952: Journal of constitutional law in 1952-1953; Library of Congress records of Court’s 1952 term assignments; law review articles on 1952 October term

29. OT [(October Term)] 1953 [(much crossed out)]: Library of Congress records of 1953 term assignments; journal articles on 1953 term, constitutional law 30. OT [(October Term)] 1954: Library of Congress records of Supreme Court’s 1954 October term assignments; journal articles on constitutional law in 1954-1955, business of the court

31. OT [(October Term)] 1955 — Sig. [(Significant)] Cases: Library of Congress records of 1955 October term Supreme Court assignments; journals, articles summarizing business of the Court in 1955 term, constitutional law

32. OT [(October Term)] 1956 [(much crossed out)]: Library of Congress records of 1956 Supreme Court assignments, certiorari-granting in misc. cases; journals on constitutional law in 1956-1957, tables of term’s cases, docket analysis; Supreme Court memos re. opinion writing

33. OT [(October Term)] 1957 — Sig [(Significant)] Cases: Journal articles on Supreme Court behavior re. civil rights, table of cases from 1957 term, docket analysis on 1957 and 1958 term, constitutional law in 1957-1958; Library of Congress records of votes in significant cases

34. OT [(October Term)] 1958: Journal articles with table of cases from 1958 term, excerpted case summaries, constitutional law in 1958-1959

Series 1, Cabinet 8, Drawer 3, Box 70 

General note

Box 70 [second half of original Box #31—Cabinet #8 / Drawer #3]

1. OT [(October Term)] 1959: Journal articles with tables listing cases, final disposition of cases, constitutional law in 1959-1960; excerpts from Court Reports of specific case summaries, especially re. religion

2. OT [(October Term)] 1968: Excerpts from Court Reports with case summaries, especially re. non-citizens, final disposition; handwritten notes; Cook’s coded tables analyzing judicial voting patterns; Library of Congress records of Oct. 1960 case assignments to each justice; article on civil rights in 1960 term

3. Comparative State Courts / OT [(October Term)] 1961: Library of Congress records of case assignments to each justice; law review articles listing cases, tables of final dispositions; journal article on majority/minority rights in 1961 term

4. OT [(October Term)] 1962: Library of Congress records of case assignments to each justice; articles with tables of cases, final disposition of cases; Court Reports with case summary

5. Published Work / OT [(October Term)] 1963: Library of Congress records of case assignments by justice, memo between justices about opinions; journal articles on 1963 Supreme Court term, tables with final disposition of cases

6. OT [(October Term)] 1964 Sig [(Significant)]Cases: Review covering 1964 term; Library of Congress records with case assignment by justice, certiorari votes, memos between justices concerning voting, opinion writing; handwritten notes on 1964 cases; law review tables of cases, analysis

7. OT [(October Term)] 1965 — Assignments — Docket Sheets: Library of Congress records of case assignments by justice, certiorari votes; law review analysis of 1965 term, tables of Supreme Court business

8. OP Assign. OT [Opinion Writing Assignment, October Term] 1966 — Docket Sheets: Library of Congress records of case assignments for each justice, certiorari votes; law review tables of significant cases; article with docket statistics

9. Research Proposals / OT [(October Term)] 1967: Library of Congress records of case assignment by justice; newspaper clipping with summaries of 1967 cases; handwritten notes listing cases

10. Published Work / OT [(October Term)] 1968: Library of Congress records with case assignments by justice for the 1969 term; Court Records case summaries; handwritten notes on misc. cases; table of cases; newspaper opinion piece on 1968-1969 rulings; memos between justices

11. Published Work / OT [(October Term)] 1969: Memos between justices on case assignments; Law Week table of Supreme Court opinions; articles, U.S. Supreme Court Reports with case summaries; handwritten notes on cases; Library of Congress records of certiorari votes

12. Published Work / OT [(October Term)] 1970: Book excerpt discussing school busing case; pamphlet excerpt on 1970 term’s cases; newspaper clipping on length of opinions; handwritten notes on misc. cases, opinion assignments; law review tables of cases, analysis of Burger Ct.; Court Reports case summaries; Library of Congress records of certiorari votes, memos between justices on case assignment

13. Work Accepted for Publication / OT [(October Term)] 1971: Supreme Court memos on opinion writing assignment; newspaper clippings on Supreme Ct. caseload; journal articles on Nixon Ct., index of cases; handwritten notes on opinion assignments re. specific cases; case summaries; Library of Congress records of cert votes

7. Letters of Evaluation / OT [(October Term)] 1972: Supreme Ct. memos on dissents, opinion writing; handwritten notes on misc. cases; law review articles on lobbying, landmark cases; newspaper articles on caseload, blocs; U.S. Supreme Ct. Reports case summaries; Library of Congress records of cert votes

15. Convention Votes / OT [(October Term)] 1973: Book excerpt on 1973 term; Library of Congress records of cert votes; handwritten notes on opinion assignments; newspaper clippings on variety of case areas; law review charts on voting alignments; Supreme Ct. memos on votes; case summaries; journal articles on judicial restraint

16. Convention Papers / OT [(October Term)] 1974: Handwritten notes on court opinion assignments; Supreme Ct. memos on case assignments, vote changes; U.S. Supreme Ct. Reports case summaries; journal articles on ideological blocs; newspaper articles on lack of judicial activism; Library of Congress records of cert votes 17. OT [(October Term)] 1975 Sig [(Significant)] Cases: Newspaper clippings on agenda blocs; handwritten notes on misc. cases, opinion changes; Supreme Ct. memos on opinion joining, case assignments; U.S. Supreme Ct. Reports case summaries; book excerpt on 1975 term; Library of Congress cert votes

Series 1, Cabinet 8, Drawer 4 

Series 1, Cabinet 8, Drawer 4, Box 55 

General note

Box 55 [first half of original Box #32—Cabinet #8 / Drawer #4]

1. Hoover— Judges [typed label: North Dakota Democratic Party]: Newspaper photocopies (labeled “Herbert Hoover Presidential Library, Presidential Subject—Judiciary—Judges, U.S. Dist. Judges MN”), letters discussing judgeships in MN and NY

2. Judge Papers— Stephens 426-5000, Library of Congress: Photocopies of articles on judges selected, handwritten notes on Library of Congress, letters of Judge Stephens, Hon. Henry Chandler, letters from the Administrative Office of U.S. Courts

3. [Lyndon B. Johnson Library Photocopies] [titled by Anna Roberts, original blank]: White House, Deputy Attorney General, Department of Justice correspondence on judicial appointments(federal and district courts), Newspaper photocopies on appointees, requests for reproduction of documents

-[smaller file inserted inside file 3] LBJ—US Attorney Selection Memos

-[smaller file inserted inside file 3] Pres LBJ—Judge Relationships Memos, judicial opinion

4. UW—M Campus Plan. Com. Minutes 60/61: Photocopied letters from U.S. Court of Appeals, letters to District Judges from Administrative Offices, correspondence on jurors, memos on Bankruptcy Administration: Referees’ Salary Bill, correspondence between judges on costs of Chicago district courts and on judicial opinions

5. [Untitled—old title scratched out]: Handwritten notes on patronage and misc., copies of letters on WI district judge appointments (from Harry S. Truman Library), articles on judicial appointment process, typed notes on judicial roles, ratings of circuit court judges, Attorney General correspondence on WI and IL District and Circuit Courts

6. Pat Stone— Duffy Appointment: Handwritten note, copies of letters concerning WI Senator Ryan Duffy from Attorney General, private attorneys, Democratic National Convention

Series 1, Cabinet 8, Drawer 4, Box 56 

General note

Box 56 [second half of original Box #32—Cabinet #8 / Drawer #4]

1. [Loose papers from the Harry S. Truman Library] [titled by A.R.]: White House correspondence on federal judgeships (OR, CA, IL); letters to President Truman on judicial nominees; memos on party and age breakdown of Truman judges; newspaper articles on Truman nominees; district court ruling on juror selection; copies on history of District Ct.; clippings on HI judgeships; telegrams and Truman correspondence on religious, racial background of judges; correspondence with the White House on women appointees; Supreme Court opinions on women in military and misc.; inventory of items copied in Truman library; papers on “Why Every Woman should Vote for Roosevelt and Garner”; Library of Congress records on Supreme Court justices’ rulings, certiorari (misc. cases 1970’s, 1980’s); Supreme Court memos, letters; transcript of recording at Dinner Party at the Court; correspondence between justices on Ct. of Appeals and Sup. Ct.; correspondence of Justice Powell; letters on Justice O’Conner; D.O.J. memos on judicial appointments; Supreme Court Conference Lists:Statements to Jurisdiction, Petitions for Certiorari (1970’s, 1980’s) with notes; newspaper article copies on women judges

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Series 1, Cabinet 9 

Series 1, Cabinet 9, Drawer 1 

Series 1, Cabinet 9, Drawer 1, Box 71 

General note

Box 71 [first half of original Box #33—Cabinet #9 / Drawer #1]

1. Location — Facilities: Handwritten notes on structure of courts; newspaper clippings on creation of new courts; Supreme Ct. memos on new judgeships; paper on Supreme Ct. input by the states; Abortion Law Reporter lists of courts

2. Selection — Women — Judges: Journal articles on integration of women into judiciary, comparison of presidential administrations’ policies, especially Carter’s; papers on affirmative action, judicial recruitment; newspaper clippings on candidates; various fact sheets

3. Fem J [(Feminist Judges)] — General Studies: Newspaper clippings on maternity leave, discrimination in judicial selection, opinion pieces on affirmative action; journal articles on women as policymakers, trial judges, particular judges, autobiographical pieces, background; papers on female State Supreme Court justices; invitation to program on women judges; list of stereotypes on women judges; handwritten notes listing female judges

4. JFK Lib [(Library)] — Fem [(Feminist)] Judges: Misc. papers from the JFK Library, including presidential correspondence, DOJ memos, lists of judicial appointees, correspondence of interest groups for advancement of professional women 5. LBJ — Women Judges: Memos and correspondence from White House, National Association of Women Lawyers re.further nomination of women judges and specific candidates; Cook’s requests for documents 6. Fem [(Feminism)] / State — Prosecutor: -[smaller file inserted inside file 6] ABA [(American Bar Association)]ratings—Fem [(Feminist)] Judge

--Handwritten notes on particular candidate for appointment; background on related congressional committees; newspaper clipping on failed nomination; paper comparing federal judgeship qualifications of male and female nominees 7. UW—M Building Priorities 1963-69: Journal articles on women on federal bench, historical background, exclusion of women, differences in judicial behavior by sex; papers on sexism in judicial selection process, judicial activism; Cook’s notes on women on the bench, data; list of first women on bench (by state); newspaper opinion pieces 8. Women as Fed [(Federal)] Magistrates: Journal articles with background on federal magistrates; papers on growing role of U.S. magistrates in federal district courts; handwritten notes listing magistrates, discussing Comissioner; newspaper profiles of women magistrates; official directory of U.S. magistrates

9. Willebrandt + Foltz— District J. [(Judge)] Candidate: Journal excerpts on Judge Willebrandt; Library of Congress official hours, correspondence of Judge Willebrandt; newspaper articles with background on Willebrandt and Clara Shortridge Foltz; journal article on Foltz

10. Women Judges / Process + Output: Different?: Papers on gender variable in judicial decision making; journal articles on policy differences in decisions by female judges, judicial independence; newspaper clippings with policy impact examples; decision in discrimination case; Cook’s published article on female judicial voting behavior; Cook’s critique of paper on paternalism

11. Report of Att-Gen [(Attorney General)] on Federal Judges: Copies of the Annual Report of the Attorney General to Congress (1870’s, 1880’s, 1890’s, 1901 and 1920); list of federal court judges (1970’s)

12. District Ct. Administration: Journal articles on output of federal district courts, role of court executive; Congressional Record proceedings on jury selection (1967); Seminar On Procedures articles on calendaring systems, discovery motions; newspaper clippings on above; papers on district court clerks; correspondence from Federal Judicial center; Cook’s paper on independent trial judge role

Series 1, Cabinet 9, Drawer 1, Box 72 

General note

Box 72[second half of original Box #33—Cabinet #9 / Drawer #1]

1. District Woman Federal (original label extent: UW-M Campus Planning Committee Documents and Minutes 1960/61): Newspaper clippings with female judge and lawyer profiles, appointment politics, circuit assignments, comparable worth; journal articles on judicial discretion, federalism and judicial careers; handwritten notes on various judges, coded analysis; correspondence between Cook and district judges; list of judicial appointments

2. J. [(Judge)] June Green / DC DC [(District of Columbia District Court)]: Newspaper articles on Judge June Lazenby Green, discrimination lawsuit; case ruling on women and social security

3. Marion Harron: Handwritten notes listing misc. sources, discussing tax court, Harron’s background; newspaper profiles on female judges; book excerpt on life of Lorena Hickok; copies of letters endorsing Judge Harron for appointment; personal correspondence of Harron’s; obituaries for Harron

4. Frieda Hennock: Correspondence re.judicial appointment for Hennock; copies of newspaper articles on appointments; handwritten notes on sources

5. J. [(Judge)] Sarah Hughes / NDTEX: Correspondence re. appointment of greater numbers of female judges, personal letters of Hughes’; copy of Hughes’ speech at Conference on Women in Public Life; newspaper clippings with articles on age factor in appointment, misc. rulings of Hughes’; handwritten notes on Hughes’ background, connections; scaled surveys on Hughes’ rulings re. sex discrimination cases; excerpt from oral history of Kenneth O’Donnell; pamphlet from Hughes Field Politics Center, Goucher College

6. Judith Keep / SD Cal [(San Diego, CA)]: Legal Report article on case overload, with commentary from Judge Judith Keep

7. J. [(Judge)] Burnitas S. Matthews / 202-426-7576 / DCDC [(District of Columbia District Court)]: Handwritten notes on sources; various bios of Judge Matthews; newspaper clippings on Matthews; letter and telegram correspondence re.Judge Matthews; scaled surveys on Matthews’ rulings re.sex discrimination cases; paper on Judge Matthews

8. J. [(Judge)] Constance B. Motley SDNY [(Southern District, New York)]: Journal articles on Judge Motley; excerpt from book on American women in politics re. Motley; Northwestern University Law School class description; journal case summaries of Motley rulings; newspaper clippings on misc. Motley rulings;scaled surveys on Matthews’ rulings re.sex discrimination cases

9. Mary Ann Richey / D. Ariz [(District Court, Arizona)]: Newspaper clippings re.various Richey rulings

10. Arkansas / Elsijane Trimble Roy: Newspaper clipping on Judge Roy; handwritten notes on opinions by women justices; journal article excerpts citing Roy, discussing her appointment

11. Fem [(Female Justices)] Circuit: Newspaper clippings on feminism in the courts, appointment of female jurists, case rulings by female judges; paper on female federal judges

-[smaller file inserted inside file 11] Gen Fed file US APP [(Gender: Federal appointment)] opportunity

--Handwritten notes on circuit courts and female case rulings; Lexis Nexis lists of cases

12. J. [(Judge)] Florence E. Allen / 6th CCA [(Circuit Court of Appeals)]: Newspaper, journal articles citing Judge Allen; correspondence between Cook and other professionals about Judge Allen; handwritten notes on Judge Allen’s personal background, coded analysis of rulings; copies of letters to President Roosevelt urging Allen’s appointment; journal articles written by Allen; register of Allen’s papers at historical society

13. Public Policy Issues / Tech. / Biology:

-[smaller file inserted inside file 11] Cynthia Hall — 9th CA [(Court of Appeals)]

--Newspaper clipping of article profiling Judge Hall

14. J. [(Judge)] Shirley Hufstedler / 9th CCA [(Circuit Court of Appeals)]: Newspaper clippings with articles profiling Judge Hufstedler, interviews with Hufstedler; journal articles written by Judge Hufstedler; list of Hufstedler’s sex discrimination cases

15. AmalyaKearse / 2d CCA [(Circuit Court of Appeals)]: Newspaper clippings profiling Judge Kearse, discussing her appointments; Wellesley alumna profile; letter from Kearse to Cook

16. J. [(Judge)] Cornelia Kennedy / 6 C.A.— Ed Mich [(Court of Appeals — Michigan)]: Handwritten notes on Judge Kennedy’s judicial decision making, background, list of questions for Kennedy; newspaper clippings on Kennedy’s appointment; letter from Kennedy to Cook; Federal Supplement case summaries of Kennedy rulings; coded questionnaires on Kennedy’s rulings

17. Phyllis Kravitz / 5th CA [(Court of Appeals)]: Copy of notes taken at a talk by Judge Kravitzat Emory Law School; letter from other professional to Cook re.Kravitz talk

18. Dorothy Nelson / 9th CCA [(Circuit Court of Appeals)]: Newspaper clippings re.Judge Nelson’s appointment, personal background; articles written by Nelson; handwritten notes on Nelson’s background; correspondence re. Judge Nelson with other scholars

19. Mary Schroeder — 9th CA [(Court of Appeals)]: Newspaper profile of Judge Schroeder

20. J. [(Judge)] Sloviter 3d CA [(Court of Appeals)]: Newspaper clipping of article on Temple University, citing Judge Sloviter

21. WALD, Patricia: Newspaper clippings of articles profiling Judge Wald, discussing her appointment; copy of journal article for which Wald was a panelist; Lexis Nexis lists, summaries of opinions; magazine articles written by Wald

Series 1, Cabinet 9, Drawer 2 

Series 1, Cabinet 9, Drawer 2, Box 65 

General note

Box 65 [first half of original Box #30—Cabinet #9 / Drawer #2]

1. Judge Jokes: Misc. newspaper clippings of cartoons re.culture of judiciary; humorous written pieces on same; article on profane epithets 2. Federal Court Book: Handwritten notes on social relationships between judges, integration; Cook’s codes for study on federal judges; notecards with points for Cook’s study; application for study; background on federal judicial system; copies of papers on same; handwritten notes for introduction of Cook’s book

3. Sex Roles — position, tokenism, socio. [(social factors)]: Journal articles on Supreme Court voting, civil liberties, ideological voting, “centrist blocs”; handwritten notes on court assignment, including extensive mathematical coding for analysis

4. Theory — Concept Thoughts! / Articles To Respond To: Handwritten notes on preference voting, federalism, “stable political system,” judicial activism; journal article on amicus participation in Supreme Court re.interest groups, judicial voting

5. My S CT [(Supreme Court)] Book: Handwritten notes on Cook’s model for political history re. Supreme Court, attitudinal model, variables for analysis, background; journal articles on other analytical models

6. Justice Papers — Working Notes: Notes on personal papers of Supreme Court justices, specific docket numbers; paper on Supreme Court docket books

7. AJS Study — Personal File / S CT [(Supreme Court)] Judges: Journal articles on judges’ goals, judicial behavior, history evolution of same; tables charting single v. co-authorship of articles in political science journals; various lists of valuable articles for scholarship

8. S CT [(Supreme Court)] Basic Stats: Tables recording presidents and appointed justices, correlation between party of president and appointed justice; handwritten notes on Supreme Court turnover

9. Judicial Biography: Journal articles on personality, self-esteem and behavioral persuasion, the subjectivity of judicial biography writing, transition from lawyer to judge; list of recommended judicial biographies; tables of court composition by date; biographies of specific justices

10. S CT [(Supreme Court)] Menu — pre-1990: Articles on the preservation of judicial papers; handwritten notes on specific papers; copies from Library of Congress re. Supreme Court memos, letters between justices

11. Doug Papers: Library of Congress papers comprising letters between justices on judicial review, academic positions, specific cases

12. 1976 III 1977 I / Brennan Papers: Handwritten notes on vote “fluidity”; copies of papers from Library of Congress consisting of letters between justices regarding voting particularities, negotiations on opinions, disqualification, supervision of district court cases, official rulings on misc. cases

13. J. Marshall Papers: Copies of Supreme Court memos and letters re.recusal, judicial safety, court budget, amici, votes on specific cases; Cook’s handwritten notes on court assignments and organization of her research

Series 1, Cabinet 9, Drawer 2, Box 66 

General note

Box 66 [second half of original Box #30—Cabinet #9 / Drawer #2]

1. Background: Journal articles on personal attribute model re. judge’s party and social background; Cook’s handwritten notes on presidential selection of justices, judicial socialization; Cook’s paper on female candidates for Supreme Court nomination; typed notes on Sandra Day O’Connor

2. 6 Background 2/8: Records for ordered textbooks; journal articles on social background model and historical relevance, the decisional process, personal attribute model re.religion; handwritten notes on categorization of justices, judicial role, geographical factor

3. Religion + Ethnic Judges: Newspaper clippings on Italian-American judges, immigrant success story of Italian-Americans in politics; clipping of book review on same topics

4. Jud [(Judicial)] Interpretation: Handwritten notes on interpretation with respect to various theories

5. Fed [(Federal)] Judges — Consanguinity, Friendship, Patr[o]nage: Newspaper clippings on judges from same families (consanguinity), nepotism; Cook’s notes on specific books; typed notes on intracourt relationships; letters between White House and judges

6. S Ct [Supreme Court] Conflict or Collegiality: Journal articles on church-state interaction, collegial nature of the courts, friction between justices; letter from Cook’s publisher on submitted article; various drafts of article on collegiality in the courts; copy of poem written by wives of Burger Court justices

7. Health + Age: Journal articles on conservatism and age, retirement of justices; newspaper articles on religion, age of Supreme Court justices; paper on judicial activism and age of justice; copy of report from Congressional hearing on age discrimination in selection of federal judges

8. S CT JJ Evaluation — Ratings: Tables with “prestige ratings” of justices throughout Supreme Court history; newspaper articles on greatest justices; draft of research paper on evaluating justices

9. Blocs / Subsets: Journal articles on subset behavior in the Supreme Court, covering theoretical perspectives and specific cases, utility theory and political coalitions

10. Role Theory: Journal articles on role congruence among legislators, bureaucracy, variables in role concept analysis, pressure groups in state politics, problems with role theory; bibliography with marked sources; paper on role concept in judicial research; handwritten notes applying role theory to Senate

11. Judicial Role non-S CT [(non-Supreme Court)]: Journal articles on theories of judicial behavior, perception v. actual role, trial judges; papers on role behavior, geographical factor; handwritten notes on structure behind judicial role, surveys; manuscript for chapter on role concept; tables on legal ideology by orientation; questionnaire on judicial role; newspaper articles on same

Series 1, Cabinet 9, Drawer 2, Box 77 

General note

Box 77[first half of original Box #34—Cabinet #9 / Drawer #2]

1. Counting SCT [(Supreme Court)] Cases Harvard / Spaeth: Typed chart with hand calculations counting Burger Court cases; similar handwritten chart on reconciliation

2. Decision Type: Remand, Summary, etc: Article on Sup. Ct. decisions of summary reconsideration orders; article on Sup. Court’s influence and authority over lower courts

3. Cases Reversing Precedent: Handwritten list of cases reversing precedent; handwritten list of cases from October Terms 1953 - 1966

4. Recusal Disqualify: Newspaper clippings on judges being recused from cases due to questionable impartiality

5. SCt – Public Hearings: Newspaper clippings on Sup. Ct. vacancies and appointments, interruptions, obscenity in cases; article on the fourteenth amendment; newspaper clipping on Sup. Court’s stance on press access; paper on public perception of courts; various newsletters and newspaper clippings on Sup. Ct. procedures; newspaper clipping on stock-owning justices withdrawing from cases; newspaper clippings covering debate to allow tape recordings, TV cameras, and special equipment in courtrooms; newspaper clippings on judges’ pay; 3 articles 1 newspaper clipping on Sup. Ct. oral argument; paper draft on oral argument with transcript; newspaper clipping on justices’ humor and opinions; newspaper clippings on miscellaneous Sup. Ct. proceedings; article on Sup. Ct. policy making; oral argument project: papers 1, 6, 7, 8; three envelopes containing seating arrangements of Sup. Ct.

6. Interest Group – Amici: Paper on interest groups and sexual harassment policy; articles on interest groups for human rights, race relations, libertarianism, young conservatives, business; articles on power of amicus briefs; paper on states’ response to crime; article on social change; paper on interest groups’ effects on black voter mobilization; papers on interest groups and litigation; articles on amicus curiae; newspaper clippings on amicus briefs; newspaper clipping on American Bar Association’s influence on justice nominations; paper on interest groups and privacy

7. Interest Group – Amicus input: Journal article on states as amicus curiae of Sup.Ct.; essay by Susan M. Olson on interest group litigation; journal article on NAACP as amici of court; paper on foundations’ influence on Sup. Ct. decisions; journal article on courts as vehicles for social change; student paper on amicus curiae brief (open to p5); essay on the NAACP in Alabama; paper on third parties in litigation; newspaper clipping on ACLU’s frustration with Sup. Ct.; essay on National Consumers’ League’s participation in court (open to p282); essay on organizations’ input (open to p189); page from Civil Liberties newspaper on ACLU and right to council; academic paper on lobbying through litigation; magazine article “Avoiding the Supreme Court”; reprinted newspaper articles on ACLU in Southern California; bibliography of books and articles for group interest in court; newspaper article on public participation in antitrust settlements; essay on NAACP’s strategy to oppose segregation in housing; journal article on conservative interest group litigation; paper on interest groups; paper on rules limiting amicus curiae briefs per Sup. Ct. term; journal article on interest groups as lobbyists; journal article rejecting interest groups as lobbyists; paper on amici curiae in courts of appeals; newspaper photocopy about group access to court; article on civil rights group litigation in Mississippi; photocopy of newspaper article on justice department “pressure” in New Orleans police case; photocopy of newspaper article on group access to court; newspaper clippings on value of amici; typed case title and info; book review on conservatives in court; newspaper clipping on conservative group’s litigation strategy; handwritten list of cases and written and oral amici with tallies and charts; journal article on gaining access to courts; journal article on interest group participation in confirmation of Judge Bork; journal article on interest group invincibility; essay on interest group conflict; journal article on Webster v. Reproductive Health Services and its amicus briefs; printouts of e-mails debating value of amicus briefs; letter published in NY Review from Dr. Jack Kevorkian to Justice Rehnquist arguing for legalization of euthanasia; newspaper article on Bush appointees; journal article on interest groups in federal nominations

8. Womens’ orgs + Litigation Strategy: Journal article on amici curiae in Sup. Ct. review of fetal protection policies; journal article on lobbying in Webster v. Reproductive health services; 1977 annual report from National Organization for Women legal defense and education fund; Journal clipping on NOW’s representation in Idaho court case; newspaper clippings on the proposed Federal Equal Rights Amendment; NOW promotional pamphlet; multiple newspaper clippings on NOW’s boycott of states not ratifying ERA and allegations of trust activity; handwritten notes on Sup. Ct. cases and family laws; more newspaper clippings on ERA’s ratification efforts including Mormon opposition; handwritten notes on book about litigation strategy in women’s suffrage; newsletter article on women’s legal champions; handwritten notes on amici in women’s issue case; 2000 annual NOW LDEF report; paper on ACLU women’s rights project; handwritten notes on women’s litigation in modern era; paper on interest group participation in gender litigation; paper on the ERA and litigation as strategy; paper on women’s rights groups and the supreme court; NOW mailing; newspaper clipping on case of public university’s women’s studies program; newspaper clipping on Reagan trying to defund organizations like NOW LDEF; NOW LDEF pamphlet asking for contributions; newsletter article on Women’s Law Fund; narrative of the NOW v. Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company case; photocopy of book cover: Litigation on Behalf of Women by Margaret A. Berger; typed list of “organized groups using litigation strategy in women’s cases”; a report to the ford foundation “Nine for Equality Under Law: Civil Rights Litigation”; excerpt from Conservatives In Court; newspaper clipping about NOW lobbying Sup. Ct. to not overturn Roe v. Wade; newspaper clipping on charitable organizations that lobby and tax exemptions; newspaper clipping on feminist advocacy; newspaper clippings on RICO ruling and abortion debate; paper on Women’s Rights Litigation in the 1980s

9. Amicus: Paper on generalized approach to study of group litigation; paper on amicus curiae as friendship and advocacy; paper on rules governing amicus curiae participation; paper discussing Hakman’s views of amicus curiae; a paper studying the political status of interest group as a determinant of access; paper on Sup. Ct. support for the solicitor general; handwritten notes on solicitor general’s roles; handwritten notes on interest groups’ participation in different courts; handwritten notes on judges’ sources of information; handwritten notes on “outside” pressure on agenda; notes on book by Wasby on why lawyers/clients choose courts for resolution of problems; typed paper on women’s rights groups in court with hand annotations; handwritten notes on U.S. as amicus curiae; handwritten notes on Hakman lobbying the Sup. Ct.; handwritten notes on US using court for enforcement; photocopy of newspaper article on Stanley Brand, House’s Chief Lawyer; journal article on role of U.S. solicitor general’s amicus curiae role; paper on conservative interest group litigation; paper on litigation activities of state attorneys general; paper on Thurgood Marshall as Solicitor General; journal article on women’s rights groups beyond legislative lobbying; Journal of Public Law cover stapled to article on strategies and tactics of litigants in constitutional cases; paper on American Jewish groups in supreme court religion cases; typed outline on friendship/advocacy of amicus curiae by Samuel Krislov with handwritten annotations; journal article on prolific amicus curiae and their agendas; newspaper clipping about civil rights group’s support of affirmative action in Sup. Ct.; journal article on amici curiae in Sup. Ct. review of fetal protection policies; paper analyzing amicus briefs in Webster v. Reproductive Health Services; journal article on amicus curiae and information at Sup. Ct.; journal article on the who, when, and how much of amicus curiae; journal article on interest groups in Federal District Court

10. SCt Bar Correspondence: Journal article on small firm lawyers arguing before the Sup.Ct.; newspaper clipping on Sup. Ct. insider lawyers; newspaper article on admission to Sup. Ct.; journal article on written appellate briefs; newspaper article noting lack of female lawyers before Sup.Ct.; journal article on interaction between law and politics; pages of handwritten charts and notes of ratios of female counsels appearing and arguing Sup. Ct. cases; newspaper article on women lawyers before Sup. Ct.; journal article on success of experienced lawyers; journal article on legal elites; newspaper obituary of Beatrice Rosenberg, leading female lawyer; journal article about Joan s. Brennan’s decision to become a lawyer; repeat journal article on success of experienced lawyers

11. Mobilization |Work Accepted for Publication| Party Inputs: Class etc.: Journal article overviewing federal class actions; journal article on legal mobilization and who uses the law; paper on federal agencies before the Sup. Ct.; journal article on the legal services program’s success; handwritten notes on access to Sup. Ct.; series of handwritten notes on roles, norms, and values in courts; newspaper photocopies of article on group access to courts; handwritten papers, possibly a draft, about access to courts with references to specific cases; handwritten notes on input cost and use of class action and typed notes and court reports on Morton Eisen v. Carlisle &Jacquelin; handwritten outline of output concepts; journal article on judicial review in textbooks; typed draft on nullification in Sup. Ct.; book chapter on access to the federal courts and justices’ ability to choose controversies; journal article on Equal Access to Justice Act; paper on Supreme Court’s Impact on litigation; journal article on the mobilization of law

12. |Old-New Chair Mailings| Party Characteristics: Paper on role of litigants in judicial decision making; journal article on parties and outcomes in reported opinions; journal article on who uses the courts and how; journal afterword on one – shot and repeat litigation; newspaper clipping on local government lobbies in Sup.Ct.; journal article on Sup. Ct. composition and local gov. litigation; journal article on states and the Sup. Ct.; journal article on administrative agencies and the court; journal article on political parties in Sup.Ct.; journal article on how categories of litigants affect their success; paper on the role of political parties in the fed.courts; newspaper article on the time and money risked by litigants to defend principles in Sup. Ct.

13. Social Science – Non-Legal Input: Journal article on Sup. Ct.’s use of secondary source material; book chapter on social scientists as expert witnesses; paper on school segregation cases; journal article on whether judges can use social science evidence; journal article on legal sanctions; paper on justices as political scientists; journal article on experimental jurisprudence; journal article on decision theory; article on scientific methods as a barrier to solving legal problems; photocopies from book on experimental jurisprudence; newspaper clipping on faulty research behind Sup. Ct. ban on capital punishment; typed overview of book on Massachusetts Witchcraft Trials; journal article on Roosevelt’s New Deal’s application of social science to policy; published paper by H. Laurence Ross on British Road Safety Act; book chapter on social science research as tool in courts; book review (from journal) on Social Science in the Courtroom; newsletter highlighting relationships between law and sociology; journal article arguing that empirical data does not eliminate doubts in court decisions; journal article on use of survey research in court; journal article on social science’s influence on judges; photocopy of notice to justices of letters as evidence; journal article reprint on school segregation cases; journal article on weight of scientific evidence; typed outline of previous article; handwritten notecard on segregation cases; paper on social science for justification in death penalty cases; journal article on validation of scientific evidence as decision maker; journal article on social science reducing legitimacy of rulings; journal article on social science and the law; journal article by Oliver Wendell Holmes on practical and scientific aspects of judging; chapter on propaganda in court; journal article on social science in school desegregation cases; journal article on social statistics as aids to court; journal article on statistics in employment discrimination case; newspaper clipping on statistics in IBM race discrimination case; torn summary of book Social Science Methods; newspaper clipping on trend of using statistics; clipping of letter to newspaper on misuse of statistics; journal article on social science in legal culture; newspaper clipping on Sup. Ct. use of scientific testimony in Daubert case; (2 similar photocopies of)journal article on social science in Sup. Ct. criminal cases; journal article on social science in death penalty cases; newspaper clipping on acceptance of science experts’ opinions in court; newspaper clipping on Kumho case and expert witnesses; clipping of citation of Sup. Ct. Federalist Papers book

14. 421 22A Parties and the Courts 84-85 [folder inside folder titled Fem. PHd diss.]: Group of newspaper articles on Janet Reno’s request for U.S. attorneys to resign; journal article on parties’ attitudes toward Sup. Ct.; newspaper article on Iowa democratic chairman treated highly in Yugoslavia; typed draft with hand annotations on federal policy; cotter’s master copy of typed outline on courts and parties with hand annotations; continuations of previous outline with charts; preliminary typed draft of paper on presidents, justices, and racial equality cases; typed notes about public opinion in Sup. Ct.; typed notes from books and journal articles on judges and mainstream politics; essay on political party affiliation and judges’ decisions; newspaper clipping on judge’s recess appointment’s illegality; photocopy of newspaper article on FCC expedited hearing; typed outline with hand annotations on judicial patronage including a journal blurb about rejection of new judgships and a table on party’s affiliation with decisions; two photocopied letters between Roy Harper, District Court, and Matthew Connelly, Secretary to the President; typed book excerpt about Truman asking Chief Justice Vinson to visit Moscow; photocopy of newspaper article on political contributions and money laundering; two journal articles on backgrounds and behavior of judges; photocopy of newspaper article on Nixon’s nomination of justices; newspaper clipping on reversal of Burger Ct. opinion by Warren Ct.; journal article on rejected judge running for senate; handwritten note on Sup. Ct. appointments; typed excerpt on Chief Justice and President’s differing opinions on the Constitution; photocopy of newspaper article on association between Justice Wolfson and sentenced man; photocopy of newspaper articles on states’ primaries for independents; photocopy of court’s decision and article on endorsements in primaries; journal article on incumbent judges’ success; photocopies of newspaper articles on campaign funds ruling; table on selection methods for state appellate and trial judges; copy of newspaper article on NY politicians and fees to supervise estates; typed outline with handwritten annotations on judicial patronage; more typed tables on judicial appointments; handwritten notes on presidents’ appointments; typed notes on significance of appointments; three more copies of tables on judicial appointments

Series 1, Cabinet 9, Drawer 2, Box 78 

General note

Box 78[back half of original Box #34—Cabinet #9 / Drawer #2]

1. Law Clerks – U.S. SCt + CA [Court of Appeals]: Newspaper clipping on criticism of Sup. Ct. by Justice Stevens; reprint of journal article on law clerks’ roles; clipping from journal: a list of circuit clerks and their future plans; book reviews from journal on law clerks; journal article on value of “elbow clerks”; research project on Washington and Oregon high courts’ clerk system; newspaper clipping on writing decisions; newspaper clipping on justice hiring clerks; newspaper clipping on clerk’s relationship to Mormon church; journal article on clerks’ influence in decisions; journal article on Sup. Ct. clerks revealing confidential information; paper on continuation of clerkship programs; handwritten notes on law clerks; journal article on clerks’ relationships with judges; essay on selection, training, and use of appeals court law clerks; newspaper clipping on justices needing experienced clerks to handle workload; newspaper clipping on first black Sup. Ct. clerk; paper on screening of clerks in court of appeals; journal clipping on clerk selection process; journal clipping on lobbying of law clerks; journal article on sensibility of clerks in local courts; research study on law clerks; article by one-time clerk for Justice Stone on his routine; journal article on judicial fellows program; journal clipping on clerks’ future; newspaper clipping on selection of clerks; journal clipping with list of clerkships; newspaper clipping on man suing court for using clerks to review cases instead of justices; newspaper clipping listing clerkships; newspaper clipping on clerks’ work in Sup. Ct.; journal clipping on getting top clerkships; clipping on Scalia’s clerks’ backgrounds; clipping on clerkship openings; clipping announcing marriage of two clerks; newspaper clipping on clerkships for elite; journal article on high court apprenticeship; article about Pomona graduates as clerks; photocopy of journal’s list of clerks’ career plans; journal article on cerks’ recommendations and justices’ votes; journal article on bureaucracy of clerks; paper on clerks and Sup. Ct.’s agenda; journal article on gender discrimination in clerkships; journal clipping on gender bias in Sup.Ct.; newspaper clipping on rewards of clerks; journal article on 1989 Sup. Ct. clerks; journal clipping on historical influence of clerks; journal clipping on Marshall clerks; journal article on journal editors becoming clerks; journal clipping on mid-career Sup. Ct. clerk; paper on Sup. Ct. law clerks; journal article on former clerks appearing before Sup.Ct.; journal article on clerks’ roles; newspaper clipping on lack of minority clerks; journal article on law clerks compared to European referendaires; journal article on Sup.Ct. law clerks by Sally Kenney with note of thanks to Bev from Sally behind cover; journal article on Sup. Ct. clerks and political polarization; newspaper clipping on clerks’ judge choices and career paths; journal review of The Brethren discussing clerks and confidentiality

2. Women Law Clerks to Judges: Series of letters associated with Lucille Lomen: handwritten draft and typed letter to Justice Douglas asking for recommendation, letters of recommendation, letters expressing doubts over hiring a woman and asking about Lomen’s qualifications, bulletin announcement of her appointment by Justice Douglas; journal clipping on 1986 clerkships; journal articles listing new clerks’ schools and outgoing clerks’ career paths; photocopy of newspaper article on outgoing clerks’ plans with handwritten chart of female-male ratios; photocopy from The Brethren about Burger’s opinions on women’s career equality with handwritten note to Professor Cook; handwritten chart on 1984 clerks’ new jobs; newspaper clippings on Justice Stewart’s three clerks during his resignation; newspaper list of 1979 high court clerks with females underlined; newspaper clippings about selection of clerks, part-time lawyering, and careers for former clerks, rosters of selections, dominance of white males and lack of females; handwritten chart of 1983 clerks highlighting females; handwritten set of charts, tallies, draft work, including a list of female clerks from 1944-1985; draft of paper with chart on selection of female clerks

3. Solicitor – General: Letter from S.G. Rankin to Sup. Ct. clerk re. Trop v. Dulles; pair of journal articles on S.G. role in Sup.Ct.; journal articles on historical role of S.G. and A.G.; journal article on Sup. Ct. decisions’ relationships with circuit courts; journal article about Reagan’s S.G. lobbying Sup. Ct.; review of Tenth Justice, arguing S.G. as executive or judicial figure; newspaper article on S.G. encouraging an appeal to be denied; newspaper clipping on S.G. Days’s losing record; newspaper clipping criticizing S.G. as executive player; S.G.’s portions of annual A.G. reports from 1964, 1968, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1979, and 1983; paper on S.G. as amicus curiae; paper on S.G.’s impact on Sup. Ct. economic regulation; paper on S.G.’s maximization of government’s success in law; paper on S.G. as amicus curiae; paper on political change and U.S. participating in Sup. Ct.; paper on S.G. in equality cases; transcript of address to the 9th circuit court by Wade McCree; magazine article on Thurgood Marshall; journal article on functions of S.G. office; newspaper clipping on S.G. denouncing civil disobedience; journal clipping detailing Sobeloff’s confirmation to S.G.; newspaper clipping on U.S. backing mental patients’ right to treatment; newspaper clipping about Dean Griswold becoming S.G.; newspaper and journal articles about black S.G. McCree’s struggle with race before and during job; NOW news article arguing against Rex Lee’s appointment as S.G.; newspaper clippings on McCree; journal article on Rex Lee’s retirement from S.G.; photocopied chapter on “Arguing Cases” from In Brief Authority by Francis Biddle; journal article speculating on Lee’s replacement; typed notes with hand annotations on S.G.’s role in development of law; newspaper article on tardiness of S.G. Bork delaying Sup. Ct.; newspaper article on US gov.’s advice being turned away by Sup. Ct.; newspaper article on judicial knowledge; newspaper clippings on justices and S.G. disagreeing; clipping on S.G. office turnovers; newspaper photocopies on S.G. and Reagan agenda; clippings on Lee’s proceedings; newspaper article on appointment of Starr and confirmation of Fried; obit of dep. S.G. Bator; clipping on Reagan trying to overturn Roe v. Wade; clipping on S.G. Fried and Chastity Act; clipping on Japanese detention case; newspaper review of The Court and the Constitution; newspaper photocopies on justices criticizing Fried; newspaper article on Fried and unions; photocopied list of Solicitors General, 1870-1989; letter from S.G. Griswold to Justice Burger requesting times; newspaper article on politicization of S.G. office; article reviewing S.G. Fried’s work; journal article on public info on Sup. Ct.; paper on success of S.G.; journal article on policy between president and S.G.; paper on S.G. role in women’s rights policy; journal articles on politics of S.G.; journal article on S.G. Days’ moderation and compromise; newspaper obit of former S.G. Griswold

4. NAWJ – Newsletter [with folder inside “PR 326 The Attorney General and the Solicitor General]: Newspaper clipping on Reagan administration pushing drug testing in Sup. Ct.; journal article describing S.G. duties; newspaper photocopy on Bush appointing Starr for S.G.; photocopies of newspaper articles on justices and S.G. relationship; photocopies of the “Tenth Justice” journal series; newspaper articles on S.G. and politics, federal/state powers, and Reagan agenda; newspaper article on S.G. Lee’s politics and success; newspaper interview with S.G. Fried; newspaper articles on A.G. Mitchell controlling secret Republican fund; newspaper articles on Nixon campaign contributions; newspaper articles on S.G. Fried’s confirmation and politics; newspaper article on indicted man scheduling lunch with A.G.; newspaper article on federal judge Claiborne’s indictment for bribery; newspaper article on relationship between A.G. and president; newspaper article on U.S. Attorney’s investigation and role in Boston politics; photocopies from book on S.G. and reapportionment; newspaper clippings on A.G. Mitchell’s prosecutions, transparency of court; journal article on A.G. Jackson and Pres. Roosevelt; journal articles on roles of S.G.; typed summary of Supreme Court Decision Making; newspaper article on Equal Rights Amendment; newspaper article about Mitchell’s agenda in milk cooperative; report on Justice Department; journal article on Reagan administration’s slowness with Justice Department; newspaper article on anti-trust efforts agains AT&T; newspaper article on establishment of national standards for U.S. prosecutors; newspaper clipping on S.G. McCree and couples’ taxes; stapled: photocopies of articles on Griswold and Saxbe in Watergate case, handwritten notes, article on Justice Department’s representation of Nixon, testimony of Assistant A.G. Peterson, article on special prosecutor Cox, articles on his dismissal; newspaper article on political importance of DOJ in desegregation; typed summary of Kennedy Justice; typed quotes from The Supreme Court and the Presidency; newspaper articles on claims against Iran; newspaper articles: “U.S. can sue itself”; newspaper article on validity of Nazi case appeal; newspaper articles on FDA beer labeling case, Korean lobbying, and 1980 census; newspaper article on Civiletti and Billy Carter; newspaper clipping on implementation on national standards for U.S. prosecutors; newspaper clippings on FTC, out-of court negotiations, and Nixon’s immunity from liability; handwritten note on LBJ on wiretapping; copy of LBJ memorandum for A.G.; newspaper article on justice for politicians; newspaper article on Carter hiring Kirbo; journal and many newspaper articles on A.G. Griffin Bell’s performance and tactics, often critical; newspaper article on judge’s illegally soft penalties for indicted Houston policemen; book photocopies on enforcement of antitrust laws; newspaper clippings on control of lawsuits, investigation of F.B.I.; photocopy of Warren’s memoirs discussing Mitchell and Griswold’s desire to influence court in wiretapping case; typed quote from The Federal Courts as a Political System about lawyers working for government; newspaper clippings on suits against gov. surveillance and who defends; newspaper articles on Nixon’s role in Watergate and association with justice department and Saxbe; typed quote from President Jackson manipulating A.G.; newspaper clipping on Callaway and Florida primary; newspaper clipping on Justice Department refusing to defend wiretaps; newspaper clipping on S.G.-Designate McCree; newspaper photocopies challenging FEC and campaign reform;journal article by Victor Navasky, “The Politics of Justice”; newspaper photocopy about AG Saxbe limiting publicity; newspaper photocopy about Hoover’s secret files; paper on specialization and tenure affecting Sup. Ct. justices’ votes

5. Women Judges A-G Janet Reno: Letter with charts from research on U.S. Attorneys 1968-1972; newspaper clippings and photocopies on female U.S. attorneys; two lists of positions in DOJ with incumbents and salaries; handwritten notecards on female attorneys and patronage effects; letter to Ms. Cook from Dep. A.G. giving list of legal staffs; statement by U.S. Commission on Civil Rights with charts on minorities and women; typed chart on female U.S. attorneys in federal districts with hand notes; handwritten notes; U.S. D.O.J.-issued alphabetic locator of U.S. Attorneys and Assistant U.S. Attorneys, 1977

6. Att-Gen. UWM Campus Planning Committee Subcommittee on Use of Downer Seminary Facilities: Essay on A.G. and presidential power; newspaper clippings on A.G. selections (Edward Levi); research publication on roles of A.G.; journal article on A.G. on antitrust; photocopies from book about Truman firing A.G. and corruption; newspaper article on Saxbe and Nixon; journal article on A.G. Levi; newspaper articles on A.G. in busing case; congressional record of Senator Nelson’s negative vote in appointment of A.G. Bell; newspaper and journal articles on Bell and Civiletti, appointments and performances; newspaper photocopies about A.G. Smith trying to cut back influence of courts; newspaper clippings about A.G. in Sup. Ct. cases; photocopy of underlined U.S. laws about A.G. and special prosecutors; journal article about A.G. Clifford in Civil War era; papers by Susan M. Olson on federal litigation; chapter on D.O.J. patronage; newspaper articles on A.G. Meese; paper by Nancy Baker of Tulane University on Ford’s choice of A.G with handwritten letter to Bev Cook presenting the paper to her; journal article on A.G. Katzenbach; charts of cabinet members; newspaper articles on A.G. Thornburgh; journal book review of memoirs of Kleindienst; articles on Meese’s constitutional debates; journal article by A.G. Thornburgh responding to criticism of A.G. ethics; memorandum from A.G. for White House on desegregation of commercial establishments with hand notes; paper draft on George Bush’s Attorneys General

7. U.S. Attorney: Newspaper clipping on senators recommending U.S. attorneys; 1983 explanation of the Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys; newspaper clippings on dismissal and reinstatement of Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert M. Smith and other articles about dismissals and resignations; political cartoon from newspaper about political appointments; newspaper clipping about prosecutors and corruption; journal articles about U.S. Attorney Morgenthau, his forced resignation; newspaper article on charges against Assistant U.S. Attorney Gerald Feffer; newspaper articles on Fed. prosecutor shortage, Seymour appointments, replacement of Morgenthau, and other federal cases and appointments; journal article on Jim Thompson; newspaper photocopies on Bell’s corruption inquiries; typed article about “Big Jim” Thompson; newspaper articles on Marstan inquiry, New Jersey attorney replacement, attorney loyalties; essay on prosecution politics; miscellaneous newspaper articles about U.S. attorneys; paper on economics of criminal courts; clipping announcing Shirah Neiman as a prosecutor

8. US Dept. of Justice: Newspaper articles on women in Justice Department under A.G. Janet Reno, highlighting Anne Bingaman, head of antitrust; journal article about the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC); newspaper clippings on justice department workings; newspaper clippings on William Bryson, antitrust cutbacks, Frederick Lacey; 1968 issue from U.S. Anti-Communist Congress, Inc. urging people to write to A.G. Clark in favor of heavier law enforcement; letter from U.S. Attorney James Brennan re. gun control in Wisconsin; pamphlet on HUAC’s development of detention centers; newspaper article on A.G. Ramsey; journal articles on A.G. John Mitchell and his decisions; journal article on Robert Mardian and anti-communism; newspaper clippings on Justice Department; address by A.G. Mitchell, “What Kind of World Do You Want?”; paper on the civil rights division by Assistant A.G. Jerris Leonard; newspaper articles on Dpt. of Justice; release from Dpt. of Justice by A.G. Mitchell in 1972 presenting successes under President Nixon; newspaper clippings on Dpt. of Justice; journal article on Hoover’s F.B.I.; articles on civil rights, A.G. Clark, Assistant A.G. Kleindienst; newspaper articles on Dpt. of Justice; newspaper articles on wiretapping decision; journal article on Elliot Richardson; paper on antitrust enforcement; journal article on organization of district attorneys and A.G.; bios and backgrounds of Justice Dpt. members under A.G. Smith (torn from book); typed history of civil rights attention by Dpt. of Justice; bibliographic notecard of Federal Justice; more typed notes on civil rights in Dpt. of Justice; journal article on court reform; newspaper clippings on anti-trust efforts, civil rights, miscellaneous Justice Dpt. concerns; journal article and clipping about A.G. Janet Reno

Series 1, Cabinet 9, Drawer 3 

Series 1, Cabinet 9, Drawer 3, Box 81 

General note

Box 81 [front half of original Box #35—Cabinet #9 / Drawer #3]

1. Privacy – General: Paper on privacy doctrines in states; draft of paper on privacy and right not to speak; commentary on rights of free speech and right not to listen; journal articles on privacy in mass society; typed outline for law school course with homework and meeting topics; handwritten notes of articles for class; handwritten bibliography; book review of book on records; journal articles on personal privacy v. wiretapping technology; summaries/reviews of books on the right of privacy; handwritten notecard on Wisconsin v. Yoder; published report for the president on privacy and behavioral research; papers studying privacy; suggested reading list for participants in seminar on privacy; handwritten draft; case of doctor-patient confidentiality case; handwritten outline on women and privacy; journal articles on privacy issues

2. Professions + Ethics: Group of handwritten notecards; request for grant to analyze “professional” and “political” judges; essay from book on professions and social structure; photocopies from Professionalization; journal articles on professional ethics; pamphlet on politics and ethics; paper on professionalism and policy making; journal article on professionalism in politics; report on professional ethics for judges and lawyers; essay on sociology of legal profession

3. Property + Marriage: Handwritten notes on Percy v. Campbell; newspaper articles on laws giving husbands power over property; handwritten notes on Hoeper v. Tax Commissioner; journal article revisiting Sullivan case; paper on women’s historical property rights; journal article on community property; newspaper articles on common law marriage, degrees, shared debts, incomes, and marital property; records of Arnett v. Reade, US v. Robbins, Fernandez v. Wiener; newspaper articles on property issues in divorce cases; book chapter on post-American Revolution legal status of women; booklet published by attorneys on the WI Marital Property Act; newspaper articles on education “property” law reversal; journal article on takings appraisals; journal article on naked land transfers; journal article on property tax uniformity clauses

4. Property (new): Journal article on property use, antitrust laws; journal article on social security rights; records of Goldbert v. Kelly and Wheeler v. Montgomery; journal article on due process; journal article on withdrawal of welfare; journal articles on wage garnishment; paper on property and political development; newspaper article on false affidavits; journal article on the disadvantaged and the Burger Ct.; journal article on free speech and the Burger Ct.; journal article on property rights in regard to neighbors and others; journal article “Instrumentalism and Property Rights”; handwritten notes on private property of corporations and inheritances; journal article on Sup. Ct. property decisions; newspaper article on police power regulation of land use; paper on Sup. Ct. and state regulation of business; journal articles on contracts; paper on deference to legislature; paper on the Justices’ influence on property rights; journal article on sin taxes; paper on Locke’s view on property; journal article on public services, especially firefighting; journal article on property rights of Indian lands, etc.

5. Zoning + Land Use – Law: Newspaper article on zoning; journal articles on urban law; journal article on zoning against public welfare; paper on order/diversity of community growth; typed excerpts/outline from The Urban Condition; typed overview of People ex rel Peck v. City of L.A.; journal article on quasi-judicial bodies; journal articles on racial segregation between inner cities and suburbs with graphs and charts; journal article on civil rights and low income housing zoning; newspaper articles on racial and economic consequences of zoning; journal article on housing authorities

6. Psychology: Newspaper articles on the stability of judges, use of psychiatrists in court cases; journal article on psycholinguistics in confessions; journal article on hypnosis as support of psychiatric testimony; newspaper article on right not to be examined by psychiatrist; typed outline of Law and Psychology in Conflict; newspaper articles on mental victims and rights of psychiatrists; journal articles on legal procedure of commitment and civil commitment; handwritten request by Cook for UWM interlibrary loan; newspaper articles on protections for mentally ill, commitment of addicts; journal article on psychologist as expert witness; Feb. 1969 issue of Psychology Today subtitled “Does the Law work for you?”; newspaper article on regular psychiatric sessions for police; report of Humphry v. Cady and Lessard v. Schmidt; journal article on competency for trial; handwritten bib. of book by Freud and Bullitt on Pres. Wilson; journal articles on personality and psychology in politics; newspaper article on judges’ opinions on wearing robes; photocopy of intro and one essay from Psychopathology and Political Leadership by Robert S. Robins of Tulane; journal articles on “the social self,” individual/group dynamics, and anxiety/ritual

7. Public – Private: Journal article on gender and family in regards to social and political thought; photocopy from book on 19th century law and the family; essay on women’s studies and political research; journal article on Aid to Families with Dependent Children policies; journal article on succession of property; journal articles on judicial and government intervention in family; journal article on juvenile dependency courts; journal article on Mill and Nietzsche, and Postmodern Liberalism; paper on political non-decision-making and women’s issues; handwritten notes on dichotomy of public/private male/female relationships; journal articles on State Action Doctrine; journal article on private-public policy and insurance; newspaper clipping on effects of corporations and unions on public and suggestion of guidelines; journal article on law making by private groups; journal article on Communications Satellite Act of 1962; journal article on public-private law distinction in Europe and U.S.; journal comments on J.I. Case v. Borak; memorandum on Irvis v. Scott private discrimination and liquor license case; newspaper articles with examples of public-private boundaries and regulations; journal article on involuntary contributions; paper on Kant’s public-private philosophy; journal article on public-private boundary; paper on intimate environments and political behavior; handwritten notes on technology in public-private dichotomy; review of Public Man, Private Woman; newspaper article on homeless problem; published lecture on public and private government; journal article on Lucy Sprague Mitchell’s feminism; journal article on private sector alliances with corrections institutions; journal article on private police; newspaper article on private Financial Accounting Standards Board; newspaper clippings on fee-shifting and privately-run churches, jails, courts, and libraries

8. Public / Private: Handwritten draft on distinctions of public/private; essay on gender, p/p, and politics with underlines and notes; handwritten draft and notes on conceptualization, ideology of p/p, women’s roles in courts and law enforcement; hand drawn diagrams of range of private to public institutions; charts of percentages of women in work positions; handwritten draft with charts on movement of women across boundaries and definition of sphere; paper on women in politics; notes on Elshtain’s writings; journal article on American women in politics before 1920 with underlines and notes; journal article on social control; journal article on private-public and suffragists; journal article on privatization of Tennessee prisons; journal article on juvenile court and welfare with underlines and notes; journal article on government-business relations and laissez-faire; journal article on decision making in p/p organizations; journal article on Rousseau and virtue

9. Public Interest: Journal article on public interest in administrative decision-making; journal article on ethos theory in politics;

10. [old label: “convention papers”] Value: Public Trust: Journal article on police detentions and questionings; journal article on proper police protection; journal articles arguing for or against validity of exclusionary rule, esp. relating to the Fourth Amendment; records of Mapp v. Ohio with underlines and handwritten notes attached; journal article on search and seizure; journal article on the Bivens case; journal articles on controlling police practices; details from Wolf v. Colorado

11. Reason: Journal article on “brute fact” and rationality; journal article on the distrust of reason; handwritten notes on The Nature of Rationality; paper criticizing rational choice theory; journal article on the anthropology of law and the reasonable man; journal article on rationality in regulation; journal article theorizing on character and reason; journal article studying rationality and legal change in colonial Connecticut

Series 1, Cabinet 9, Drawer 3, Box 82 

General note

Box 82 [back half of original Box #35—Cabinet #9 / Drawer #3]

1. Reasonable Doubt: Journal article on the definition of reasonable doubt

2. Recruitment: Journal articles on decision to become a legislator and recruitment structures; typed outlines of articles on judicial recruitment; paper on legislative attitudes toward corruption

3. Religion [other titles crossed out]: Journal article on American religion and politics; paper on justices’ values versus pragmatism; paper on the Burger Court and separation of church and state; journal article on resurgence of religion in political activism; journal article on political thought; photocopies from book on civil religion; journal article on regional and religious effects on politics; journal article on political cohesion in churches; journal article on liberalism and religious and sexual issues; review of book on religion in American politics; journal article based on book on bill of rights; journal article on twentieth century growth of religion

4. Representation [other titles crossed out]: Journal article on descriptive representatives; journal articles on voting rights and representation; journal article on state attorneys general; journal article on behavioral theory; journal article on criminal process in suppressing riots; journal essay comparing democratic theories of James Mill and John Stuart Mill; two versions of paper on constituency influence on courts; paper on sentencing practices of federal judges and public demand; edited transcript of forum on judicial representation; journal article on environmental influences on judicial decision making; handwritten notes on similarity of role as judge and legislator; handwritten notes on legislative and judicial opinion and output; journal article on California Superior Courts; draft of paper on judicial representation with letter to Bev Cook asking for input; journal article on gender descriptive representation; journal article on medieval thought in American politics

5. Revolution [other titles crossed out]: Journal article on Locke and Aristotle’s theories of revolution

6. Rights, Libs, Freedoms: Journal article on human rights in American history; journal article on concepts of legal rights; journal article on liberalism; journal article on environmental law; journal article on constitutional rights; journal article on preferred freedoms; journal article analyzing Dworkin’s theory of rights; journal review of three books American rights

7. Risk: Journal review of book on risk and culture; draft of paper on socialization of risk

8. Science: Journal article on value of science; Nov.-Dec. issue of Judicature about new genetics and justice

9. Seniority: Journal article on seniority in the House of Representatives; set of political cartoons about seniority

10. Sep/Pow [Separation of Powers] [old label: Wis SAC/CCR Milwaukee Police Study Transcript of Hearings I]: Journal article about court siding with Congress over president on question of special prosecutors; journal article on Morrison v. Olson

11. Socialization: Journal article on political regimes and efficacy; notecard bib of Principles of Organization; paper on “Prismatic Society”; paper on personal experiences of becoming a judge; journal article on political socialization; journal article on individuals and legislative sub-groups among California freshmen assemblymen; journal article on the learning concept in political socialization; book review on Political Socialization in Western Society

12. Sovereignty Statism: Handmade charts on statism; journal article on justices’ opinions; journal article on government aide to citizens; journal article on sovereign immunity; journal article on Sup. Ct. as defender of statism; draft of paper on capitalism and states with request for comments; journal article on Neo-Marxism, Corporatism, and Statism; journal article on functions and future of the state; journal article on the relevance of the state; journal article on bureaucratic government; journal article on morality and bureaucracy; journal article on politics of state or market; coverless issue of International Political Science Review focusing on state concept; journal article on “return to the state” movement; essay on Wagner Act; newspaper article on sovereignty of Yakama Nation over nonnative population on reservation

13. Bringing Back the State: Handwritten notes on The Art of Political Manipulation; journal article on the limits of the state; journal article on violence as tool of state making; journal response about limits of the state; journal article on return to the state; photocopies of The Development of the Modern State; essay on ties between the state and economic history; NAWJ newsletter, summer 1995; essay combining theories on statism; journal article on public/private weather organization; book review about state formation in England; paper on state-centered politics and the constitution by Stephen M. Griffin of Tulane Law School

14. Orgs Structure: Cover facsimile of Sociological Inquiry Spring 1968; essay on “Effects of Legislative Structure on Legislative Performance”; journal article on organization theory in congress; journal article on structural equation models; journal articles on goals in complex organizations, social structure, formal organization, political structure, and models of bureaucracy which permit conflict

15. Support: Reprinted journal article on communal ideology; reprinted journal article on political support; journal article on intensity; journal article on political competence; journal article on interest group cohesion; journal article on state as religion; journal article on voting patterns

16. Symbols: Journal article on the concept of ideology; journal article on political symbolism; newspaper article on Uncle Sam and American symbols; journal article on protest symbols; paper on the symbolic meaning of the constitution; journal article on myths and rituals; journal article on the symbol and human behavior; handwritten notes on trial as drama; journal article on equestrian imagery; newspaper article on Soviet rituals; journal article on legal realism and symbolism; journal article on uniformity and judges’ robes; journal article on congress-Sup. Ct. relationship and the flag; newspaper clipping on flag case; newspaper clipping on judge displaying ten commandments in courtroom

17. Systems Analyses: Typed outline on party functions; typed outline of systems analysis with diagram of political system; typed outline on party and political system; paper on concepts in the political system; journal article on judicial systems analysis; journal article on American Emigration; journal article on dimensions of political systems; newspaper article on Forrester’s law on efforts to improve; journal article on behavioral political science; journal article on David Easton’s political theory; journal article on scientific explanations in political science

18. Taxation: Journal article on history of taxation in France; journal article on taxation in advanced capitalist democracies

19. Technology: Journal article on social implications of technology with handwritten notes attached; journal article on judges and science; journal article on technology and tort law

20. Tolerance (Prejudice, Hate, Bias): Los Angeles Times newspaper section on ethnic conflict; journal article on political intolerance during the McCarthy era; journal article on fascism and political tolerance

Series 1, Cabinet 9, Drawer 4 

Series 1, Cabinet 9, Drawer 4, Box 57 

General note

Box 57[first half of original Box #36—Cabinet #9 / Drawer #4]

1. Behavioral Explanations— CA [(Court of Appeals)]: D.C. Circuit Court Judicial Directory; law journal, scholarly articles on Circ. Ct. relations and voting patterns; handwritten notes on Presidents and their Circ. Ct. appointments; tables on litigants and their successes; handwritten notes on book discussing Ct. of Apps.; chart analyzing case flow from Apps. Ct. to Sup. Ct.; typed notes on variables to code studies; proposal to National Science Foundation to create database for U.S. Ct. of Apps.

2. Omnibus Act — 1977-78: Typed charts on numbers/sources of federal judgeships; handwritten notes and charts on Omnibus Judgeship Act; clippings on changes in number of judges; newspaper articles on same; Congressional Record on number of judges by district

3. Omnibus Judges Acts: Articles on addition of new federal judges; letters between judges discussing same; letters between administrative office of U.S. Cts. and White House about proposed bill for additional judges (1950’s); official Senate hearing program on 1967 Omnibus Bill; articles discussing need for additional judges; chart on number of Circ. Ct. judges by year; handwritten notes on above

4. Not S Ct. [(Supreme Court)]/ Published — Written Opinions: Newspaper clippings on judicial opinions; scholarly articles on Ct. of Appeals opinions re.specific area, number of published opinions; “Federal Reporter” charts on case affirmation and written opinions; Federal Judicial Guide to opinion writing

5. Prospective Over-rule: Excerpt from article on Judge Posner and judicial activism; article on judicial behavior/limits of judicial lawmaking

6. CA Panels [(Court of Appeals)]: Various journal articles on appellate courts and certiorari-granting, decision-making behavior, dissent; colleague’s application for tenure to study Circ. Ct.; various drafts of same colleague’s paper; handwritten notes on judicial conformity; articles on multi-judge panels

7. Oral Argument (CA) Appellate Issue of Screening/Support: Journal articles on problems facing appellate Ct.re. oral argument and providing professional assistance for judges; Federal Judicial Center Study on screening practices in U.S. Ct. of Apps.; study on resolution of appellate litigation; newspaper clipping on declining value of oral arguments; research reports on Apps. Ct. decision-making, conflicts between the circuits

8. En Banc: Handwritten notes on circuit judges, “en banc” hearings; journal articles on U.S. Circ. Ct. Appeals’ function; article on pros and cons of en banc proceedings; journal articles on inconsistency in Ct. of Apps.; paper on decision to grant en banc review

9. Visiting Judges: Various letters between judges and administrative offices on assignments and visiting judges; newspaper clippings on easing case backlogs with visiting judges; scholarly papers on judge assignment; paper on degree of compliance with Sup. Ct. rulings

Series 1, Cabinet 9, Drawer 4, Box 58 

General note

Box 58[second half of original Box #36—Cabinet #9 / Drawer #4]

1. Assignment — Hierarchy: Letter on rate of published opinions by Dist. Ct. judges sitting by assignment in Circ. Cts. of Appeals; newspaper clipping on Circ. Ct. workby retired Sup. Ct. Justice; journal article on extra judges in fed. appellate court

2. Three-Judges / Federal Court Decision-Making: Law review articles on the three-judge court; letter between judges on same; handwritten notes on three-judge hearings

3. Inter-Circuit Conflict: Copy of a study on intercircuit conflicts re.federal income tax issues

4. Other Circuit Cont. / Federal Judges Communication: Interview questions for federal judges; case studies on intra-circuit communication; law journal articles on communication overload; newspaper clippings; letters between judges; original bulletin from a Federal Judicial Center rule-making conference; handwritten notes on communication of output

5. Circuit Judicial Councils: Official Federal Judicial Center report; newspaper clippings on changes in federal judicial system, judicial misconduct; journal articles, book excerpts on functions of above; minutes of various circuits’ Judicial Council Meetings; administrative memos on same; handwritten lecture notes; report of Special Committee; coded chart of federal court structure

6. Federal Court Discipline: Handwritten notes on reasons for discipline; articles on judicial misconduct, bias, removal of judges; Congressional Record of Senate discussion on disciplining unfit federal judges; articles on historical background of federal judicial role; lists of judges with complaints against them; newspaper clippings; D.O.J memos on specific judges; typed lecture notes

7. Federal Background Variables: Papers on gender and judicial selection, the personal attribute theory, dissent behavior; journal articles on profiles of judicial nominees, judges; tables on background and voting behavior; historical articles on background of judges; handwritten notes on court structure

8. Fed. Courts— Politics— Parties: Newspaper clippings on judicial role in redistricting laws, impact of judicial rulings on party politics, money in the courts; study on courts and parties

9. Selection as Ind[ependent] Variable / Partisanship— Federal Judges: Studies on impact of party affiliation on judicial behavior; journal articles on selection of judgesbased on background and party, relationship between partisan values and reapportionment, judgeships as political patronage, judicial ethics; table on political types in circuit court; handwritten and typed notes on above

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Series 1, Cabinet 10 

Series 1, Cabinet 10, Drawer 1 

Series 1, Cabinet 10, Drawer 1, Box 9 

General note

Box 9 [part 1 of original Box #37 – Cabinet #10- / Drawer #1, “O’Connor—Fem Juris, Org”]

1. Letter to the White House : re: Women & Supreme Court (1981 letter & follow-up to White House about potential female Supreme Court nominees)

2. Drafts- O’Connor: Copy of White House letter, papers on O’Connor

3. Sex & O’C: Articles, clippings, research paper by other author

4. O’C – Votes by Term: Index cards annotating O’Connor’s votes by term, cases

5. O’Connor Hearings: Newspaper clippings, articles with statements from the hearings, handwritten notes

6. O’C & Indians: Slip opinion of 1986 case

7. Abortion- Infant Doc.: Article clipping

8. Crim: Article clippings, handwritten notes

9. MISC O’Connor papers: Includes paper “O’Connor’s Contributions to Autonomy

10. O’C Opinion Data, Vote Data: Handwritten notes, tallies

11. FEM for Supreme Court: Copy of 1975 memo for president from Gerald R. Ford library regarding Supreme Court nominations, 1980 text of president’s conference remarks, handwritten notes, other articles on SC nominees

12. Counsel – Lawyers in S.C.: Articles, cases from Lexis Nexis, handwritten notes

13. O’Connor: Articles, papers, handwritten notes

14. O’Connor- Original Questionnaire : **Survey questionnaire filled out & signed by Sandra Day O’Connor

15. Copy of O’Connor survey (copy of ‘’)

16. O’Connor on the Court: Articles, clippings, handwritten notes

17. Women Judge Conference: Articles from 1980-1984, info on symposium

18. Women’s Court: Copies of articles

Series 1, Cabinet 10, Drawer 1, Box 10 

General note

Box 10 [part 2 of original Box #37 – Cabinet #10- / Drawer #1, “O’Connor—Fem Juris, Org”]

1. Party Materials – Cotter – Bullock: mostly handwritten notes

2. Feminist Jurisprudence: Copies of essays, etc.

3. FEM Theory / Phil. / Juris: Articles, essays, papers

4. Women & Law: Articles, papers about gender, courts, & the law

5. Scalograms- SCT/ Sex Roles: Articles, papers, handwritten notes, data

6. Women & Institutions: Articles, handwritten notes

7. Supreme Court in Women’s Pregnancy Issues: Articles, essays, handwritten notes

Series 1, Cabinet 10, Drawer 2 

Series 1, Cabinet 10, Drawer 2, Box 59 

General note

Box 59 [first half of original Box #38—Cabinet #10 / Drawer #2]

1. Supreme Court: Complete list of justices; program frm. Sup. Ct. Historical society; newspaper clippings, biographies on justices; official archival list of Sup. Ct. opinions; journal articles on the Warren Court; tables on justices and judicial experience; extensive excerpts from articles on individual terms, role of the courts; handwritten notes on parties bringing cases before the Sup. Ct.

2. S Court Environ[(Supreme Court Environment)] 1978: Sup. Ct. memos on protests outside court, mess hall funding; letters on administrative duties of chief justice

3. S Ct [(Supreme Court)]— Bldg, Facilities, Support: Misc. articles on Sup. Ct. administrative issues, Muslim groups’ objection to frieze with image of Mohammed, past Court residences, Court staff; copy of a bill on Sup. Ct. police; newspaper clippings on personal backgrounds of justices, Court budget

4. Chief Justice: Handwritten notes on various chief justices; journal articles on opinion assignments, selection and leadership ability of chief justice; misc. newspaper clippings on Chief Justices Burger and Hughes, role of chief justice

5. C. J. [(Chief Justice)] as Chief Administrator: Newspaper Clippings on Chief Justice’s administrative capacity, need for aides; handwritten notes on Chief Justices as activist; journal, newspaper articles on growing workload; paper on dissent pattern of Chief Justices

6. Circuit Justice: Newspaper clippings on circuit court actions,unpopular rulings; typed, handwritten notes on circuit court justice assignment, structural relationship between circuit courts and Supreme Court

7. Linking West’s: Newspaper articles on district opinion; letter to Cook from publishing company on textbooks; journal articles on integrity of printed judicial decisions, government injunctions on same

8. S. Ct. [(Supreme Court)] Reporters: Journal articles on early court reporters

9. C. J. [(Chief Justice)] Annual Address: Various copies of C.J. Burger’s remarks to the American Bar Association on annual state of judiciary—re.judicial discipline, need for more justices; handwritten notes and newspaper articles on C.J. speeches; articles on C.J. Taft

10. Administrative Ass’t [(Assistant)] to Chief Justice: Handwritten notes from interview with the assistant to the C.J., federal court system; newspaper article on success of former C.J. aide; journal articles on court’s administrative demands; Senate reports on need for an administrative asst. to C.J.

11. Office of Legal Counsel: Journal article on justices’ need for legal staff

12. U.S. Judicial Conference: Letters from Dist. Ct. Judge on U.S. Judicial Conference; Dist. Ct. Judges views on inclusion in same; report on court administration; letters to Appeals Ct. Judge on need for additional judges; Cook’s notes on judicial conference layout; newspaper articles on above

13. 1922-1949 U.S. Judicial Conference: Journal articles, typed notes on historical background of Judicial Conference; copies of Attorney General’s reports, 1920’s to 1940’s, early 1980’s; hand-drawn chart on ratio of superior to inferior judges

14. FJC [(Federal Judicial Center)]: Reports from FJC to Judicial Conference of the U.S., 1969-1980

Series 1, Cabinet 10, Drawer 2, Box 60 

General note

Box 60 [second half of original Box #38—Cabinet #10 / Drawer #2]

1. Federal Judicial Center: Misc. papers on F.J.C., including Judicial Fellows Program; copies of federal lawsre. FJC; background on fed. courts; Cook’s correspondence with administrators; various FJC reports and memos; handwritten notes from interview on FJC; minutes from special committee meetings; FJC annual reports, early 1980’s; typed chart on fed. jud. system; studies on FJC

2. Fed Jud Admin [(Federal Judicial Administration)] — Efficiency Value: Journal articles, papers on delay issue in courts, reforms in administrative structure, historical background, technological modernization; program from 1956 Conference on Jud. Admin; newspaper clippings on trial delays; handwritten notes on judic.circuits.

3. Supervision: Newspaper clippings on financial holdings of justices, removal of judges; journal articles on supervisory power; handwritten and typednotes on case supervision, specific cases; judicial opinions; copy of Judicial Reform Act; papers on judicial hierarchy

4. Minutes — Judges Meetings — N.D. Ill. [(Northern District, Illinois)]: Handwritten minutes of Judge Meetings, mid-1930s to 1950; typed minutes for 1960s meetings

5. Compliance: Journal articles on acceptance of Supreme Court rulings on state and local level, checks on Sup. Ct. power, appellate courts, relationships among judges, new federalism

6. Non-Criminal Compliance: Journal articles on Southern state supreme courts, studies on impact of Supreme Court rulings, impact of the legislative veto; newspaper clippings on civil disobedience on local and state level; handwritten notes on state court compliance, managing jud. bureaucracy; typed study guide

Series 1, Cabinet 10, Drawer 3 

Series 1, Cabinet 10, Drawer 3, Box 75 

General note

Box 75 [first half of original Box #39—Cabinet #10 / Drawer #3]

1. Chronology of S CT [(Supreme Court)] Justices: Charts of Supreme Court makeup over time, including appointing Presidents

2. Baldwin, Henry 1830-1844 / appt by Jackson: [empty file]

3. Barbour, Philip 1836-1841 / appt by Jackson: [empty file]

4. Black, Hugo (1937-71) / appt by FDR: Newspaper clippings profiling Justice Black, various opinions; misc. articles written by Justice Black; text of a TV interview with Justice Black; law review articles analyzing Black’s judicial philosophy

5. Blackmun, Harry (1970- / appt by RMN [(Richard Nixon)]: Journal articles, newspaper clippings profiling Justice Blackmun; manuscript on judicial voting behavior re.Justice Blackmun; copies of White House memos re.Blackmun’s appt; papers on Blackmun re.federealism, judicial independence

6. Blair, John (1789-1796) / appt by Washington: [empty file]

7. Blatchford, Samuel (1882-1893) / appt by Arthur: [empty file]

8. Bradley, Jos. (1870-1892) / appt by Grant: Law Reviews with articles discussing Justice Bradley re. Granger Cases, Legal Tender Cases, Bradley’s education

9. Brandeis, Louis (1916-39) / appt by Wilson: Journal articles on Brandeis’ legacy, judicial ideology; print outs of misc. books on Brandeis; paper on Brandeis’ use of judicial power; newspaper clippings on Brandeis’ political involvement

10. Brennan, Wm. 1956- / appt by Ike: Newspaper articles on Brennan’s retirement, landmark cases, balanced Supreme Ct.; journal articles on Brennan’s policy making; articles written by Brennan re. amended Constitution, role of the Ct.; correspondence between Cook and other judicial scholars; papers on Brennan’s coalition building

11. Brewer, David (1889-1910) / appt by Harrison: Journal publication on Brewer as a Kansan on the Supreme Ct.; newspaper clipping on Justice Brewer’s legacy; journal articles on Brewer as pacifist

12. Stephen Breyer: Newspaper clippings on speech by Breyer, Breyer’s confirmation process, “practical idealism”; journal article assessing Breyer’s first term

13. Brown, Henry 1890-1906: Handwritten notes on Justice Brown, various sources on Brown

14. Burger, Warren 1969- / appt by RMN [(Richard Nixon)]: Transcripts of speech given by Burger; newspaper clippings on Burger’s opinions re.bail system, Burger’s age, voting behavior; articles written by Burger re. “condition of the judiciary”; papers on Burger re. misc. rulings

15. CJ Burger Court: Journal articles on Burger Court and judicial activism, changes from Warren to Burger Cts.; cards with seating layout of the Justices; newspaper clippings on Burger Ct. caseload, civil liberties cases, court reform; articles written by Justice Burger re. psychiatrists’ testimony; papers written on Burger Ct.

Series 1, Cabinet 10, Drawer 3, Box 76 

General note

Box 76[second half of original Box #39—Cabinet #10 / Drawer #3]

1. Burton, Harold (1945-58) / appt by HST [(Truman)]: Notecard with source on Justice Burton; Supreme Ct. Reports announcement of Burton’s retirement; law review obituary for Justice Burton

2. Butler, Pierce (1922-39) / appt by Harding: [empty file]

3. Byrnes, James (1941-42) / appt by FDR: Supreme Ct. Reports obituary for Justice Byrnes; magazine article written by Justice Byrnes, post-retirement

4. Campbell, John (1853-61) / appt by Pierce: [empty file]

5. Cardozo, Benj. (1932-38) / appt by Hoover: Book reviews of misc. biographies of Cardozo; Letter to the Editor re.how Cardozo became a Ct. of Appeals judge

6. Catron, John 1837-1865 / appt by Van Buren: [empty file]

7. Chase, Salmon (1864-1873) / appt by Lincoln: Handwritten notes on Chief Justice Chase’s nomination; printout of summary of biography on Chase; journal article on Jacksonian origins of Chase Court activism

8. Chase, Samuel (1796-1811) / appt by Washington: [empty file]

9. Clark, Tom (1949-67) / appt by HST [(Truman)]: Newspaper clippings on Justice Clark’s speeches, retirement, obituary; journal articles on Clark as administrator; transcript of interview with Clark; articles written by Clark on the First Amendment, legal profession

10. Clarke, John (1916-22) / appt by Wilson: Journal article on Clarke as a judge in retirement

11. Clifford, Nathan (1858-81) / appt by Buchanan: [empty file]

12. Curtis, Benjamin 1850-53 [sic] / 1851-1870 [sic] / appt by Fillmore**: Journal article with biography of Justice Curtis

13. Cushing, Wm. (1789-1791) / appt by Washington: [empty file]

14. Daniel, Peter (1841-60) / appt by Van Buren: [empty file]

15. Davis, David (1862-1877) / appt by Lincoln: [empty file]

16. Day, Wm (1903-1922) / appt by T. Roosevelt: Supreme Ct. Historical Society article with biography on Justice Day

17. Douglas, Wm. O. (1939- ) / appt by FDR: Newspaper articles re. book review, longevity of Douglas’ tenure, status as liberal member of Ct.; journal articles written by Douglas re. life of Supreme Ct. Justice; journal articles re. Douglas’ judicial attitudes; Congressional Record of tribute of Justice Douglas; copy of opinion written by Douglas; Cook’s personal correspondence with other professionals

18. Duval, Gabriel (1811-1835) / appt by Madison: [empty file]

19. Ellsworth, Oliver (1796-1800) / appt by Washington: [empty file]

20. Field, Stephen (1863-1897) / appt by Lincoln: Law review article on Justice Field and the 14th Amendment; journal article on Field and development of public land law

21. Fortas, Abe (1965-69) / appt by LBJ: Senate report on Fortas nomination; magazine articles on “new era” for the Ct.; White House memos re. Fortas nomination; newspaper opinion pieces criticizing Fortas; articles written by Fortas on the Nixon administration; letter from interest group protesting filibuster of Fortas nomination

22. Frankfurter, Felix (1939-65) / appt by FDR: Newspaper clippings on impact of Frankfurter’s opinions; journal articles on Frankfurter’s background, judicial attitudes; reviews of books profiling the justice; Library of Congress register of Frankfurter’s papers; articles written by Frankfurter on the 14th Amendment

23. Fuller, Melville (1888-1910) / appt by Cleveland: Journal article on Fuller’s opinions re.federal control of commerce

24. Ruth Bader Ginsberg D.C. Civ: Newspaper clippings on Ginsbers’s background, nomination; copy of speech given by Ginsberg on appointment of women judges; journal articles re. ERA and Ginsberg; article written by Ginsberg on Roe v. Wade; printout of email correspondence between Cook and colleague

25. Goldberg, Arthur (1962-65) / appt by JFK: Newspaper clippings on Goldberg’s position as US delegate to the UN; articles written by Goldberg re. the culture of the Supreme Ct., need for better public defenders, end of death penalty; journal articles outlining Goldberg’s civil libertarian leanings; profile of Goldberg

26. Gray, Horan 1881-1902 / appt by Arthur: Journal article on Justice Gray and the “Historical Method”

27. Grier, Rob’t [(Robert)] 1846-1870 / appt by Polk: [empty file]

28. Harlan, John M (1955-71) / appt by Ike: Clipping of remarks made on Harlan’s retirement; law review article on Harlan’s legacy; newspaper clippings on Harlan’s conservatism, legacy

29. Harlan, John Marshall (1877-1911) / appt by Hayes: Law review article on Harlan and predictability in the law; article written by Harlan; reviews of books on Harlan

30. Holmes, Oliver (1902-1932) / appt by T Roosevelt: Newspaper clippings re.exhibition on Holmes; magazine article on Holmes’ life; journal articles on Holmes’ resignation, legacy; copy of letter from Holmes; copy of address given by Holmes; reviews of books on Holmes

31. Hughes, Chas 1910-1916 / 1938-41 / appt. by 1) Taft 2) Hoover: Journal articles on Hughes as Chief Justice, personal interpretation; typed notes on book discussing Justice Black; typed excerpt from diary of Justice

**These dates may be incorrect. Justice Curtis sat on the Supreme Court from 1851 to 1857, so it is unclear what the other dates reference.

Series 1, Cabinet 10, Drawer 4 

Series 1, Cabinet 10, Drawer 4, Box 79 

General note

Box 79[front half of original Box #40—Cabinet #10 / Drawer #4]

1. Hunt, Ward 1872-1882 appt by Grant: [empty]

2. Iredell, James 1790-1799 appt by Washington: [empty]

3. Jackson, Howell 1893-1895 appt by Harrison: [empty]

4. Jackson, Rob’t 1941-1954 appt by FDR: Typed outline of journal article by Schubert, “Jackson’s Judicial Philosophy”; article by Jackson on Sup. Ct. politics; photocopy of handwritten outline relating to Schubert’s article; Schubert’s article torn from journal; reprinted journal article reviewing Jackson’s time as Justice; three sets of identical photocopies from Schubert’s article; article by Jackson on Sup. Ct. “as a Unit of Government” with underlines; Schubert’s article torn from journal with underlines; e-mail print-out of book review about the judge’s values and background; article by Jackson’s clerk, James Marsh

5. Jay, John 1789-1795 appt. by Washington: Three copies of Journal of Contemporary Law (University of Utah, vol. 5 no. 2 spring 1979) article profiling the John Jay Court

6. Johnson, Thos. 1791-1793 appt by Washington: [empty]

7. Johnson, Wm. 1804-1834 appt by Jefferson: [empty]

8. Kennedy: Newspaper clippings on Kennedy: conservatism and importance to Reagan and A.G. Meese as third choice, constitutional views, criminal law, nomination, and confirmation hearings; photocopies of Congressional Quarterly articles with underlines; journal article on consistency Kennedy’s freshman decisions; paper on Kennedy “and the Structure of Government”; journal article on Kennedy’s ideology; journal articles on Kennedy as decisive voice of Sup. Ct.

9. Lamar, Jos. 1910-1916 appt by Taft: [empty]

10. Lamar, Lucius 1888-1893 appt by Cleveland: [empty]

11. Livingston, Brockholst 1806-1823 appt by Jefferson: [empty]

12. Lurton, Horace 1909-1914 appt by Taft: Journal article “Civil War Veterans on the Supreme Court”

13. Marshall, John 1801-1835 appt by Adams: Journal article on legacy of John Marshall; journal article on judicial review, antebellum and postbellum; journal article on historical dehumanization of great men, especially John Marshall; journal article reflecting on John Marshall 100 years after his death; journal article on judicial restraint and activism; newspaper clipping [possibly misfiled] on Thurgood Marshall being sworn in; typed paper on John Marshall and constitutional law; journal essay on Marshall court and Republicanism with underlines; book review expressing importance of Marshall in U.S. gov.; postcard of John Marshall statue in Sup. Ct. lobby; review of book about Marshall; e-mail printout review of books on Marshall; journal article debating Marshall as an activist; journal article on early decisions of Chief Justices

14. Marshall, Thurgood 1967- appt by LBJ: Newspaper clippings about Marshall criticizing some constitutional shortfalls on human rights; journal article by Marshall on practicality of death penalty; newspaper clippings on his temperament; executive report on nomination of Marshall; photocopy of handwritten letter to Pres. Johnson from Chief Justice Warren praising appt. of Marshall; typed letter from Morris Ernst praising appointment of Marshall; handwritten letter from Tom Clark to Pres. Truman about moving from A.G. to Sup. Ct. Justice; newspaper clippings on Marshall’s ill health, race, abstentions, and decisions; records of nomination and confirmation; newspaper photograph of Marshall and Burger; newspaper featuring remarks by Burger and remarks by Marshall; paper on Marshall and civil rights with appendix with charts; cover of Trial journal with drawing of Thurgood Marshall; journal article on constituents’ influence on confirmation votes; journal and newspaper articles on post-retirement awards, replacement, and death; photocopies from book about Justices Powell and Marshall; paper on Marshall as “advocate for gender justice”

15. Matthews, Stanley 1881-1889 appt by Garfield: [empty]

16. McKenna, Jos 1898-1925 appt by McKinley: Journal article on Justice McKenna retiring

17. McKinley, John 1898-1925 appt by Van Buren: [empty]

18. McLean, John 1829-1861 appt by Jackson: [empty]

19. McReynolds, James 1914-1941 appt by Wilson: Newspaper article after his death discussing McReynolds’s impartiality and abrasive personality; newspaper article showing kinder side; clipping of summary of book about McReynolds

20. Miller, Samuel 1862-1890 appt by Lincoln: Journal article on trial by jury; opinion data from copied from journal

21. Minton, Sherman 1949-1956appt by HST [Truman]: Handwritten letter from Justice Minton; collection of letters, memoranda, and notes from Justices of the U.S. included in Minton’s papers; letter to president encouraging nomination of Minton; letters from papers of J. Howard McGrath; journal article on behind the scenes relationships in Sup. Ct.

22. Moody, Wm. 1906-1910 appt by T. Roosevelt: [empty]

23. Moore, Alfred 1799-1804 appt by Adams: [empty]

24. Murphy, Frank 1940-1949 appt by FDR: Book review on Sidney Fine’s biography of Murphy

25. Nelson, Samuel 1845-1872 appt by Tyler: [empty]

26. Patterson, William 1793-1806 appt by Washington: [empty]

27. Peckham, Rufus 1895-1909 appt by Cleveland: [empty]

28. Pitney, Mahlon 1912-1922 appt by Taft: [empty]

29. Powell, Lewis 1971- appt by RMN [Nixon]: Paper on stance of Justice Powell in Sup. Ct.; newspaper articles discussing Powell’s ethics, views on criminal rights; newspaper clipping on Warren’s speech urging goodness; newspaper article about the Adam Powell case and question of who to judge constitutionality; newspaper articles on health, his opinions, nomination, missing his friends, wealth, and outside opinions on his performance; newspaper article by Justice Powell supporting wiretapping; newspaper articles on Justice Powell on press, as decision maker, on death penalty; newspaper articles on importance of Powell’s absence; handwritten notes on Powell and senate interest; newspaper articles on Powell’s swing votes; journal articles about Powell; book reviews on Powell bios; newspaper articles on Powell’s retirement; journal piece by Nancy Blackmun Coniaris about being the daughter of a Justice; Powell’s obituaries; journal article on friendship between Powell and J. Edgar Hoover; remarks of Powell on workload

30. Reed, Stanley 1938-1957appt by FDR: Photocopied section of book on lawyers and social legislation; journal article on relationship between Justices Frankfurter and Reed; two newspaper obituaries

31. Rehnquist, Wm. 1971- appt by RMN: Paper on Rehnquist’s jurisprudence; newspaper clipping on Rehnquist’s appt with handwritten notes; photocopy from An American Life; newspaper articles on Rehnquist’s ethics, opinions, and relationship to far right; newspaper clippings on confirmation debate; newspaper clippings on limiting court appeals; political cartoons and newspaper images; publication and memorandum by civil rights conference stating opposition to Rehnquist’s appointment and reasons; Letter from Senator Gaylord Nelson enclosing remarks from Rehnquist nomination debate; democratic action group’s summary of statements by Rehnquist; Senator Nelson’s congressional Record of nomination proceedings; journal article about Nixon’s fight against crime; records of Schneble v. Florida with hand note about carryover from pre-appointment values; letter to the editor about Rehnquist’s partisanship; speech by Rehnquist for Law Alumni; journal article about Rehnquist and Powell; journal article by Rehnquist on privacy and law enforcement; excerpts from lecture by Rehnquist on family;newspaper clipping on Rehnquist’s health and slurred speech from drug; Times Magazine cover and article about interview with Rehnquist; newspaper editorial on Rehnquist; “Woman Activist” bulletin; Sup. Ct. proceedings upon retirement of C.J. Burger and appt. of C.J. Rehnquist and J. Scalia; invitation to luncheon speech by C.J. Rehnquist; newspaper clipping on deed restrictions on Rehnquist’s property; newspaper excerpts from hearings on nomination of Rehnquist as C.J.; draft on Rehnquist’s “Legal Positivism” with handwritten notes and edits; Times Magazine cover and article about court and white house; paper on constitutional theory; article on Reagan’s reshaping of the courts; table on types of Rehnquist’s opinions; newspaper clippings on implications of Rehnquist and Scalia promotions; NY Times index to unreleased Justice Department documents in Rehnquist hearing; fliers for visitors to the Sup. Ct. with restrictions and seating chart; magazine clippings of poster art critical of Court; postcard of Sup. Ct. members; journal article by Rehnquist on historical role of Sup. Ct. and the Constitution; paper on Rehnquist’s agenda: federalism or conservatism; book reviews on books about and by Rehnquist; journal article on Rehnquist’s memos as clerk for Justice Jackson; LA Times cover and article; newspaper articles about Sup. Ct. case load; journal articles and online print-out of article on Rehnquist’s performance; newspaper articles on Clinton impeachment process; pome about Sup. Ct. members; obit of wife

32. Roberts, Owen 1930-1945 appt by Hoover: [empty]

33. Rutledge, John 1789-1791 appt by Washington: Newspaper feature on five framers of the Constitution (including Rutledge) who served on the Supreme Court

34. Rutledge, Wiley 1943-1949 appt by FDR: [empty]

35. Sanford, Edward 1923-1930 appt by Harding: [empty]

36. Scalia: Newspaper clippings on Scalia’s opinions and intensity, others’ opinions on his nomination; newspaper article on evidence law decisions, alignment of Scalia’s views with Reagan’s judicial agenda; newspaper articles on Scalia being less conservative than expected, resignation from Cosmos Club; journal articles on Burger-Rehnquist-Scalia succession; newspaper photocopies about Tom Korologos’s influence on senate confirmations; newspaper photo of C.J. Rehnquist and Associate Justices; newspaper clippings on Scalia’s interest in overhauling courts to limit case load, using Latin; article with photos by Scalia on historical legal anomalies; newspaper clipping of a collection of statements by Scalia on abortion, bias, and libel; newspaper articles on confirmation hearings; journal collection of some of Scalia’s written opinions; journal articles and papers by Richard A. Brisbin, Jr. (hand underlined) on Scalia’s jurisprudence and values; transcript of forum including Scalia; journal article on Scalia’s opinions with hand notes and underlines; newspaper photocopies (2) of satirical article on Sup. Ct.’s decision on strip clubs; journal book reviews of books about conservatism in courts; newspaper article on installation of NY Archbishop Egan, attended by Scalia; e-mail printouts of book reviews; e-mailed text of letter from Scalia in response to a negative article by Tony Mauro; newspaper article on Scalia’s son’s job as Labor Department’s lawyer; journal article on Constitutional opinions of select judges, including Scalia

37. Shiras, Geo. 1892-1903 appt by Harrison: [empty]

38. Souter: Newspaper articles on Bush’s nomination of “apolitical” and uncontroversial David Souter over Edith Jones, Souter’s previous decisions, especially uncertainty of his stance on abortion; newspaper articles on his personality and quiet lifestyle; political cartoons from newspaper; newspaper article on Bork’s hearings and changing of the process in future; newspaper article about Souter’s views with list of previous opinions on key cases; newspaper article about N.A.A.C.P. rejection of Souter; column from journal about abortion’s importance to Bush and Reagan; newspaper articles on Souter’s confirmation; Time cover and articles on Souter; journal articles on Souter’s nomination and freshman term performance; semi-satirical newspaper article about similarities between Souter and A.G. appointee Janet Reno, suggesting a romance; paper with charts and graphs on shift in Souter’s opinions; e-mail printout of article about Sup. Ct. and Souter’s roles in deciding Bush as winner of election; e-mail printout from professor asking listserv for input on paper about Souter

39. Stevens – 7thCCA cases: Records of Quinn v. C.I.R.; handwritten notes on Stevens’ opinions in multiple cases; typed lists of Stevens’s sex discrimination cases; paper on Justice Stevens and civil liberties; review of book about Justice Stevens and the Constitution

Series 1, Cabinet 10, Drawer 4, Box 80 

General note

Box 80 [back half of original Box #40—Cabinet #10 / Drawer #4]

1. Stevens, John Paul 1975- appt by Gerald Ford: Script of a hypothetical conversation between Justices Stevens, Marshall, and Rehnquist on death penalty decisions, photocopied from journal; newspaper clippings on Stevens’s nomination, qualifications, and confirmation; journal article by Stevens on judicial restraint; newspaper clippings on cases on courtroom access, equal rights, states’ rights; newspaper article on Stevens’sopinion on “the Brethren,” Sup. Ct. case load, and political views; newspaper clipping on Stevens’s net worth and court pay; page from an appendix with biography of Stevens; lecture by Stevens on stare decisis; records and opinions by Stevens from 7th Circuit C.A.: Fitzgerald v. Porter Memorial Hospital, Sprogis v. United Air Lines, Doe v. Bellin Memorial Hospital, Muscare v. Quinn, Shirck v. Thomas, Quinn v. Commissioner of internal Revenue, Cohen v. Illinois Institute of Technology, Rose v. Bridgeport Brass Company, Bowe v. Colgate, Palmolive Company; paper on politics of appointments; newspaper articles on Stevens v. Meese views on Constitution; paper by student of Cook analyzing Stevens decisions, with handwritten note to Prof. Cook asking for extension, and her corrections and edits; newspaper articles about Justice Stevens in old age; review of book on rise of Stevens

2. Stewart, Potter 1958-1985 appt by Ike: Paper on Justice Stewart within the Burger Court; newspaper clippings on Sup. Ct. judging legality of Vietnam War, role of press; journal article on equality in jury selection; magazine article about women in powerful careers and resulting conflicts; journal article on Stewart’s views on executive privilege; handwritten quotes on Irrebuttable Presumption; newspaper excerpt of address by Justice Stewart on workings of Sup. Ct.; reprinted journal article on Stewart on racial equality; entire issue of The Central Magazine, v.XIV n.5 Sept/Oct 1981, on State Constitutions, featuring assessment of Justice Stewart; newspaper article on his retirement and life after; newspaper and journal articles reflecting on his legacy; newspaper article on “mob lawyers”; newspaper and journal obituaries for Stewart; newspaper photo of funeral guests;

-Four transcripts of a Columbia University televised series The Constitution That Delicate Balance, with retired Justice Potter Stewart as a commentator on each:

--Wednesday, January 5, 1983: “National Security and Freedom of the Press”

--Wednesday, January 12, 1983: “Criminal Justice and a Defendant’s Right to a Fair Trial”

--Wednesday, January 19, 1983: “School Prayer, Gun Control, and the Right to Assemble”

--Wednesday, February 2, 1983: “Affirmative Action and Reverse Discrimination”

3. Stone, Harlan (1925-46) appt by Coolidge CJ by FDR 1941: Painting of C.J. Stone from Sup. Ct. Historical Society Yearbook 1985, photocopied excerpt from book about Stone

4. Strong, Wm 1870-80 appt by Grant: [empty]

5. Story, Jos. (1811-1845) appt by Madison: Journal articles on life and career of Story; journal article on his constitutional philosophy and use of the contract clause

6. Sutherland, Geo (1922-38) appt by Harding: [empty]

7. Swayne, Noah (1862-81) appt by Lincoln: [empty]

8. Taft, Wm. H. (1921-30) appt by Harding: Journal article on Mabel Boardman, William Taft, and the Red Cross; journal article on Taft’s legacy focusing on presidency; journal article on Taft’s influence as Chief Justice; clipping of a listing of a biography on Taft; newspaper article about Taft’s views on criminal rights

9. Taney, Roger 1836-1864 appt by Jackson: Journal article on slavery and cannibalism labeled by hand as “Elite Opinion on Dred Scott Case”

10. O’C Opinions for Court Thomas: Newspaper articles on Thomas’s jurisprudence, confirmation, and opinions; newspaper article questioning integrity of Justice Thomas; newspaper articles about race and Thomas filling Marshall’s seat; newspaper political cartoons on pre-Thomas vacancy and racial factors; journal feature on Senate Judiciary Committee; journal article on confirmation; newspaper page with two articles: one supporting, one criticizing Mr. Thomas; newspaper articles on Thomas’s supporters, views on natural law, women’s rights; series of Doonesbury cartoons on Thomas and Anita Hill scandal; newspaper article with excerpts from senate hearing; newspaper and journal articles about “Souter” technique of avoiding answers in hearing; journal articles on role of women in Thomas confirmation, negativity in politics; newspaper articles on Anita Hill’s sexual harassment allegations against Thomas; newspaper and journal articles interpreting Thomas’s scandal-filled confirmation’s effect on politics; journal article on Thomas, black pluralism, and civil rights policy; clipping of poster art against Thomas; newspaper reviews of books about Thomas confirmation; magazine cover and article about Thomas’s performance after 4 terms; journal articles about Thomas’s presence in court; postcard with all Justices; Lincoln Institute envelope with material urging public support of Justice Thomas

11. J. Thomas: Humorous birthday card to Beverly signed by “Sandra” and “Ruth” with drawing of Justice Thomas on front; journal article on politics in Thomas confirmation; newspaper article on Anita Hill scandal affecting politics; Doonesbury cartoons; newspaper clippings on Thomas hiring clerks, his opinions on business laws, code of judicial conduct; newspaper articles on conservative decisions, affirmative action; reviews of books about nomination battles and Anita Hill scandal; newspaper articles about predictability of Thomas’s first term; journal articles on first term and public reception of Thomas; newspaper articles on LA Sup. Ct. J. Bernette Johnson who invited Thomas to speak; newspaper article on Thomas and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

12. Thompson, Smith (1823-43) appt by Monroe: Abstract of a backordered study on Justice Thompson and the constitution

13. Todd, Thomas 1807-1826 appt by Jefferson: [empty]

14. Trimble, Rob’t (1826-1828) appt by Adams: [empty]

15. Van Devanter, Willis (1910-37) appt by Taft: Journal article by Chief Justice [Stone] in 1942 appraising Justice Van Devanter’s service

16. Vinson, Fred (1946-53) appt by HST [Truman]: Journal publication of speech on judicial administration by C.J. Vinson to Conference of Chief Justices; copies of letters between biographers, journalists, and President Truman regarding nomination of Vinson to C.J.; journal article on Vinson’s progress from Congress to Court of Appeals; journal publication of speech for American Bar Assc. by C.J. Vinson on the work of the federal courts

17. Waite, Morrison (1874-88) appt by Grant: Journal article, 1978, about Sup. Ct. of 100 years before, under C. J. Waite

18. Warren, Earl (1953-69) appt by IKE: Newspaper obituary for Margaret McHugh, aide to C.J. Warren; transcript of televised conversation with Warren, with hand annotations; journal article reflecting on Warren Court; handwritten notes on TV interview with Warren; newspaper articles on Warren’s possible retirement under democrat president and possible successors; newspaper articles on generational friction, Warren’s nonpartisanship, and independence of judiciary; newspaper articles on activism, court cases, delay, crime; book reviews of Warren biographies; posthumous newspaper articles praising Warren’s jurisprudence; journal article on importance of C.J. Warren; excerpts from Warren’s speech to N.A.A.C.P.; journal cover and article about the Warren Court; reprinted journal article by Warren: “The Law and the Future”; speech by Warren against discrimination; newspaper articles announcing Warren’s views that revolt will be avoided; newspaper articles about Warren’s role in reapportionment, desegregation; newspaper excerpts from interview; photographs and short summaries of previous 13 Chief Justices; newspaper articles about Birchers’ attempts to impeach Warren; correspondence from Chief Justice’s secretary suggesting a source for Cook’s research on Warren’s appointments as Governor; pamphlet “Earl Warren For Presidet”; Sup. Ct. tribute to late C.J. Warren; photos of memorial bust; journal article about Warren’s vote against Max Radin for CA Sup. Ct.; copy of memorandum stating that C.J. Warren met with Pres. Johnson to say he wanted to retire; journal article about criticism of Warren Court; obituaries for Warren; image of painting of Sup. Ct.; transcript of Warren address on administration of courts; journal article on Brown Decision; handwritten memo to buy Super Chief; letters between Pres. Eisenhower and Ed Eisenhower debating appointment of Warren; quote by Eisenhower on choice of Warren; journal article on Warren-Frankfurter relationship, business of Sup. Ct.; book review and essay on constitutional politics and theory

19. Washington, Bushrod (1789- 1829) appt by Adams: Journal article on Justice Washington as “Forgotten Federalist”

20. Wayne, James 1835-1867 appt by Jackson: [empty]

21. White, Byron 1962-[1993] appt by JFK: Newspaper article on miscegenation case; newspaper and journal articles on White’s background, views on precedent, and swing opinion; obituaries for White; paper by Bev Cook on White’s “fuzzy” rationality; handwritten notes and calculations for paper; journal articles on White’s opinions and influence; handwritten bibliography with books on White; photocopies from journals with tributes to White; handwritten charts of assignments to White and outline of case topics; journal essay on White’s jurisprudence; paper on search and seizure; paper on importance of White’s opinions; article by White on Court’s role with underlines and notes; newspaper articles on White’s shift towards conservatism, affirmative action case; political cartoon on equal rights; official letters upon White’s retirement; newspaper article on assault on White; extensive handwritten outlines and charts on White’s cases; chart of White’s Separate Opinions with hand notations; newspaper articles on White’s accomplishments and replacement possibilities

8. White, Edward (1899-1910) (1910-1921 CJ) 1. Appt by Cleveland 2. Made CJ by Taft: Postcards and brochures from White’s birthplace near Thibodaux, LA; journal article on White; clipping of book on White;

9. Wilson, James (1789-1810) appt by Washington: [empty]

10. Whittaker, Chas (1957-1962) appt by IKE: Newspaper obituaries for Whittaker; proceedings of Sup. Ct. in tribute to Justice Whittaker after his death; typed basics of Whittaker’s career; copy of letter from Whittaker to President asking for permission to engage in “private enterprise” after retirement from Sup. Ct.

11. Woodbury, Levi 1845-1851 appt by Polk: [empty]

26. Woods, Wm 1880-1887 appt by Hughes: [empty]

Controlled Access Headings

Personal Name(s)

  • Cook, Beverly "Bev" Blair -- Archives

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  • Women and the judiciary

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