Of Courtiers and Kings - More Stories of Supreme Court Law Clerks and Their Justices

[A]n impressive and comprehensive book.--Associated Press

About the author

Todd C. Peppers, Henry H. and Trudye H. Fowler Professor of Public Affairs at Roanoke College and a Visiting Professor of Law at Washington and Lee University School of Law, is the author of Courtiers of the Marble Palace: The Rise and Influence of the Supreme Court Law Clerk and the coeditor, with Artemus Ward, of In Chambers: Stories of Supreme Court Law Clerks and Their Justices (Virginia). Clare Cushman, Director of Publications at the Supreme Court Historical Society, is the author of Courtwatchers: Eyewitness Accounts in Supreme Court History and the editor of Supreme Court Decisions and Women's Rights and The Supreme Court Justices: Illustrated Biographies, 1789-2012.

Summary

Supreme Court justices have long relied on law clerks to help process the work of the Court. Yet few outside the Court are privy to the behind-the-scenes bonds that form between justices and their clerks. In Of Courtiers and Kings, Todd C. Peppers and Clare Cushman offer an intimate new look at the personal and professional relationships of law clerks with their justices.

Product details

• Authors: Clare (EDT)/ Peppers Cushman
• Assisted by: Clare Cushman (Editor), Todd C Peppers (Editor), Todd C. Peppers (Editor)
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2015
• EAN: 9780813937267
• ISBN: 978-0-8139-3726-7
• No. of pages: 416
• Series: Constitutionalism and Democrac; Constitutionalism and Democrac; Constitutionalism and Democracy
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries