REQUEST AN AUTOGRAPHED BOOKPLATE: Professor Randy Barnett and I will send an autographed bookplate for people who purchased our new book, An Introduction to Constitutional Law: 100 Supreme Court Cases Everyone Should Know. Our book makes a perfect gift for law students, college students, high school students, or anyone interested in the Constitution. Details on how to request a bookplate at the Volokh Conspiracy.
Author Archive: Josh Blackman
November 18, 2019
November 8, 2019
BOOK TALK AND SIGNING AT HERITAGE FOUNDATION: On November 13 at noon, the Heritage Foundation will host a book forum for me and Randy Barnett. We will sign copies of “Introduction to Constitutional Law” afterwards. The event is free and open to the public. You can register here. Order a copy today! Or, if you are in a hurry, you can download the E-Book or stream the videos.
October 11, 2019
TODAY IN SUPREME COURT HISTORY | 10/11/1972: Roe v. Wade argued.
October 10, 2019
AN INTRODUCTION TO CONSTITUTIONAL LAW IS BACK IN STOCK ON AMAZON: My new book with Randy Barnett has been sold out since its release date. Order a copy today! Or, if you are in a hurry, you can download the E-Book or stream the videos.
TODAY IN SUPREME COURT HISTORY | 10/10/2012: Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin I argued
October 9, 2019
TODAY IN SUPREME COURT HISTORY | 10/9/1954: Justice Robert H. Jackson dies.
October 8, 2019
TODAY IN SUPREME COURT HISTORY | October 8, 1888: Chief Justice Melville Fuller takes the judicial oath.
October 7, 2019
TODAY IN SUPREME COURT HISTORY | October 7, 1982: I.N.S. v. Chadha was argued.
October 4, 2019
14 CASES EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW FROM THE ROBERTS COURT: District of Columbia v. Heller (2008), Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010), U.S. v. Stevens (2010), McDonald v. City of Chicago (2010), Snyder v. Phelps (2011), Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association (2011), NFIB v. Sebelius (2012), Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin I (2013), U.S. v. Windsor (2013), NLRB v. Noel Canning (2014), Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores (2014), Obergefell v. Hodges (2015), Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin II (2016), and Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt (2016).
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October 2, 2019
23 CASES EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW FROM THE REHNQUIST COURT: South Dakota v. Dole (1987), Morrison v. Olson (1988), Texas v. Johnson (1989), Employment Division v. Smith (1990), New York v. U.S. (1992), R.A.V. v. City of St. Paul (1992), Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992), Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah (1993), U.S. v. Lopez (1995), Seminole Tribe of Florida v. Florida (1996), Romer v. Evans (1996), U.S. v. Virginia (1996), City of Boerne v. Flores (1997), Printz v. U.S. (1997), U.S. v. Morrison (2000), Gratz v. Bollinger (2003), Grutter v. Bollinger (2003), Lawrence v. Texas (2003), McConnell v. Federal Election Commission (2003), Gonzales v. Raich (2005), Kelo v. City of New London (2005), McCreary County, Kentucky v. ACLU of Kentucky (2005), and Van Orden v. Perry (2005).
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September 27, 2019
SEVEN CASES EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW FROM THE BURGER COURT: Roe v. Wade (1973), Frontiero v. Richardson (1973), Buckley v. Valeo (1976), Craig v. Boren (1976), Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978), Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York (1978), and Cleburne v. Cleburne Living Center, Inc. (1985).
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September 26, 2019
ELEVEN CASES EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW FROM THE WARREN COURT: Brown v. Board of Education (1954), Bolling v. Sharpe (1954), Williamson v. Lee Optical (1955), Cooper v. Aaron (1958), Sherbert v. Verner (1963), New York Times v. Sullivan (1964), Heart of Atlanta Motel v. U.S. (1964), Katzenbach v. McClung (1964), Griswold v. Connecticut (1965), Loving v. Virginia (1967), and U.S. v. O’Brien (1968).
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September 25, 2019
THREE CASES EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW FROM THE STONE AND VINSON COURTS: Wickard v. Filburn (1942), Korematsu v. U.S. (1944), and Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer (1952).
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September 24, 2019
EIGHT CASES EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW FROM THE HUGHES COURT: O’Gorman & Young, Inc. v. Hartford Fire Insurance Co. (1931), Stromberg v. California (1931), Nebbia v. New York (1933), Schechter Poultry Corp v. U.S. (1935), Schechter Poultry Corp. v. U.S. (1935), West Coast Hotel v. Parrish (1937), NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. (1937), U.S. v. Carolene Products (1938), and U.S. v. Darby (1941).
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September 23, 2019
SIX CASES EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW FROM THE TAFT COURT: Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Mahon (1922), Adkins v. Children’s Hospital (1923), Meyer v. Nebraska (1923), Pierce v. Society of Sisters (1925), Gitlow v. People of the State of New York (1925), and Buck v. Bell (1927).
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FIVE CASES EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW FROM THE WHITE COURT: Buchanan v. Warley (1917), Hammer v. Dagenhart (1918), Schenck v. United States (1919), Debs v. U.S. (1919). Abrams v. U.S. (1919).
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September 20, 2019
FIVE CASES EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW FROM THE FULLER COURT: Hans v. State of Louisiana (1890), U.S. v. E.C. Knight (1895), Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), Champion v. Ames (1903), Lochner v. New York (1905), and Muller v. Oregon (1908).
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FIVE CASES EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW FROM THE WAITE COURT: U.S. v. Cruikshank (1876), Strauder v. West Virginia (1880), The Civil Rights Cases (1883), and Yick Wo v. Hopkins (1886).
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September 19, 2019
FIVE CASES EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW FROM THE CHASE COURT: United States v. Dewitt (1869), Hepburn v. Griswold (1870), Knox v. Lee (1871), The Slaughter-House Cases (1873), and Bradwell v. Illinois (1873).
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THREE CASES EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW FROM THE TANEY COURT: Prigg v. Pennsylvania (1842), Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857), and Ex parte Merryman (1861).
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September 18, 2019
Five cases everyone should know from the Jay and Marshall Courts: Chisholm v. Georgia (1793), Marbury v. Madison (1803), McCulloch v. Maryland (1819), Gibbons v. Ogden (1824), and Barron v. City of Baltimore (1833).
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Introducing ConLaw.us: Randy Barnett and I are pleased to launch ConLaw.us. We built this interactive site as a a supplement to our new book, An Introduction to Constitutional Law: 100 Supreme Court Cases Everyone Should Know. We built four innovative new features to teach about constitutional law.
- 100 Supreme Court Cases: We developed an interface to display our 100 cases both chronologically, and by topic. This feature allows students to quickly scroll through two centuries of Supreme Court decisions, or to study the leading cases within each of the 15 topics in the book.
- The Justices: We developed a graphical interface to view all of the Justices. They are sorted by the appointing President.
- Annotated Constitution: This feature allows students to quickly read the entire Constitution, and see what cases are associated with a particular clause.
- Constitutional Places: Constitutional Places allows students to see what cases arose in a particular state. They can also check what Justices called that state home. Here, we localize constitutional law.
September 17, 2019
AN INTRODUCTION TO CONSTITUTIONAL LAW: 100 Supreme Court Cases Everyone Should Know, by Randy E. Barnett and Josh Blackman.
This book and video series teaches the narrative of constitutional law as it has developed over the past two centuries. All students even those unfamiliar with American history will learn the essential background information to grasp how this body of law has come to be what it is today. Our online library of sixty-three videos brings the Supreme Court’s one hundred most important decisions to life. These videos are enriched by photographs, maps, and even audio from the Supreme Court. The book and videos are accessible for all levels: law school, college, high school, home school, and independent study. Students can read and watch these materials before class to prepare for lectures or study after class to fill in any gaps in their notes. And, come exam time, students can watch the entire canon of constitutional law in about twelve hours. I will blog previews of our entire video catalogue in the intermediary days between Constitution Day and the first Monday in October.
The book is currently backordered on Amazon. Please order the paperback, and send a signal to our publisher to print more copies! Or, if you are in a hurry, you can download the E-Book or stream the videos.