Laura K. Ray

Widener Law

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Courts

The Legacy of a Supreme Court Clerkship: Stephen Breyer and Arthur Goldberg, Penn State Law Review (2010)

From Clerk to Justice: Lessons Drawn From Justice Stevens' Year with Wiley Rutledge, SCOTUSblog (2010)

Inside the Marble Palace: The Domestication of the Supreme Court (reviewing Christopher Buckley, Supreme Courtship), Green Bag (2009)

Clerk and Justice: The Ties that Bind John Paul Stevens and Wiley B. Rutledge, Connecticut Law Review (2008)

Justice John Paul Stevens, now starting his thirty-third full term on the Supreme Court, served...

The Style of a Skeptic: The Opinions of Chief Justice Roberts, Indiana Law Journal (2008)

At the time of his confirmation hearing as Chief Justice of the United States, John...

Laughter at the Court: The Supreme Court as a Source of Humor, Southern California Law Review (2006)

The emergence of the Supreme Court as a subject for cartoon humor in the years...

America Meets the Justices: Explaining the Supreme Court to the General Reader, Tennessee Law Review (2005)

Curiosity about the Justices of the Supreme Court has increased dramatically since the New Deal...

Holder v. Hall, The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States (2005)

Lives of the Justices: Supreme Court Autobiographies, Connecticut Law Review (2004)

Judging the Justices: A Supreme Court Performance Review, Temple Law Review (2003)

Justice Ginsburg and the Middle Way, Brooklyn Law Review (2003)

Justices at Home: Three Supreme Court Memoirs, Michigan Law Review (2003)

Judicial Personality: Rhetoric and Emotion in Supreme Court Opinions, Washington and Lee Law Review (2002)

The History of the Per Curiam Opinion: Consensus and Individual Expression on the Supreme Court, Journal of Supreme Court History (2002)

The Road to Bush v. Gore: The History of the Supreme Court’s Use of the Per Curiam Opinion, Nebraska Law Review (2000)

Autobiography and Opinion: The Romantic Jurisprudence of Justice William O. Douglas, University of Pittsburgh Law Review (1999)

Judicial Fictions: Images of Supreme Court Justices in the Novel, Drama, and Film, Arizona Law Review (1997)

A Law Clerk and His Justice: What William Rehnquist Did Not Learn From Robert Jackson, Indiana Law Review (1996)

The Justices Write Separately: Uses of the Concurrence by the Rehnquist Court, U.C. Davis Law Review (1990)

Justice Brennan and the Jurisprudence of Dissent, Temple Law Review (1988)

The Figure in the Judicial Carpet: Images of Family and State in Supreme Court Opinions, Journal of Legal Education (1987)

Constitutional Law

Discipline Through Delegation: Solving the Problem of Congressional Housecleaning, University of Pittsburgh Law Review (1994)

From Prerogative to Accountability: The Amenability of the President to Suit, Kentucky Law Journal (1991)

Contracts

Toward Contractual Rights for College Students, Journal of Law & Education (1981)

Trial Practice

Preargument Settlement Program (with Ellen A. Peters), Connecticut Lawyer (1988)

Literature

Review of Ralph E. Hone, Dorothy L. Sayers: A Literary Biography, and Margaret P. Hannay, ed., As Her Whimsey Took Her, Studies in the Novel (1980)

Dickens and ‘The Magic Barrel’, Studies in American Jewish Literature (1978)

Kenneth Grahame and the Literature of Childhood, English Literature in Transition (1977)

Childhood and the English Novel, Genre (1975)

Review of Kathryn Kish Sklar, Catherine Beecher: A Study in American Domesticity, The Yale Review (1974)

The Mysteries of Gaudy Night: Feminism, Faith, and the Depths of Character, Mystery & Detection Annual (1973)