Supreme Court: The Law of the Land

Course Syllabus
Professor Biography

Introductory remarks

Lecture 1 The Judicial Power, Jurisdiction, and the Ages of the Supreme Court

Lecture 2 The Establishment of Judicial Review: Marbury v. Madison (1803)

Lecture 3 Privilege and Creative Destruction: Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge (1837)

Lecture 4 Equality, Slavery and the Supreme Court Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)

Lecture 5 Native American Sovereignty, Congress and the Constitution: Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock (1903)

Lecture 6 Liberty to Contract in the Industrial Age Lochner v. New York (1905)

Lecture 7 Clear and Present Danger, the First Amendment and Total War: Abrams v. United States

Lecture 8 A Switch in Time: West Coast v. Parrish

Lecture 9 Japanese Internment and Total War Korematsu v. United States (1944)

Lecture 10 Simple Justice Brown v. Board of Education (1954, 1955)

Lecture 11 Women, Abortion, and Equality Roe v. Wade (1973)

Lecture 12 Presidential Immunity and Watergate United States v. Nixon (1974)

Lecture 13 Affirmative Action: Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978)

Lecture 14 The Ten Greatest Justices of the Supreme Court

Other Important Decisions of the Supreme Court

Applicable Portions of the Constitution

Justices Confirmed by President

Glossary of Terms