Roger K. Newman teaches at the Columbia University School of Journalism and has devoted nearly 40 years to studying and writing about the Supreme Court and American law. He is author of Hugo Black: A Biography, which won the Scribes book award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer prize, and editor-in-chief of The Constitution and Its Amendments (4 volumes). He lives in the Bronx, New York.
"[A] marvelous, multifaceted pointilliste portrait of the good, the
bad and the ugly faces of American jurisprudence through the
centuries. . . . The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law
is a delightfully engaging read. At times entertaining, at others
chilling, it is consistently informative and instructive. Once you
dip into it, you will find it hard to stop."—Martin Rubin, The
Washington Times
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