Do Great Cases Make Bad Law?

Lackland H. Bloom, Jr. is a Professor of Law and Larry and Jane Harlan Senior Research Fellow at the Dedman School of Law, Southern Methodist University, where he has taught constitutional law for over thirty years. Professor Bloom previously served as Law Clerk to Chief Judge John R. Brown of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and practiced law in Washington D.C. for four years before joining the law faculty at Southern Methodist University. A specialist in constitutional law, he has published numerous articles in the areas of freedom of speech, equal protection of the laws, constitutional interpretation, and the rhetoric of Supreme Court opinions. He served as Administrative Editor of the Michigan Law Review. He is the author of Methods of Interpretation: How the Supreme Court Reads the Constitution (Oxford University Press, 2009).

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Marbury v. Madison

2. McCulloch v. Maryland

3. Gibbons v. Ogden

4. Prigg v. Pennsylvania

5. Scott v. Sandford

6. The Legal Tender Cases

7. The Slaughter-House Cases

8. The Civil Rights Cases

9. Pollack v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co.

10. NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.

11. Dennis v. United States

12. Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer

13. Brown v. Board of Education

14. The Reapportionment Cases

15. New York Times v. Sullivan

16. Miranda v. Arizona

17. The Pentagon Papers Case

18. Roe and Casey

19. United States v. Nixon

20. Bakke, Grutter & Gratz (and Fisher)

21. Bush v. Gore

22. National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius

23. Do Great Cases Make Bad Law?

Index