Table of Contents:
- pt. I. Judicial review and American politics: historical and political perspectives. The doctrine of judicial review: Mr. Marshall, Mr. Jefferson, and Mr. Marbury / Chief Justice Warren E. Burger ; The Supreme Court in the American system of government / Justice Robert H. Jackson
- pt. II. The dynamics of the judicial process. Advice and consent in theory and practice / Judge Roger J. Miner ; The "fight" theory versus the "truth" theory / Judge Jerome Frank ; The adversary judge: the experience of the trial judge / Judge Marvin E. Frankel ; The business of the U.S. District Courts / Judge D. Brock Hornby ; What I ate for breakfast and other mysteries of judicial decision making / Judge Alex Kozinski ; Whose federal judiciary is it anyway? / Judge Stephen Reinhardt ; What really goes on at the Supreme Court / Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. ; The Supreme Court's Conference / Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist ; Deciding what to decide: the docket and the Rule of Four / Justice John Paul Stevens ; The role of oral argument / Justice John M. Harlan II ; Year-end Report on the Federal Judiciary (2007) / Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.
- pt. III. The judiciary and the Constitution. The path of law / Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. ; The judge as a legislator / Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo ; The notion of a living Constitution / Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist ; A relativistic Constitution / Judge William Wayne Justice ; The jurisprudence of judicial restraint: a return to the moorings / Judge J. Clifford Wallace ; Tradition and morality in constitutional law / Judge Robert H. Bork ; What am I, a potted plant? The case against strict constructionism / Judge Richard A. Posner ; Originalism: the lesser evil / Justice Antonin Scalia ; The Constitution: a living document / Justice Thurgood Marshall ; The Constitution of the United States: contemporary ratification / Justice William J. Brennan Jr. ; Speaking in a judicial voice: reflections on Roe v. Wade / Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg ; Our democratic Constitution / Justice Stephen G. Breyer ; Against constitutional theory / Judge Richard A. Posner ; The importance of comparative law / Chief Justice Aharon Barak ; The two faces of judicial activism / Judge William Wayne Justice
- pt. IV. The judiciary and federal regulation: line drawing and statutory interpretation. Some reflections on the reading of statutes / Justice Felix Frankfurter ; What does legislative history tell us? / Judge Frank H. Easterbrook
- pt. V. Our dual constitutional system: the Bill of Rights and the states. The Bill of Rights / Justice Hugo L. Black ; Guardians of our liberties - state courts no less than federal / Justice William J. Brennan Jr. ; First things first: rediscovering the states' Bills of Rights / Justice Hans A. Linde ; State Courts at the dawn of a new century: common law courts reading statutes and Constitutions / Chief Judge Judith S. Kaye