U.S. Supreme Court

Appellate Practice

• ABA's Appellate Practice Compendium: KF 9050 A935 2012
• ABA’s A Practitioner's Guide to Appellate Advocacy: KF 9050 P73 2010
• Bloomberg Law’s Supreme Court Practice: KF9057 S8 2019
  • Considered to be the essential treatise on the Court
• Bloomberg Law’s Federal Appellate Practice: online only (Final chapter on S. Ct.)
• Childress & Davis, Federal Standards of Review: on Lexis
• PLI’s Principles of Appellate Litigation: (Ch. 10 on S. Ct.)
  • Online: PLI PLUS
  • Print: KF 9050 .P75
• West's Federal Appeals: Jurisdiction and Practice: Westlaw and KF 9050 T54 1999
• West’s Supreme Court and Appellate Advocacy, 2d: KF 8870 F74 2010

Statutory Interpretation

• Mastering Statutory Interpretation by Linda D. Jellum: KF 425 J446 2013
  • Introductory work to the methods of interpreting statutes
• Sutherland Statutes and Statutory Construction
  • Online: Westlaw
  • Print: KF 425 S9

For further related materials, search the catalog TALLONS by subject for:

• Appellate procedure -- United States
• Law -- United States -- Interpretation and construction

West’s Federal Forms: (Vols. 1-3 for Supreme Court by Bennett Boskey)

• Online: Westlaw

• American Constitution Society (ACS) Supreme Court Review: Online
• Cato Supreme Court Review: Online and K 3 A7895 
• Harvard Law Review: Online and K 8 A787
  • Since vol. 63 in 1949, first issue of annual volume includes discussion of past term’s decisions and compilation of statistics
  • For explanation of stats, see vol. 119, p. 415 (2005)
• Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly: Online and K 8 A85
  • Annual series from 1986 to 2007 that tabulated and analyzed voting behavior
• Journal of Appellate Practice & Process: Online and K 10 O8415
• Journal of Supreme Court History: Online and KF 8741 A15 S86
• NYU Journal of Law & Liberty: Online and K 14 A183
  • Publishes annual Supreme Court Preview since 2013
• Supreme Court Economic Review: Online and K 23 U65 
• Supreme Court Review: Online and KF 4546 S9
  • Edited by U of Chicago law faculty 
  • Annual review, since 1989
• Supreme Court Debates: Online (through PCL)
  • From vol. 1, 1998 to date
  • Covers opposing sides on questions facing the Court, in equal depth
• Touro Law Review: Online and K 24 O87

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