James F. Simon

Martin Professor of Law Emeritus
Dean Emeritus

Publications by Dean Simon

BOOKS

FDR and Chief Justice Hughes: The President, the Supreme Court, and the Epic Battle Over the New Deal (Simon & Schuster, 2012).

Lincoln and Chief Justice Taney: Slavery, Secession, and the President’s War Powers (Simon & Schuster), 2006, (Simon & Schuster Lincoln Library Collection Paperback), 2007.

What Kind of Nation: Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, and the Epic Struggle to Create a United States, (Simon & Schuster, 2002); paperback edition (2003).

The Center Holds: The Power Struggle Inside the Rehnquist Court, (Simon & Schuster, 1995); paperback edition (Touchstone, Simon & Schuster, 1996).

 
The Antagonists: Hugo Black, Felix Frankfurter and Civil Liberties in Modern America (Simon & Schuster, 1989) first; (Touchstone, Simon & Schuster, 1990).
 
Independent Journey: The Life of William O. Douglas, (Harper & Row, 1980; paperback edition, Penguin, 1981).
 
The Judge, (D. McKay, 1976).
 
In His Own Image: The Supreme Court in Richard Nixon’s America, (D. McKay, 1973; paperback edition, D. McKay, 1974).
 
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
 
“The Center Holds,” Chapter 46 in The Lanahan Readings in the American Polity, 2nd ed., at 311–319 (A.G. Serow & E.C. Ladd, eds., Lanahan Publishers, 2000).
 
“William O. Douglas,” Chapter 13 in The Warren Court: A Retrospective at 211–223 (B. Schwartz, ed., Oxford University Press, 1996).
 
LAW REVIEW AND OTHER SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS
 
“Judging the Justices” (Book reviews of Roger K. Newman’s Hugo Black: A Biography and John C. Jeffries’s Jr. Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr.), 49 Stanford Law Review 173–180 (1996).
 
“Solomon Lecture: Politics and the Rehnquist Court,” 40 New York Law School Law Review 863–875 (1996).
 
Afterward: “Dialogue on the Solomon Lecture: Politics and the Rehnquist Court,” 40 New York Law School Law Review 1013–1022 (1996).
 
Foreword (New York Law School Centennial Conference in Honor of Justice John Marshall Harlan), 36 New York Law School Law Review 1–4 (1991).
 
NEWSPAPER ARTICLES, PRACTICE MATERIALS AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS
 
“Making a Federal Case,” Book Review of Garry Will’s James Madison, The New York Times (Book Review Desk) April 21, 2002, at 22, reprinted as "The Disappointing Presidency of James Madison," 148 Chicago Daily Law Bulletin 2, 24 (May 2, 2002).
 
“William O. Douglas.” Entry in The Oxford Companion to United States History, at 192–193 (P.S. Boyer, ed.) Oxford University Press, 2001.
 
“Once a Crusader: Whether Mediating Strikes for Woodrow Wilson or Championing the Least Popular of Defendants, Felix Frankfurter was Bound by Neither Court nor Classroom” The American Lawyer, December 2000, at 21.
 
Transcript: “Commentary on Panel Discussions” (Symposium: National Conference on Judicial Biography), 70 New York University Law Review 556, at 565, 743, 804 (1996).
 
“Biographer’s Notes on Justice Douglas,” 201 New York Law Journal 2 (May 5, 1989).
 
“Conflict and Leadership, The U.S. Supreme Court from Marshall to Rehnquist,” 53 Vital Speeches of the Day 44–48 (1986) (Delivered at the John Marshall Lecture, Franklin and Marshall College).
 
“Justice Potter Stewart: The Early Years (excerpt from In His Own Image—The Supreme Court in Richard Nixon’s America),” 94 Los Angeles Daily Journal 4 (June 24, 1981).

Contact Information:

T: 212-431-2352
E: james.simon@nyls.edu
O: E915

Education:

Yale, B.A. 1961; LL.B. 1964
New York Law School, LL.D. 1992
Ford Foundation Africa-Asia Fellowship, India, 1964-65
Law and Humanities Fellowship, Harvard, 1974-75

Dean, New York Law School, 1983–92. Award-winning author of books on modern Supreme Court and its justices. Former correspondent and contributing editor of Time magazine.

Courses:

  • Constitutional Law I & II
  • Legal Journalism
  • Modern Supreme Court

At New York Law School since 1975.

Faculty Profile