I recently posted a short article on the history of the Supreme Court’s shrinking docket on SSRN. The article, which got a mention at the Legal History Blog, appears in IIT Chicago-Kent’s compilation, Then and Now: Stories of Law and Progress (2013), which was published in honor of the law school’s 125th anniversary.

On November 15 and 16, 2012, ISCOTUS and the Chicago-Kent Law Review co-sponsored a symposium on “The Supreme Court and the American Public.” The Symposium featured a keynote address by Judge Richard Posner of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, a lunchtime address from Linda Greenhouse, former Supreme Court correspondent for the New York Times, … Continue reading The Supreme Court and the public →

Welcome to the new ISCOTUSnow. Through our free app and website, you will find Supreme Court opinions and oral argument audio and transcripts as soon as they are available to the public. In addition, ISCOTUSnow features videos of legal experts explaining the major issues in some of the Court’s most important cases, as well as … Continue reading OyezToday is now ISCOTUSnow →

Oyez has posted audio recordings and transcripts of the opinion announcements from the bench for every case in the 2011 term. The collection includes the announcements and dissents from the bench in the momentous cases involving the Affordable Care Act and the Arizona immigration law. The announcements are also available as podcasts via Oyez’s iTunes … Continue reading All 2011 Opinion Announcements Available →