For 50 years (1972-2022), Stanford had at least one—and as many as four—justices on the Supreme Court.

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Front and Center

On the eve of her departure from the Supreme Court, Sandra Day O’Connor talks about her early anxiety as a Stanford student, the struggle to find a job as a lawyer and the challenges of a pathbreaking journey.

By Kevin Cool

Features

‘A Consensus Builder by Disposition’

What Stephen Breyer’s clerks have to say about the justice and his legacy.

by Rebecca Beyer

Red All Over

Judging Humor

Features

Head of the Class

When the future chief justice of the United States arrived on campus in 1946, fresh from service in World War II, he had no particular plan. Then he met a professor whose scholarly specialty inspired a career in the law, and whose ideas shaped the views that would change American jurisprudence.

by Charles Lane

Leland's Journal

Try, Try Again

Features

Packing the Court

by Bruce Anderson

Features

Breyer Takes the Bench

In October 1994, Stephen Breyer took his seat as the newest justice on the Supreme Court. A proven consensus builder, Breyer brings to the nation’s highest court a belief that the law requires both a “heart and a head.”

by Bob Cohn

The Supremes

Front and Center

‘A Consensus Builder by Disposition’

Judging Humor

Head of the Class

Try, Try Again

Packing the Court

Breyer Takes the Bench

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