For 50 years (1972-2022), Stanford had at least one—and as many as four—justices on the Supreme Court.
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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.
What Stephen Breyer’s clerks have to say about the justice and his legacy.
by Rebecca Beyer
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