Essays in honor of Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States John Paul Stevens in commemoration of his 100th birthday. Justice Stevens graduated from Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law in 1947. From 1946 to 1947, he served as co-Editor-in-Chief of the Northwestern University Law Review, known as Illinois Law Review at the time.


Katherine Shaw

Justice Stevens and the Project of Perfecting the Constitution

Katherine Shaw is a Professor of Law, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.


Carter G. Phillips

Sixty-Five Oral Arguments Were Not Enough: A Tribute to Justice Stevens from Across the Bench

Carter G. Phillips is a Partner, Sidley Austin LLP. Adjunct Professor of Law at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and Co-Director of Northwestern’s Supreme Court Clinic.


Merritt E. McAlister

Judging and Baseball

Merritt McAlister is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Florida Fredric G. Levin College of Law.


Andrew Koppelman

“The Function of the Independent Lawyer as a Guardian of Our Freedom”: The Great Stevens Dissent in Walters

Andrew Koppelman is the John Paul Stevens Professor of Law and Professor (by courtesy) of Political Science, Department of Philosophy Affiliated Faculty, Northwestern University.


Hannah Mullen

In Memoriam

Hannah Mullen is the Granddaughter of Justice John Paul Stevens. 


Sonja R. West & Dahlia Lithwick

The Paradox of Justice John Paul Stevens

Sonja R. West is the Otis Brumby Distinguished Professor in First Amendment Law at the University of Georgia School of Law and a former law clerk to Justice John Paul Stevens. Dahlia Lithwick is a senior editor at Slate and covers the courts and the law.


Commemorative Reprints of Articles by John Paul Stevens in the Law Review