With Liberty and Justice for All?
The Constitution in the Classroom
Edited by Steven A. Steinbach, Maeva Marcus, and Robert Cohen
Foreword by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Author Information
Steven A. Steinbach teaches United States History and American Government courses and has served as history department chair at Sidwell Friends School in Washington, DC. Previously he was a partner in the Washington, DC, law firm of Williams & Connolly LLP, where he specialized in criminal and civil litigation.
Maeva Marcus, a past president of the American Society for Legal History, is Research Professor of Law and Director of the Institute for Constitutional Studies at the George Washington University Law School. She serves as the general editor of the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court of the United States. Author of Truman and the Steel Seizure Case: The Limits of Presidential Power, she also edited the eight-volume series The Documentary History of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1789-1800.
Robert Cohen, professor in the Department of Teaching & Learning at New York University, has written or edited more than a dozen books about United States history, including Rethinking America's Past: Howard Zinn's The People's History of the United States in the Classroom and Beyond. He is co-founder of the NYU-Steinhardt-NYU School of Law Constitution in the Schools Partnership program.
Contributors:
Mary Sarah Bilder, Founders Professor at Boston College Law School, received the Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy for Madison's Hand: Revising the Constitutional Convention (2015). She teaches in the areas of property, trusts and estates, and American legal and constitutional history and is the author of Female Genius: Eliza Harriot and George Washington at the Dawn of the Constitution (2022).
Robert Cohen, Professor, Department of Teaching & Learning, New York University, has written or edited more than a dozen books about United States history, including Rethinking America's Past: Howard Zinn's The People's History of the United States in the Classroom and Beyond (2021). He is Co-founder of the NYU-Steinhardt-NYU School of Law Constitution in the Schools Partnership program.
Sam Erman, Associate Professor at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law, focuses on citizenship, race, empire, and constitutional change, especially during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His most recent book is Almost Citizens: Puerto Rico, the U.S. Constitution, and Empire (2019).
Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University, won the Bancroft Prize, the Pulitzer Prize for History, and the Lincoln Prize for his many works about the Civil War-Reconstruction era. His most recent book is The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution (2019).
Ruth Bader Ginsburg was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court from 1993 until her death in September 2020. She was a law professor, first at Rutgers, then at Columbia; co-founded the American Civil Liberties Union's Women's Rights Project; argued before the Supreme Court; and served as a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. A collection of her writings and speeches, published in 2016, is titled My Own Words.
Annette Gordon-Reed, the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University, won the Pulitzer Prize in History for The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family (2008). Her most recent book is On Juneteenth (2021).
Linda Greenhouse, Senior Research Scholar at Yale Law School, served as the Supreme Court correspondent for the New York Times for thirty years, receiving a Pulitzer Prize for her work. Among other books, she is the author of The U.S. Supreme Court: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2020) and Justice on the Brink: The Death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Rise of Amy Coney Barrett, and Twelve Months that Transformed the Supreme Court (2021).
Laura Kalman, Distinguished Research Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, is a past president of the American Society for Legal History. She is the author of Abe Fortas: A Biography (1990), The Strange Career of Legal Liberalism (1996), The Long Reach of the Sixties: LBJ, Nixon, and the Making of the Contemporary Supreme Court (Oxford University Press, 2017), and other books.
Maeva Marcus, a past president of the American Society for Legal History, is Research Professor of Law and Director of the Institute for Constitutional Studies at The George Washington University Law School. She serves as the General Editor of the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court of the United States. Author of Truman and the Steel Seizure Case: The Limits of Presidential Power (1977; 1994), she also edited the eight-volume series The Documentary History of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1789-1800 (1985-2007) and Origins of the Federal Judiciary: Essays on the Judiciary Act of 1789 (Oxford University Press, 1992).
Melissa Murray is Frederick I. and Grace Stokes Professor of Law at New York University School of Law, where she teaches constitutional law, family law, criminal law, and reproductive rights and justice. Her writing has appeared in a range of legal and lay publications, including the Harvard Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, and the New York Times. Most recently, she co-edited Reproductive Rights and Justice Stories (2019).
Steven A. Steinbach teaches United States History and American Government courses and has served as History Department Chair at Sidwell Friends School in Washington, DC. Previously he was a partner in the Washington, DC, law firm of Williams & Connolly LLP, where he specialized in criminal and civil litigation.
Julie C. Suk is Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law, and Visiting Professor of Law at Yale Law School. She is the author of We the Women: The Unstoppable Mothers of the Equal Rights Amendment (2020), and dozens of scholarly articles on comparative constitutional law, equality, women's rights, and constitutional change.
