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36 J. Sup. Ct. Hist. v (2011)

handle is hein.journals/jspcth36 and id is 1 raw text is: Introduction Melvin I. Urofsky Every time I sit down to write an introduc- tion to the next issue of the Journal, I shake my head in amazement. It is not that the articles we publish are good; they have to be, or we would not be running them. Rather, it is the great and growing diversity of material that fits into the rubric of Supreme Court history. As those of you who went to law school before the new legal history took hold in the 1980s, and even for some of you who went afterward, study of the Supreme Court meant parsing cases. There might be an occasional course in constitutional history that would look beyond the cases to the broader political, eco- nomic or cultural events taking place at the time, and even a rare course in judicial biog- raphy. One read cases to get the bottom line- what does this case contribute to what the law is now. Digressions on law and economics, law and literature, and other esoteric views were offered, if at all, in elective courses. Unfortunately, that situation still holds true in many law schools, but over the past two decades law professors, historians, and polit- ical scientists have come to appreciate that to truly understand the Supreme Court and its de- cisions, one has to look further than the bot- tom line. This is the approach we have tried to take in the Journal, and from your comments it appears to be succeeding. Who would have thought only a few years ago, for example, that we would carry an ar- ticle on Muddy Ruel, a professional baseball player who wound up in the Supreme Court not to sue the professional leagues but to join the bar of the Court. What pleases me most is that the article comes from a law professor, Robert Jarvis of Nova Southeastern University Law School. Douglas Abrams, associate professor of law at the University of Missouri, looks not only at a famous decision-the second flag salute case-but examines Justice Jackson's iconic opinion not only for the law it ex- pounded, but for the inherent passion in it that shows us another side of a justice who truly de- serves far more attention than he has received. While we get many of our articles through the mail (usually e-mail) and from the Soci- ety's annual lecture series, Tim Huebner, who has joined us as associate editor, and I often find articles by talking to people we know. v

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