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37 J. Sup. Ct. Hist. v (2012)

handle is hein.journals/jspcth37 and id is 1 raw text is: Introduction Melvin I. Urofsky In this first issue of 2012, all of us here at the Journal want to wish our readers a happy and healthy year, and we hope that in this year's Journal there will be many articles that will capture your interest. As in nearly all ofour issues, articles come to us in a variety of manners. Tim Huebner and I are always on the lookout for what our colleagues in the field of constitutional history are doing, and over the years we are pleased to note that when we attend scholarly meetings people come up to us to see if we would be interested in something they are working on. Tim and I were at the Atlanta meeting of the American Society for Legal History this past November, and the fruits of our conversations there will be appearing in the Journal over the next few years. The first article, by my old friend Jim Ely, grew out of such a conversation. Jim is now emeritus professor at Vanderbilt University Law School, and still an active scholar. His specialty is property and property rights, and he will be one of the speakers in the Society's 2012 Silverman Lecture Series. The article on Justice Rufus Peckham grew out of a sympo- sium on forgotten justices who, although we do not pay much attention to them these days, nonetheless had an impact on the law in their times. Peckham, of course, was the author of the majority opinion in Lochner v. New York (1905), and Ely's article is part of the current interest in re-evaluating that case. Ever since the Judge's Bill of 1925 the Supreme Court docket has been devoted pri- marily to matters of constitutional law and statutory interpretation. Prior to that act, how- ever, the Court decided dozens, even hundreds, of cases annually that came to it on a writ of error by grace of earlier jurisdictional laws. If one spends even a few hours browsing through a volume or two of US. Reports in those years, one will be amazed at the large number of cases dealing with what we would now consider mi- nor matters for local courts. Sometimes, however, one of these cases would carry a larger import, not so much for the constitutional or legal principles involved, but because it touched on issues that mattered to the public on an emotional level. Today, we are so familiar with Arlington National Ceme- tery as a monument to the nation's war dead v

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