Journal/Publication Title
Journal of Legal Education
Abstract
The autobiography of Justice John Paul Stevens, published just a few months before he died, is an enticing travelogue for Supreme Court nerds. Other travelers may want to pick a different landscape.
In The Making of a Justice: Reflections on My First 94 Years, Stevens who died in July 2019, at age 99, spent 130 pages on his life before he joined the Supreme Court and then 394 pages describing the decisions during his thirty-four year as a Justice. Stevens was an agile writer and did as good a job as anyone can of making the narrative accessible, but it is a tough road to go from one case to another for what must be at least 150 decisions.
Recommended Citation
Stephen Wermiel,
Book Review The Making of a Justice: Reflections on My First 94 Years by John Paul Stevens,
J. Of LEGAL Ed.
(2025).
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/facsch_bkrev/58