M.S.L., Yale Law School, 1978
B.A., Radcliffe College (Harvard), 1968
Linda Greenhouse is a Senior Research Scholar in Law at Yale Law School. She covered the Supreme Court for The New York Times between 1978 and 2008 and continues to write regularly for the newspaper’s Opinion pages. Greenhouse received several major journalism awards during her 40-year career at the Times, including the Pulitzer Prize (1998) and the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism from Harvard University’s Kennedy School (2004). In 2002, the American Political Science Association gave her its Carey McWilliams Award for “a major journalistic contribution to our understanding of politics.” Her books include a biography of Justice Harry A. Blackmun, “Becoming Justice Blackmun;” “Before Roe v. Wade: Voices That Shaped the Abortion Debate Before the Supreme Court's Ruling”(with Reva B. Siegel); “The U.S. Supreme Court, A Very Short Introduction,” (Oxford University Press , 3rd ed. 2024); “The Burger Court and the Rise of the Judicial Right” (with Michael J. Graetz, 2016); a memoir, “Just a Journalist: Reflections on the Press, Life, and the Spaces Between;” (Harvard University Press, 2017) and “Justice on the Brink: A Requiem for the Supreme Court” (Random House, 2021). In her extracurricular life, Greenhouse served from 2017 to 2023 as president of the American Philosophical Society, the country's oldest learned society, which in 2005 awarded her its Henry Allen Moe Prize for writing in jurisprudence and the humanities. From 2004 to 2023, she served on the Council of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is an honorary member of the American Law Institute, which in 2002 awarded her its Henry J. Friendly Medal. She has been awarded 13 honorary degrees. She is a graduate of Radcliffe College (Harvard) and earned a Master of Studies in Law degree from Yale Law School, which she attended on a Ford Foundation fellowship.
Justice on the Brink: A Requiem for the Supreme Court (Random House, 2021)
Just a Journalist: On the Press, Life, and the Spaces Between (Harvard, 2017)
The Burger Court and the Rise of the Judicial Right (with Michael J. Graetz) 2016
The U.S. Supreme Court: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2012, 3rd ed. 2024)
Before Roe v. Wade: Voices That Shaped the Abortion Debate Before the Supreme Court’s Ruling (with Reva B. Siegel) 2010 (2d edition, 2012)
Becoming Justice Blackmun: Harry Blackmun’s Supreme Court Journey, Times Books/Henry Holt, 2005.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s American Vision, Foreword to On Being American: The Jurisprudence of Ruth Bader Ginsburg (ABA Publishing, Reynolds & Gilreath, eds., 2024)
Shaping the Constitution in With Liberty and Justice For All?: The Constitution in the Classroom (Steinbach, Marcus & Cohen, eds., Oxford University Press 2022)
The Unfinished Story of Roe v. Wade in Reproductive Rights and Justice Stories (Foundation Press, Murray, Shaw & Siegel, eds. 2019)
Is It the Roberts Court? in The Health Care Case (Persily, Metzger, Morrison, eds.) (Oxford, 2013)
The Third Rehnquist Court, Foreword to The Rehnquist Legacy, Craig Bradley, ed., Cambridge University Press, 2006
Are Sheriffs Above the Law? New York Review of Books, Oct. 3, 2024 (reviewing The Highest Law in the Land by Jessica Pishko)
The Constant Presence of Fear, New York Review of Books, June 20, 2024 (reviewing Sito: An American Teenager and the City that Failed Him by Laurence Ralph
Social Progress and the Court, New York Review of Books, March 21, 2024 (reviewing The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change? By Gerald Rosenberg
An Unhealthy Definition of Rights, New York Review of Books, Dec. 21, 2023 (reviewing Constitutional Contagion: Covid, the Courts and Public Health by Wendy Parmet)
Why Aren’t Cops Held to Account? New York Review of Books, Sept. 21, 2023 (reviewing The Fear of Too Much Justice by Stephen Bright and James Kwak)
Not How He Wanted to Be Remembered, New York Review of Books, June 22, 2023 (reviewing Judgment and Mercy: The Turbulent Life and Times of the Judge Who Condemned the Rosenbergs by Martin J. Siegel)
Victimhood and Vengeance, New York Review of Books, February 9, 2023 (reviewing three books on Christian nationalism)
A Powerful Forgotten Dissent, New York Review of Books, Oct. 6, 2022 (reviewing Breaking the Promise of Brown: The Resegregation of America’s Schools by Stephen G. Breyer)
Should We Reform the Court? New York Review of Books, April 7, 2022 (reviewing the Report of the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court)
Grievance Conservatives Are Here to Stay, New York Review of Books, July 1, 2021 (reviewing The Power Worshippers by Katherine Stewart and Gay Rights v. Religious Liberty: The Unnecessary Conflict by Andrew Koppelman)
The First and Last of Her Kind, New York Review of Books, Nov. 7, 2019 (reviewing First: Sandra Day O’Connor by Evan Thomas)
The Impeachment Question, New York Review of Books, June 27, 2019 (reviewing books on Trump’s impeachment)
Wrongfully Convicted, New York Review of Books, June 28, 2018 (reviewing four books on wrongfully convictions)
How Smart Women Got the Chance, New York Review of Books, April 6, 2017 (reviewing Keep the Damned Women Out by Nancy Weiss Malkiel)
Was it the Era of 'O'Connorism?, 92 Judicature 169 (Jan.-Feb. 2009) (reviewing Nancy Maveety, "Queen's Court: Judicial Power in the Rehnquist Era")
Equine Evolution: Our Creation, Our Concern in To the Swift: Classic Triple Crown Horses and Their Race for Glory, Joe Drape, ed., St. Martin’s Press, 2008
Justice on the Brink and the Rule of Law, 46 U. Dayton L. Rev. 1 (2021)
The Passion of John Paul Stevens, 118 Mich. L. Rev. 939 (2020)
The Supreme Court’s Challenge to Civil Society, 2019 Sup. Ct. Rev. 335
The Supreme Court and Science: A Case in Point, 147 Daedalus (Vol. 4) 28 (Fall 2018)
Books of the Justices (Foreword), 115 Mich. L. Rev. 733 (2017)
The Difference a Whole Woman Makes: Protection for the Abortion Right After Whole Woman's Health (with Reva B. Siegel) 126 Yale L.J.F. 149 (2016)
Casey and the Clinic Closings: When “Protecting Health” Obstructs Choice, 125 Yale L.J. 1428 ( 2016) (with Reva B. Siegel)
From Griswold to Roe and Beyond, 54 Conn. Hist. Rev. 273 (2015)
The Rigorous Romantic: Anthony Lewis on the Supreme Court Beat, 79 Missouri L. R. 907 (2014)
A Conversation with Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 122 Yale L. J. Online 283 (2013)
Backlash to the Future? From Roe to Perry, 60 UCLA L. Rev. Disc. 240 (2013) (with Reva Siegel)
A Conversation with Justice Stevens, 30 Yale L. & Pol’y Rev. 303 (2012)
Public Opinion and the Supreme Court: The Puzzling Case of Abortion, 41 Daedalus 69 (Fall 2012)
Before (and After) Roe v. Wade: New Questions About Backlash, 120 YALE L.J.2028 (2011) (with Reva Siegel)
Justice John Paul Stevens as Abortion-Rights Strategist, 43 U.C. Davis Law Review 749 (Feb. 2010)
Democracy and the Courts: The Case of Abortion, 61 Hastings L. J. 1333 (2010)
How Do Judges Know What They Know? 154 Proceedings of the Amer. Phil. Soc. 287 (2010)
The Mystery of Guantánamo Bay, 27 Berkeley J. of International Law 1 (2009)
The Breyer Project, 4 Charleston Law R. 37 (Fall 2009)
The Counter-Factual Court (Brandeis Lecture) 47 U. of Louisville Law R. (Fall 2008)
Weighing Needs and Burdens:' Justice Breyer's Heller Dissent, 59 Syracuse Law Review 299 (2008)
How the Supreme Court Talks About Abortion: The Implications of a Shifting Discourse, 42 Suffolk University Law Review 41 (2008)
What Would Justice Powell Do? The 'Alien Children' Case and the Meaning of Equal Protection, 25 Constitutional Commentary 29 (Spring 2008)
Dædalus, Volume 137, Issue 4 "On Judicial Independence" (Fall 2008) Guest Editor
Change and Continuity on the Supreme Court, 25 Washington U Journal of Law & Policy 39 (2007)
A Tale of Two Justices, 11 Green Bag 2d 37 (Autumn 2007)
Justices Who Change: A Response to Epstein et al., 101 Northwestern Law Review 1885 (Fall 2007)
How Not To Be Chief Justice: The Apprenticeship of William H. Rehnquist, 154 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1365 (June 2006)
Harry Blackmun, Independence and Path Dependence (Marvin Anderson Lecture), 56 Hastings Law Journal 1235 (June 2005)
What Got Into the Court? What Happens Next?, 57 Maine Law Review 1 (2005)
Learning to Listen to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 7 New York City Law Review 213 (Fall 2004)
Press Room Predictions, Perspectives on Politics, Vol. 2, No. 4, p. 781 (December 2004)
Because We Are Final: Judicial Review Two Hundred Years After Marbury, 56 SMU L. Rev. 781 (2003)
The Last Days of the Rehnquist Court: The Rewards of Patience and Power, 45 Ariz. L. Rev. 251 (2003)
Between Certainty & Doubt: States of Mind on the Supreme Court Today, 6 Green Bag 2d 241 (2003)
The Day Anthrax Came to the Supreme Court, 77 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 867 (2002)
Thinking About the Supreme Court after Bush v. Gore, 35 Ind. L. Rev. 435 (2002)
The Courts Must Tell Their Story, 6 Harv. Int’l J. Press/Politics 117 (2001)
Learning to Live with Bush v. Gore, 4 Green Bag 2d 381 (2001)
Telling the Court’s Story: Justice and Journalism at the Supreme Court, 105 Yale L. J. 1537 (1996)
What in the World Happened to the Supreme Court? Atlantic, Nov. 14, 2022
John Roberts’s Long Game, Atlantic, Sept. 20, 2022
Should Courts Assess the Sincerity of Religious Beliefs? Atlantic, May 5, 2022
The Court Ketanji Brown Jackson Knew, Atlantic, March 20, 2022
When Dissent Is All There Is, Atlantic, Nov. 2, 2021
The Evolution of a Justice, The New York Times Magazine, April 10, 2005
The Long Tale of Madonna the Iguana, The New York Times Magazine, Jan. 16, 2000
Horse Sense, The New York Times Magazine, Nov. 11, 1998
Supremely Sheltered, The New York Times Magazine, March 7, 1993
