Book Talk: The Taft Court: Volume 10: Making Law for a Divided Nation, 1921-1930

Please join the Lillian Goldman Law Library for a talk with Professor Robert C. Post ’77 about his new book, The Taft Court: Volume 10: Making Law for a Divided Nation, 1921-1930, with commentary by Professor Anthony T. Kronman ’75.

Online Registration is Required by April 8th. Boxed lunch provided.

About The Taft Court: Volume 10: Making Law for a Divided Nation, 1921-1930, from the Cambridge University Press website:

The Taft Court offers the definitive history of the Supreme Court from 1921 to 1930 when William Howard Taft was Chief Justice. Using untapped archival material, Robert C. Post engagingly recounts the ambivalent effort to create a modern American administrative state out of the institutional innovations of World War I. He shows how the Court sought to establish authoritative forms of constitutional interpretation despite the culture wars that enveloped prohibition and pervasive labor unrest. He explores in great detail how constitutional law responds to altered circumstances. The work provides comprehensive portraits of seminal figures such as Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. and Louis Dembitz Brandeis. It describes William Howard Taft's many judicial reforms and his profound alteration of the role of Chief Justice. A critical and timely contribution, The Taft Court sheds light on jurisprudential debates that are just as relevant today as they were a century ago.

The Taft Court: Making Law for a Divided Nation, 1921–1930 is available as an e-book for the Yale community and in print at the Lillian Goldman Law Library.