This article is part of a series on the legacy and jurisprudence of the late Justice David Souter. Kent Greenfield is Professor of Law and Dean’s Distinguished Scholar at Boston College. He clerked ...
This article is part of a series on the legacy and jurisprudence of the late Justice David Souter. Charles Barzun is a Professor of Law at the University of Virginia, where he teaches Constitutional ...
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David Souter, 1939-2025

In a world of grandstanding and gavels, David Souter was a whisper — a Granite State recluse who slipped onto the Supreme Court in 1990 like a shadow through a side door, only to leave an indelible ...
When Jeannie Suk Gersen began her clerkship for former Supreme Court Associate Justice David H. Souter ’61, she was struck by her boss’s work ethic. “I think all of us as clerks felt like we were ...
From a new law review article with that name, by Andy Smarick (Manhattan Institute): During congressional testimony in 1999, the late Justice David Souter explained that only those who graduated from ...