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Symposium: Celebrating Justice Clarence Thomas’s 30th Anniversary on the Supreme Court
In 2021, Harvard’s Journal of Law and Public Policy organized a special online symposium, which celebrated the 30th anniversary of Thomas’ tenure on the Supreme Court.
The symposium produced these articles:
- Judge Gregory Katsas, Justice Thomas Joins the Supreme Court.
- Judge Gregory Maggs, Justice Thomas and Stare Decisis.
- Judge David Stras, Speaking Out on Justice Thomas.
- Judge James Ho, Be Not Afraid.
- Judge Liam Hardy & Judge Margaret Ryan, Justice Thomas: Staunch Defender of Criminal Defendants’ Fifth and Sixth Amendments Rights.
- Judge Neomi Rao, Saying What the Law Is, Justice Thomas Style.
- Professor Nicole Garnett, What I Saw at the Daytona 500.
The symposium also collected tribute videos from Professor Jennifer Mascott, Judge Allison Rushing, and Judicial Crisis Network President Carrie Severino. You can watch each below:
Symposium: Justice Thomas: Twenty-Five Years on the Supreme Court
In 2017, the Yale Law Journal dedicated a series of articles to Justice Thomas’ 25th anniversary on the Supreme Court. It is a special collection found in the 127th volume of the long-running and well-known journal.
The symposium produced these articles:
- Judge William Pryor, Justice Thomas, Criminal Justice, and Originalism’s Legitimacy.
- West Virginia Solicitor General Elbert Lin, At the Front of the Train: Justice Thomas Reexamines the Administrative State.
- Professor Marah McLeod, A Humble Justice.
- Then-Professor Gregory Maggs, How Justice Thomas Determines the Original Meaning of Article II of the Constitution.
- Attorney William Consovoy and Professor Nicole Garnett, “To Help, Not To Hurt”: Justice Thomas’s Equality Canon.
- Professor Kate Stith, No Entrenchment: Thomas on the Hobbs Act, the Ocasio Mess, and the Vagueness Doctrine.
Other Law Reviews
- Scott Gerber, Clarence Thomas, Fisher v. University Of Texas, and the Future of Affirmative Action in Higher Education (2016).
- Brian Lipshutz, Justice Thomas and the Originalist Turn in Administrative Law (2015).
- Charles Cooper, Confronting the Administrative State (2015).
- Scott Gerber, Liberal Originalism: The Declaration Of Independence And Constitutional Interpretation – Symposium: History and Meaning of the Constitution (2014).
- Scott Gerber, Justice for Clarence Thomas: An Intellectual History of Justice Thomas’s Twenty Years on the Supreme Court (2011).
- J. Richard Broughton, The Loudness of Justice Thomas (2011).
- Ralph Rossum, Clarence Thomas’s Originalist Understanding of the Interstate, Negative, and Indian Commerce Clauses (2011).
- Nicole Garnett, “But For the Grace Of God There Go I”: Justice Thomas And The Little Guy (2009).
- Steven Lichtman, Black Like Me: The Free Speech Jurisprudence of Clarence Thomas (2009).
- Stephen Smith, Clarence X?: The Black Nationalist Behind Justice Thomas’s Constitutionalism (2009).
- Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Just Another Brother on the SCT?: What Justice Clarence Thomas Teaches Us About the Influence of Racial Identity (2005).
- Scott Gerber, “My Rookie Years Are Over”: Clarence Thomas After Ten Years (2002).
- Edwin Meese, The Jurisprudence of Clarence Thomas (2000).
- Stephen Smith, The Truth About Clarence Thomas And The Need For New Black Leadership (2000).