The law of the land : a history of the Supreme Court

 Content: Disc 1. Lecture 1, The judicial power, jurisdiction, and the ages of the Supreme Court ; Lecture 2, The establishment of judicial review : Marbury v. Madison (1803) --
 Disc 2. Lecture 3, Privilege and creative destruction : Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge (1837) ; Lecture 4, Equality, slavery and the Supreme Court : Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) --
 Disc 3. Lecture 5, Native American sovereignty and the Constitution : Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock (1903) ; Lecture 6, Liberty to contract in the Industrial Age : Lochner v. New York (1905) --
 Disc 4. Lecture 7, Clear and present danger, the First Amendment, and total war : Abrams v. United States (1919) ; Lecture 8, A switch in time? : West Coast Hotel v. Parrish (1937) --
 Disc 5. Lecture 9, Japanese internment and total war : Korematsu v. United States (1944) ; Lecture 10, Simple justice : Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954, 1955) --
 Disc 6. Lecture 11, Abortion, women, and equality : Roe v. Wade (1973) ; Lecture 12, Presidential immunity and Watergate : United States v. Nixon (1974) --
 Disc 7. Lecture 13, The boundaries of discrimination : Regents of the Uni. of CA v. Bakke ; Lecture 14, The ten greatest justices in the history of the Supreme Court.
 Abstract:             This course explores the court as a living, breathing institution. Listeners will come to know the court through a thorough study of its most significant decisions