A Thrice-Told Tale, or Felix the Cat

The manual I intend to present focuses on the importance of Felix Frankfurter. In discussing the historical understanding of the Justices of the Supreme Court, Professor John Henry Schlegel wrote, "there is the problem of Felix Frankfurter." Justice Frankfurter remains a problem if one wants to understand twentieth-century legal history. His influence as a law professor and intellectual activist, his influence as a member of the Court, and his influence directing the work of other constitutional scholars must be taken into account when assessing constitutional histories. In this Article, I suggest that Justice Felix Frankfurter tried to coordinate history to protect the integrity of the Court as he saw it, and that he succeeded

Felix Frankfurter

Originally published in 1960. Felix Frankfurter, a controversial figure in American judicial history, completed more than twenty-one years of service on the Supreme Court. This book is the first extended treatment of his political performance as a justice. It portrays the influence that he, both as teacher and jurist, exerted in the growth of public law over fifty years. He has exerted his influence not only through his writing but also through his personal acquaintance with many important persons in and out of government service. Beyond examining the career of one man, Thomas opens up a wider window on the history of legal thought. The main value of the book, though, lies in its presentation of the philosophy of one leading twentieth-century educator and jurist

A Psychohistorical View of Mr. Justice Frankfurter

A Review of The Enigma of Felix Frankfurter by H.N. Hirsc

Psycho-Enigmatizing Felix Frankfurter

A Review of The Enigma of Felix Frankfurter by H.N. Hirsc

Review: THE PUBLIC AND ITS GOVERNMENT. By Professor Felix Frankfurter

A Review of THE PUBLIC AND ITS GOVERNMENT By Professor Felix Frankfurter

The Business of the Supreme Court Revisited

Nearly seventy years after its publication, Prof. Jones revisits Felix Frankfurter and James McCauley Landis\u27 seminal 1928 book

Courting Citation Consistency: Justice Frankfurter and West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish

This Article examines the three U.S. Supreme Court opinions authored by Justice Felix Frankfurter that cited the landmark decision in West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish (1937). I describe the three Parrish-citing opinions as: (1) “perfunctory”—Mayo v. Lakeland Highlands Canning Co. (1940) (Frankfurter, J., joined by Black and Douglas, JJ., dissenting); (2) “ugly”—Winters v. New York (1948) (Frankfurter, J., joined by Jackson and Burton, JJ., dissenting); and (3) “good”—American Federation of Labor v. American Sash & Door Co. (1949) (Frankfurter, J., concurring). Whatever one might think about the substance of these opinions, there is absolutely no doubt of the following. First, they are classic statements of the jurisprudential principles for which, thanks in large part to Brad Snyder’s biography, Felix Frankfurter (FF) will be principally remembered. Second, each of the three citations of Parrish is true to that 1937 decision, thereby demonstrating FF’s unwavering commitment (as both a lawyer and a jurist) to the progressive belief in the societal value of minimum wage and maximum hours laws. In other words, with regards to West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish, FF was the very model of a citation-consistent Democratic Justice