The Arthur J. Goldberg papers span the years ca. 1961-78 and fill 42 document boxes. The papers consist primarily of Supreme Court case records from the Court's October Terms, 1962 through 1964. The remaining records pertain to Goldberg's administrative affairs while on the Court, and to his involvement with numerous community organizations, civil committees, and scholarly institutions. The records are arranged in four categories: biographical materials, Supreme Court case records, Supreme Court administrative records, and general subject files.
This collection offers researchers, students and the general public “a rare opportunity to see the Supreme Court in process and to see the opinion drafts as they circulated and the handwritten comments by the other justices”.
Selected papers from this archive were digitized by the Pritzker Legal Research Center with a grant from the Illinois State Library. Users can view digitized papers online either as images or as PDF files. Users can also search the papers by term, docket number, genre, or date, and can browse using a list of cases.
This database, developed by Professor Leigh Bienen and her colleagues at the Northwestern University School of Law and the School of Communication, houses “a rich log of more than 11,000 homicides maintained consistently and without interruption by the Chicago Police Department over the course of 60 years, from 1870 to 1930. The fact that these records were kept without interruption by a single institutional record keeper makes these files an important new resource for the study of homicide, crime, urban development, and the police themselves. The records are a lens through which to view the history of the city of Chicago during a period of extraordinary social, economic and political development. Because these crimes became cases, these records are also the foundation for a study of courts and legal institutions. The police and their operations were inextricable from those they answered to, the mayor and alderman, ward politicians, and the citizens of Chicago. Thus the records offer an opportunity to study the rule of law, or its absence.”
The interactive database offers a wide variety of searching options including searching by keyword, case number, offense date, defendant, victim, circumstance and victim/defendant relationship, etc.
This site, developed by Jerry Goldman of the Northwestern University Political Science Department, is a multimedia database which provides a Virtual Tour of the U.S. Supreme Court, oral arguments for select cases (in Real Audio format), biographies of Supreme Court Justices, and abstracts of U.S. Supreme Court decisions.
This database houses documents from the Harry A. Blackmun Papers located in the Library of Congress, having archived Blackmun's records pertaining to case selection (preliminary [pool] memoranda) and to the Court's initial consideration of cases on their merits (docket sheets). (NB: All docket sheets are now posted; cert pool memos are available for the 1986, 1987, and 1992 terms.)
