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Kathleen M. Sullivan

Kathleen M. Sullivan was until recently the Dean of Stanford Law School, where she has returned to the faculty as the Stanley Morrison Professor of Law. (September 2004)

On NSA Spying: A Letter to Congress

We are scholars of constitutional law and former government officials. We write in our individual capacities as citizens concerned by the Bush administration’s National Security Agency domestic spying program…. The Justice Department’s defense of what it concedes was secret and warrantless electronic surveillance of persons within the United States fails to identify any plausible legal authority for such surveillance. Accordingly the program appears on its face to violate existing law.

February 9, 2006 issue

What Happened to ‘Brown’?

Silent Covenants: Brown v. Board of Education and the Unfulfilled Hopes for Racial Reform

by Derrick Bell

Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality

by Richard Kluger, revised and expanded edition

All Deliberate Speed: Reflections on the First Half Century of Brown v. Board of Education

by Charles J. Ogletree Jr.

September 23, 2004 issue

Behind the Crimson Curtain

Closed Chambers: The First Eyewitness Account of the Epic Struggles Inside the Supreme Court

by Edward Lazarus

October 8, 1998 issue

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