SANDRA DAY O’CONNOR PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS:

  • O'Connor, Sandra Day and H. Alan Day.  Lazy B: Growing Up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest.  New York:  Random House, 2002.
  • O'Connor, Sandra Day and Craig Joyce.  The Majesty of the Law: Reflections of a Supreme Court Justice.  New York:  Random House, 2003.
  • O’Connor, Sandra.  Chico.  New York:  Dutton Children’s Books, a Division of Penguin Young Readers Group, 2005.
  • O’Connor, Sandra.  Finding Susie.  New York:  Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House, Inc., 2009.

ARTICLES:

  • "Trends in the Relationship Between Federal and State Courts From the Perspective of a State Court Judge," 22 William and Mary Law Review 801-819 (1981).
  • "What Individuals Can Do to Improve the Courts," 95 Los Angeles Daily Journal 4 (July 21, 1982).
  • "Foreword (to Commemorative Edition: 75th Anniversary of New England School of Law)," 18 New England Law Review i-ii (1983).
  • "Professional Competence and Social Responsibility: Fulfilling the Vanderbilt Vision  (Speech Delivered at Dedication of Alyne Queener Massey Law Library at Vanderbilt University School of Law, Sept. 24, 1982)," 36 Vanderbilt Law Review 1-8 (Jan. 1983).
  • "Our Judicial Federalism (Third Sumner Canary Lecture)," 35 Case Western Law Review 1-12 (1984).
  • "Legal Education and Social Responsibility  (Delivered at Fordham University, Oct. 24, 1984)," 53 Fordham Law Review 659-662 (1985).
  • "The Moral Role of the Lawyer ," 19 Law Society Gazette 28-31 (Mar. 1985).  (Address at Fordham University Law School Dedication, Oct. 24, 1984).
  • "Swinford Lecture  (Delivered at University of Kentucky on September 6, 1984)," 49 Kentucky Bench & Bar 20-22, 51-53 (Summer 1985).
  • "Introduction: Achievements of Women in the Legal Profession," 57 New York State Bar Journal 8-10 (Oct. 1985).
  • "Foreword: The Changing Role of the Circuit Justice," 17 University of Toledo Law Review 521 (1986).
  • "Reflections on Preclusion of Judicial Review in England and the United States (Seventh Anglo-American Exchange: Judicial Review of Administrative and Regulatory Action)," 27 William and Mary Law Review 643-647 (Summer 1986).
  • "Establishing Justice (Society's Thirteenth Annual Lecture)," Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook 5-10 (1988).
  • "George Mason--His Lasting Influence," in George Mason and the Legacy of Constitutional Liberty: an Examination of the Influence of George Mason on the American Bill of Rights, by Fairfax County History Commission on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution,  117-127.  Fairfax, Virginia:   1989.
  • "Our Judicial Federalism," 15 Intergovernmental Perspective 8-12 (Summer 1989).
  • "The Judiciary Act of 1789 and the American Judicial Tradition," 59 University of Cincinnati Law Review 1-13 (1990).
  • "Women and the Constitution: a Bicentennial Perspective," 10 Women & Politics 5-16 (1990).
  • "Portia's Progress," 66 New York University Law Review 1546-1558 (1991).
  • "Supreme Court Justices From Georgia," 1 Georgia Journal of Southern Legal History 395-405 (1991).
  • "Managing Courts in Changing Times," 63 New York State Bar Journal 8+ (Fall 1991).
  • "Habeas Corpus and Judicial Federalism: Some Thoughts on Finality, Comity , and Error Correction," 1992 The Public Interest Law Review 3-9 (1992).
  • "Keynote Address (Conference on Compelling Government Interests)," 55 Albany Law Review 535-547 (1992).
  • "Meeting the Demand for Pro Bono Services," 2 Boston University Public Interest Law Journal 1-6 (1992).
  • "They Often Are Half Obscure:  The Rights of the Individual and the Legacy of Oliver W. Holmes," 29 San Diego Law Review 385-397 (1992).
  • "Thurgood Marshall:  The Influence of a Raconteur," 44 Stanford Law Review 1217-1220 (1992).
  • "Warren E. Burger: Reflections of a Colleague," 74 Texas Law Review 209 (1995).
  • "Keynote Speaker (Proceedings of the Middle Atlantic State - Federal Judicial Relationships Conference, November 1994)," 162 West's Federal Rules Decisions 180-84 (Sept. 1995).
  • "Symposium Issue:  Federalism of Free Nations," 28 New York University Journal of International Law & Politics 35 (Fall 1995/Winter 1996).
  • "The Life of the Law:  Principles of Logic and Experience From the United States - The Fairfield Lecture," 1996 Wisconsin Law Review 1 (1996).
  • "The History of the Women's Suffrage Movement," 49 Vanderbilt Law Review 657-675 (April 1996).
  • "Program III:  Commentary (Organization of Justice in the Twenty-First Century)," 40 St. Louis University Law Journal 1063 (Summer 1996).
  • "Religious Freedom: America's Quest for Principles," 48 Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly 1-9 (Spring 1997).
  • "Juries: They May Be Broke, but We Can Fix Them," 44 The Federal Lawyer 20-25 (June 1997).
  • "Lessons From the Third Sovereign; Indian Tribal Courts," 33 Tulsa Law Journal 1-6 (Fall 1997).
  • "On Federalism: Preserving Strong Federal and State Courts," 35 Court Review 4 (Spring 1998).
  • "Professionalism," 76 Washington University Law Quarterly 5-13 (Spring 1998).
  • "CEELI Award Ceremony and Luncheon: ABA Annual Meeting, Speech," 42 Saint Louis University Law Journal 715-720 (Summer 1998).
  • "Public Trust As a Dimension of Equal Justice: Some Suggestions to Increase Public Trust," 36 Court Review 10-13 (Fall 1999).
  • "A Tribute to Lewis F. Powell, Jr.," 56 Washington and Lee Law Review 4-6 (Winter 1999).
  • "The Legal Status of Women: the Journey Toward Equality," 15 Journal of Law and Religion 29 (2000/2001).
  • "Courthouse Dedication: Justice O'Connor Reflects on Arizona's Judiciary," 43 Arizona Law Review 1 (Spring 2001).
  • "Altered States: Federalism and Devolution at the 'Real' Turn of the Millennium (Inaugural Sir David Williams Lecture)," 60 Cambridge Law Journal 493-510 (Nov. 2001).
  • "Copyright Law From an American Perspective," 37 The Irish Jurist 16 (2002).
  • "Portia's Progress," in The Unpredictable Constitution, by Dorsen, Norman, editor, 57.  New York:  New York University Press, 2002.
  • "William Howard Taft and the Importance of Unanimity," 28 Journal of Supreme Court History 157 (2003).
  • Foreword to The Ambassador Inside the Life of a Working Diplomat by John Shaw, Capital Books, Inc. (2006)
  • "Not by Math Alone," Sandra Day O’Connor and Roy Romer, The Washington Post (2006).
  • "The Threat to Judicial Independence," The Wall Street Journal (2006).
  •  "Fair and Independent Courts: A Conference on the State of the Judiciary," 95, Number 4 The Georgetown Law Journal (April 2007).
  • "Turning Students Into Citizens: The Essential Role of Civic Education," The Washington Post (2007)
  • "Justice for Sale: How Special-Interest Money Threatens the Integrity of Our Courts," The Wall Street Journal (2007)
  • "Civics and Citizens," The Chautauquan Daily (August 2007)
  • Foreword to When Courts & Congress Collide  The Struggle for Control of America’s Judicial System by Charles Gardner Geyh The University of Michigan Press (2008)
  • "How to Save Our Courts" Parade Magazine (2008)
  • "A Democracy Without Civics?" Sandra Day O’Connor and Lee H. Hamilton Christian Science Monitor- Op-ed (September 2008)
  • "What We Owe Our Young," Sandra Day O’Connor and James R. Jones, The Washington Post (2008)
  • "To Defend Anwar is to Defend Malaysian Democracy," Sandra Day O’Connor and Abdurrahman Wahid, Financial Times (2008)
  • "Judicial Accountability Must Safeguard, Not Threaten, Judicial Independence: An Introduction," Volume 86 Issue 1 by the Denver University Law Review (2008)
  • "Balancing Security, Democracy, and Human Rights in an Age of Terrorism," Volume 47, No. 1 by the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law (2008)
  • "Fair & Independent Courts," Daedalus, by the Journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (Fall 2008)
  • "Guantanamo Bay: Legal Black Hole?," The Canterbury Law Review (2008)
  • "Rural America - Gone but not Forgotten," Cowboy National Poetry Gathering (2009)
  • "Affirmative Action in Higher Education over the Next Twenty-Five Years: A Need for Study and Action," Sandra Day O’Connor and Stewart J. Schwab, The Next Twenty-Five Years?  Affirmative Action and Higher Education in the United States and South Africa Marvin Krislov, David Featherman & Martin Hall, editors (Spring 2009)
  • Foreword (to A tribute to Chief Justice Ruth McGregor), Arizona State Law Journal (2010)
  • "Celebrate America by Learning About her," USA Today (2010)
  • "Tribute to Justice Souter," Journal of Supreme Court History (2010)
  • "Take Justice Off the Ballot," The New York Times (May 2010)
  • "Choosing (and Recusing) Our State Court Justices Wisely": Keynote Remarks, Volume 99, Number 1 The Georgetown Law Journal (November 2010)
  • "The Age of Alzheimer’s," Sandra Day O’COnnor, Stanley Prusiner and Ken Dychtwald, The New York Times (October 28, 2010)