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About William Domnarski
Longtime lawyer who before and during has been a literary guy, with a Ph.D. in English. Written five books on judges, lawyers, and courts, two with Oxford, one with Illinois, one with Michigan, and one with the American Bar Association. I've been interested in judicial opinions as a literary genre of its own, though my principal interest has been in the role of personality in judging and lawyering.William Domnarski is a longtime lawyer who before and during has been a literary guy, with a Ph.D. in English. He's written five books on judges, lawyers, and courts, two with Oxford, one with Illinois, one with Michigan, and one with the American Bar Association.
NBN Episodes hosted by William:
December 22, 2023
The Plinko Bounce
For seventeen years, small-town public defender Andy Hughes has been underpaid to look after the poor, the addicted, and the unfortunate souls who con…
September 30, 2023
Supreme Hubris
Today I talked to Aaron Tang about his new book Supreme Hubris: How Overconfidence Is Destroying the Court--And How We Can Fix It (Yale UP, 2023). Th…
July 2, 2023
Law in American History
For nearly two decades the renowned legal historian G. Edward White has been writing a multi-volume history of law in America. In his third and conclu…
November 2, 2022
Moby-Dick
Today I talked to Hester Blum, editor of a new edition of Moby-Dick (Oxford UP, 2022). "It will be a strange sort of a book, tho', I fear; blubber is…
October 18, 2022
The Norton Anthology of American Literature
The Tenth Edition introduces diverse, compelling, relevant texts-from Civil War songs and stories to The Turn of the Screw to The Great Gatsby to poem…
October 10, 2022
Citizen Justice
U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas was a giant in the legal world, even if he is often remembered for his four wives, as a potential vice-p…
September 29, 2022
The Nation That Never Was
There's a common story we tell about America: that our fundamental values as a country were stated in the Declaration of Independence, fought for in t…
September 21, 2022
Servants of the Damned
In his acclaimed #1 bestseller Dark Towers, David Enrich presented the never-before-told saga of how Deutsche Bank became the global face of financial…
September 14, 2022
Democratic Justice
The conventional wisdom about Felix Frankfurter--Harvard law professor and Supreme Court justice--is that he struggled to fill the seat once held by O…
August 10, 2022
Who Decides?
Everything in law and politics, including individual rights, comes back to divisions of power and the evergreen question: Who decides? Who wins the di…
June 22, 2022
Outrageous Fortune
In Outrageous Fortune: Gloomy Reflections on Luck and Life (Oxford UP, 2020), William Ian Miller offers his reflections on the perverse consequences, …
June 21, 2022
The Last Word
Justin Gautreau's book The Last Word: The Hollywood Novel and the Studio System (Oxford UP, 2020) argues that the Hollywood novel opened up space for …
June 17, 2022
The Collapse of Constitutional Remedies
Just recently, the Supreme Court rejected an argument by plaintiffs that police officers should no longer be protected by the doctrine of qualified im…
May 11, 2022
The Hughes Court
Mark V. Tushnet's book The Hughes Court: From Progressivism to Pluralism, 1930 to 1941 (Cambridge UP, 2022) describes the closing of one era in consti…
April 22, 2022
The Sun Also Rises
“Finally, the first of Norton’s long-awaited treatments of Ernest Hemingway, the American who, more than anyone, changed the look and sound of modern …
March 11, 2022
The Saddest Words
William Faulkner, one of America's most iconic writers, is an author who defies easy interpretation. Born in 1897 in Mississippi, Faulkner wrote such …
March 11, 2022
Dissent and the Supreme Court
In his major work, Dissent and the Supreme Court: Its Role in the Court's History and the Nation's Constitutional Dialogue (Vintage, 2017), acclaimed …
February 22, 2022
Greek to Me
Mary Norris, The New Yorker's Comma Queen and best-selling author of Between You & Me, has had a lifelong love affair with words. In Greek to Me: Adve…
January 26, 2022
Justice on the Brink
At the end of the Supreme Court's 2019-20 term, the center was holding. The predictions that the court would move irrevocably to the far right hadn't …