The ACLU Three-Volume Set

Three-Volume Compendium of Advocacy Before the United States Supreme Court – Coming in mid-2025

This ACLU Three-volume Compendium contains 1 ½-page summaries of each of the ACLU’s 1,193 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court in the Union’s first 100 years, from 1920 to 2020. The set will be published by June 2025.

IMAGES: Image left is the working draft; Image below is what the final books will be like, high-quality printing with gold lettering.

  • Conceived and Compiled by Steven C. Markoff
  • Foreword by Erwin Chemerinsky
  • Case Summary Editor Jessica Pierucci, J.D., M.L.I.S.

No one, not even the ACLU, has this compendium of 1,193 ACLU cases before the Supreme Court the ACLU was involved in during 94 of its first 100 years.

The Three-volume compendium includes a Foreword by Erwin Chemerinsky (Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley School of Law), Ira Glasser’s (ACLU National Executive Director from 1978 – 2001) 1982 draft one-pager on what the ACLU does, data on how each Supreme Court Justice voted on each case, and the Win / Loss record (the batting average) of the ACLU at the Supreme Court for those 10 decades.

To be published by Rare Bird Lit, Los Angeles, in the first half of 2025.