Melvin I. Urofsky

He received his B.A. from Columbia University in 1961 and doctorate in 1968. He also received his JD from the University of Virginia. He teaches at American University and George Washington University Law School.

Works Big Steel and the Wilson Administration: A Study in Business-Government Relations, Columbus, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1969. A Mind of One Piece: Brandeis and American Reform, New York: Scribner, 1971. We Are One!: American Jewry and Israel, Garden City, New York: Anchor Press, 1978. The Supreme Court Justices: A Biographical Dictionary, London: Routledge, 1994. American Zionism from Herzl to the Holocaust, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995. Affirmative Action on Trial: Sex Discrimination in Johnson v. Santa Clara, Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1997. Lethal Judgments: Assisted Suicide and American Law, Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000. Money and Free Speech: Campaign Finance Reform and the Courts, Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2005. Louis D. Brandeis: A Life, New York: Pantheon Books, 2009. Dissent and the Supreme Court: Its Role in the Court's History and the Nation's Constitutional Dialogue, New York: Pantheon Books, 2015. The Affirmative Action Puzzle: A Living History from Reconstruction to Today, Pantheon 2020,