U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall was the most consequential jurist in American history, but his historical importance is no match for the modern impulse to disown our flawed forebears.

In 2015, I queried whether a movement would form to take down statues of Chief Justice John Marshall. After all, he was an ardent slaveholder. Fast forward five years. In August 2020, I wrote a post ...

WASHINGTON – The tumultuous debate over the Founding Fathers' relationship with slavery has caught up with one of the nation's most revered and influential leaders of the Supreme Court in its 233-year ...

Last December, Scene published my essay explaining why Cleveland State University should change the name of our public law school. I won’t rehash my entire argument here. But it bears repeating that ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Thursday night the University of Illinois at Chicago Board of Trustees voted to removed the well known name John Marshall from the University of Illinois at Chicago because it has ...

The University of Illinois at Chicago John Marshall Law School may not have that name much longer. Faculty, students, staff and alumni of the law school are debating whether to preserve a name tied to ...

Both the University of Illinois at Chicago John Marshall Law School and the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law have formed committees to weigh removing the name of early U.S. Supreme Court Justice John ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The Cleveland State University Board of Trustees have unanimously and justifiably voted to drop the John Marshall moniker from its College of Law name, given the first U.S. Chief ...

Corkery’s creative spark was on display for more than three decades as one of the writers and performers in the Chicago Bar Association’s “Christmas Spirits” show.

CHICAGO, March 23, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The John Marshall Law School is reducing tuition through its Alumni Advantage Program to make the Chicago law school's graduate LL.M. degree programs more ...

Chief Justice John Marshall (1833), painted by Henry Inman and engraved by Asher Brown Durand. Credit: The Metropolitan Museum of Art via Wikimedia Commons John Marshall is getting the boot—from ...