How Historian Gordon Wood's Scholarship Quietly Shaped Modern Supreme Court Rulings
Washington Post—Analysis traces how the legal writings and historical scholarship of Gordon Wood, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of the American founding era, have worked their way into Supreme Court opinions on constitutional interpretation. Justices citing Wood's work on the original meaning of the Constitution have used his historical framing to justify decisions on firearms, speech, and executive power. The pieces draw attention to the outsized influence that a single academic voice can have when it aligns with an ascendant judicial philosophy.