Introduction / Cornell Clayton and Howard Gillman -- The Constitution of the Supreme Court / John Brigham -- The problematic establishment of judicial review / Mark A. Graber -- Institutional norms and the historical development of Supreme Court politics / Ronald Kahn -- How the Supreme Court matters in American politics / Michael McCann -- The Supreme Court and partisan change / John B. Gates -- The Supreme Court Bar and institutional relationships / Kevin T. McGuire -- Bill Clinton's excellent adventure / Mark Silverstein -- Law, politics, and the Rehnquist Court / Cornell Clayton -- Supreme Court agenda setting in gender equity cases, 1970-1994 / Leslie Friedman Goldstein -- Queer new institutionalism / Susan Burgess -- Democratic theory and race-conscious redistricting / Keith J. Bybee -- Reconnecting the modern Supreme Court to the historical evolution of capitalism / Howard Gillman.