Professor Snyder teaches constitutional law, sports law, and twentieth century American legal history. His book, Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment (W.W. Norton), is the first comprehensive biography of the Harvard Law School professor, New Deal power broker, and Supreme Court justice. A Guggenheim fellow, Snyder has published law review articles about constitutional history and is the author of The House of Truth: A Washington Political Salon and the Foundations of American Liberalism (Oxford University Press, 2017). Prior to law teaching, he worked as an associate at Williams & Connolly LLP and wrote two critically acclaimed books about baseball including A Well-Paid Slave: Curt Flood’s Fight for Free Agency in Professional Sports (Viking/Penguin, 2006). A graduate of Duke University and Yale Law School, he clerked for the Hon. Dorothy W. Nelson on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. For more information about Professor Snyder’s work, go to bradsnyderauthor.com and follow him on twitter at @bradsnyderprof.

Scholarship

Books

Brad Snyder, Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment (New York: W.W. Norton & Co. 2022). [BOOK]
Brad Snyder, The House of Truth: A Washington Political Salon and the Foundations of American Liberalism (New York: Oxford University Press 2017). [BOOK]

Contributions to Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals

Joëlle Moreno, Genevieve Lakier, Brad Snyder, Ronald K.L. Collins, John Inazu, Steven Smith, Aaron Saiger, Paul Horwitz, Howard M. Wasserman, Leslie Kendrick, Abner S. Greene, Erica Goldberg, Roberto Lopez & Brian Heckmann, Post-Panel Commentary, Barnette at 75: The Past, Present, and Future of the Fixed Star in Our Constitutional Constellation, 13 FIU L. Rev. 853-873 (2019).
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Brad Snyder, Sacco-Vanzetti and the Supreme Court, 43 J. Sup. Ct. Hist. 107-124 (2018).

U.S. Supreme Court Briefs

Brief of Amici Curiae Baseball Antitrust Scholars in Support of Petitioner, Tri-City Valleycats, Inc. v. Off. of the Comm’r of Baseball, No. 23-283 (U.S. Oct. 23, 2023). [WWW]