Now in paperback with a new preface.

By Robert Levy and William Mellor

The Dirty Dozen: How Twelve Supreme Court Cases Radically Expanded
Government and Eroded Freedom is an unprecedented analysis of cases that
changed the course of American history. Co-authors Robert Levy of the Cato
Institute and William Mellor of the Institute for Justice reveal the ongoing
impact these cases have on free speech, economic liberty, property rights,
private contracts and much more.

PRAISE FOR THE DIRTY DOZEN 

“The authors’ canny investigation into the Supreme Court should call into doubt some of the staid political viewpoints readers may have taken too long for granted.”
— Publishers Weekly online

“With wisdom, learning, concision and lucid prose, Levy and Mellor go straight to the sad, central truth of the American judiciary.  We have created a system in which nine people are presumed to be smarter than 300 million.  The Dirty Dozen shows us the results of this foolish assumption—the twelve worst Supreme Court rulings.  Or, that is to say, the twelve worst Supreme Court rulings so far.”
— P.J. O’Rourke