Annual Timeline

2001

Justice Sandra Day O'Connor

In 2001, Justice O'Connor was serving as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

Calendar year 2001 included the U.S. Supreme Court terms 2000 and 2001.

Justice O'Connor wrote 18 Supreme Court opinions and gave 6 speeches or interviews during the year.

 January

 

Coverage - Law review article

A Comment on Justice O'Connor's Quest for Power and Its Impact on African American Wealth, by Joan Tarpley

 

Coverage - Law review article

A Decent Respect for Religious Liberty and Religious Equality: Justice O'Connor's Interpretation of the Religion Clauses of the First Amendment, by Alan Brownstein

1

Coverage - Law review article

Justice O'Connor and Federalism, by Erwin Chemerinsky

1

Coverage - Law review article

Of Hobgoblins and Justice O'Connor's Jurisprudence of Equality, by Vikram David Amar

 

Coverage - Law review article

Sandra Day O'Connor: A Justice Who Has Made a Difference in Constitutional Law, by Charles D. Kelso & R. Randall Kelso

1

Coverage - Law review article

A Woman Decides: Justice O'Connor and Due Process Rights of Choice, by Peggy Cooper Davis & Carol Gilligan

17

Supreme Court Opinion

Seling v. Young

 March

26

Event

Turns 71 years old

29

Speech

Speech at General Services Administration award ceremony for architects of federal buildings

 May

14

Supreme Court Opinion

Rogers v. Tennessee

15

Speech / Law review article

Altered States: Federalism and Devolution at the "Real" Turn of the Millennium

 July

20

Panel discussion

Roundtable discussion on Native American legal issues at National Judicial College

 September

21

Award

Receives Carol Los Mansmann Award for Distinguished Public Service from Duquesne University School of Law

28

Speech

Speech at groundbreaking ceremony for New York University Law School's new building