Supreme Court Justice David Souter, who died nearly two months ago, on May 8, has been widely remembered as an eccentric recluse who retired early from the U.S. Supreme Court to return to his ...

An investment firm for Brian Souter, who built one of the world’s biggest transport fortunes, plans to keep striking deals even as other money managers curb risk-taking amid heightened volatility in ...

This article is part of a series on the legacy and jurisprudence of the late Justice David Souter. Charles Barzun is a Professor of Law at the University of Virginia, where he teaches Constitutional ...

When Jeannie Suk Gersen began her clerkship for former Supreme Court Associate Justice David H. Souter ’61, she was struck by her boss’s work ethic. “I think all of us as clerks felt like we were ...

David Souter, the former U.S. Supreme Court justice who died at 85 on Thursday, was sometimes mistakenly thought to have turned into a liberal after being nominated by President George H.W. Bush on ...

Born on Sept. 17, 1939, in Melrose, Massachusetts, David Hackett Souter was a New Englander through and through, raised in the rural hamlet of Weare, New Hampshire, where his family moved when he was ...

Many Americans may have missed this week the passing of Justice David Souter, who retired from the Supreme Court in 2009, after a distinguished 20-year career on the nation’s High Bench, but the ...

Adding to Mark Movsesian's tribute to his former boss - a "true gentleman," Movsesian calls him - I thought I might share a couple of stories about the "gentlemanly" side of Justice Souter. Though I ...

My clerkship interview with David Souter was in the winter of 2002. In his chambers, amid piles of hardbound books, we could have been in the nineteenth century. I came girded for questions on legal ...

Justice David Souter passed away last week. I clerked for him early in his tenure on the Court, in October Term 1992, and ever since the news, I've been thinking about him—talking with friends, family ...

David Souter, the 150th U.S. Supreme Court Justice, died on May 8, 2025 at the age of 85. I’ve read dozens of obituaries and essays about him since then. Just about every one noted that he had never ...

I knew that Justice David Souter—who died last week at 85—was different from the moment I first met him. Federal judges dream of ascending to the highest court in the land, senators picture themselves ...