- The Case for Judicial Independence (1968)
- Interpreting Judicial Review (1973)
- The Politics of Judges and Judging (1978)
- The Supreme Court and Fundamental Rights (1985)
- Essays in Constitutional Law (1987)
- Interpreting the Equal Protection Clause (1990)
- The Founders and the Constitution (2001)
- The Civil Rights Revolution: A Constitutional History (2003)
- Judicial Power: The Supreme Court and the Shaping of American Law, Fourth Edition (2016)