[The Company They Keep is] a book we're reading. It examines the elite social and political environment that surrounds justices and makes the powerful point that the growth of the Federalist Society has created a welcoming, reaffirming environment that helps conservative justices from drifting to the left and that contributed to the polarization of the court." - Marcia Coyle and Tony Mauro, National Law Journal
Neal Devins is Sandra Day O'Connor Professor of Law and Professor of Government at the College of William and Mary. He is the author of numerous books and articles discussing the intersection of law and politics, including The Democratic Constitution (Oxford 2015, 2nd edition) and articles in the Yale, Stanford, Columbia, Chicago, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and California law reviews. He has also written opinion pieces for
Slate, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal.
Lawrence Baum is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Ohio State University. He is the author of several books on judicial decision making and other topics, including Ideology in the Supreme Court (Princeton 2017), The Battle for the Court (Virginia 2017), and Judges and Their Audiences (Princeton 2006). He has published articles on a range of subjects in journals in political science and law.