Thursday, January 5, 2023

Book deal for Justice Jackson

Bloomberg law reports: Justice Jackson Poised to Publish Memoir Titled ‘Lovely One’: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is the latest justice to land a book deal soon after joining the Supreme Court. "Current justices who have signed book deals since joining the court include Justices Amy Coney Barrett, Neil Gorsuch, Sonia Sotomayor, and Clarence Thomas."

[Law360's story is Justice Jackson To Publish Memoir -- In "Lovely One," Justice Jackson will dig into her upbringing in Miami, her time as a student at Harvard, and what it was like to rise through the ranks of the legal profession and navigate BigLaw as a woman of color "with an unusual name -- The title appears to reference her given name, Ketanji Onyika. Justice Jackson explained during her confirmation hearing that the name is African and that her parents were told it means "lovely one."]