William P. Homans, Jr.: a Life in Court
By Mark S. Brodin
Selected Bibliography for Further Study
Aronson, Henry, David F. Addlestone, Dolores Dede Donovan and Joseph Remcho. “GI
Justice in Vietnam: an Interview with the Lawyers Military Defense Committee.” Yale Review
of Law and Social Action 2(1972):25-41.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Reports of the Special Commission on Communism,
Subversive Activities and Related Matters within the Commonwealth: 1954-1957. Boston:
Wright and Potter Printing Co., 1957-1959. Law Massachusetts Collection KFM2969.A8 C6.
The Edelin Trial. Boston: Legal-Medical Studies, 1975 (reprint of the Commonwealth v.
Kenneth Edelin trial transcript).
Edelin, Kenneth C. Broken Justice. Ramsey, N.J.: Arbor Books, 2008. Law Reference Area
Popular Reading Collection KF224.E35 E34.
Ferber, Michael, and Staughton Lynd. The Resistance. Boston: Beacon Press, 1971. Offsite
Collection UB342.U5 F47.
Foley, Michael S. Confronting the War Machine: Draft Resistance During the Vietnam War.
Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. O’Neill Stacks DS559.8.D7 F65.
Garey, Diane. Defending Everybody: A History of the American Civil Liberties Union. New
York: TV Books, 1998. O’Neill Stacks JC599.U5 G37.
Homans, William P. “Commonwealth v. Kenneth Edelin, a First in Criminal Prosecution Since
Roe v. Wade.” Criminal Justice Journal 1 (1977):207-232.
Hutchinson, Earl R. Tropic of Cancer on Trial: A Case History of Censorship. New York:
Grove Press, 1968. Offsite Collection Stacks KF4775.H8.
Mitford, Jessica. The Trial of Dr. Spock, the Rev. William Sloane Coffin, Jr., Michael Ferber,
Mitchell Goodman and Marcus Raskin. 1st ed. New York: Knopf, 1969. O’Neill Stacks E846
M5.
Nolen, William A. The Baby in the Bottle: An Investigative Review of the EdelinCase and Its
Larger Meanings for the Controversy over Abortion Reform. New York: Coward, McCann and
Geoghegan, 1978. Theology and Ministry Library Stacks KF224.E35 N6.
Rembar, Charles. The End of Obscenity. O’Neill Stacks KF9444.R4.
Rogers, Alan. “Murder in Massachusetts: The Criminal Discovery Rule from Snelling to Rule
14.” American Journal of Legal History 40 (1996): 438-454.
_____. “Success – at Long Last: the Abolition of the Death Penalty in Massachusetts, 19281984.” Boston College Third World Law Journal 22(2002): 281-354.
Sendor, Benjamin B. “Medical Responsibility for Fetal Survival under Roe and Doe.” Harvard
Civil Rights – Civil Liberties Law Review 10 (1975):444-471 (Author was Homans’s research
associate during the Edelin trial).
Spangenberg, Robert L., William P. Homans and Franklin N. Flaschner. Bail Reform in
Massachusetts, 1965-1967. New York: National Council on Crime and Delinquency, 1967.
Werth, Barry. The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin, a Literary Life Shattered by Scandal. New
York: Nan A. Talese, 2001. PE64.A78 W47.