James Frank Simon (born November 26, 1938) is an American legal historian who served as dean of New York Law School from 1983 to 1992.
In 2023, the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History received his papers, which include correspondences and interviews with Supreme Court justices.
His 1973 book In His Own Image: The Supreme Court in Richard Nixon’s America won the Silver Gavel Award from the American Bar Association.
He subsequently wrote numerous other well-known books about the history of the Supreme Court, including Independent Journey: The Life of William O. Douglas (1980) and The Center Holds: The Power Struggle Inside the Rehnquist Court (1995).
[4] His ninth book, Eisenhower vs. Warren: The Battle for Civil Rights and Liberties, was published by Liveright in 2018.