Jurists And Legal Scholars Codexery — Data & Quality

We publish our audit record because accuracy claims should be checkable. Every entry on this site runs through an automated fact-audit pipeline (accuracy audit → source-grounded repair → visual QA); this page is generated from that pipeline's own report, not written by hand.

Last full accuracy audit: 2026-08-28 · 10 entries checked · 5 flagged · 10 issues confirmed · 5 corrected · 5 still open

Recent findings (audit lane, verbatim)

David Dudley Field II — Field was not the oldest of eight sons; he was the oldest of eight children total (five sons and three daughters).

David Dudley Field II — Field served a full two-year term as U.S. representative from New York's 7th district (1877–1879), not 'briefly in 1877'.

Derrick Bell — Bell was not the first African American dean at the University of Oregon School of Law; he was the first African American dean of a law school that was not historically black, but the University of Oregon School of Law had a white dean before him, and Bell ser

Derrick Bell — Bell left the Justice Department in 1959 because he was asked to resign his NAACP membership; he refused and was effectively forced out, not that he 'left rather than resign' as a voluntary choice.

Edward Coke — The 'DID YOU KNOW' section contains a truncated sentence that is factually unclear and misleading.

William O. Douglas — Douglas was born in Maine Township, Minnesota, but the correct location is Maine, Minnesota (the township is named Maine, not Maine Township)

William O. Douglas — Douglas's father was a Scottish itinerant Presbyterian minister, but the correct detail is that his father was a Scottish-born itinerant Presbyterian minister

William Rehnquist — The entry states Rehnquist 'wrote a memo as a law clerk arguing against Brown v. Board of Education', but the historical record shows his 1952 memo argued that Plessy v. Ferguson was correctly decided and should be reaffirmed, not that he argued against Brown

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