About the bobbleheads
We make them for the joy of it, and then we give them away. We do not sell them. If you get one, we hope you enjoy playing with it as much as we enjoyed making it. (All of our bobbleheads are produced by the finest bobblemaker in the world, Alexander Global Promotions.)
We make no promises about when we will make them or who will get them. Some (but not all) subscribers to the Green Bag as of the date we announce the release of a bobblehead receive a certificate potentially redeemable for a doll, and we arbitrarily and capriciously give certificates to some folks who are not subscribers (mostly law school public interest groups that auction the dolls at their annual fundraisers). Moreover, even holders of certificates are not guaranteed a doll, because we reserve the right to refuse to redeem any certificate for any reason, including but not limited to (a) a shortage of dolls, (b) reasonable or unreasonable suspicion of theft or forgery of a certificate, (c) rudeness by a person seeking to redeem a certificate, and (d) caprice. So, there is no way to lock-in a Green Bag bobblehead. If you want to buy one, your best bets are law school public interest charity auctions and eBay.
They are listed here in order of their appointment to the Court (with release dates in parentheses).
• John Jay (forthcoming 2010)
• John Rutledge (forthcoming 2010)
• William Cushing (forthcoming 2010)
• James Wilson (forthcoming 2010)
• Benjamin R. Curtis (2007)
• Louis D. Brandeis (2008)
• Louis D. Brandeis (2008) (Harvard ed.)
• Harry A. Blackmun (2009) (for FantasyLaw champions only)
• William H. Rehnquist (2003)
• John Paul Stevens (2004)
• Sandra Day O'Connor (2004)
• Antonin Scalia (2005)
• Anthony M. Kennedy (2006)
• David H. Souter (2009)
High-resolution annotations are here.
About certificate redemption
The bobbleheads are invariably in short supply and too fragile for us to ship with any confidence that they will arrive in good condition. And besides, we cannot afford to do it. That means redemption of a certificate must be done in person.
Instructions are here: Bring (or arrange for someone else to bring) your bobblehead certificate to Green Bag World Headquarters, George Mason University School of Law, 3301 Fairfax Drive, Arlington, Virginia. Please call us at 703-993-8050 before making the trip to Arlington, just to make sure our enormous staff will be available. If the staff is out to lunch or out sick or otherwise out then you will be out of luck, and we would hate for that to happen. When someone brings us a certificate, we redeem it on the spot. So, we strongly suggest calling ahead to make your bobblehead pick-up appointment.
To facilitate retrieval of bobbleheads by proxies, we do not insist that a person redeeming a certificate be the original recipient of that certificate. Please don’t lose a certificate. If you do, you will also lose any bobblehead that might be associated with it. We will not respond to a photocopy, fax, scan, or other reproduction of a certificate. Originals only.