It would seem incredible that at this point in time to suppose that Jeff Davis' collected works has not been published in its entirety. Am I correct to assume that the above comment refers to online publishment as opposed to to hard copy?
On a separate point, it is interesting to speculate who would have been appointed to a confederate supreme court. Roger Taney comes to mind (even though he died in 1863). Are there any other confederate jurists who might have been considered?
Actually they haven't all been published. There are apparently a heck of a lot more papers written by Davis than most historical figures. Lincoln's entire works, for example, fit into 8 volumes. 10 Davis volumes have been published so far with a new one coming out every 3 or 4 years.
Taney was from Maryland, not a Confederate state. He served in the Maryland state congress. He was (1831) Attorney General and later (1833) Secretary of the Treasury, to President Andrew Jackson,
Taney had been a slave owner, but after his election to the Maryland state senate in 1816 he began to manumit his slaves (free them, not sell them.)
James Wayne of Georgia, John Catron of Tennessee, Peter V. Daniel of Virginia, and John A. Campbell of Alabama were all Justices of the United States Supreme Court.
Perhaps they could have recruited Justice Robert Cooper Grier of Pennsylvania or Justice Samuel Nelson of New York
Chief Justice Roger B. Taney served on the U.S. Supreme Court until his death, October 12, 1864.
"HILL, WILLIAM PINCKNEY." The Handbook of Texas Online.
HILL, WILLIAM PINCKNEY (?-1870). William Pinckney Hill, Confederate judge, was born in Georgia, the son of John and Sarah (Parham) Hill; his birthdate is not known, but he was somewhat older than his brother, United States senator Benjamin H. Hill of Georgia, who was born in 1823.
In 1863 and again in 1865 Hill was widely mentioned as a candidate for governor but declined to run. He was considered a principal contender for chief justice of the Supreme Court of the Confederacy, a court debated but never established by the Confederate Congress. In 1866 he was nominated for the Supreme Court of Texas but refused to run. He practiced law in Galveston after the war and in 1869 went to Washington, D.C., to represent the Galveston, Houston and Henderson Railway Company in a case pending before the United States Supreme Court. He became ill and went first to Tennessee and then to Georgia to recover. He died on April 30, 1870, while visiting his brother in Athens, Georgia.