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Law school faculty's suggestions of enjoyable summer reading about law-related topics. (Updated 10/1/2020)
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The Anatomy of a Constitutional Law Case: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. v. Sawyer; the Steel seizure decision
by
Alan F. Westin
Call Number: KF5060.W46 1958 (CWRU Law Library)
Publication Date: 1989
Asylum Denied
by
David Ngaruri Kenney; Philip G. Schrag
Call Number: JV 6456 .K46 2008 (CWRU Main Library)
ISBN: 9780520255104
Publication Date: 2008
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
by
John Carreyrou
Call Number: OhioLINK
ISBN: 9781524731656
Publication Date: 2018
The Birth of the Republic, 1763-89
by
Edmund S. Morgan
Call Number: E208.M85 1992 (CWRU Main Library)
ISBN: 0226537560
Publication Date: 1993
The Bramble Bush
by
Karl N. Llewellyn; Steve Sheppard (Introduction by)
Call Number: KF273 .L55 2008 (CWRU Law Library)
ISBN: 9780195368451
Publication Date: 2008
The Brethren
by
Bob Woodward; Scott Armstrong
Call Number: KF8742.W66 1979 (CWRU Law Library)
ISBN: 0671241109
Publication Date: 1979
Professor Michael Benza says this is "still a classic view inside the Court."
The Buffalo Creek disaster : how the survivors of one of the worst disasters in coal-mining history brought suit against the coal company--and won
by
Gerald M. Stern
Call Number: KF228.P75S7 1976 (CWRU Law Library)
Publication Date: 1976
Cannibalism and the Common Law
by
A. W. Simpson
Call Number: KD372.D83S57 1984 (CWRU Law Library)
ISBN: 0226759423
Publication Date: 1984
Cardozo
by
Andrew L. Kaufman
Call Number: KF8745.C3K38 1998 (CWRU Law Library)
ISBN: 0674096452
Publication Date: 1998
A Civil Action
by
Jonathan Harr; Marty Asher (Editor)
Call Number: KF228.A7H37 1995 (CWRU Law Library)
ISBN: 0394563492
Publication Date: 1995
Recommended by Professor Victor Flatt.
Closed Chambers
by
Edward Lazarus
Call Number: KF8742.L3937 1998 (CWRU Law Library)
ISBN: 0812924029
Publication Date: 1998
Recommended by Professor Michael Benza
The common law
by
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Call Number: K588.H655 1963 (CWRU Main Library)
Publication Date: 1963
Courtroom 302
by
Steve Bogira
Call Number: KFX1247 .B64 2005 (CWRU Law Library)
ISBN: 0679432523
Publication Date: 2005
Professor Kevin McMunigal recommends this book.
The Day Freedom Died
by
Charles Lane
Call Number: F379.C59 L36 2008 (CWRU Law Library)
ISBN: 9780805083422
Publication Date: 2008
The Devil's Advocates
by
Michael S. Lief; H. Mitchell Caldwell
Call Number: KF220.L54 2006 (CWRU Law Library)
ISBN: 9780743246699
Publication Date: 2007
The Eight: The Lemmon Slave Case and the Fight for Freedom
by
Albert M. Rosenblatt
Call Number: KF228.L466R67 2023 (CWRU Law Library)
ISBN: 9781438492650
Publication Date: 2023
Recommended by Professor Betsy Rosenblatt.
Elements of Law
by
Eva H. Hanks; Michael E. Herz; Steven N. Nemerson
Call Number: KF385.A4H36 1994 (CWRU Law Library)
ISBN: 9780870842528
Publication Date: (1994)
Equal
by
Fred Strebeigh
Call Number: KF226 .S77 2009 (CWRU Law Library)
ISBN: 9780393065558
Publication Date: 2009
Flagrant Conduct
by
Dale A. Carpenter
Call Number: KF224.L39 C37 2012 (CWRU Law Library)
ISBN: 9780393062083
Publication Date: 2012
Recommended by Professor Michael Benza
Gideon's trumpet
by
Anthony Lewis
Call Number: KF9646.L48 1966 (CWRU Law Library)
Publication Date: 1966
A classic book about the case Gideon v. Wainwright, which established an indigent defendant's Constitutional right to appointed counsel.
A History of American Law
by
Lawrence M. Friedman
Call Number: KF352.F7 1985 (CWRU Law Library)
ISBN: 0671528076
Publication Date: 1986
An Introduction to Legal Reasoning
by
Edward H. Levi
Call Number: K213.L8L4 1949 (CWRU Law Library)
ISBN: 0226474089
Publication Date: 1962
Just Mercy
by
Bryan Stevenson
Call Number: KF373.S743A3 2014 (CWRU Law Library)
ISBN: 9780812994520
Publication Date: 2014-10-21
Let's Get Free
by
Paul Butler
Call Number: KF9223 .B88 2010 (CWRU Law Library)
ISBN: 9781595585004
Publication Date: 2010
Making Our Democracy Work
by
Stephen Breyer
Call Number: KF4575 .B73 2010 (CWRU Law Library)
ISBN: 9780307269911
Publication Date: 2010
Making Your Case
by
Antonin Scalia; Bryan A. Garner
Call Number: KF8870 .S28 2008 (CWRU Law Library)
ISBN: 9780314184719
Publication Date: 2008
A Matter of Interpretation
by
Antonin Scalia
Call Number: KF8870 .S28 2008 (CWRU Law Library)
ISBN: 0691026300
Publication Date: 1997
The Nature of the Judicial Process
by
Benjamin N. Cardozo
Call Number: K230.C37 N3 1949 (CWRU Law Library)
ISBN: 0300000332
Publication Date: c1921, c1960
The New Jim Crow
by
Michelle Alexander
Call Number: HV9950 .A437 2010 (CWRU Law Library)
ISBN: 9781595581037
Publication Date: 2010
The Nine
by
Jeffrey Toobin
Call Number: KF8748.T66 2007 (CWRU Law Library & CWRU Main Library)
ISBN: 9780385516402
Publication Date: 2007
One L
by
Scott Turow
Call Number: KF 373 .T88 A33 (CWRU Law Library)
ISBN: 9780143119029
Publication Date: 1977
Rights of Inclusion
by
David M. Engel; Frank W. Munger
Call Number: KF480 .E494 2003 (CWRU Law Library)
ISBN: 0226208311
Publication Date: 2002
Silent Spring
by
Rachel Carson
Call Number: QH545.P4C38 1994 (CWRU Kelvin Smith Library)
ISBN: 0395683300
Publication Date: 1994
Recommended by Professor Victor Flatt.
Simple justice : the history of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's struggle for equality
by
Richard Kluger
Call Number: KF4155.K55 1977 (CWRU Main Library)
Publication Date: 1977, c1975
Slavery by Another Name
by
Douglas A. Blackmon
Call Number: E185.2.B545 2008 (CWRU Law Library & CWRU Main Library)
ISBN: 9780385506250
Publication Date: 2008
Understanding Arguments
by
Robert J. Fogelin; Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
Call Number: BC50 .S54 2010 (CWRU Law Library)
ISBN: 9780495603955
Publication Date: 2009
Professor Richard Gordon says, "Everyone, and I mean EVERYONE, should read Understanding Arguments. At least three times. It is truly brilliant."
Whitewashed
by
John Tehranian
Call Number: E184.A65 T45 2010 (CWRU Law Library)
ISBN: 9780814782736
Publication Date: 2010
With Good Reason
by
S. Morris Engel
Call Number: BC175 .E53 2000 (CWRU Law Library)
ISBN: 9780312157586
Publication Date: 1999
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