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Suggested Reading List (Future 1Ls)

Law school faculty's suggestions of enjoyable summer reading about law-related topics. (Updated 10/1/2020)

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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