The Little Green Book of Golf Law5 reviews
John H. Minan

American Bar Association, 2007

Answers to Golfing Questions We All Wanted to Ask a lawyer.

+ Golf Book Review
+ At the top of his game
+ A game for ladies and gentlemen
+ Great read
  
  











  



  
A History of American Law: Third Edition5 reviews
Lawrence M. Friedman

Touchstone, 2005

History - To The EXTREME

+ Great if you're a history buff
+ Seen as text
+ Outstanding
+ readable and worthwhile
  
  











  



  
Art in the Courtroom1 review
Vilis R. Inde

Praeger Publishers, 1998

Art in the Courtroom

This is a fascinating book about five different art trials dealing with various issues. (It has been reviewed as a book about copyright law, but this is a small part of it. The trials deal with the artists, Koons, Warhol, Serra, Finley and Wojnarowicz. The book has fascinating details about the ...
  
  











  



  
Make No Law: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment12 reviews
Anthony Lewis

Vintage, 1992

An important book for media, civil rights, and legal history

+ Fantastic book
+ An accessible, left-leaning overview of first-amendment law
+ Another necessary free speech book
+ Why press freedom matters...
  
  











  



  
The Paper Chase9 reviews
John Jay Osborn Jr

Whitston Publishing Co Inc, 2003

Great book from which the movie "The Paper Chase" was based

+ Great for the First Year Law Student!
+ Glad to Have It Back in Print
+ Thirty Years On
  
  











  



  
Law's Empire6 reviews
Ronald Dworkin

Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1986

Principles revisited

+ Principles revisited

Ronald Dworkin is one of the most prominent law philosophers in the common law tradition. Known both in America and Britain for his strong democratic positions, baptized by Duncan Kennedy `orthodox centrism', Dworkin is an acid critic of the paradigms of the contemporaneous jurisprudence. ...
  
  











  



  
Swindling and Selling2 reviews
Arthur Allen Leff

Free Pr, 1976

A classic of legal analysis -- and a joy to read.

+ The best book on selliing

This is a classic of legal analysis, and a joy to read. Leff has a lucid prose style and a very interesting idea: that the line between "fraud" and "sales" is much less clear than either lawyers or consumers might think. Leff explains how the art of the deal consists of convincing buyers of ...
  
  











  



  
To Kill a Mockingbird1761 reviews
Harper Lee

Grand Central Publishing, 1988

Excelent Book!

+ Tequila Mockingbird
+ Great!!Love this book
+ LOVE THIS BOOK!
+ American Classic
  
  











  



  
The Growth of the Law
Benjamin N. Cardozo

Yale University Press, 1924

Classic lectures on philosophy of law by practicing attorney and teacher, later justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Companion to his "The Nature of the Judicial Process."
  
  











  



  
The Economics of Justice2 reviews
Richard A. Posner

Harvard University Press, 1981

Wealth Maximization. Holy cow!!!

+ Philosophy and Economics

Although denied by the author in his book 'Problems of Jurisprudence,' Richard Posner was an integral early pioneer in the movement known as 'Economics and Law.' Picking up where George Stigler and Gary Becker left off, Posner argues that not only human behavior, but law can be understood by the ...
  
  











  



  
Path of the Law (Little Books of Wisdom)2 reviews
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Applewood Books(MA), 1996

Great, short book

I believe this book is transcribed from a speech given by Holmes to a group of lawyers, judges, scholars at HLS. It is Holmes' prediciton for the future of the law and it is extremely prescient. For anyone interested in the law it is a must read, and at about 34 pages a very quick and enjoyable ...
  
  











  



  
The Ages of American Law (The Storrs Lectures Series)3 reviews
Grant Gilmore

Yale University Press, 1979

A concise classic.

+ engaging intellectual history

When Lawrence M. Friedman wrote his landmark "A History of American Law," he remarked that American legal history has been a neglected field. Some progress (although not enough) has been made in the field since Friedman published his History in 1973. Part of that progress has been the publication ...
  
  











  



  
The Rise and Fall of Freedom of Contract
P. S. Atiyah

Oxford University Press, USA, 1985
  
  











  



  
The Concept of Law (Clarendon Law Series)5 reviews
H. L. A. Hart

Oxford University Press, USA, 1997

a seminal text on legal philosophy and jurisprudence

+ Law Students
+ Obligatory reading.
+ Inadequacies of Hart's concept of a rule
  
  











  



  
How to Do Things with Words: Second Edition (William James Lectures)7 reviews
J. L. Austin

Harvard University Press, 1975

A Brisk tour through Speech Act Theory

+ Classic Stuff
+ DEEDS AND NOT WORDS ALONE

At many points, J.L. Austin's How to do Things with Words reads more like a linguistic textbook than a philosophy text. Whether you count this as a benifit or a distraction will depend on your disposition (it certainly beats reading Kant), but whatever your views on the subject, the work is a ...
  
  











  



  
One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School136 reviews
Scott Turow

Grand Central Publishing, 1997

An important book to read

+ LAWTASTIC
+ fascinating
+ Other law students assume you have read this book
  
  











  



  
DEATH OF CONTRACT: SECOND EDITION5 reviews
GRANT GILMORE

Ohio State University Press, 1995

Saved my neck in law school--and I enjoyed it, too

+ A thrilling, concise expose into the fiction of contract law
+ A Classic Account of the Evolution of Contract Law
+ This is a great book
  
  











  



  
Law, Liberty, and Morality3 reviews
H. Hart

Stanford University Press, 1963

Law, Liberty and Morality

+ Another Hart clasic
+ A great source for any anti-censorship, etc. person

H. L. A. Hart, who was a contemporary of Lord Patrick Devlin, criticized him for his very rigid position on the government's role in enacting and enforcing morality laws against its citizens. Herbert Lionel Adolphus Hart lived from 1907 to 1992. Hart was one of the most influential philosophers ...
  
  











  



  
Gideon's Trumpet24 reviews
Anthony Lewis

Vintage, 1989

Nice book on the practice and doctrine of the Supreme Court

+ Peer into the Nine
+ Good Introduction into Law
+ An American classic
+ Gideon is a good read!
  
  











  



  
Sex and Reason8 reviews
Richard A. Posner

Harvard University Press, 1992

A Mind-opening Book

+ A good book
+ Pragmatism, the Law, and the Political Economy of Sexuality
+ Fun and Fascinating
+ Posner and the Sexual Revolution