Robert A. Ferguson
The Trial in American Life
"A distinguished law professor, accomplished historian, and fine writer, Robert Ferguson is uniquely qualified to narrate and analyze high-profile trials in American history. This is a superb book and a tremendous achievement. The chapter on John Brown alone is worth the price of admission."—Judge Richard Posner
Read an excerpt.
Devah Pager
Marked: Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration
"Marked is a remarkable and timely book that addresses one of the most pressing social issues of our time: what to think and do about hundreds of thousands of disadvantaged male ex-prisoners who re-enter society each year. Pager’s brilliant and original research exhaustively documents the racial and economic barriers that keep these men from finding gainful employment while often forcing them back into crime and poverty."—Michael Eric Dyson
Read an excerpt.
John Samples
The Fallacy of Campaign Finance Reform
"With calmness, clarity, and a relentless emphasis on facts rather than overheated rhetoric, [Samples] demolishes the myths about money and politics and shows how campaign finance ‘reform’—including McCain-Feingold—has been choking our politics and threatening our freedoms."—Bradley A. Smith, former chairman of the Federal Election Commission
Read an excerpt.
Tom Baker
The Medical Malpractice Myth
"Finally someone has demonstrated how complex this challenge really is. Narrow, facile answers won't solve the problem."—Senator Richard J. Durbin
Read an excerpt.
Thomas M. Keck
The Most Activist Supreme Court in History: The Road to Modern Judicial Conservatism
Keck argues that the tensions within modern conservatism have produced a court that exercises its own power quite actively, on behalf of both liberal and conservative ends.
"Provocative."—Jeffrey Rosen, New Republic
William S. Laufer
Corporate Bodies and Guilty Minds: The Failure of Corporate Criminal Liability
"The Failure of Corporate Law is simply the best and most well-reasoned progressive critique of corporate law yet written."—Joseph Singer, Ethical Corporation
William Haltom and Michael McCann
Distorting the Law: Politics, Media, and the Litigation Crisis
"This is an excellent study and should assume its rightful place in the pantheon of law and society studies."—Law and Politics Book Review
Richard J. Lazarus
The Making of Environmental Law
"This is a wonderful book. Not only does Lazarus elegantly and comprehensively recount the history of the law's development over the past three decades, but he brings to the story a remarkably well-informed and sophisticated appreciation of how the political/legal system works. Having been in some of the trenches that he surveys, I can attest that he has got it just right."—Joseph L. Sax
Robert G. McCloskey
The American Supreme Court, Fourth Edition
Just published in an updated edition, this remains the best and most concise account of the Supreme Court and its place in American politics.
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Law and legal studies
from the University of Chicago Press
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General interest books
- Baker, Tom: The Medical Malpractice Myth • Read an excerpt.
- Becker, Gary S.: Uncommon Sense: Economic Insights, from Marriage to Terrorism
- Bielstein, Susan M.: Permissions, A Survival Guide: Blunt Talk about Art as Intellectual Property • Read an excerpt.
- Bradley, Gerard V.: Essays on Law and Morality
- Burns, Robert P.: The Death of the American Trial
- Chancer, Lynn S.: High-Profile Crimes: When Legal Cases Become Social Causes
- Epstein, Richard A.: Skepticism and Freedom: A Modern Case for Classical Liberalism
- Ferguson, Robert A.: The Trial in American Life • Read an excerpt.
- Garner, Bryan A.: Legal Writing in Plain English: A Text with Exercises • See the writing exercises for the book.
- Geoghegan, Thomas: The Law in Shambles
- Hagan, John: Justice in the Balkans: Prosecuting War Crimes in the Hague Tribunal • Read an article by the author “Ace in the Hole”.
- Heinz, John P.: Urban Lawyers: The New Social Structure of the Bar
- Johns, Adrian: Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates
- Knox, John: The Forgotten Memoir of John Knox: A Year in the Life of a Supreme Court Clerk in FDR's Washington • Read an excerpt.
- Langbein, John H.: Torture and the Law of Proof: Europe and England in the Ancien Regimé
- Lazarus, Richard J.: The Making of Environmental Law
- LePatner, B. Barry: Broken Buildings, Busted Budgets: How to Fix America's Trillion-Dollar Construction Industry
- Lott, Jr., John R.: More Guns, Less Crime • Read an interview with John Lott.
- Peters, John Durham: Courting the Abyss: Free Speech and the Liberal Tradition • Read an excerpt.
- Samples, John: The Fallacy of Campaign Finance Reform • Read an excerpt.
- Schmid, David: Natural Born Celebrities: Serial Killers in American Culture • Read an excerpt.
- Schultz, John: The Chicago Conspiracy Trial: Revised Edition
- Sherwin, Richard K.: When Law Goes Pop: The Vanishing Line between Law and Popular Culture
- Wagenaar, W. A.: The Popular Policeman and Other Cases: Psychological Perspectives on Legal Evidence
- Wikan, Unni: In Honor of Fadime: Murder and Shame • Read an excerpt.
Legal thought and philosophy
- Adler, Matthew D.: Cost-Benefit Analysis: Economic, Philosophical, and Legal Perspectives
- Bennett, Walter: The Lawyer's Myth: Reviving Ideals in the Legal Profession
- Berk-Seligson, Susan: The Bilingual Courtroom: Court Interpreters in the Judicial Process
- Conley, John M.: Just Words, Second Edition: Law, Language, and Power
- Epstein, Richard A.: Skepticism and Freedom: A Modern Case for Classical Liberalism
- Farnsworth, Ward: The Legal Analyst: A Toolkit for Thinking about the Law
- Hill, Mark: Religious Liberty and Human Rights
- White, James Boyd: The Edge of Meaning
- Winter, Steven L.: A Clearing in the Forest: Law, Life, and Mind
Legal history
- Best, Stephen M.: The Fugitive's Properties: Law and the Poetics of Possession
- Blackstone, William: Commentaries on the Laws of England, A Facsimile of the First Edition of 1765-1769
- Brundage, James A.: The Medieval Origins of the Legal Profession: Canonists, Civilians, and Courts
- Carrese, Paul O.: The Cloaking of Power: Montesquieu, Blackstone, and the Rise of Judicial Activism
- Cormack, Bradin: A Power to Do Justice: Jurisdiction, English Literature, and the Rise of Common Law
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell: The Essential Holmes: Selections from the Letters, Speeches, Judicial Opinions, and Other Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
- Jones, Emyr Gwyn: Exchequer Proceedings (Equity) Concerning Wales
- Loewenstein, Joseph: The Author's Due: Printing and the Prehistory of Copyright
- Roberts, Sara Elin: The Legal Triads of Medieval Wales
- Sassoon, John: Ancient Laws and Modern Problems: The Balance Between Justice and A Legal System
- Silverman, Lisa: Tortured Subjects: Pain, Truth, and the Body in Early Modern France
- Southworth, Ann: Lawyers of the Right: Professionalizing the Conservative Coalition
- Watkin, Thomas Glyn: The Legal History of Wales
The Supreme Court and constitutional issues
- Alexander, Gregory S.: The Global Debate over Constitutional Property: Lessons for American Takings Jurisprudence
- Bollinger, Lee C.: Eternally Vigilant: Free Speech in the Modern Era
- Currie, David P.: The Constitution in Congress: Descent into the Maelstrom, 1829-1861
- Currie, David P.: The Constitution in Congress: Democrats and Whigs, 1829-1861
- Farber, Daniel A.: Desperately Seeking Certainty: The Misguided Quest for Constitutional Foundations • Read The Constitutional Foundations of Shirley Edelman's Latkes.
- Farber, Daniel A.: Lincoln's Constitution • Read an interview with the author.
- Feldman, M. Stephen: Free Expression and Democracy in America: A History
- Fleming, James E.: Securing Constitutional Democracy: The Case of Autonomy
- Gardner, James A.: Interpreting State Constitutions: A Jurisprudence of Function in a Federal System
- Gillman, Howard: The Votes That Counted: How the Court Decided the 2000 Presidential Election
- Hutchinson, Dennis J.: The Supreme Court Review 2006
- Keck, Thomas M.: The Most Activist Supreme Court in History: The Road to Modern Judicial Conservatism • Read an interview with the author.
- Knox, John: The Forgotten Memoir of John Knox: A Year in the Life of a Supreme Court Clerk in FDR's Washington • Read an excerpt.
- Kurland, Philip B.: The Founders' Constitution • See the online edition.
- McCloskey, Robert G.: The American Supreme Court, Fourth Edition
- McMahon, Kevin J.: Reconsidering Roosevelt on Race: How the Presidency Paved the Road to Brown
- Owen, J. Judd: Religion and the Demise of Liberal Rationalism: The Foundational Crisis of the Separation of Church and State
- Parisi, Francesco: Supreme Court Economic Review, Volume 14
- Parisi, Francesco: The Supreme Court Economic Review, Volume 15
- Powell, H. Jefferson: A Community Built on Words: The Constitution in History and Politics
- Powell, H. Jefferson: Constitutional Conscience: The Moral Dimension of Judicial Decision
- Rosenberg, Gerald N.: The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change? Second Edition
- Schapiro, A. Robert: Polyphonic Federalism: Toward the Protection of Fundamental Rights
- Shane, Peter M.: Madison's Nightmare: How Executive Power Threatens American Democracy
- Slauter, Eric: The State as a Work of Art: The Cultural Origins of the Constitution
- Slobogin, Christopher: Privacy at Risk: The New Government Surveillance and the Fourth Amendment
- Storing, Herbert J.: The Complete Anti-Federalist
- Sunstein, Cass R.: The Vote: Bush, Gore, and the Supreme Court
- Yackle, Larry: Regulatory Rights: Supreme Court Activism, the Public Interest, and the Making of Constitutional Law
- Yoo, John: The Powers of War and Peace: The Constitution and Foreign Affairs after 9/11 • Read an interview with the author.
Civil issues
- Ayres, Ian: Optional Law: The Structure of Legal Entitlements
- Ayres, Ian: Pervasive Prejudice?: Unconventional Evidence of Race and Gender Discrimination
- Baker, Tom: Embracing Risk: The Changing Culture of Insurance and Responsibility
- Baker, Tom: The Medical Malpractice Myth • Read an excerpt.
- Burk, L. Dan: The Patent Crisis and How the Courts Can Solve It
- Engel, David M.: Rights of Inclusion: Law and Identity in the Life Stories of Americans with Disabilities
- Epp, Charles R.: Making Rights Real: Activists, Bureaucrats, and the Creation of the Legalistic State
- Gilliom, John: Overseers of the Poor: Surveillance, Resistance, and the Limits of Privacy
- Gould, Jon B.: Speak No Evil: The Triumph of Hate Speech Regulation
- Greenfield, Kent: The Failure of Corporate Law: Fundamental Flaws and Progressive Possibilities
- Haltom, William: Distorting the Law: Politics, Media, and the Litigation Crisis
- Hamilton, Daniel W.: The Limits of Sovereignty: Property Confiscation in the Union and the Confederacy during the Civil War
- Koppelman, Andrew: The Gay Rights Question in Contemporary American Law
- Lazarus, Richard J.: The Making of Environmental Law
- Merin, Yuval: Equality for Same-Sex Couples: The Legal Recognition of Gay Partnerships in Europe and the United States
- Nagareda, A. Richard: Mass Torts in a World of Settlement
- Page, H. William: The Microsoft Case: Antitrust, High Technology, and Consumer Welfare
- Posner, Richard A.: Antitrust Law, Second Edition
- Rebell, Michael A.: Courts and Kids: Pursuing Educational Equity through the State Courts
- Rogers, Christopher P.: Nature Conservation and Countryside Law
- Saks, Elyn R.: Refusing Care: Forced Treatment and the Rights of the Mentally Ill
- Sunstein, Cass R.: Punitive Damages: How Juries Decide
- Viscusi, W. Kip: Smoke-Filled Rooms: A Postmortem on the Tobacco Deal • Read "Smoked Out", an essay based on the book.
Criminal issues
- Comfort, Megan: Doing Time Together: Love and Family in the Shadow of the Prison
- Garland, David: The Culture of Control: Crime and Social Order in Contemporary Society
- Garland, Brent: Neuroscience and the Law
- Greenwood, Peter W.: Changing Lives: Delinquency Prevention as Crime-Control Policy
- Grisso, Thomas: Double Jeopardy: Adolescent Offenders with Mental Disorders
- Harcourt, Bernard E.: Against Prediction: Profiling, Policing, and Punishing in an Actuarial Age
- Harcourt, Bernard E.: Language of the Gun: Youth, Crime, and Public Policy
- Hawkins, Darnell F.: Our Children, Their Children: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Differences in American Juvenile Justice
- Herbert, Steve: Citizens, Cops, and Power: Recognizing the Limits of Community
- Kunzel, Regina: Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality
- Langum, David J.: Crossing over the Line: Legislating Morality and the Mann Act
- Laufer, William S.: Corporate Bodies and Guilty Minds: The Failure of Corporate Criminal Liability
- Lynch, Michael: Truth Machine: The Contentious History of DNA Fingerprinting
- Manning, Peter K.: Policing Contingencies
- Pager, Devah: Marked: Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration • Read an excerpt.
- Provine, Doris Marie: Unequal under Law: Race in the War on Drugs
- Rosenheim, Margaret K.: A Century of Juvenile Justice
- Smith, Philip: Punishment and Culture
- Solan, Lawrence M.: Speaking of Crime: The Language of Criminal Justice
- Sprott, Jane B.: Justice for Girls?: Stability and Change in the Youth Justice Systems of the United States and Canada
- St. Jean, Peter K. B.: Pockets of Crime: Broken Windows, Collective Efficacy, and the Criminal Point of View
- Timmermans, Stefan: Postmortem: How Medical Examiners Explain Suspicious Deaths • Read an excerpt.
- Tonry, Michael: Crime and Justice, Volume 34
- Zimring, Franklin E.: An American Travesty: Legal Responses to Adolescent Sexual Offending
International and comparative law
- Alexander, Gregory S.: The Global Debate over Constitutional Property: Lessons for American Takings Jurisprudence
- Dezalay, Yves: The Internationalization of Palace Wars: Lawyers, Economists, and the Contest to Transform Latin American States
- Drakeford, Mark: Pre-Trial Services and the Future of Probation
- Eck, Clementine van: Purified by Blood: Honour Killings Amongst Turks in the Netherlands
- Hagan, John: Justice in the Balkans: Prosecuting War Crimes in the Hague Tribunal • Read an article by the author “Ace in the Hole”.
- Hildering, Antoinette: International Law, Sustainable Development and Water Management
- Hogelund, Jan: In Search of Effective Disability Policy: Comparing the Developments and Outcomes of the Dutch and Danish Disability Policies
- Jones, Dorothy V.: Toward a Just World: The Critical Years in the Search for International Justice
- Leun, Joanne van der: Looking for Loopholes: Processes of Incorporation of Illegal Immigrants in the Netherlands
- Merin, Yuval: Equality for Same-Sex Couples: The Legal Recognition of Gay Partnerships in Europe and the United States
- Merry, Sally Engle: Human Rights and Gender Violence: Translating International Law into Local Justice
- Milhaupt, J. Curtis: Law & Capitalism: What Corporate Crises Reveal about Legal Systems and Economic Development around the World
- Miwa, Yoshiro: The Fable of the Keiretsu: Urban Legends of the Japanese Economy
- Posner, Eric A.: The Perils of Global Legalism
- Ramseyer, J. Mark: Measuring Judicial Independence: The Political Economy of Judging in Japan
- Richland, B. Justin: Arguing with Tradition: The Language of Law in Hopi Tribal Court
- Rosenheim, Margaret K.: A Century of Juvenile Justice
- Tonry, Michael: Crime and Justice, Volume 35: Crime and Justice in the Netherlands
- Tonry, Michael: Crime and Justice, Volume 36: Crime, Punishment, and Politics in a Comparative Perspective
- Voorda, Jacobus: Dictata ad ius Hodiernum: Lectures on the Contemporary Law
- Welchman, Lynn: Women and Muslim Family Laws in Arab States: A Comparative Overview of Textual Development and Advocacy
- West, Mark D.: Law in Everyday Japan: Sex, Sumo, Suicide, and Statutes
- West, Mark D.: Secrets, Sex, and Spectacle: The Rules of Scandal in Japan and the United States
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