Pre-Law Recommended Reading

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Walt Bachman, Law v. Life: What Lawyers are Afraid to Say about the Legal Profession

F. Lee Bailey, To Be a Trial Lawyer

Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, The Nature of the Judicial Process

Ronald Dworkin, Law's Empire

Brandt Goldstein, Storming the Court: How a Band of Yale Law Students Sued the President--and Won.

Jonathan Harr, A Civil Action

H.L.A. Hart, Punishment and Responsibility

Martin Horwitz, The Transformation of American Law

Richard D. Kahlenberg, Broken Contract : A Memoir of Harvard Law School

David Kairys, The Politics of Law: A Progressive Critique

Michael J. Kelly, Lives of Lawyers: Journeys in the Organizations of Practice

Barbara Kingsolver, Pigs in Heaven

Arthur Kinoy, Rights on Trial: The Odyssey of a People's Lawyer

Richard Kluger, Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America 's Struggle for Equality

Anthony Kronman, The Lost Lawyer: Failing Ideals of the Legal Profession

Edward H. Levi, Introduction to Legal Reasoning

Anthony Lewis, Gideon's Trumpet

Sol M. Linowitz, The Betrayed Profession: Lawyering at the End of the Twentieth Century


Andrew J. McClurg, 1L of a Ride: A Well-Traveled Professor's Roadmap to Success in the First Year of Law School (West 2009)


Michael Meltsner, The Making of a Civil Rights Lawyer

Richard W. Moll, The Lure of the Law: Why People Become Lawyers, and What the Profession Does to Them  

Benjamin Sells, The Soul of the Law   Gerry Spence, With Justice for None  

Gerald M. Stern, The Buffalo Creek Disaster

Christopher D. Stone, Should Trees Have Standing? And Other Essays on Law, Morals and the Environment

Cameron Stracher, Double Billing: A Young Lawyer's Tale of Greed, Sex, Lies, and the Pursuit of a Swivel Chair

Jeffrey Toobin, Too Close to Call: The Thirty-Six-Day Battle to Decide the Election of 2000
Scott Turow, 1-L

Alex Wellen, Barman: Ping-pong, Pathos, and Passing the Bar