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