100 Must-Read Books about the Law and Social Justice

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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (2010) door Michelle Alexander
America's Constitution: A Biography (2005) door Akhil Reed Amar
Carnal Crimes: Sexual Assault Law in Canada, 1900-1975 (2008) door Constance Backhouse
Mijn herinneringen (1978) door Herculine Adélaîde Barbin
Forcing the Spring: Inside the Fight for Marriage Equality (2014) door Jo Becker
The Common Legal Past of Europe: 1000-1800 (1995) door Manlio Bellomo
Transgender Employment Experiences: Gendered Perceptions and the Law (2011) door Kyla Bender-Baird
Policing the National Body: Sex, Race, and Criminalization (2002) door Anannya Bhattacharjee
Madison’s Hand: Revising the Constitutional Convention (2015) door Mary Sarah Bilder
Trying Leviathan (2007) door D. Graham Burnett
Let's Get Free: A Hip-Hop Theory of Justice (2009) door Paul Butler
Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter (2016) door Jordan T. Camp
The Case Against the Supreme Court (2014) door Erwin Chemerinsky
King John: And the Road to Magna Carta (2015) door Stephen D. Church
Tussen de wereld en mij (2015) door Ta-Nehisi Coates
Sisters in the Struggle: African American Women in the Civil Rights-Black Power Movement (2001) door Bettye Collier-Thomas
The Long, Lingering Shadow: Slavery, Race, and Law in the American Hemisphere (Studies in the Legal History of the South) (2013) door Robert J. Cottrol
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement (2015) door Angela Y. Davis
Governing Immigration Through Crime: A Reader (2013) door Julie A. Dowling
You Have the Right to Remain Innocent (2016) door James Duane
A Legal History of the Civil War and Reconstruction: A Nation of Rights (New Histories of American Law) (2015) door Laura F. Edwards
The Informant: A True Story (2000) door Kurt Eichenwald
Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices (2010) door Noah Feldman
Ballot Battles: The History of Disputed Elections in the United States (2015) door Edward Foley
Discipline, toezicht en straf : de geboorte van de gevangenis (1975) door Michel Foucault
Law and the Gay Rights Story: The Long Search for Equal Justice in a Divided Democracy (2014) door Walter Frank
Law in America: A Short History (2002) door Lawrence M. Friedman
The Legal Ideology of Removal: The Southern Judiciary and the Sovereignty of Native American Nations (Studies in the Legal History of the South) (2002) door Tim Allan Garrison
Civil Rights Stories (2007) door Myriam Gilles
My Own Words (2016) door Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Lawyers and Legal Culture in British North America: Beamish Murdoch of Halifax (Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History) (2011) door Philip Girard
Unequal Freedom: How Race and Gender Shaped American Citizenship and Labor (2002) door Evelyn Nakano Glenn
Storming the Court: How a Band of Law Students Fought the President--and Won (2006) door Brandt Goldstein
Inherently Unequal: The Betrayal of Equal Rights by the Supreme Court, 1865-1903 (2010) door Lawrence Goldstone
Crook County: Racism and Injustice in America's Largest Criminal Court (2016) door Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve
The Burger Court and the Rise of the Judicial Right (2016) door Michael J. Graetz
The Massey Murder: A Maid, Her Master and the Trial that Shocked a Country (2013) door Charlotte Gray
Becoming Justice Blackmun: Harry Blackmun's Supreme Court Journey (2005) door Linda Greenhouse
New York Times v. Sullivan: Civil Rights, Libel Law, and the Free Press (Landmark Law Cases and American Society) (2011) door Kermit L. Hall
The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798: Testing the Constitution (Witness to History) (2016) door Terri Diane Halperin
A Civil Action (1995) door Jonathan Harr
Plutocrats United: Campaign Money, the Supreme Court, and the Distortion of American Elections (2016) door Richard L. Hasen
The Great Dissent: How Oliver Wendell Holmes Changed His Mind and Changed the History of Free Speech in America (2013) door Thomas Healy
Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World (2015) door Linda Hirshman
Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience (2001) door Lawson Fusao Inada
A People's History of the Supreme Court (1999) door Peter Irons
The Drone Memos: Targeted Killing, Secrecy, and the Law (2010) door Jameel Jaffer
No Constitutional Right to be Ladies (1998) door Linda K. Kerber
The Framers' Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution (2016) door Michael J. Klarman
Indelible Ink: The Trials of John Peter Zenger and the Birth of America's Free Press (2016) door Richard Kluger
De kleur van je hart (1998) door Antjie Krog
Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science and Religion (1997) door Edward J. Larson
Resistance behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women (2012) door Victoria Law
Environmental Law Stories (2005) door Richard J. Lazarua
Our Undemocratic Constitution (2006) door Sanford Levinson
History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier (2005) door Deborah E. Lipstadt
White by Law : The Legal Construction of Race (1996) door Ian Haney Lopez
Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788 (2010) door Pauline Maier
Republic of Debtors: Bankruptcy in the Age of American Independence (2002) door Bruce H. Mann
At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance - A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power (2010) door Danielle L. McGuire
Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States (Queer Ideas/Queer Action) (2011) door Joey L. Mogul
1867: How the Fathers Made a Deal (1997) door Christopher Moore
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools (2016) door Monique W. Morris
The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America (2010) door Khalil Gibran Muhammad
The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America (2014) door Naomi Murakawa
Women of Color and the Reproductive Rights Movement (2003) door Jennifer Nelson
The Majesty of the Law: Reflections of a Supreme Court Justice (2003) door Sandra Day O'Connor
Making Foreigners: Immigration and Citizenship Law in America, 1600-2000 (New Histories of American Law) (2015) door Kunal M. Parker
Brown v. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy (2001) door James T. Patterson
The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued their Bosses and Changed the Workplace (2012) door Lynn Povich
The Republic According to John Marshall Harlan (1999) door Linda Przybyszewski
Six Women of Salem: The Untold Story of the Accused and Their Accusers in the Salem Witch Trials (2013) door Marilynne K. Roach
Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organizing for Reproductive Justice (2004) door Jael Silliman
Cannibalism and the Common Law: The Story of the Tragic Last Voyage of the Mignonette and the Strange Legal Proceedings to Which It Gave Rise (1984) door A. W. Brian Simpson
My Beloved World (2013) door Sonia Sotomayor
Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex (2011) door Eric A. Stanley
Courting Death: The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment (2016) door Carol S. Steiker
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 (1976) door Gerald M. Stern
Six Amendments: How and Why We Should Change the Constitution (2014) door John Paul Stevens
Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime: From the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism (2004) door Geoffrey R. Stone
Speaking Freely: Whitney v. California and American Speech Law (Landmark Law Cases and American Society) (2015) door Philippa Strum
Down, Out, and Under Arrest: Policing and Everyday Life in Skid Row (2016) door Forrest Stuart
Because of Sex: One Law, Ten Cases, and Fifty Years That Changed American Women's Lives at Work (2016) door Gillian Thomas
Feminist Legal History: Essays on Women and Law (2011) door Tracy A. Thomas
The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson (1996) door Jeffrey Toobin
Uncertain Justice: The Roberts Court and the Constitution (2014) door Laurence Tribe
The Nuremberg Trial (1983) door Ann Tusa
The African Canadian Legal Odyssey: Historical Essays (Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History) (2012) door Barrington Walker
Race, Sex, and the Freedom to Marry: Loving v. Virginia (Landmark Law Cases & American Society) (2014) door Peter Wallenstein
The Taming of Free Speech: America's Civil Liberties Compromise (2016) door Laura Weinrib
American Legal History: A Very Short Introduction (2013) door G. Edward White
The Origins of Reasonable Doubt: Theological Roots of the Criminal Trial (Yale Law Library Series in Legal History and Reference) (2008) door James Q. Whitman
The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court (1979) door Bob Woodward
The Battle for the Black Ballot: Smith V. Allwright and the Defeat of the Texas All-White Primary (2004) door Charles L. Zelden

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