Law and Jurisprudence
Last update: 21 Apr 2025 21:17First version:
Like I have any qualifications to say anything about this!
- Recommended:
- Amar and Hirsch, For the People [I don't entirely agree with them, but it's very worth thinking through]
- Balkinization
- N. J. Coulson, A History of Islamic Law
- Jay N. Feinman, Law 101: Everything You Need to Know about the American Legal System
- Richard Thompson Ford, Rights Gone Wrong: How Law Corrupts the Struggle for Equality
- Bernard E. Harcourt, Against Prediction: Profiling, Policing, and Punishing in an Actuarial Age [Review]
- David A. Harris, Failed Evidence: Why Law Enforcement Resists Science
- E. H. Levi, An Introduction to Legal Reasoning
- Cass Sunstein, Legal Reasoning and Political Conflict [An earlier version, Political Conflict and Legal Agreement, is available for free as a 113 page PDF.]
- Brian Tamanaha, "A Concise Guide to the Rule of Law" [SSRN/1012051]
- To read (thanks to Patrick Griffin for recommendations):
- Larry Alexander and Emily Sherwin, Demystifying Legal Reasoning
- Akhil Amar, America's Constitution: A Biography
- Lawrence Baum, Judges and Their Audiences: A Perspective on Judicial Behavior
- H. S. Commager, The American Mind
- Neil Duxbury, The Nature and Authority of Precedent
- Jay M. Feinman, Un-Making Law: The Conservative Campaign to Roll Back the Common Law
- Gerd Gigerenzer and Christoph Engel, Heuristics and the Law
- Susan Haack, Evidence Matters: Science, Proof, and Truth in the Law
- Axel Hagerstrom, Inquiries into the Nature of Law and Morals
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., The Common Law
- Larry Laudan
- Truth, Error, and Criminal Law: An Essay in Legal Epistemology
- "The Defendant's Burden: the Onus Probandi and the Anomaly of Affirmative Defenses" [abstract (about half-way down), MS Word preprint]
- John T. Noonan, Narrowing the Nation's Power: The Supreme Court Sides with the States
- Barbara Shapiro, Beyond Reasonable Doubt and Probable Cause: Historical Perspectives on the Anglo-American Law of Evidence
- Cass R. Sunstein
- Radicals in Robes: Why Extreme Right-Wing Courts Are Wrong for America
- A Constitution of Many Minds: Why the Founding Document Doesn't Mean What It Meant Before
- Cass R. Sunstein (ed.), Behavioral Law and Economics
- Brian Z. Tamanaha
- Mark Tushnet (ed.), The Constitution in Wartime: Beyond Alarmism and Compalcency
- Tom R. Tyler, Why People Obey the Law
