Reading during law school

            While in law school, you can deepen and enrich your understanding of the law by reading classical fiction and nonfiction about the law.

         Law stories

            To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

            The Trial - Franz Kafka

            Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street & Billy Budd - Herman Melville

            The Crucible - Arthur Miller

            Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury

            Disgrace - J. M Coetzee

            The House Gun - Nadine Gordimer

            The Known World - Edward P. Jones

            A Lesson Before Dying - Ernest J. Gaines

            The Sweet Hereafter - Russell Banks

            An American Tragedy - Theodore Dreiser

            In Cold Blood - Truman Capote

            The Executioner's Song - Norman Mailer

            Fatal Vision - Joe McGinnis

            The Journalist and the Murderer - Janet Malcolm

         Law process

            The Nature of the Judicial Process - Benjamin N. Cardozo (KF230.C37 N3 1971).

            The Bramble Bush - Karl Llewellyn (KF273.L54 1981).

            The Common Law - Oliver Wendell Holmes

            The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court - Bob Woodward & Scott Armstrong

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

              Prophets with Honor:   Great Dissents and Great Dissenters in the Supreme Court - Alan Barth

            Closed Chambers:   The Rise, Fall, and Future of the Modern Supreme Court - Edward Lazarus