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

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