Law and Social Thought : Reading List

Students in LST, whether beginning, advanced, or graduating, often ask us for a reading list for the summer. We thought we would give you a few ideas to start with. Look up these titles and read the ones that interest you. We do not expect you to have read and studied these books prior to becoming a major in LST or in order to do well in our classes! This list is JUST FOR FUN, for those who find reading to be a pleasure. We have attempted not to include books we routinely teach in our courses. However, some of these will appear on our syllabi from time to time. These are not in any order at all.

If you purchase books from this list from Amazon using the links below, LST will earn a portion of the proceeds! It's a great way to support the program while building your LST library.

If you have a suggestion of a book you would like to see added to the list, please send it along to Ben Pryor . Next: The LST Movie List!

Haar, A Civil Action Ewick & Silbey, The Common Place of Law Gaylin, The Killing of Bonnie Garland Melville, Billy Budd O'Brien, Storm Center Levi, An Introduction to Legal Reasoning Kluger, Simple Justice Hay, Albion's Fatal Tree Crenshaw, et al., Critical Race Theory Aeschylus, The Oresteia Sophocles, Antigone Butler, Antigone's Claim Plato, Crito Plato, The Republic Plato, The Apology of Socrates Cornell, At the Heart of Freedom Hans, Business on Trial Grana & Ollenburger, The Social Context of Law

Plato, Euthyphro Camus, The Stranger Kafka, The Trial Kairys, With Liberty and Justice for Some Sarat & Ewick, Studies in Law, Politics and Society, #26 Turow, One L Aristotle, On Rhetoric Aristotle, Politics Lazarus, Closed Chambers Rosenberg, The Hollow Hope Arenas, Before Night Falls Agamben, Homo Sacer Foucault, Discipline and Punish Hart & Negri, Empire Williams, The Alchemy of Race and Rights Lewis, Gideon’s Trumpet Lewis, Make No Law Cover, Justice Accused Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals