The University of the District of Columbia David A.

Clarke School of Law

Learning Law in the Spirit of Public Interest

Office of Admission 4200 Connecticut Avenue NW Building 38, 2nd Floor Washington, D.C. 20008 202-274-7341 www.law.udc.edu

Suggested Reading for Law Students

1. Aron, Nan. Liberty & Justice for All: Public Interest Law in the 1980's and Beyond. Boulder: Westview, 1989. Butler, Paul. Let's Get Free: A Hip-Hop Theory of Justice. New York: The New Press, 2009. Cahn, Edgar S. No More Throw-Away People. Washington, DC: Essential Books, 2000. Cahn, Edmond N. The Moral Decision: Right and Wrong in the Light of American Law. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1981. Calabresis, Guido. Ideals, Beliefs, Attitudes and the Law: Private Law Perspectives on a Public Law Problem. Syracuse: Syracuse UP, 1985. Cardozo, Benjamin N. The Nature of the Judicial Process. New Haven: Yale UP, 1921. Curtis, Michael Kent. Free Speech, "The People's Darling Privilege": Struggles for Freedom of Expression in American History. Durham: Duke UP, 2000. de Grazia, Edward. Girls Lean Back Everywhere: The Laws on Obscenity and the Assault on Genius. New York: Random House, 1992. Delaney, John. Learning Legal Reasoning: Briefing, Analysis and Theory. 3 Ed. New Jersey: John Delaney, 2006. Dernbach, John C., Richard V. Singleton, and Cathleen S. Wharton. A Practical Guide to Legal Writing & rd Legal Method. 3 Ed. New York: Aspen Publishers, 2007. Duffey, William. A Life in the Law: Advice for Young Lawyers. Chicago: American Bar Association, 2009. Epstein, Cynthia Fuchs. Women in Law. Champaign: U of Illinois P, 1993. Fajans, Elizabeth and Mary R. Falk. Scholarly Writing for Law Students: Seminar Papers, Law Review rd Notes, and Law Review Competition Papers. 3 Ed. St. Paul, MN: West Group, 2005. Fischl, Richard Michael, and Jeremy R. Paul. Getting to Maybe: How to Excel on Law School Exams. Durham: Carolina Academic P, 1999. Geoghegan, Thomas. The Law in Shambles. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2005. Good, C. Edward. Mightier Than the Sword: Powerful Writing, in Class-On the Job/Legal. Berkeley: Blue Jeans Press, 1989. Grisham, John. The Street Lawyer. New York: Doubleday, 1998. Harr, Jonathan. A Civil Action. New York: Random House, 1995. Herman, Susan. Parallel Justice for Victims of Crime. Washington, DC: National Center for Victims of Crime, 2010.
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Holmes, Olive Wendell. Holmes: Occasional Speeches. Ed. Mark DeWolfe. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1962. Jackson, Bruce. Law and Disorder: Criminal Justice in America. Champaign: U of Illinois P, 1984. Jacob, Herbert. Justice in America: Courts, Lawyers, and the Judicial Process. Boston: Little Brown, 1984. Kairys, David. The Politics of Law: A Progressive Critique. 3 Ed. New York: Basic Books, 1998. Kluger, Richard. Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black Americas Struggle for Equality. New York: Vintage, 2004. Lee, Harper. To Kill A Mockingbird. New York: Little Brown, 1988. Lefcourt, Robert. Law Against the People: Essays to Demystify Law, Order, and the Courts. New York: Random House, 1971. Lewis, Anthony. Gideons Trumpet. New York: Random House, 1964. Llewellyn, Karl N. The Bramble Bush: The Classic Lectures on Law and Law Schools. New York: Oxford, 2008. Lopeman, Charles S. The Activist Advocate: Policy Making in State Supreme Courts. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1999. Lopez, Gerald P. Rebellious Lawyering: One Chicano's Vision of Progressive Law Practice. Boulder: Westview, 1992. Mitchell, Evangeline. The African American Law School Survival Guide: Information, Advice and Strategies to Prepare You for the Challenges of the Law School Experience. Houston, TX: Hope's Promise Publishing, 2006. Moliterno, James E., and Frederick I. Lederer. An Introduction to Law, Law Study, and the Lawyers nd Role. 2 Ed. Durham: Carolina Academic P, 2004. Moll, Richard W. The Lure of the Law: Why People Become Lawyers. New York: Viking, 1990. Nader, Ralph and Mark Green, eds. Verdicts on Lawyers. New York: T.Y. Crowell, 1976. Nygren, Carol J. Starting Off Right in Law School. Durham: Carolina Academic P, 1997. Nygren, Carol J. Starting Off Right Analysis Series. Durham: Carolina Academic P, 1998. 4 vols. Pound, Roscoe. Law and Morals. South Hackensack, NJ: Rothman Reprints, 1969. Resnick, Judth. Processes of the Law: Understanding Courts and Their Alternatives. New York: Foundation P, 2004. Romantz, David S., and Kathleen Elliott Vinson. Legal Analysis: The Fundamental Skill. 2 Carolina Academic P, 2009.
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Roosevelt, Kermit. In the Shadow of the Law: A Novel. Trade Paperback. New York: Picador USA, 2006. Roth, George. Slaying the Law School Dragon; How to Survive and Thrive in the First Year of Law nd School. 2 Ed. New York: John Wiley, 1991.

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Rowan, Carl. Dream Makers, Dream Breakers: The World of Justice Thurgood Marshall. Boston: Little Brown, 1993. Schwartz, Sunny. Dreams from the Monster Factory: A Tale of Prison, Redemption, and One Woman's Fight to Restore Justice to All. New York: Scribner, 2009. Shah, Saleem. Law & Mental Health: Research and Policy. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage, 1986. Shapo, Helene and Marshall Shapo. Law School Without Fear: Strategies for Success. 3 Ed. New York: Foundation P, 2009. Smith Jr., J. Clay. Rebels in Law: Voices in History of Black Women Lawyers. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1998. Stern, Gerald M. Buffalo Creek Disaster. New York: Random House, 1976. Stropus, Ruta K., and Charlotte D. Taylor. Bridging the Gap Between College and Law School: nd Strategies for Success. 2 Ed. Durham: Carolina Academic P, 2009. Turow, Scott. Presumed Innocent. New York: Farrar Straus, 1987. Volokh, Eugene. Academic Legal Writing: Law Review Articles, Student Notes, Seminar Papers, and nd Getting on Law Review. 2 Ed. New York: Foundation P, 2004. Weisberg, Richard. Poethics, and Other Strategies of Law & Literature. New York: Columbia UP, 1992. Woodward, Bob. The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1979. Wright, R. George. Does the Law Morally Bind the Poor?: Or What Good's the Constitution When You Can't Afford a Loaf of Bread? New York: New York UP, 1996.
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