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Ten Legal Theory Books from 2008

By Lawrence Solum

Here are ten of the weekly Legal Theory Bookworm selections that I found particularly stimulating or useful:

Rescuing Justice and Equality by G.A. Cohen

Exporting American Dreams: Thurgood Marshall's African Journey by Mary L. Dudziak

Judgment Calls: Principle and Politics in Constitutional Law by Daniel A. Farber & Suzanna Sherry

Offences and Defences: Selected Essays in the Philosophy of Criminal Law by John Gardner

Religion and the Constitution: Volume 2: Establishment and Fairness by Kent Greenawalt (Also: Volume One which is now available in paperback)

Liberty of Conscience: In Defense of America's Tradition of Religious Equality by Martha Craven Nussbaum

The New Global Trading Order: The Evolving State and the Future of Trade by Dennis Patterson and Ari Afilalo

How Judges Think by Richard A. Posner

Understanding Privacy by Daniel J. Solove

Life and Action: Elementary Structures of Practice and Practical Thought by Michael Thompson

The Oxford Handbook of Law and Politics edited by Keith E. Whittington, R. Daniel Kelemen, Gregory A. Caldeira

Let me add one book that has not yet appeared in the Bookworm:

Law and the Limits of Reason by Adrian Vermeule.

And if I might be permitted to remind readers of Virtue Jurisprudence, edited by Colin Farrelly and Lawrence B. Solum.

Finally, last year's recommendations can be found at this link.

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on January 01, 2009 (boomark / email).