Legal Ethics Reading List
These books were all featured in LER No. 44 - A Legal Ethics Summer Reading List. Click on the titles below to purchase. Doing so contributes to this reader-supported website, because the Legal Ethics Roundup earns a small commission at no cost to you. Keep reading to the end for a few non-law recommendations too!
Books with Legal Ethics Ideas and Themes
Servants of the Damned: Giant Law Firms, Donald Trump, and the Corruption of Justice by David Enrich
All the Campus Lawyers: Litigation, Regulation, and the New Era of Higher Education by Louis H. Guard and Joyce P. Jacobsen.
Attack from Within: How Disinformation is Sabotaging America by Barbara McQuade.
Canceling Lawyers: Case Studies of Accountability, Toleration, and Regret by W. Bradley Wendel.
Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases edited on by Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman.
Free and Equal: A Manifesto for a Just Society by Daniel Chandler.
Law Democratized: A Blueprint for Solving the Justice Crisis by Renee Knake Jefferson.
Lawyer Nation: The Past, Present, and Future of the American Legal Profession by Ray Brescia.
Leading Works in Legal Ethics, edited by Julian Webb.
Making Climate Lawyers: Climate Change in American Law Schools, 1985-2020 by Kimberly K. Smith.
One Way Back: A Memoir by Christine Blasey Ford.
Reading the Constitution: Why I Chose Pragmatism, Not Textualism by Stephen Breyer.
Renegade by Nancy Allen.
The Thriving Lawyer by Traci Cipriano.
The Trump Indictments: The Historic Charging Documents with Commentary by Melissa Murray and Andrew Weissmann.
The Year of Living Constitutionally: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution’s Original Meaning by A.J. Jacobs.
What’s Currently Stacked by my Bed or Packed in my Suitcase
Looking for something that isn’t related to legal ethics? Here are the non-law books currently stacked at my bedside or packed in my suitcase for summer reading. I’ve made it through at least the first chapter in all of them already and I can say each is beach-worthy in its own way.
Come and Get It by Kiley Reid.
The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church by Sarah McCammon.
Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon.
The Future by Naomi Alderman.
It. Goes. So. Fast. The Year of No Do-Overs by Mary Louise Kelly.
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt.
The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcom X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation by Anna Malaika Tubbs.
What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds by Jennifer Ackerman.
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