Recommended Books and Movies for New Students

Books - Fiction

• To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
• Herzog, Saul Bellow
• Any from the Robert K. Tanenbaum series about Butch Karp

Books - Nonfiction

• A History of American Law, Laurence Meir Friedman
• A Short History of Western Legal Theory, J.M. Kelly
• The Brethren, Woodward and Armstrong
• The Defense Never Rests, F. Lee Bailey
• One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School, Scott Turow
• Outrage: The Five Reason Why O.J. Simpson Got Away With Murder, Vincent Bugliosi
• The People vs. Clarence Darrow, Geoffrey Cowan
• A Civil Action, Jonathon Harr
• A Machine That Would Go of Itself: The Constitution in American Culture, Michael Kammen
• Toward a Feminist Theory of the State, Catherine MacKinnon
• My Life on Trial: An Autobiography, Melvin M. Belli
• Gideon's Trumpet, Anthony Lewis
• What Everyone Should Know about Economics and Prosperity, James D. Gwartney and Richard L. Stroup

Movies

• "True Believer"
• "Class Action"
• "Roger and Me"
• "A Civil Action"
• "Gideon's Trumpet"