Here are ten of the selections from the Legal Theory Bookworm that I found most interesting in 2025:
The Containment: Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North by Michelle Adams
Contemporary Non-Positivism by Emad H. Atiq
Research Handbook on the Philosophy of Contract Law, edited by Mindy Chen-Wishart & Prince Saprai
The Changing Constitution: Constitutional Law in the Trump-Era Supreme Court by Richard Fallon
The Digital Fourth Amendment: Privacy and Policing in Our Online World by Orin Kerr
Marital Privilege: Marriage, Inequality, and the Transformation of American Law by Serena Mayeri
The Presidential Pardon: The Short Clause with a Long, Troubled History by Saikrishna Bangalore Prakash
Impermissible Punishments: How Prison Became a Problem for Democracy by Judith Resnik
Responsibility for Negligence in Ethics and Law: Aspiration, Perspective, and Civic Maturity by Verónica Rodríguez-Blanco
The Radical Fund: How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended America by John Fabian Witt