Legal Theory Bookworm
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The Legal Theory Bookworm recommends International Law in the US Legal System by Curtis A. Bradley. Here is a description: International Law in the U.S. Legal System provides a wide-ranging overview of how international law intersects with the domestic legal system of the United States. Curtis Bradley explains the structure of the U.S. legal system and…
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The Legal Theory Bookworm recommends The Palgrave Handbook on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, edited by Steven S. Gouveia. Here is a description: This Handbook explores the ethical dimensions of Artificial Intelligence (AI) across philosophical, legal, and applied perspectives. Bringing together leading scholars and practitioners, the handbook examines key issues in this field, including algorithmic bias,…
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The Legal Theory Bookworm recommends Gerontocracy in America: How the Old Are Hoarding Power and Wealth—and What to Do About It by Samuel Moyn. Here is a description: A leading social critic identifies our least-discussed major crisis, and sets out to solve it. As Americans debate President Biden’s infirmities and President Trump’s erratic behavior, we’ve neglected…
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The Legal Theory Bookworm recommends White Power: Policing American Slavery by Gautham Rao. Here is a description: Beginning in the colonial era and growing through the American Revolution and the Southern plantation system, slaveholders’ violent police regime continued after Emancipation, through Reconstruction, to today. Moving across time, space, and place, White Power uncovers how slaveholders…
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The Legal Theory Bookworm recommends Tyrants and Rogues: Understanding the Declaration of Independence by Robert G. Parkinson. Here is a description: From an acclaimed historian, a revelatory account of the Declaration of Independence, centered not on the lofty preamble but on the specific grievances that make up the bulk of the document and that offer…
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The Legal Theory Bookworm recommends Political Philosophy: The Puzzle of Legitimate Injustice by Jonathan Quong. How to understand a long-standing puzzle in political philosophy: the relationship between justice and legitimacy. Can laws be unjust and yet remain, in some sense, morally legitimate? In this book, Jonathan Quong considers central issues in political philosophy through the…
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The Legal Theory Bookworm recommends Before Disability: A History of American Citizenship by Sari Altschuler. Here is a description: A literary, legal, and cultural history of disability, race, and citizenship between the Revolution and the Civil War The history of disability rights is often told as a recent one, but it is not. In the…
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The Legal Theory Bookworm recommends Taking American Citizenship Seriously: The Recovery of the Fourteenth Amendment by David R. Upham. Here is a description: In this ambitious volume, Professor David R. Upham offers a comprehensive account of the original understanding of the Fourteenth Amendment, shedding new light on its often-overlooked Privileges or Immunities Clause. Drawing on…
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The Legal Theory Bookworm recommends Ideal and Non-Ideal Theory by Jacob Barrett. Here is a description: This Element provides an opinionated survey of the ideal and non-ideal theory debate in political philosophy. It adopts a minimal conception of ideal theory as “theorizing that aims to characterize ideal or perfect justice” and then investigates four major…
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The Legal Theory Bookworm recommends Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Law, Volume 6, edited by Brian Leiter. Here is a description: Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Law is a forum for some of the best new philosophical work on law, by both senior and junior scholars from around the world. The essays range widely over…