Legal Theory Bookworm
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The Legal Theory Bookworm recommends Education in Democracy: The Importance of Free Speech in American Public Schools by Ronald C. Den Otter. Here is a description: In contrast to recent efforts to restrict students by putting more power in the hands of parents and school officials, Ronald C. Den Otter makes a bold and rigorously…
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The Legal Theory Bookworm recommends A Real Right to Vote: How a Constitutional Amendment Can Safeguard American Democracy by Richard L. Hasen. Here is a description: Why it’s time to enshrine the right to vote in the Constitution Throughout history, too many Americans have been disenfranchised or faced needless barriers to voting. Part of the…
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The Legal Theory Bookworm recommends The Robot Rights Manifesto by John-Stewart Gordon. Here is a description: This book confronts one of the most pressing moral challenges of our technological age: should autonomous, intelligent, human-like machines be recognized as bearers of moral and socio-political rights? Anticipating a future in which artificial humanoids may develop traits such…
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The Legal Theory Bookworm recommends The Morality in Law: Themes from the Work of Leslie Green, edited by Thomas Adams, Kate Greasley, and Denise Réaume. Here is a description: Leslie Green is a leading figure in late-20th and early-21st century legal philosophy. He has made important contributions on topics as varied as legal positivism, political…
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The Legal Theory Bookworm recommends In Congress We Trust?: Enforcing Voting Rights from the Founding to the Jim Crow Era by Franita Tolson. Here is the book description from the Amazon page: This book reveals how Congress quietly shaped American elections across more than a century of constitutional development. Far from a passive observer, Congress…
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The Legal Theory Bookworm recommends Populism and Courts in an Age of Constitutional Impatience: Judges vs the People by Raphaël Girard. Here is a description: This book addresses one of the most pressing issues of our time: the rise of populism and its implications, particularly for courts and other legal institutions. It questions and ultimately…
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The Legal Theory Bookworm recommends Supreme Pressure: The Rejection of John J. Parker and the Birth of the Modern Supreme Court Confirmation by Victor Li. Here is a description: This book examines the 1930 Supreme Court nomination of John J. Parker, a turning point in American judicial politics. Alarmed by some of his past statements and opinions,…
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The Legal Theory Bookworm recommends The Legal Foundations of Religious Freedom: Human Rights in the United States and Europe by John Witte Jr & Andrea Pin, Here is a description: The Legal Foundations of Religious Freedom documents the essential interdependence of human rights and religious freedom in the West, from antiquity to the present. In The Legal Foundations…
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The Legal Theory Bookworm recommends Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship: African Americans, Native Americans, and Immigrants by Anna O. Law. Here is a description: Since the late nineteenth century, the US federal government has enjoyed exclusive authority to decide whether someone has the ability to enter and stay in US territory. But freedom of movement was…
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The Legal Theory Bookworm recommends The Concept of Legal Personhood: What the Mind Reveals About Law by Claudio Novelli. Here is a description: What does it take for someone-or something-to count as a legal person? Is it a matter of biology, ideology, or both? This book explores how societies determine who or what qualifies as a legal person,…