On the Bookshelves
Nora Krug
Twenty for the ages
Kennedy and Fisher’s picks
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. LL.B. 1866, “The Path of the Law” (1897).
- Wesley Hohfeld LL.B. 1904, “Some Fundamental Legal Conceptions as Applied in Judicial Reasoning” (1913).
- Robert Hale LL.B. 1909, “Coercion and Distribution in a Supposedly Noncoercive State” (1923).
- John Dewey, “Logical Method and Law” (1924).
- Karl Llewellyn, “Some Realism About Realism—Responding to Dean Pound” (1931).
- Felix Cohen, “Transcendental Nonsense and the Functional Approach” (1935).
- Lon L. Fuller, “Consideration and Form” (1941).
- Henry M. Hart Jr. ’30 and Albert M. Sacks ’48, “The Legal Process: Basic Problems in the Making and Application of Law” (1958).
- Herbert Wechsler, “Toward Neutral Principles of Constitutional Law” (1959).
- Ronald H. Coase, “The Problem of Social Cost” (1960).
- Stewart Macaulay, “Non-Contractual Relations in Business: A Preliminary Study” (1963).
- Guido Calabresi and Douglas Melamed, “Property Rules, Liability Rules, and Inalienability: One View of the Cathedral” (1972).
- Marc Galanter, “Why the ‘Haves’ Come Out Ahead: Speculations on the Limits of Legal Change” (1974).
- Ronald Dworkin ’57, “Hard Cases” (1975).
- Abram Chayes ’49, “The Role of the Judge in Public Law Litigation” (1976).
- Duncan Kennedy, “Form and Substance in Private Law Adjudication” (1976).
- Catharine A. MacKinnon, “Feminism, Marxism, Method, and the State” (1982-1983).
- Robert Cover, “Violence and the Word” (1986).
- Frank Michelman ’60, “Law’s Republic” (1988).
- Kimberlé Crenshaw ’84, Neil Gotanda LL.M. ’80, Gary Peller ’80 and Kendall Thomas, eds., “Introduction,” “Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings that Formed the Movement” (1996).
From “The Canon of American Legal Thought” (Princeton University Press, 2006). See Reviewing the reviewers.
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