CAL for Students: A Tool Kit & Read-in Group
A Project

Introduction: What Is It? What Does It Do?

• Reading schedules [sample, 2013-14]

Source Library [full bibliography (PDF)]

Preliminary

• Llewellyn, Bramble Bush (ch. I) *
  • Levi, Introduction to Legal Reasoning (pts. I-III, V)
  • Bridges, Paper Chase (Hawkins v. McGee) *
    
  • Wallace, Infinite Jest (ch. 1) (Decemberists, Calamity Song) *

Learning/Teaching Law

• Kimball, Case Method: Langdell's Abomination (192-95)
• Yale Law Journal, Methods of Legal Education (Keener, Gray)
  • Weinrib, What the Law Teacher Teaches (pt. II)
• Frug, Critical Theory of Law
• Kennedy, Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy *
  • Farmer, Teaching Criminal Law in Context [crim] [e.legal]

Legal Realism

• Holmes, Path of the Law
• Bentham, Fragment on Government (pp. 443-56, esp. 450-51) [.pdf]
  
• Llewellyn, Some Realism About Realism (pt. II)
  • Llewellyn, Rules or Canons about How Statutes Are to Be Construed ("Thrusts and Parries")
    • Willis, Statutory Interpretation in a Nutshell [e.legal]
  • Willis, Three Approaches to Administrative Law [admin]
    • Gordon, Willis and the Legal Realists [admin]
  • F Cohen, Transcendental Nonsense (pt. I, 833-end)
    • Dewey, Corporate Legal Personality
    • Jhering, Heaven for Legal Concepts (Germany) (799-811)
      
      • F Cohen, The Erosion of Indian Rights ("Indian New Deal") [admin]
        • F Cohen, The Spanish Origin of Indian Rights
      • Laski, Judicial Review of Social Policy in England (UK) [admin]
  • Tulin, Penalties [crim]
• Dagan, Reconstructing American Legal Realism (intro) [e.legal]
• Kruse, Getting Real (312-19); New Legal Realism

Legal Process

• Eskridge & Frickey, Making of The Legal Process (2031, 2040-45)
• Hart & Sacks, The Legal Process (excerpts) [e.legal]
  • Hart, Aims of Criminal Law [crim]
  • Wechsler, Model Penal Code [crim]
    
• Rodriquez, New Legal Process (940-46)
  

Law & Society

• Galanter, Why the "Haves" Come Out Ahead (pt. I)
  
• White, Subordination, Rhetorical Survival Skills, and Sunday Shoes (pt. I) [admin]
• Friedman, Law & Society Movement (1986)
• Silbey/Sarat, Critical Traditions in Law & Society (1987)
  
• Silbey, Law & Society Movement (2002)
• Sarat, Postrealist Law & Society (2004)
  
• Simon, Law After Society (pts. I-II, VI-VII)
  

Critical Legal Studies

• Kennedy, Form and Substance in Private Law Adjudication
• Horwitz, Rule of Law; Private/Public Law
• Tushnet, Critical Legal Studies: An Introduction to its Origins and Underpinnings
• Gordon, CLS as Teaching Method
  
  • Kennedy, Structure of Blackstone's Commentaries (pts. I & II); Rise and Fall (preface, ch. 1)
  • Frug, The City as a Legal Concept (pt. III) [admin]
  • Gordon, Critical Legal Histories (pts. I & IV)
    
  • Kelman, Interpretive Construction in the Substantive Criminal Law (pts. I & V) [crim]
  • Altman, Legal Realism, CLS...and Dworkin (pts. I-III)
    

Law & Economics

• Posner, Economic Analysis of Law (1st ed. 1972) (preface, etc.) [e.legal]
• Trebilcock, Introduction to Law and Economics
• Horwitz, Science or Politics?
  
  • Pashukanis, General Theory of Law and Marxism (intro, ch. I)
  • Norrie,  Pashukanis and the "Commodity Form Theory" [crim] [e.legal]
  • Kennedy, Law & Econ from CLS Perspective
  • Harel & Porat, Commensurability
    

Law & Literature

• Weisberg, The Law-Literature Enterprise (pts. I.A.-B., III.A.-H.)
• Peters, Law, Literature, and the Vanishing Real
  
• Cover, Violence and the Word
  
  • Andriopoulos, Terror of Reproduction [law & film]
  • Stern, Case Method and Detective Story
• Capers, Bigger Thomas [crim]

Law & Feminism

• Bartlett, Gender Law
• Gruber, Neofeminism
  
• MacKinnon, Feminism, Marxism, Method, and the State; Feminism in Legal Education
  
  • Nedelsky, Relational Autonomy
  • Coughlin, Excusing Women (intro, pts. II & III) [crim]

Law & Race

• A Harris, Race and Essentialism
• C Harris, Whiteness as Property (pts. I, II)
  
• Critical Race Theory, Introduction [e.legal]
  • CRT Special Issue, U Conn L Rev (2011)
  • Carter, When Victims Happen to Be Black [crim]
  • Capers, The Unintentional Rapist [crim]

Law &|& Law

• Balkin, Interdisciplinarity as Colonization
• Vick, Interdisciplinarity and the Discipline of Law
  • Lavi, Turning Tables on "Law and ..."
  • Weinrib, Can Law Survive Legal Education?
  • Critical Analysis of Law

Further Readings: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (taxonomic, but useful)

• "legal positivism" vs. "natural law"
• economic analysis of law
• feminist philosophy of law
• ... or just cut to the chase: "The Nature of Law"
• theories of criminal law [crim]

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* Texts marked with an asterisk are also recommended for prospective law students eager to read about law school and "the law." But see Doobah, "What to Read for Law School": .