Law School Faculty Book Recommendations for 2010
Law School Faculty Book Recommendations for 2010
Many of the University of Chicago Law School’s faculty members are published authors of scholarly books–everything from bankruptcy and contracts textbooks to books on the ideological origins of federalism, climate change law, and global legalism.
But what are they reading?
In what has become an annual tradition, the Law School asked its faculty that question and compiled a list of book recommendations to share with alumni, and now, the world. The selections on the What Are We Reading? website provide insight into what books our faculty scholars pick up when they’re not researching weighty topics. Some of the responses aren’t as academic as one might think.
Senior Lecturer and Judge Frank Easterbrook, for one, says he liked The Time Traveler’s Wife, the acclaimed novel by Audrey Niffenegger. In his recommendation, Judge Easterbrook wrote: “It is a romance with one time-travelling protagonist, and thus represents a cross between genres. Neither the romance nor the sci-fi part predominates.”
Historical nonfiction has a strong showing on the list. The Chicago Law faculty found winners in books on the rise and fall of prohibition, mass incarceration in the U.S., the life of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, and breakthroughs in neurological science.
The book list also contains links to the faculty members’ Goodreads pages. People can become “fans” of faculty members on the online social network for readers and find faculty members’ book recommendations from past years.
Readers also can become friends with the Law School on Goodreads to receive regular updates on new books by the faculty. The effort has been a success so far: The Law School saw a 50 percent increase in Goodreads friends since launching What Are We Reading?.
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