Every spring we share a list of books recently published by our alumni. Here's the latest roundup. 

Andrea Amand, ’01
Ghost Light (Independently, September 2025)
A part-memoir, part-guidebook about embracing sensitivity, intuition, and personal “messiness.”

Robert Katz, ’92
Antisemitism and the Law (Carolina Academic Press, August 2025)
A resource for understanding the legal history of antisemitism and legal strategies to combat it.

Allison (Lawler) Buccola, ’11
The Ascent (Penguin Random House, May 2025)
A psychological thriller about a cult survivor who is forced to confront her past when a stranger shows up on her doorstep.

Charles Bush, ’67
The Boy with the Jade (HTF Publishing, September 2025)
A novel set in 18th century China about a boy growing up amidst the extravagance, tumult, and cruelty of a high aristocratic family.

Junayed Chowdhury, ’11
Commentaries on the Law of Arbitration in Bangladesh (University Press Limited, January 2024)
A first-of-its-kind bilingual practitioner’s textbook in Bangladesh and English that details analytical treatment of the arbitration laws of Bangladesh.

Thomas Cole, ’75
Doing Meritocracy Right: How Business Leaders Can Turn an American Aspiration into Reality (and Why They Should)(The University of Chicago Press, December 2025)
A book that explains how meritocracy functions in America and how to achieve a more meritocratic society.

Michael A. Feit, ’64
Lawyer in the Hood (The Troy Book Makers, August 2025)
A compilation of stories from real criminal cases drawn from the author’s wealth of experience as a criminal lawyer.
 

Martha Fineman, ’75
Vulnerability Theory and the Trinity Lectures: Institutionalizing the Individual (Bristol University Press, May 2025)
An introduction to vulnerability theory based on lectures from Trinity College Dublin.

Vulnerability and the Organization of Academic Labor (Routledge, December 2025)
A book that explores teaching, research, and academia through the lens of vulnerability theory.

David Greenwald, ’93
Sentence, Paragraph, Argument, Brief: Meeting the Four Challenges of Legal Writing (American Bar Association, September 2025)
Drawing upon the author’s decades of experience as a law firm partner and federal prosecutor (as well as a year clerking for Richard Posner), the book offers a practical approach to brief-writing, enriched with examples from filed briefs.

Gerald Hochschild, ’85
Mein Geist, mein Leben (TimEdition, December 2025)
A short memoir, written in German, that offers a renewed sense of hope.

Geoffrey Palmer, ’67
How to Save Democracy in Aotearoa New Zealand (Te Herenga Waka University Press, September 2025)
A collection of essays with rare insights into the state of New Zealand’s democracy and an overarching message that ordinary citizens hold the key to democracy.

David Schraub, ’11
Deliberation, Dismissal, and Democracy (Oxford University Press, September 2025)
An analysis of why controversy in ordinary conversations is often dismissed, yet persists in deliberative forums such as the court system.

Ford Worthy, ’95
In Search of a Boy Named Chester (Worthy Ventures, September 2025)
An investigative nonfiction book about the author’s quest to find a boy his father met during World War II.