Law Professors
What University of Chicago Law Profs are Reading and Recommending
Posted Nov 21, 2008, 01:29 pm CST
By Martha Neil
Just in time for the holidays, Dean Saul Levmore of the University of Chicago Law School has sent alumni a list of the books that law profs there are reading and recommending.
In an e-mail to alumni asking that they consider contributing to the law school, Levmore offers the list as a "small, if unusual, gift."
Although perhaps suitable for gift-giving to friends and family with a taste for intellectual pastimes, none of the faculty's recommended reading appears to be destined for the beach for those taking winter vacations in warmer climes:
Former dean Douglas Baird says Michael Dobbs' One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War is "a gripping minute-by-minute… Continue reading...
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