What University of Chicago Law Profs are Reading and Recommending

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What University of Chicago Law Profs are Reading and Recommending

Posted Nov 21, 2008, 01:28 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 account of the Cuban Missile Crisis that takes advantage of archival materials from the United States and Russia that have only come to light recently."

Martha Nussbaum suggests Jerusalem, a 1783 tome by philosopher Moses Mendelssohn that she describes as "one of the most significant works about the relationship between religion and the state in the European tradition of political philosophy."

And senior lecturer Frank Easterbrook (whose day job is as a judge for the Chicago-based 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals) points alumni to Mozart's Women: His Family, His Friends, His Music, by Jane Glover.

While the book has nothing to do with the law, Easterbrook says, "writing is a lawyer's stock in trade, and the best way to learn how to write well is to read well-written literature."

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Posted by B. McLeod - 1 month, 2 weeks, 3 days, 7 hours, 22 minutes ago

What the . . .??

You mean none of them are reading “Ellen Barshevsky—THE BLAWG”?
Posted by B. McLeod - 1 month, 2 weeks, 3 days, 7 hours, 19 minutes ago

Please remain calm, while I point out that “THE BLAWG” was capitalized in the prior post because it is so shown in the name of the blog referred to.
Posted by Matt Murphy - 1 month, 1 week, 6 days, 18 hours, 6 minutes ago

In this market, law school professors should be recommending “The Model Rules of Personal Finance for Professionals” (ABA 2008) by Berson!!
Posted by steve wisensale - 1 month, 1 week, 6 days, 16 hours, 46 minutes ago

So who cares what lawyers at the University of Chicago are reading these days? A more interesting question is this: What are they reading over at the Milton Friedman Center these days?
Posted by Who Cares - 1 month, 1 week, 6 days, 14 hours, 40 minutes ago

I would rather read Ellen’s comments on this site than care what some lawyer in Chicago is reading.

Who cares - BRING back ELLEN.
Posted by DFesq - 1 month, 1 week, 6 days, 9 hours, 1 minute ago

Indeed, I find myself wondering what Ellen Barshevsky’s boyfriend would read?
Posted by B. McLeod - 1 month, 1 week, 6 days, 6 hours, 47 minutes ago

Technical accounting books and journals, I suppose. Perhaps cookbooks also.
Posted by B. McLeod - 1 month, 1 week, 6 days, 6 hours, 45 minutes ago

Further, he at least leads Ellen to believe that he reads and “enjoys” her blawg.
Posted by oy vey - 1 month, 1 week, 6 days, 1 hour, 38 minutes ago

This Ellen thing is truly hysterical. It’s cacklelicious!
Posted by Ellen's Mom - 1 month, 1 week, 6 days, 27 minutes ago

Go back to your room, Ellen.

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