{"id":50449,"date":"2016-09-30T11:27:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T16:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.findlaw-admin.com\/ability-legal\/supreme\/legal-commentary\/book-reviews-by-title-1.html"},"modified":"2016-09-30T11:27:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T16:27:00","slug":"book-reviews-by-title-1","status":"publish","type":"supreme","link":"https:\/\/supreme.findlaw.com\/legal-commentary\/book-reviews-by-title-1.html","title":{"rendered":"Book Reviews By Title"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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ROGER CLEGG<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
REHEATING THE MELTING POT:\n A REVIEW OF MICHAEL BARONE’S THE NEW AMERICANS<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\nRoger Clegg, General Counsel to the Center for Equal Opportunity, reviews\nMichael Barone’s recent book “The New Americans: How the Melting Pot Can\nWork\nAgain,” which supports both immigration and the requirement that immigrants\nassimilate.\n\n<\/span>
\nFriday, Aug. 03, 2001<\/span>
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MARCI HAMILTON<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
THE STORY OF, AND THE RHETORIC ABOUT, THE SUPREME COURT’S “PEYOTE CASE”: A REVIEW OF TWO BOOKS ON A LEADING FREE EXERCISE DECISION<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\nFindLaw columnist and book reviewer Marci Hamilton assesses the merits of two \nbooks on the Supreme Court’s “peyote case,” by Garrett Epps and Carolyn Long, \nrespectively. The case held that despite the Free Exercise Clause of the \nConstitution, use of peyote in Native American religious ceremonies can still \nbe punished. Epps and Long tell the human story behind the case.\n<\/span>
\nFriday, Jul. 27, 2001<\/span>
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LAURA HODES<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
THE DMCA, THE DEATH OF NAPSTER, AND THE DIGITAL AGE: A REVIEW OF JESSICA LITMAN’S DIGITAL COPYRIGHT<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\nFindLaw book reviewer and cyberlaw attorney Laura Hodes reviews Internet copyright expert Jessica Litman’s new book, Digital Copyright<\/u>. \n\n<\/span>
\nFriday, Jul. 20, 2001<\/span>
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STANLEY I. KUTLER<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
A GREAT CASE THAT MADE NO LAW: A REVIEW OF ALAN DERSHOWITZ’S BOOK ON BUSH V. GORE<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\nUniversity of Wisconsin (Madison) law professor Stanley Kutler weighs in on Alan Dershowitz’s book about the election, “Supreme Injustice: How the Court Hijacked Election 2000.”<\/span>
\n\nFriday, Jul. 13, 2001<\/span>
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BARTON ARONSON<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
A REVIEW OF HERNANDO DE SOTO’S “THE MYSTERY OF CAPITAL”<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\nFindLaw columnist and prosecutor Barton Aronson reviews Hernando de Soto’s\n“The Mystery of Capital” — which offers an explanation of the reasons why,\ndespite significant wealth in the form of land and other resources, Third\nWorld countries have not benefited from capitalism as much as the West has.\nAronson discusses the need for strong systems of enforceable property rights\nthat can rescue houses and other assets from becoming “dead capital” very\ndifficult to sell or mortgage. He also notes the evolution of Western\nproperty rights from a Third World-like regime of squatters, which persisted\ndespite an anti-squatting Supreme Court decision, to the system we have\ntoday.\n<\/span>
\nFriday, Feb. 23, 2001<\/span>
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TREVOR MORRISON<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
A REVIEW OF AMY GUTMAN’S LEGAL THRILLER, EQUIVOCAL DEATH<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\nAn attorney for the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel reviews \nAmy Gutman’s debut novel, the legal thriller Equivocal Death — and reflects \non the commentaries on big firm life and sex harassment issues implicit in \nthe novel.<\/span>
\nMonday, Jan. 22, 2001<\/span>
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BRYAN FINE<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
BOOK REVIEW OF BRAD MELTZER’S “THE FIRST COUNSEL”<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\nFindLaw contributor Bryan Fine offers his reaction to Author\nBrad Meltzer’s new novel “The First Counsel.” Citing a fascinating plot and\nwitty, yet seemingly realistic, dialogue, Fine explains why he thinks this\nlatest legal thriller is a\nmust-read.<\/span>
\nMonday, Jan. 08, 2001<\/span>
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BART ARONSON<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
“MY BLOODY LIFE” REVIEWED<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\nProsecutor and former D.A. Barton Aronson reviews the new gang memoir, “My\nBloody Life,” and explains the limits of laws designed to address gang\nactivities.<\/span>
\nWednesday, Oct. 13, 2000<\/span>
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JUDITH HAGLEY<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
BORROWING STORIES FROM POPULAR CULTURE: WHEN LAW GOES POP<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\nJudith Hagley, an attorney in the Solicitor’s Office of the Federal Labor\nRelations Authority, reviews “When Law Goes Pop: The Vanishing Line Between\nLaw and Popular Culture.” In this book, New York Law School Professor\nRichard K. Sherwin talks about how these days, more often than not, lawyers\nborrow narrative from popular culture to make their cases.<\/span>
\nTuesday, Aug. 22, 2000<\/span>
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ANN CHIH LIN<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
REVIEW OF TED CONOVER’S “NEWJACK: GUARDING SING SING”<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\nAuthor Anh Chih Lin reviews Ted Conover’s “Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing,”\nwhich recounts Conover’s experiences as a corrections officer in Sing Sing,\na maximum security New York State prison. Unable to obtain permission to\ninterview prison corrections officers so he could write about them, Conover\napplied for the job and underwent training. His book is an insider’s look at\nthe life of a corrections officer in the infamous prison.<\/span>
\nTuesday, Jul. 18, 2000<\/span>
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