BookRiot's Books about the Law and Social Justice
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness 4.52 avg rating — 115,038 ratings
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Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement
by:
Angela Y. Davis
4.44 avg rating — 33,943 ratings 
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A People's History of the Supreme Court: The Men and Women Whose Cases and Decisions Have Shaped Our Constitution
by:
Peter Irons
4.06 avg rating — 1,484 ratings 9. 
Country of My Skull: Guilt, Sorrow, and the Limits of Forgiveness in the New South Africa
by:
Antjie Krog
4.09 avg rating — 3,243 ratings 
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Forcing the Spring: Inside the Fight for Marriage Equality
by:
Jo Becker
4.03 avg rating — 328 ratings 
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Herculine Barbin: Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth-century French Hermaphrodite
by:
Herculine Barbin
3.82 avg rating — 1,279 ratings 15. 
A Legal History of the Civil War and Reconstruction: A Nation of Rights
by:
Laura F. Edwards
4.08 avg rating — 49 ratings 
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Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices
by:
Noah Feldman
4.18 avg rating — 1,938 ratings 18. 
Plutocrats United: Campaign Money, the Supreme Court, and the Distortion of American Elections
by:
Richard L. Hasen
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 46 ratings 19. 
Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience
by:
William Hohri
4.31 avg rating — 293 ratings 20. 
Becoming Justice Blackmun: Harry Blackmun's Supreme Court Journey
by:
Linda Greenhouse
4.11 avg rating — 1,363 ratings 21. 
New York Times v. Sullivan: Civil Rights, Libel Law, and the Free Press
by:
Kermit L. Hall
3.55 avg rating — 22 ratings 
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No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship
by:
Linda K. Kerber
3.98 avg rating — 172 ratings 24. 
Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World 3.84 avg rating — 5,310 ratings
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Our Undemocratic Constitution: Where the Constitution Goes Wrong
by:
Sanford Levinson
3.71 avg rating — 213 ratings 
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Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788
by:
Pauline Maier
4.11 avg rating — 1,220 ratings 
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Brown v. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy 3.90 avg rating — 309 ratings
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Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty
by:
Dorothy Roberts
4.45 avg rating — 5,136 ratings 
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Six Women of Salem: The Untold Story of the Accused and Their Accusers in the Salem Witch Trials 3.43 avg rating — 2,158 ratings
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Privilege and Punishment: How Race and Class Matter in Criminal Court
by:
Matthew Clair
4.02 avg rating — 113 ratings 
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Transgender Employment Experiences: Gendered Perceptions and the Law 4.30 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Policing the National Body: Race, Gender and Criminalization in the United States 4.03 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter
by:
Jordan T. Camp
4.15 avg rating — 275 ratings 53. 
Misconceptions: Unmarried Motherhood and the Ontario Children of Unmarried Parents Act, 1921-1969
by:
Lori Chambers
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings 
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Sisters in the Struggle: African American Women in the Civil Rights-Black Power Movement 4.31 avg rating — 226 ratings
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The Long, Lingering Shadow: Slavery, Race, and Law in the American Hemisphere 4.18 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Ballot Battles: The History of Disputed Elections in the United States
by:
Edward B. Foley
4.12 avg rating — 33 ratings 59. 
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Law and the Gay Rights Story: The Long Search for Equal Justice in a Divided Democracy
by:
Walter Frank
3.67 avg rating — 24 ratings 
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The Legal Ideology of Removal: The Southern Judiciary and the Sovereignty of Native American Nations 4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Lawyers and Legal Culture in British North America: Beamish Murdoch of Halifax
by:
Philip Girard
4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings 65. 
Unequal Freedom: How Race and Gender Shaped American Citizenship and Labor 4.21 avg rating — 135 ratings
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Storming the Court: How a Band of Law Students Fought the President--and Won
by:
Brandt Goldstein
3.82 avg rating — 381 ratings 67. 
Inherently Unequal: The Betrayal of Equal Rights by the Supreme Court, 1865-1903 4.07 avg rating — 176 ratings
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Vagrant Nation: Police Power, Constitutional Change, and the Making of the 1960s
by:
Risa L. Goluboff
4.27 avg rating — 37 ratings 
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The Massey Murder: A Maid, Her Master and the Trial that Shocked a Nation
by:
Charlotte Gray
3.44 avg rating — 1,625 ratings 71. 
The Great Dissent: How Oliver Wendell Holmes Changed His Mind--and Changed the History of Free Speech in America
by:
Thomas Healy
4.14 avg rating — 724 ratings 72. 
The Drone Memos: Targeted Killing, Secrecy, and the Law
by:
Jameel Jaffer
4.09 avg rating — 33 ratings 73. 
Indelible Ink: The Trials of John Peter Zenger and the Birth of America's Free Press
by:
Richard Kluger
3.41 avg rating — 111 ratings 74. 
Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion
by:
Edward J. Larson
3.89 avg rating — 2,354 ratings 75. 
Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women
by:
Victoria Law
4.45 avg rating — 207 ratings 
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Republic of Debtors: Bankruptcy in the Age of American Independence
by:
Bruce H. Mann
3.92 avg rating — 52 ratings 81. 
Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States
by:
Joey L. Mogul
4.24 avg rating — 824 ratings 82. 
The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America 4.19 avg rating — 1,215 ratings
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The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America
by:
Naomi Murakawa
4.30 avg rating — 158 ratings 84. 
Women of Color and the Reproductive Rights Movement
by:
Jennifer Nelson
4.11 avg rating — 105 ratings 85. 
Making Foreigners: Immigration and Citizenship Law in America, 1600–2000
by:
Kunal M. Parker
4.04 avg rating — 26 ratings 86. 
The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued their Bosses and Changed the Workplace
by:
Lynn Povich
3.67 avg rating — 3,821 ratings 87. 
Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organizing for Reproductive Justice
by:
Loretta J. Ross
4.34 avg rating — 252 ratings 88. 
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Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex
by:
Eric A. Stanley
4.44 avg rating — 1,119 ratings 90. 
Courting Death: The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment
by:
Carol S. Steiker
3.98 avg rating — 41 ratings 91. 
Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime: From the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism 4.33 avg rating — 246 ratings
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Speaking Freely: Whitney v. California and American Speech Law
by:
Philippa Strum
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings 93. 
Down, Out, and Under Arrest: Policing and Everyday Life in Skid Row
by:
Forrest Stuart
4.32 avg rating — 172 ratings 94. 
Because of Sex: One Law, Ten Cases, and Fifty Years That Changed American Women's Lives at Work
by:
Gillian Thomas
4.33 avg rating — 450 ratings 95. 
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Crook County: Racism and Injustice in America's Largest Criminal Court 3.93 avg rating — 405 ratings
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The Taming of Free Speech: America’s Civil Liberties Compromise
by:
Laura Weinrib
3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings