"The classics are books which exercise a particular influence, both when they imprint themselves on our imaginations as unforgettable, and when they hide in the layers of memory disguised as the individual’s or the collective unconscious."

Italo Calvino, Why Read the Classics?, 1999

Truth, Justice & Law
Plato, The Allegory of the Cave
John Locke, The Second Treatise on Government
Definition of Justice – Adam Smith, Kelsen and Aristotle

Law, Morality & Theology
Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Grand Inquisitor
St. Thomas Aquinas, On Natural Law
Roe v. Wade
Laws and Liberties of Massachusetts (1647)

Law, Society & Culture
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
Robert Bellah, Civil Religion: The American Case
Stephen Carter, Civility
Reports of Galeotto Perera (1560)

Making and Thinking Law
Benjamin Cardozo, The Nature of the Judicial Process
Lon Fuller, The Case of the Speluncean Explorers
Max Brod, Postcript to Kafka’s The Trial
Marbury v. Madison

Law and the Profession
The Death of an Honorable Profession, Indiana Law Journal (1995)
Roscoe Pound, Reasons for the Public’s Dissatisfaction with the Bar
Rothwax, Guilty: The Collapse of Criminal Justice
The Boston Massacre

The Future of Justice and the Adversarial System
Monroe Friedman, Lawyers’ Ethics in an Adversarial System
Sir Thomas More, Letter to his daughter, Margaret (1534)
Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963)
Amitai Etzioni, The New Golden Rule