Hi! I’m not really much of a bookworm myself, so I’ve come to ask for books that would be good for a pre-law student. Some works he likes are To Kill a Mockingbird, Atomic Habits, and Divine Comedy. It can be law-related, or just anything that fits his taste. Thanks!
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**The Tyrannicide Brief** by Geoffrey Robertson.
Really cool bit of legal history which has consequences to this day, about the lawyer who sent King Charles I to his death.
How do you hold a trial “by his peers” for a king who insists he has no peers? How do you ensure a fair trial, if the act of prosecuting him for his crimes is so risky no one will accept the brief to do it?
Meet John Cooke. He’s about to figure that out as he goes along.
Gideon’s Trumpet By Anthony Lewis. The story of Gideon v Wainwright, which established the constitutional right to counsel.
Devil in the Grove, by Gilbert King. The story of the case that brought Thurgood Marshall to prominence
Assuming they are in the US
A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr,
Fight of the Century edited by Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman,
Getting to Maybe by Fischl