Benjamin N. Cardozo
The Nature of the Judicial Process. New Haven, 1946. One of the most important legal writings of the twentieth century, this book argues that judges create law. Along with Holmes' The Common Law, it is one of the seminal books that helped the American bar to move beyond the formalism of nineteenth-century jurisprudence. $85.

James A. Gardner.
Interpreting State Constitutions: A Jurisprudence of Function in a Federal System.
Chicago, 2005. Gardner argues that states are integral components of a national system of overlapping and mutually checking authority and that the purpose of this system is to protect liberty and protect the law from federal domination. $45. 

Henry M. Hart and Albert M. Sacks.
The Legal Process: Basic Problems in the Making and Application of Law.
New York, 1994. A deeply influential book and the founding text of the legal process school. $75.

William M. Wiecek.
The History of the Supreme Court of the United States. The Birth of the Modern Constitution: The United States Supreme Court, 1941-1953.
Volume XII. Cambridge, 2006. The latest installment in the outstanding Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise, this volume recounts the momentous years when the Court’s emphasis shifted to civil rights, civil liberties and the effects of the national security state. $100.

Robert C. Berring and Salley Gunderson, Editors.
Great American Law Reviews. Birmingham, 1984-1990. Each book in this three-volume set is an extensive but a carefully edited anthology of influential law articles published from 1890 to 1979. $300. 

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