STANFORD LAW SCHOOL

WINTER QUARTER 2017 TEXTBOOK LIST

FIRST YEAR STUDENTS
(As of November 2, 2016)

COURSE TEXT(S)
203.01 Constitutional Law Wexler, The Odd Clauses: Understanding the Constitution Through Ten of Its Most Curious
Pamela Karlan Provisions (paperback version), 2012, Beacon Press
Cole, Engines of Liberty: The Power of Citizen Activists to Make Constitutional Law, 2016,
Basic Books

203.02 Constitutional Law Paulsen, Calabresi, McConnell, Bray, and Baude, The Constitution of the United States, 3rd Ed.,
Michael McConnell 2016, Foundation

203.03 Constitutional Law Sullivan and Feldman, Constitutional Law, 19th Ed., 2016, Foundation
Nathaniel Persily

207.01 Property Singer, Berger, Davison, and Penalver, Property Law: Rules, Policies, and Practices, 6th Ed., 2014,
Gregory Ablavsky Aspen

207.02 Property Thompson and Goldstein, Property Law: Ownership, Use, and Conservation, 2nd Ed., Foundation
Henry (Hank) Greely

207.03 Property Singer, Berger, Davison, and Penalver, Property Law: Rules, Policies, and Practices, 6th Ed., 2014,
Mark Kelman Aspen

224 Federal Litigation Scalia and Garner, Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges, 2008, West
Sections 1 to 10 Harvard Law Review Assn, The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation, 20th Ed., 2015, Harvard
University
COURSE TEXT(S)
7802 Accounting Horngren, Suden, Elliott, and Philbrick, Introduction to Financial Accounting, 11th Ed., 2014, Prentice
Francis “Vic” Stanton Hall

7001 Administrative Law Asimow and Levin, State and Federal Administrative Law, 4th Ed., 2014, West
Michael Asimow

7049 Advanced Torts: Law and Practice Christie and Sanders, Advanced Torts – Cases and Materials, 2nd Ed., 2012, West
Shanin Specter

7803 Alternative Dispute Resolution: Law, Practice, & Policy Folberg, Golann Stipanowich, and Kloppenberg, Resolving Disputes: Theory, Practice, and Law
Michael Dickstein/Janet Martinez 3rd Ed., 2016, Aspen

7002 Beyond the Common Law: Tort Reform and Tort No textbook required
Alternatives
Nora Freeman Engstrom

4001 Communications Law: Broadcast and Cable Television Kang (author) and Butler (contributor), Communications Law and Policy: Cases and Materials
Barbara van Schewick (paperback), 5th Ed., 2016, Direct Injection

5002 Comparative Law Kagan, Adversarial Legalism: The American Way of Law, 2003, Harvard University
Amalia Kessler Merryman and Pérez-Perdomo, The Civil Law Tradition: An Introduction to the Legal Systems of
Western Europe and Latin America, 3rd Ed., 2007, Stanford University

7007 Constitutional Law: Religion and the First Amendment McConnell, Berg, and Lund, Religion and the Constitution, 4th Ed., Aspen
Michael McConnell

1013 Corporations Allen, Kraakman, and Subramanian, Commentaries and Cases on the Law of Business Organizations,
Colleen Honigsberg 5th Ed., Aspen
Allen, Kraakman, and Subramanian, Commentaries and Cases on the Law of Business Organizations,

2002 Criminal Procedure: Investigation Weinreb, Leading Constitutional Cases on Criminal Justice, 2016, Foundation
David Sklansky

7502 Economic Analysis of Law Shavell, Foundations of Economic Analysis of Law, 2004, Harvard University
A. Mitchell Polinsky Polinsky, An Introduction to Law and Economics, 4th Ed., 2011, Aspen

2503 Energy Law Eisen, Hammond, Rossi, Spence, Weaver, and Wiseman, Energy, Economics and the Environment,
Michael Wara 4th Ed., 2015, Foundation
COURSE TEXT(S)
5005 European Union Law Davies, Understanding European Union Law, 6th Ed., 2015, Routledge
Siegfried Fina

2402 Evidence Fisher, Evidence, 3rd Ed., 2013, Foundation

George Fisher

7808 Foreign and International Legal Research No textbook required

Sergio Stone

3001 Health Law: Finance and Insurance No textbook required

Kate Bundorf/Daniel Kessler

3504 History of American Law Friedman, A History of American Law, 3rd Ed., 2005, Touchstone
Lawrence Friedman Friedman, American Law in the 20th Century, 2004, Yale University (recommended)

7026 Immigration Law, Policy and Constitutional Rights Aleinikoff, Martin, Motomura, Fullerton and Stumpf, Immigration and Citizenship: Process and
Lucas Guttentag Policy, 8th Ed., 2016, West
Aleinikoff, Martin, Motomura, Fullerton, and Stumpf, Immigration and Nationality Laws of the United
States: Selected Statues, Regulations, and Forms, 2016, West (optional; or any recent edition)

5009 International Conflict Resolution No textbook required

Allen Weiner

5010 International Human Rights de Schutter, International Human Rights Law, 2nd Ed., 2014, Cambridge University
Beth Van Schaack Bisset (editor), Blackstone’s International Human Rights Documents, 10th Ed., Oxford University
(recommended)

5011 International Investment Law No textbook required

Jonathan Greenberg/Alan Sykes

7503 Introduction to Law and Economics Polinsky, An Introduction to Law and Economics, 4th Ed., 2011, Aspen
A. Mitchell Polinsky

7507 Law and Economics Seminar II No textbook required

A. Mitchell Polinsky

3507 Law and the Rhetorical Tradition Aristotle (translator – Kennedy), On Rhetoric: A Theory of Civic Discourse, 2nd Ed., 2006, Oxford
Ticien Sassoubre Bizzell and Herzberg, The Rhetorical Tradition: Readings from Classical Times to the Present, 2nd Ed.,
2001 Bedford/St. Martins Press
COURSE TEXT(S)
3508 Law and Visual Literacy No textbook required
Ticien Sassoubre

7036 Law of Democracy Issacharoff, Karlan, Pildes, and Persily, The Law of Democracy: Legal Structure of the Political
Benjamin Ginsberg/Nathaniel Persily Process, 5th Ed., 2016, Foundation

6001 Legal Ethics Rhode, Luban, Cummings and Freeman Engstrom, Legal Ethics, 7th Ed., 2016, Foundation
Deborah Rhode 9781609302085

5801 Legal Studies Workshop No textbook required

Barbara Fried/Daniel Ho

3512 Markets, Morals and the Law No textbook required

David Grewal

5802 Modern American Legal Thought No textbook required

Barbara Fried

4015 Modern Surveillance Law No textbook required

Todd Hinnen/Richard Salgado

3510 Myth, Law, and Practice

Jeff Strnad

7821.01Negotiation Shell, Bargaining for Advantage: Negotiation Strategies for Reasonable People, 2006, Penguin
Julie Kennedy Stone, Patton, and Heen, Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most, 2010, Penguin

7821.02Negotiation Shell, Bargaining for Advantage: Negotiation Strategies for Reasonable People, 2006, Penguin
Grande Lum Lum, The Negotiation Fieldbook, Second Edition: Simple Strategies to Help You Negotiate Everything,
2nd Revised Ed., 2010, McGraw-Hill Education

7821.03Negotiation Shell, Bargaining for Advantage: Negotiation Strategies for Reasonable People, 2006, Penguin
Jessica Notini Stone, Patton, and Heen, Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most, 2010, Penguin

4017 Protection of Personality: Defamation, Privacy, and Franklin, Rabin, Green and Geistfeld, Tort Law and Alternatives: Cases and Materials, 10th Ed., 2016,
Emotional Distress Foundation
Robert Rabin
COURSE TEXT(S)
7034 Race and Public Education Ryan, Five Miles Away, a World Apart, 2010, Oxford University
James Forman Garland, Divided We Fail: The Story of an African American Community That Ended the Era of School
Desegregation, 2013, Beacon Press
Tough, How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character, 2012, Mariner
Books

2006 Race, Class, and Punishment Randall Kennedy, Race, Crime and the Law, 1997, Pantheon
James Forman David Kennedy, Don’t Shoot: One Man, A Street Fellowship, and the End of Violence in Inner-City
America, 2012 Bloomsbury USA
Muhammad, The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America,
2010, Harvard University
Rios, Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys, 2011, NYU Press
Leovy, Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America, 2015, Spiegel & Grau
Wilson, Thinking About Crime, 1985 revised edition, Vintage

7039 Reproductive Justice No textbook required

Khiara Bridges

1028 Tax Policy No textbook required

Joe Bankman/Daniel Kessler

6005 Technological, Economic and Business Forces Colvin, Humans Are Underrated, 2015, Portfolio/Penguin
Transforming the Private Practice of Law Maister, Managing The Professional Service Firm, 2007, Free Press
James Yoon Susskind, The End of Lawyers?: Rethinking the Nature of Legal Services, 2010, Oxford University
Susskind and Susskind, The Future of the Professions, 2015, Oxford University

7046 The Welfare State Hacker, Divided Welfare State, 2002, Cambridge University
Michele Dauber Katz, The Price of Citizenship: Redefining the American Welfare State, 2011, University of
Pennsylvania

7050 Toxic Harms No textbook required

Robert Rabin