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	Retroactive Legislation By Daniel E. Troy Brief, much-needed treatise on the many moral and practical evils of changing the law to tag actions with liability even though they were considered lawful at the time they were taken. (related article)
	Simple Rules for a Complex World By Richard A. Epstein Epstein is an indispensable explicator of topics from freedom of contract to product liability to the philosophy of law, and this volume makes as good an introduction to his thinking as any.
	Making Monsters : False Memories, Psychotherapy, and Sexual Hysteria By Richard Ofshe and Ethan Watters Electrifying account of how lives can be wrecked and innocents jailed when a legal system forgets its age-old horror of false accusation.
	You Can't Say That!: The Growing Threat to Civil Liberties from Antidiscrimination Laws By David Bernstein The more the antidiscrimination laws expand,  the more you have to worry that your speech or your opinions will result in legal liability.
	Phantom Risk: Scientific Inference and the Law Edited by Kenneth Foster, David Bernstein and Peter W. Huber Case histories of more than a dozen controversies over claims of low-dose environmental risk, including the ways the legal system frequently got things wrong: dioxin, nuclear fallout, asbestos, "chemical AIDS", TCE, computer terminal emissions, EMF and more.
	Moral Judgment : Does the Abuse Excuse Threaten Our Legal System? By James Q. Wilson One of America's premier social scientists takes a careful look at the medicalization of bad behavior in civil and criminal courts.  (review)
	Judging Science: Scientific Knowledge and the Federal Courts By Peter Huber and Kenneth Foster Thorough, detailed account of the controversy over standards for scientific testimony in the courts, including the Bendectin controversy that led to the Supreme Court's landmark Daubert decision.
	A Nation Under Lawyers : How the Crisis in the Legal Profession Is Transforming American Society By Mary Ann Glendon A prominent social conservative finds much that should trouble us in the legal profession's casting aside of old ethical ideals and constraints.
	What to Do When You Don't Want to Call the Cops : A Non-Adversarial Approach to Sexual Harassment By Joan Kennedy Taylor For policymakers and working women alike: how to get him to cut it out without ending his career or turning it into a money case.
	250 Ways To Make America Better By Carolyn Mackler (compiler) and the editors of George #9 of the 250 is Martina Navratilova on why "the loser of a lawsuit should pay the legal fees", an idea also endorsed by musician Ice T (#41).  Overlawyered.com's editor contributes entry #98: "Abolish the Peremptory Challenge".

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