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The following are recent books and articles published by our SideBar guests. Although we encourage you to read them prior to the guest's appearance on SideBar, you may also choose to read them as a follow-up to each program for more in-depth ideas, opinions, and information. Go to the "Articles" page for additional resources by other writers, filmakers, and commentators.

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Guest books

David Pepper

Laboratories of Autocracy: A Wake-Up Call from Behind the Lines (2022)

https://www.amazon.com/Laboratories-Autocracy-Wake-Up-Behind-Lines/dp/1662919573

David Pepper

Saving Democracy: A User's Manual for Every American  (2023)

https://www.amazon.com/Saving-Democracy-Users-Manual-American-ebook/dp/B0C5TYL7BG/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

David Noll

Vigilante Federalism (with Jon D. Michaels) (2023)

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3915944

David Noll

Administrative Sabotage (2022)

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3880678

Dahlia Lithwick

Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America (2022)

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/598207/lady-justice-by-dahlia-lithwick/

Orly Lobel

The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future (2022)

https://www.amazon.com/Equality-Machine-Harnessing-Technology-Inclusive/dp/1541774752

Suzanne Nossel

Dare To Speak: Defending Free Speech for All (2020)

https://pen.org/daretospeak/

Joel Rogers

American Society: How It Really Works, 2nd Edition (with  E.O. Wright (2015)

https://www.amazon.com/American-Society-Really-Works-Second/dp/0393938859

Joel Rogers

“A More Democratic Federalism?”  (with X. de Sousa) (2021) https://democracyjournal.org/magazine/62/a-more-democratic-federalism/

Charles Geyh

Who Is to Judge? The Perennial Debate Over Whether to Elect or Appoint America’s Judges (2019)

https://www.amazon.com/Who-Judge-Perennial-Whether-Americas/dp/0190887141

Charles Geyh

Courting Peril: The Political Transformation of the American Judiciary (2015)

https://www.amazon.com/Courting-Peril-Political-Transformation-Judiciary/dp/0190233494

Margaret McKeown

Citizen Justice: The Environmental Legacy of William O. Douglas (2022)

https://www.amazon.com/Citizen-Justice-Environmental-Douglas_Public-Conservation/dp/1640123008

Nomi Stolzenberg

American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York (2022)

https://www.amazon.com/American-Shtetl-Hasidic-Village-Upstate/dp/0691199779

Nomi Stolzenberg

He Drew a Circle that Shut Me Out: Assimilation, Indoctrination, and the Paradox of a Liberal Education (1993)

https://www.academia.edu/53303004/He_Drew_a_Circle_That_Shut_Me_out_Assimilation_Indoctrination_and_the_Paradox_of_a_Liberal_Education

Peniel E. Joseph

Freedom Season: How 1963 Transformed America's Civil Rights Revolution (2025)

https://www.amazon.com/Freedom-Season-Transformed-Americas-Revolution/dp/B0DK48RXG2

Peniel E. Joseph

The Third Reconstruction - America's Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century (2022)

https://www.amazon.com/Third-Reconstruction-Americas-Struggle-Twenty-First

Peniel E. Joseph

Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America (2006)

https://www.amazon.com/Waiting-Til-Midnight-Hour-Narrative

Morgan Hazelton and Rachael Hinkle

Persuading the Supreme Court: The Significance of Briefs in Judicial Decision-Making (2022)

https://www.amazon.com/Persuading-Supreme-Court-Significance-Decision-Making-ebook/dp/B0BDQ272TQ

Morgan Hazelton and Rachael Hinkle

The Elevator Effect: Contact and Collegiality in the American Judiciary (2023)

https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-elevator-effect-contact-and-collegiality-in-the-american-judiciary_morgan-l-w-hazelton_rachael-k-hinkle/38326580/#edition=66262962&idiq=56980433

Thaddeus Johnson

Justice System Disparities: Black-White National Imprisonment Trends, 2000 to 2020 (2022)

https://counciloncj.foleon.com/reports/racial-disparities/national-trends

Julie Suk

After Misogyny: How the Law Fails Women and What to Do about It (2023)

https://www.amazon.com/Books-Julie-Suk/s?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3AJulie+Suk

Julie Suk

We the Women: The Unstoppable Mothers of the Equal Rights Amendment (2022)

https://www.amazon.com/Books-Julie-Suk/s?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3AJulie+Suk

Stephen Vladeck

The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic (2023)

https://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Docket-Supreme-Undermine-Republic/dp/1541602633

Elie Mystal

Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution  (2022)

https://www.amazon.com/Allow-Me-Retort-Black-Constitution/dp/1620976811

Lisa Kloppenberg

The Best Beloved Thing is Justice: The Life of Dorothy Wright Nelson  (2022)

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-best-beloved-thing-is-justice-9780197608579?cc=us&lang=en&

Lisa Kloppenberg

Playing it Safe: How the Supreme Court Sidesteps Hard Cases and Stunts the Development of Law  (2001)

https://www.amazon.com/Playing-Safe-Supreme-Sidesteps-Development/dp/081474740X

César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández

Welcome the Wretched: In Defense of the Criminal Alien  (2024)

https://thenewpress.com/books/welcome-wretched

César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández

Crimmigration Law (2015)

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=9781641059459&i=stripbooks&linkCode=qs

Jeff Kosseff

Liar in a Crowded Theater: Freedom of Speech in a World of Misinformation  (2023)

https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/12911/liar-crowded-theater

Jeff Kosseff

The Twenty-Six Words That Created the Internet  (2019)

https://www.amazon.com/Books-Jeff-Kosseff/s?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3AJeff+Kosseff

Jeff Kosseff

The United States of Anonymous: How the First Amendment Shaped Online Speech  (2022)

https://www.amazon.com/Books-Jeff-Kosseff/s?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3AJeff+Kosseff

Wendy Parmet

Constitutional Contagion: COVID, the Courts, and Public Health  (2023)

https://www.amazon.com/Constitutional-Contagion-Courts-Public-Health/dp/1009098330

Joanna Schwartz

Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable  (2023)

https://www.amazon.com/Shielded-How-Police-Became-Untouchable/dp/0593299361

Renee Knake Jefferson

Law Democratized: A Blueprint for Solving the Justice Crisis  (2024)

https://www.amazon.com/Law-Democratized-Blueprint-Solving-Justice/dp/1479820393/?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_w=cQcHQ&content-id=amzn1.sym.cf86ec3a-68a6-43e9-8115-04171136930a&pf_rd_p=cf86ec3a-68a6-43e9-8115-04171136930a&pf_rd_r=141-3591767-9762805&pd_rd_wg=dJhDU&pd_rd_r=f227d449-4f8f-4948-b9bd-faf60743a9a0&ref_=aufs_ap_sc_dsk

Renee Knake Jefferson

Shortlisted: Women in the Shadows of the Supreme Court  (2022)

https://www.amazon.com/Shortlisted-Women-Shadows-Supreme-Court/dp/1479811963/ref=monarch_sidesheet

Rick Hasen

A Real Right to Vote: How a Constitutional Amendment Can Safeguard American Democracy  (2024)

https://www.amazon.com/Real-Right-Vote-Constitutional-Amendment/dp/B0CQZ19DVT/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1NYULI1MOFIGY&keywords=rick+hasen&qid=1707353971&s=books&sprefix=rick+hasen%2Cstripbooks%2C153&sr=1-1

Bertrall Ross

Race and Election Law: Interest-Convergence, Minority Voting Rights, and America’s Progress Toward a Multiracial Democracy, in The Oxford Handbook of Race and Law in the United States (2023)

https://www.law.virginia.edu/node/2168936

Madiba Dennie

The Originalism Trap: How Extremists Stole the Constitution and How We the People Can Take It Back (2024)

https://www.amazon.com/Originalism-Trap-Extremists-Constitution-People/dp/0593729250

Mary Sarah Bilder

Female Genius. Eliza Harriot and George Washington at the Dawn of the Constitution (2022)

https://www.amazon.com/Female-Genius-Harriot-Washington-Constitution/dp/0813947197

Michelle Goodwin

Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood (2020)

https://www.amazon.com/Policing-Womb-Invisible-Criminalization-Motherhood/dp/110703017X/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1707354582&sr=1-1

Elie Honig

Untouchable: How Powerful People Get Away with It (2023)

https://www.amazon.com/Untouchable-How-Powerful-People-Away/dp/0063241501/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1707354719&sr=1-1

Larry Goldstone

Imperfect Union: How Errors of Omission Threaten Constitutional Democracy  (2024)

https://www.amazon.com/Imperfect-Union-Omission-Constitutional-Democracy/dp/1680538438

Roberta Kaplan

Then Comes Marriage: How Two Women Fought for and Won Equal Dignity for All  (2016)

https://www.amazon.com/Then-Comes-Marriage-Fought-Dignity/dp/0393353362

Erwin Chemerinsky

No Democracy Lasts Forever

How the Constitution Threatens the United States (2024)

https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324091585

Kim Wehle

Pardon Power: How The Pardon System Works—And Why (2024)

https://www.amazon.com/How-Pardon-Power-Works_and-Why/dp/1954907508

David Noll and Jon Michaels

Vigilante Nation How State-Sponsored Terror Threatens Our Democracy (2024)

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Vigilante-Nation/Jon-Michaels/9781668023235

Robert Tsai

Demand the Impossible: One Lawyer’s Pursuit of Equal Justice for All (2024)

https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393867831

Ray Brescia

Lawyer Nation: The Past, Present, and Future of the American Legal Profession (2024)

https://nyupress.org/9781479823680/lawyer-nation/

Center for Air & Space Law

Space Needs Lawyers (2025)

https://airandspacelaw.olemiss.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Space-Needs-Lawyers.pdf

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