{"id":11190,"count":19,"description":"Our collection of book recommendations on the law covers legal and constitutional issues, justice and the relationship between the two. On the United States side, we have SCOTUS Justice Stephen Breyer, nominated to the Supreme Court by President Bill Clinton, discussing his intellectual influences<\/a>.\u00a0 He talks about the importance of context in the work of the Supreme Court.\r\n\r\nJack Rakove, Pulitzer prize-winning historian from Stanford University, chooses his best books on the US constitution<\/a>, discussing how it came to take on the shape it did and why American citizens are so wedded to it. Journalist Dahlia Lithwick chooses her best books on US Supreme Court Justices<\/a>.\u00a0 Meanwhile, Kenneth W Mack, Professor of Law at Harvard University, chooses his best books on race and US law<\/a>, and discusses the tensions between egalitarianism and exclusion at the heart of US law and politics.\r\n\r\nOn the UK side, the Secret Barrister, author of The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It\u2019s Broken<\/em><\/a> chooses their best books on justice and the law<\/a>, which have helped to shape the way they think. Another barrister, Alex McBride, chooses his best books on trial by jury<\/a> and former Foreign Secretary David Owen chooses his best books on constitutional reform<\/a>.\r\n\r\nOn an international level, Andrew Cayley QC chooses his best books on war crimes<\/a> and Colleen Murphy of the University of Illinois chooses her best books on transitional justice<\/a>.\r\n\r\nStephen Lucas, a partner at Linklaters with a focus on the former Soviet Union, chooses his best books on Soviet law.<\/a>","link":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/category\/law-and-constitutions\/","name":"Law","slug":"law-and-constitutions","taxonomy":"category","parent":0,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/11190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=11190"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book?categories=11190"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books_like_this?categories=11190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}