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Films, Literature & Life


Film

  1. •Brewster’s Millions (1914, 1921, 1935, 1945, 1985).

  2. •A Civil Action (1998)

  3. •Double Indemnity (1944)

  4. •Erin Brockovich (2000)

  5. •The Fugitive (1993)

  6. •Gideon’s Trumpet (1980)

  7. •Inherit the Wind (1960)

  8. •Judgment at Nurenberg (1961)

  9. •Mutiny on the Bounty (1935, 1962)

  10. •My Cousin Vinny (1992)

  11. •Philadelphia (1993)

  12. •Rear Window, Hitchcock (1954)

  13. •To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

  14. •Trial by Jury, Gilbert & Sullivan

  15. •Twelve Angry Men (1957)

  16. •Wiseman, Frederick. Titicut Follies (1967), High School (1968), Law and Order (1969), Hospital (1970), Juvenile Court (1973), Welfare (1975), Multi-Handicapped (1986), Deaf (1986), Adjustment and Work (1986), Near Death (1989), High School II (1994), Public Housing (1997), Domestic Violence (1997), Domestic Violence 2 (2002), etc.

  17. •ABA’s 25 Top Legal Films, <http://www.abajournal.com/gallery_top25movies/single/top25movies/97>

  18. •Summaries at Internet Movie Database <www.imdb.com>


Literature and Life

  1. •Abbott, Edwin. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, 1884.

  2. •Bowen, Catherine Drinker. Miracle at Philadelphia.

  3. •Cardozo, Benjamin N. The Growth of the Law, 1924.

  4. •Dickens, Charles. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (1836-1837).

  5. •Dobson, Terry and Victor Miller. Aikido in Everyday Life: Giving In to Get Your Way, 1993.

  6. •Dobson, Terry. Safe and Alive: How to Protect Yourself, Your Family, and your Property Against Violence, 1978, 1981.

  7. •Douglas, William O. Go East, Young Man, 1974.

  8. •Edelman, Murray. The Symbolis Uses of Politics, 1964.

  9. •Ellsberge, Daniel. Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers, 2002.

  10. •Gifis, Stephen H. Law Dictionary, 1975, 2003.

  11. •Holmes, Oliver Wendell. The Common Law, 1881.

  12. •Hugo, Victor. Les Miserables, 1862.

  13. •Jackson, Robert H. Report on the International Military Tribunal

  14. •    for Germany, 1945.

  15. •Kegan, Robert & Lisa Laskow Lahey. How the Way We Talk Can Change the Way We Work, 2001.

  16. •Kegan, Robert. In Over Our Heads: The Mental Demands of Modern Life, 1994.

  17. •Marzio, Peter C. Rube Goldberg: His Life and Work, 1973.

  18. •Melville, Topforeman Billy Budd (1891, published 1924).

  19. •Norman, Donald A. The Design of Everyday Things, 1988.

  20. •Nuland, Sherwin B. How We Die: Reflections on Life’s Final Chapter, 1994.

  21. •The New Yorker Book of Lawyer Cartoons, 1993.

  22. •Orwell, Orwell. 1984.

  23. •Pare, Richard. Court House: A Photographic Document, 1978.

  24. •Philbrick, Nathaniel. Sea of Glory: America’s Voyage of Discovery: The US Exploring Expedition 1838-1842, 2003.

  25. •Shakespeare. Merchant of Venice.

  26. •Simon, Herbert A. Administrative Behavior, 1945, 1957.

  27. •Solomon. 1 Kings 3: 16-28.

  28. •Tufte, Edward R. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 1983.

  29. •Weber, Max. The Theory of Social and Economic Organization, 1947 (Talcott Parsons, editor).

  30. •White, Jess R, editor. Sports Rules Encyclopedia, 1961, 1990.


Science

  1. •Kaplan, Robert. The Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero, 2000.

  2. •Marzio, Peter C. Rube Goldberg: His Life and Work, 1973.

  3. •Singh, Simon. Fermat’s Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World’s Greatest Mathematical Problem, 1997.

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