HLS SJD Orals/Fields Reading List Field 1: Law, religion and government (Supervisor: Prof.

Noah Feldman)

Anna Su

A. Religion in the Public Sphere Contemporary Debates John Rawls, Political Liberalism (1993) John Rawls, Public Reason Revisited (1997) Michael Perry, Religion in Politics: Constitutional and Moral Perspectives (1999) Melissa Williams and Jeremy Waldron eds., Toleration and its Limits: NOMOS XLVIII (2008) (excerpts) Robert Audi, Religious Commitment and Secular Reason (2000) Jurgen Habermas, Religion in the Public Sphere, European Journal of Philosophy (2006) Jeffrey Stout, Democracy and Tradition (2004) B. Historical Evolution George W. F. Hegel, Philosophy of History John Locke, A Letter Concerning Toleration Harold Berman, Law and Revolution: Formation of the Western Legal Tradition, volumes 1 (1983) Harold Berman, Law and Revolution: The Impact of the Protestant Reformation, volume 2 (2001) Ernest Kantorowicz, The Kings Two Bodies: A Study in Medieval Political Theology (1997) Brian Tierney, Law, Religion and the Growth of Constitutional Thought (1982) Brian Tierney, The Crisis of Church and State 1050-1150 (1987) Charles Taylor, A Secular Age (2007) Jeremy Waldron, God, Locke and Equality: Christian Foundations of John Lockes Political Thought (2002) C. Religion and Power Clifford Geertz, Interpretation of Cultures (1993) Talal Asad, Formation of the Secular (2006) Talal Asad, Genealogies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam (1993) Max Weber, Sociology of Religion in Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretative Sociology Volume I (1968) Max Weber, Charisma and Its Transformation and Political & Hierocratic Domination in Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretative Sociology, Volume II (1968) Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (1975) D. Political Theology Patricia Crone, Gods Rule: Government and Islam Six Centuries of Medieval Islamic Political Thought (2005) Carl Schmitt, Political Theology: Four Chapters on Sovereignty (2006)
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HLS SJD Orals/Fields Reading List Mark Lilla, The Stillborn God (2007) John Bowen, Why the French Dont Like Headscarves (2006)

Anna Su

E. Religion in U.S. Constitutional History Martha Nussbaum, Liberty of Conscience (2007) Robert Bellah, Civil Religion in America, Daedalus (1966) Sidney Mead, A Lively Experiment: The Shaping of Christianity in America (2007) Philip Kurland, Church and State: The Supreme Court and the First Amendment (1975) Mark deWolfe-Howe, The Garden and the Wilderness: Religion in American Constitutional History (1966) Noah Feldman, Divided by God (2005) Kent Greenawalt, Religion and the Constitution volume II: Establishment and Fairness (2008) Philip Hamburger, Separation of Church and State (2002) Christopher Eisgruber and Lawrence Sager, Religious Freedom and the Constitution (2007) John McGreevey, Catholicism and American Freedom: A History (2003) John Jeffries & James Ryan, A Political History of the Establishment Clause, 100 Mich. L. Rev. 279 (2001) Noah Feldman, Intellectual Origins of the Establishment Clause, 77 NYU L. Rev. 2 (2002)

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HLS SJD Orals/Fields Reading List Field 2: Legal and Social Theory (Supervisor: Prof. Duncan Kennedy)

Anna Su

Karl Marx, On The Jewish Question Friedrich Karl Von Savigny, Of the Vocation of our Age for Legislation and Jurisprudence (1986) Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities (1991) Partha Chaterjee, The Nation and its Fragments (1993) Edward Said, Orientalism, (1979) John Furnivall, Colonial Policy and Practice (1954) Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks (1988) Homi K. Bhaba, The Location of Culture (2001) Michel Foucault, History of Sexuality (1979) Mahmood Mamdani, Citizen and Subject Sigmund Freud, General Introduction to Psychoanalysis Rudolf von Jhering, Law as a Means to an End (excerpts) Francois Geny, Methods of Interpretation and Sources in Private Law (excerpts) Ferdinand Saussure, Course in General Linguistics (1965) Jacques Derrida, Of Grammatology (1998 ed.) Duncan Kennedy, From the Will Theory to the Principle of Private Autonomy: Lon Fullers Consideration and Form, 100 Colum. L. Rev. 94 (2000) Duncan Kennedy, Semiotics of Legal Argument

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HLS SJD Orals/Fields Reading List Field 3: History of Western Constitutional Thought (Supervisor: Prof. David Armitage, FAS History)

Anna Su

A. Origins of Western Constitutionalism Aristotle, Politics Aristotle, The Constitution of Athens Plato, Laws Francis Wormuth, The Origins of Modern Constitutionalism (1949) Scott Gordon, Controlling the State: Constitutionalism from Ancient Athens to Today (1999) Charles Howard McIlwain, Constitutionalism: Ancient and Modern (1958) Andrew Lintott, The Constitution of the Roman Republic (1999) Larry Alexander, Constitutionalism: Philosophical Foundations (1998) Howell Lloyd, Constitutionalism, Cambridge History of Medieval Political Thought From the Cambridge Greek and Roman History of Political Thought: David Hahm, Kings and Constitutions: Hellenistic Theories Christopher Rowe, Aristotelian Constitutions Andre Laks, The Laws B. Tension Between Secular and Ecclesiastic Rule Walter Ullman, History of Political Thought: The Middle Ages (1965) Brian Tierney, Law, Religion and the Growth of Constitutional Thought (1982) Harold Berman, Law and Revolution, volume 1 (1983) Quentin Skinner, Foundation of Modern Political Thought, volumes 1 & 2 (1978) J.A. Watt, Spiritual and Temporal Powers, Cambridge History of Medieval Political Thought C. Modern Constitutionalism John Locke, Second Treatise on Government Baron de Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (excerpts) Thomas Hobbes, Elements of the Law: Natural and Politic Henry Bolingbroke, Dissertation Upon Parties R.C. van Caenegem, A Historical Introduction to Western Constitutional Law Quentin Skinner, Visions of Politics, Volume 3 (2002) M.C. Vile, Constitutionalism and the Separation of Powers (1998) Mary Sarah Bilder, The Transatlantic Constitution: Colonial Legal Culture and Empire (2004) Daniel Hulsebosch, Constituting Empire: New York and the Transformation of Constitutionalism in the Atlantic World (2005) D. Foundations of American Exceptionalism Federalist Papers Gordon Wood, The Creation of the American Republic 1776-1787
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HLS SJD Orals/Fields Reading List

Anna Su

Bernard Bailyn, Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Forrest McDonald, Novus Ordo Seclorum: The Intellectual Origins of the Constitution (1986) Max Edling, A Revolution in Favor of Government: Origins of the American Revolution and the Making of the American State (2003) Gary Lawson and Guy Seidman, Constitution of Empire: Territorial Expansion and American Legal History (2004) Peter Onuf & Nicholas Onuf, Federal Union, Modern World: The Law of Nations in an Age of Revolutions, 1776-1814 (1993) David Bederman, Classical Foundations of the American Constitution (2008) E. The Turn to Cosmopolitan Constitutionalism? Immanuel Kant, To Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch John Rawls, Law of Peoples (1997) Jurgen Habermas, The Divided West (2006) Georg Cavallar, Kant and the Theory and Practice of International Right (1999) James Tully, Public Philosophy in a New Key, volumes 1 and 2 (2009) James Tully, Strange Multiplicity: Constitutionalism in an Age of Diversity (1995)

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