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    Semester Readings?

    So, what do you plan to read this semester?
    I always love hearing what others are studying--it is often encouraging and quite humbling.
    (BTW, do any of you organize your life into semesters, even though neither you nor your family members are in school? It seems the most habitual way to plan, at least for me)
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    The Law of Debtors and Creditors by Elizabeth Warren and Jay Westbrook
    Bankruptcy and Article 9: Statutory Supplement by Elizabeth Warren
    Leading Constitutional Cases on Criminal Justice by Lloyd L. Weinreb
    Labor Law: Cases and Materials by Cox, Bok, Gorman, and Finkin

    And if I have time,

    The First Amendment by Stone, Seidman, Sunstein, Tushnet, and Karlan

    As far as personal, leisure reading, if I get to do any,

    God of Promise by Michael Horton
    A Room with a View by E.M. Forster

    And hopefully

    The Federalist by Hamilton, Madison, and Jay and
    America's Constitution: A Biography by Akhil Reed Amar

    That's probably about all.
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    1st and 2nd Samuel. Romans and James.

    Other than that...

    Medical-Surgical Nursing by Heitkemper and Lewis
    Pathophysiology
    Pharmacology - A Pathophysiological Perspective
    Maternity and Womens Health

    oh, yeah...The Valley of Vision.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ex Nihilo View Post
    The Law of Debtors and Creditors by Elizabeth Warren and Jay Westbrook
    Bankruptcy and Article 9: Statutory Supplement by Elizabeth Warren
    Leading Constitutional Cases on Criminal Justice by Lloyd L. Weinreb
    Labor Law: Cases and Materials by Cox, Bok, Gorman, and Finkin

    And if I have time,

    The First Amendment by Stone, Seidman, Sunstein, Tushnet, and Karlan

    As far as personal, leisure reading, if I get to do any,

    God of Promise by Michael Horton
    A Room with a View by E.M. Forster

    And hopefully

    The Federalist by Hamilton, Madison, and Jay and
    America's Constitution: A Biography by Akhil Reed Amar

    That's probably about all.
    I like Elizabeth Warren's works. She is one smart cookie. She was in "Maxed Out" - the debt documentary along with the famous Dave Ramsey.
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    Quote Originally Posted by FrielWatcher View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Ex Nihilo View Post
    The Law of Debtors and Creditors by Elizabeth Warren and Jay Westbrook
    Bankruptcy and Article 9: Statutory Supplement by Elizabeth Warren
    Leading Constitutional Cases on Criminal Justice by Lloyd L. Weinreb
    Labor Law: Cases and Materials by Cox, Bok, Gorman, and Finkin

    And if I have time,

    The First Amendment by Stone, Seidman, Sunstein, Tushnet, and Karlan

    As far as personal, leisure reading, if I get to do any,

    God of Promise by Michael Horton
    A Room with a View by E.M. Forster

    And hopefully

    The Federalist by Hamilton, Madison, and Jay and
    America's Constitution: A Biography by Akhil Reed Amar

    That's probably about all.
    I like Elizabeth Warren's works. She is one smart cookie. She was in "Maxed Out" - the debt documentary along with the famous Dave Ramsey.
    Prof. Warren is definitely a rock star and a wonderful teacher, but I didn't realize she was that famous among normal people!
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    What is everyone else reading?
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    My list of work reading is always changing but I can guarantee I will be knee deep in the tax regulations and probably the McKee treatise on partnership taxation.

    On the personal side, we are reading through Calvin's Institutes for Sunday school; I'm studying Hebrews (with the help of John Owen's fabulous commentary) in my personal study; I'm currently reading Beloved by Toni Morrison and Ficciones by Jorge Borges (again) and plan to read Swann's Way by Marcel Proust and maybe One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
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    Work reading you're probably not interested in

    However, on the bedside table are:

    Martyrland: A Tale of Persecution from the Days of the Scottish Covenanters, R. Simpson

    Scotland Saw His Glory, R. O. Roberts

    A Path to True Godliness, W. Teelinck

    Sermons on Acts, J. Calvin
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ex Nihilo View Post
    The Law of Debtors and Creditors by Elizabeth Warren and Jay Westbrook
    Bankruptcy and Article 9: Statutory Supplement by Elizabeth Warren
    Leading Constitutional Cases on Criminal Justice by Lloyd L. Weinreb
    Labor Law: Cases and Materials by Cox, Bok, Gorman, and Finkin

    And if I have time,

    The First Amendment by Stone, Seidman, Sunstein, Tushnet, and Karlan

    As far as personal, leisure reading, if I get to do any,

    God of Promise by Michael Horton
    A Room with a View by E.M. Forster

    And hopefully

    The Federalist by Hamilton, Madison, and Jay and
    America's Constitution: A Biography by Akhil Reed Amar

    That's probably about all.
    Evie: Here's a book you might be interested in: Law and Revolution: The Formation of the Western Legal Tradition by Harold J. Berman (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1983). This is a topic I'm interested in, although I haven't read this yet. Berman (1918-2007) was an expert in this subject. Just in case you're not familiar with it.
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    My current reading, in no particular order:

    Milton's Creation: A Guide Through "Paradise Lost" by Harry Blamires (London: Methuen & Co., Ltd., 1971)

    Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from its Cultural Captivity by Nancy Pearcey (Wheaton: Crossway Books, 2004)

    The Doctrine of the Christian Life by John M. Frame; A Theology of Lordship series (Phillipsburg: P&R Publishing, 2008)

    The Christian Mind by Harry Blamires (New York: The Seabury Press, 1963)

    By the way, if you like English literature and would like a good introduction to its history, try: A Short History of English Literature second edition; by Harry Blamires (London: Methuen & Co., Ltd., 1984 [1974])

    I guess I'm on a Blamires kick.
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    The gospel would be better understood if the fact of universal sinfulness were more deeply felt. - Alexander Maclaren (1826-1910), commenting on Romans 3:19-26.
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    Quote Originally Posted by bookslover View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Ex Nihilo View Post
    The Law of Debtors and Creditors by Elizabeth Warren and Jay Westbrook
    Bankruptcy and Article 9: Statutory Supplement by Elizabeth Warren
    Leading Constitutional Cases on Criminal Justice by Lloyd L. Weinreb
    Labor Law: Cases and Materials by Cox, Bok, Gorman, and Finkin

    And if I have time,

    The First Amendment by Stone, Seidman, Sunstein, Tushnet, and Karlan

    As far as personal, leisure reading, if I get to do any,

    God of Promise by Michael Horton
    A Room with a View by E.M. Forster

    And hopefully

    The Federalist by Hamilton, Madison, and Jay and
    America's Constitution: A Biography by Akhil Reed Amar

    That's probably about all.
    Evie: Here's a book you might be interested in: Law and Revolution: The Formation of the Western Legal Tradition by Harold J. Berman (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1983). This is a topic I'm interested in, although I haven't read this yet. Berman (1918-2007) was an expert in this subject. Just in case you're not familiar with it.
    Berman looks very good; he's written some very interesting stuff. I spent the summer before I started law school reading stuff like this and Lawrence Friedman and all four Blackstone volumes. I can't say that any of it helped me through law school though. My advice to Evie: read your casebooks (and supplements) and on your breaks read Forster. Oh, and read anything by Amar and do it during that bankruptcy course.
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    For the first half or two-thirds of the semester I plan to read...
    All the Power in the World by Peter Unger
    A Short History of Ethics by MacIntyre
    Introduction to 20th century Metaethics
    Wolterstorff, Nicholas. Art in Action
    Moral Skepticisms by Walter Sinnott-Armstrongh
    Meaning scepticism / edited by Klaus Puhl
    Philosophical writings by Jonathan Edwards, Works Volume 6
    Sensualistic Philosophy by Dabney
    Moral Discourse and Practice by Allan Gibbard
    Calvin and Classical Philosophy
    Recovering the Reformed Confessions by Clark
    Reformed Confessions of the 16th and 17th Centuries Vol. 1

    So far I've read...
    How to do Things with Words. J.L. Austin.
    Against the Self-Images of the Age: Essays on Ideology and Philosophy. Alasdair MacIntyre.
    The Evolution of the Soul, Revised Edition. Richard Swinburne.
    Essays on Religion, Science, and Soceity. Herman Bavinck.
    Body and Soul: Human Nature and the Crisis in Ethics. J.P Moreland and Scott Rae.
    Art and the Bible. Francis Schaeffer.

    Wish I was reading more Bavinck and exegetical studies, though.
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