Books and Articles

There are some outstanding works of legal scholarship available on the World Wide Web. Here are some books and articles that I particularly enjoy, or refer to from time to time. Also, I have included a few articles that I wrote as a student -- I will not promise that they are "outstanding works of legal scholarship", but I hope they are interesting.

William Strunk, The Elements of Style. (Who says lawyers have to write badly?)
Peter McWilliams, Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in Our Free Country
A. Michael Froomkin, The Metaphor is the Key: Cryptography, The Clipper Chip, and the Constitution (originally published at 143 U. Pa. L. Rev. 709 (1995))
Leonard W. Schroeter, The Jurisprudence of Access to Justice: From Magna Carta to Romer v. Evans via Marbury v. Madison
Morten Stærkeby, Forensic Entomology (bizarre, but fascinating)
Peter D. Junger, Why the Buddha Has No Rights. (Written by a law school professor of mine; this article explores the idea of "human rights" from the perspectives of the common law, the civil law, and Buddhist ethics.)

Articles by Rod McCarvel

You Won't Believe Your Eyes: Digital Photography as Legal Evidence
Taking the Fourth Amendment to Bits: The Department of Justice Guidelines for Computer Searches and Seizures
What We Talk About When We Talk About Universal Service: An Examination of Senate Bill 652
Every Artist is a Cannibal: The Strange Saga of Negativland, the Letter U, and the Numeral 2

Rod McCarvel, Attorney at Law
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