Call Number: PS3525.I5156 C7334 1999 University Library Main Stacks, Lower Level
Publication Date: 1953
This play about the 17th-century Salem witch trials preceded by several years the playwright's interrogation by the House Un-American Activities Committee. (Many editions of this work are available.)
The Descendants by Kaui Hart Hemmings
ISBN: 1400066336
Publication Date: 2007-05-15
Any law student reading this book (or watching the 2011 film version starring George Clooney) recognized the famed Rule Against Perpetuities as the true star of this story.
Voted by librarians as the best novel of the century, this Pulitzer Prize winner grows out of the author's childhood in 1930s Alabama, before she later studied law. (Many editions of this work are available.)