Reddit mentions of American Law in the Twentieth Century

As many others have noted, bar exam summer isn't exactly a great time to expand your knowledge of the law outside of the review process. So I'd strongly consider suspending your jurisprudential inquiries until after July. Or, at least, being okay if you don't make much progress on the summer reading.

Here is an excellent reading list:

• Alexy, The Argument from Injustice
  
• Dworkin, Law’s Empire
  
• Finnis, Natural Law and Natural Rights
  
• Fuller, The Morality of Law
  
• Hart, The Concept of Law
  
• Rawls, A Theory of Justice
  
• Rawls, Political Liberalism
  
• Simmonds, Law as a Moral Idea
  
  I'd probably add Holmes' "The Common Law" to that.
  
  And, if you want more breadth, try this compilation of sources
  
  I read both Friedman's first and second books, which were much simpler than the jurisprudential tomes above. But because they're about the history of the law, they're VERY LIKELY to mix things up for the bar exam.
  
  Again, I'd listen to everyone else here, and stay away from real jurisprudential inquiry. Stick with light and silly law-y things (e.g., Jeffrey Toobin) or quick reads (Michael Lewis). Better: don't plan to read much about the law.

I really enjoyed reading A History of American Law followed by American Law in the Twentieth Century, both by Lawrence Friedman of Stanford Law School.