In the mail

I don't get to read books as much as I'd like, even in the summertime, but I wanted to bring a few new books to your attention, since I think they will be of wider interest, and perhaps you'll have good fortune to get them to the front of your reading queue.

First, Jeremy Waldron has reworked his Holmes Lectures and published them as a book entitled, "The Harm of Hate Speech." Waldron is one of my favorite legal philosophers and in this book, he takes on American exceptionalism having to do with free speech laws that protect bigots from censure, tort liability or punishment. I'm looking forward to seeing what he has to say.

Second, Eduardo Penalver, who regularly guestblogs here, has a new book on property theory that he has written with his colleague Gregory Alexander. It's called, suitably enough, An Introduction to Property Theory, and you can download the introduction here on SSRN and buy it here.

Last, for now, is a book by Princeton historian, Hendrick Hartog, called Someday All This Will Be Yours. Appropriately enough for a post-Mother's Day blog post, it's a modern history of inheritance and old age! If you have Prufrock on the brain, or are simply interested in the construction of contemporary familial mores, you will want to read this book. In the meantime: I grow old, I grow old, I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.

Happy reading!