

It’s a story about death-but it’s equally a story about how to live. In this luminous and heartbreaking memoir, Bloom recounts how she fulfilled her husband’s final wish: To help him to die with grace, dignity, and on his own terms. I recommend In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss by Amy Bloom. McFarland Professor of Law, recommends In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss by Amy Bloom The book is made even more effective by the visceral poet sensibility that suffuses the text. This book is a prose exploration of our nation’s troubled racial history, and how it lives today in all our consciousness. I highly recommend Clint Smith’s How the Word is Passed. An exploration of the history, politics and medical uses of psychedelics, the book itself has changed my mind.


I’ve enjoyed Michael Pollan’s book, How to Change your Mind. Ralph Richard Banks (BA ’87, MA ’87), Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Law, recommends How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan and How the Word Is Passed by Clint Smith Looking for a good book or two to dig into this summer? Now in its eleventh year, the Stanford Law School faculty’s Summer Reading List offers up some of our professors’ favorite reads.
