On the “must read” pile

You may have noted that Georgetown (“A Community of Scholars”) has a very nice and obviously expensive new flyer out plugging recent faculty books.  Most of them are the usual stuff: justice, terrorism, ethics, policy, war, reform, liberty, human rights, the Constitution—yada, yada, yada.  The one really interesting effort is James Oldham‘s English Common Law in the Age of Lord Mansfield, an abridgement of his earlier two-volume study.  Given Mansfield’s impact on commercial law and Oldham’s expertise in in contracts, it should be a good read.