Paradise Lost. By John Milton. 1674. Reprinted in John Milton: Complete Poems and Major Prose. Edited by Meritt Y. Hughes. New York: MacMillan. 1985. Pp. xix, 1059.

Litigating in the Shadow of Death: Defense Attorneys in Capital Cases.By Welsh S. White. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 2006. Pp. 219. Cloth, $60; paper, $21.95.

Utterly Monkey. By Nick Laird. New York: Fourth Estate. 2005. Pp. 1, 344. $13.95.

In the Shadow of the Law. By Kermit Roosevelt. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2005. Pp. 1, 370. Cloth, $24; paper, $14.

Terror in the Balance: Security, Liberty, and the Courts. By Eric A. Posner and Adrian Vermeule. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 2007. Pp. 3, 307.

Living Speech: Resisting the Empire of Force. By James Boyd White. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press. 2006. Pp. xii, 236. $29.95.

Simple, Fair, and Pro-Growth: Proposals to Fix America's Tax System. By The President's Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform. 2005. Pp. xv, 272. Available at http://www.taxreformpanel.gov/final-report/.

DisneyWar. By James Stewart. New York: Simon & Schuster. 2005. Pp. xi, 534. $29.95.

God vs. the Gavel: Religion and the Rule of Law. By Marci A. Hamilton. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2005. Pp. xii, 414 $28.

Almost a hundred years ago, the American Association of University Professors established guidelines for civility among scholars, saying that academic exchanges “should be set forth with dignity, courtesy, and temperateness of language.” I agree wholeheartedly with these principles, and I will not succumb to the temptation to respond in kind to Professor Laycock’s review. Tone is much less important than having a frank exchange of views.

The Antitrust Enterprise: Principle and Execution. By Herbert Hovenkamp. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press. 2005. Pp. vi, 368. $39.95.

Bound By Law? By Keith Aoki, James Boyle, & Jennifer Jenkins. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Center for the Study of the Public Domain. 2006. Pp. 74. $5.95; available for free at http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/comics/.

Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba after Slavery. By Rebecca J. Scott. Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press. 2005. Pp. xi, 365. $29.95.

How Progressives Rewrote the Constitution. By Richard A. Epstein. Washington, D.C.: Cato Institute. 2006. Pp. xiii, 156. $15.95.

Crime and Punishment in Islamic Law: Theory and Practice from the Sixteenth to the Twenty-first Century. By Rudolph Peters. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. 2005. Pp. xi, 219. $70.

Thurman Arnold: A Biography. By Spencer Weber Waller. New York and London: New York University Press. 2005. Pp. xi, 273. $40.

Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights. By Kenji Yoshino. New York: Random House. 2006. Pp. xii, 282. $24.95.

Courtiers of the Marble Palace: The Rise and Influence of the Supreme Court Law Clerk. By Todd C. Peppers. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2006. Pp. xvi, 310. Cloth, $55; paper, $21.95.

Sorcerers’ Apprentices: 100 Years of Law Clerks at the United States Supreme Court. By Artemus Ward and David L. Weiden. New York and London: New York University Press. 2006. Pp. xiv, 337. $39.

Electing Justice: Fixing the Supreme Court Nomination Process. By Richard Davis. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. 3, 211. $28.

Justice in Robes. By Ronald Dworkin. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006. Pp. 1, 308. $35.

The Most Democratic Branch: How the Courts Serve America. By Jeffrey Rosen. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 2006. Pp. xi, 238. $25.

Framed: Women in Law and Film. By Orit Kamir. Durham: Duke University Press. 2006. Pp. xi, 283. $23.95.

Kidney for Sale by Owner: Human Organs, Transplantation, and the Market. By Mark J. Cherry. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press. 2005. Pp. ix, 258. $26.95.