Among the many downloads recommended by Legal Theory Blog in 2012, I especially recommend the following (in alphabetical order):
Invisible Threats by Gabriella Blum
Not the Power to Destroy: A Theory of the Tax Power for a Court that Limits the Commerce Power by Robert D. Cooter & Neil Siegel
Resource Access Costs by Lee Anne Fennell & also Fennell's Lumpy Property
Provocateurs by Kimberly Kessler Ferzan
Western Legal Prehistory: Reconstructing the Hidden Origins of Western Law and Civilization by Robin Bradley Kar
Poverty in Liberalism: A Comment on the Constitutional Essentials by Frank I. Michelman
A Decision Theory of Statutory Interpretation: Legislative History by the Rules by Victoria F. Nourse
Jurisprudential Theories and First-Order Legal Judgments by Kevin Toh
Contra Nemo Iudex in Sua Causa: The Limits of Impartiality by Adrian Vermeule
Making a Mountain Out of a Molehill? Marbury and the Construction of the Constitutional Canon by Keith E. Whittington & Amanda Rinderle
