Top Shelf Reads

Pen to paper, keyboards to the grindstone, check out these page-turners written by our graduates.

Sohrab Ahmari ’12

Tyranny, Inc.: How Private Power Crushed American Liberty — and What to Do About It

Sohrab Ahmari, founder and editor of Compact Magazine and a former columnist and editorial writer for The Wall Street Journal, has a new book out: Tyranny, Inc.: How Private Power Crushed American Liberty — and What to Do About It. Kirkus hailed it as a “trenchant critique of neoliberal capitalism that offers pointed remedies,” while The Washington Post said it’s “compelling as a work of narrative journalism … not just accurate but urgent.”

Ahmari tells a compelling story of the tyranny exercised by unrestrained capitalism.

— Los Angeles Review of Books

Stephen Kohn ’84

Rules for Whistleblowers: A Handbook for Doing What’s Right

Stephen Kohn, a founding partner of Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto and chairman of the board of the National Whistleblower Center, is the most published author on whistleblowing. In Rules for Whistleblowers, his 10th book, he shares insights and strategies for winning a whistleblower case, all based on his 39 years of experience. Kirkus praised the book, stating, “Kohn is a vivid, authoritative guide, and it’s a testament to his narrative skill that he can make this niche subject so consistently gripping. Definitive and compulsively readable.” Kirkus also selected the book as a Top 100 Indie Book of 2023 and awarded it the Kirkus Star, which recognizes exceptional merit in books. One hundred percent of the proceeds from book sales go toward the National Whistleblower Center.

Gail Marlene Schwartz ’92

Falling Through the Night

Gail Marlene Schwartz, a self-described “freelance editor, queer mom and enthusiastic if mediocre pianist,” navigates difficult topics in her sapphic Jewish adult novel, Falling Through the Night. Inspired by personal experiences — immigration, anxiety and a close friend’s suicide — Schwartz’s debut novel is a romantic, funny coming-of-age story that explores the complicated journey of healing trauma and learning how to love. Lori Shwydky, publisher of Rebel Mountain Press, said, “The winning combination of Schwartz’s beautifully crafted prose and attention to detail allows the reader to journey with Audrey across two countries in her quest for a new family and a better life.”

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Spotlight

  • Chase Strangio ’10, an attorney for the ACLU and co-director of the ACLU’s LGBTQ & HIV Project, made history in December as the first openly transgender person to argue before the US Supreme Court.

  • Cecile Tchoujan ’24 is helping start-ups and entrepreneurs with business formation and a variety of related legal related matters as the 2024–2025 Roux Institute Legal Fellow.

  • In November, Professor Margaret Burnham, director of the law school’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project and faculty co-director of the Center for Law, Equity and Race, delivered the keynote address at the annual scholarship celebration of Northeastern University’s Digital Scholarship Group and the NULab for Digital Humanities and Computational Social Science.