Legal/Morality book suggestions please?

Maybe you've already come across Michael Sandel? Hugely popular lecturer on Harvard, wrote books and made a tv programme on justice. His Harvard lectures are available on their site or youtube and the book is an easy but thought provoking read, simply called Justice iirc.

In terms of morality, how about a Clockwork orange?
Never let me go?

*Camus

Bit late but just in case
I second Crime and Punishment. Otherwise, The stranger by Camus or the Fall by Camu?

Isn't that Fierce Creatures? Filmed in Port Levy NZ (unwanted information).

The Quincunx by Charles Palliser is a good one. It centres around a codicil to a will that a lot of people are looking for and the legal aspect is rather like Bleak House (unsurprisingly since it is kind of a Dickens pastiche). Big book though, it will last you all the holidays!

I know the film you mean Annie but it is a different story. It's set in the UK.

Not a novel but the justice game by Geoffrey Robertson QC is very good. An enjoyable rummage through him most high profile cases including the lady chatterleys lover case!

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist (Robert Tressel) isn't about law per se but is an argument as to why employees' rights are important.

PomBear - the book you mention sounds like a real life NZ case that was turned into a film with a very young Kate Winslet - something Creatures?

What is your masters on OP? I also came on to recommend The Childrens Act.

Almost too obvious to mention (and I bet you've read it): To Kill a Mockingbird.

Just read two brilliant non-fiction books. This House of Grief, by Helen Garner... an account of an Australian case when a man is accused of murdering his three sons - gripping and humane. She writes beautifully.

Also amazing... and certainly strong on morals... is a new book by human rights lawyer Philippe Sands, called East West Street. It is a phenomenal book about the legal after-effects of the Holocaust, and the personalities that sought to bring justice to bear on the worst crimes. How do you really apply law to unprecedented crimes? This tells you and it is not at all dry - it is almost a thriller. It is also a personal journey (as a great tranche Sands' family perished) as well as an historical quest. I found it evoked great hope, from the cast of characters now and gone. Sands discovers small and huge acts of heroism in a world of horror and he comes across some fabulous characters and remarkable coincidences as he continues his research. He brings all the strands together towards the end, culminating in the Nuremberg trials. It is very moving and very necessary. I am urging everyone I know to read it.

Came on to suggest The Children Act but see someone got in first. It's good though, and a thoroughly enjoyable read.

"My Sister's Keeper" by Jodi Picoult (have I spelled that right?) is interesting ethically iyswim.
She wrote one about a high school shooting, and one about two teens who make a suicide pact but one of them survives too, but I can't remember the titles.
She has a knack of making one look at things from a new angle.
"The Wicked Girls" (can't remember the author - I got it on Kindle a while back as a cheapie download) is good too - it's about two women who were accused and convicted of murdering a smaller child when they were pretty young, and again, it is full of food for thought about how they were dealt with and the legal and ethical considerations of such a crime. It sounds very heavy going but was actually really good and has a "present day" plot too which keeps the storyline moving along - it's a crime thriller too, and well worth a read.

Pippity What a coincidence.
Anyway it is such a good idea of yours to follow a theme like this. I hope you get through them all and have a lovely summer.

An interesting read for a bit of a moral/legal angle might be:

The New Woman by Charity Norman

The Collini Case by Ferdinand von Schirach

Definitely a suggestion rather than a recommendation: The Children Act by Ian McEwan fits your legal and morality criteria.

The Dispossessed is definitely not like The Road! Utopian in tone rather than dystopian (although the subtitle is 'an ambiguous utopia'), so don't worry about being spooked :)

Pippity
Did you see the book Hardy and the Law? That might put the legal perspective for what happened to Tess.

If you haven't read it I was just thinking Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe might be interesting for you. It shows how a person of the early 18th century could fall into crime and get deported, and it is a wonderful, exciting book with an enchanting heroine. I think Defoe would have been very well informed about the facts about crime then.

Not a novel, but The Rule of Law by the late great Tom Bingham is an excellent read.

If you want to try some more specific non-fiction then Causing Death and Saving Lives by Jonathan Glover is a very readable run through some issues in moral philosophy, from a utilitarian standpoint.