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1. Supreme but not Infallible
2. Both Granville Austins
3. TR Andhyarujina's book on the Kesavananda case
4. Gadbois - Judges of the Supreme Court of India
5. PB Vacha - Famous judges, lawyers and cases of Bombay
6. Tom Bingham - The Rule of Law
7. Richard Susskind - Tomorrow's Lawyers
8. Ruth Bader Ginsburg - My Own Words
9. Michael Sandel - What Money can't Buy
10. Michael Sandel - Justice
11. Oxford Handbook of the Indian Constitution
12. Walter Bagehot - The English Constitution
13. Akhil Reed Amar - America's Constitution
If you enjoy the corporate side of things, would definitely recommend Barbarians at the Gate, Den of Thieves (on the insider trading scandal in the US in the 80s), Cold Steel (takeover of Arcellor by Mittal), The Taking of Getty Oil (takeover battle for Getty Oil), books by Michael Lewis (Liar's Poker + The Big Short), The Spider Network (LIBOR scandal), Too Big to Fail (GFC in 2007 - 08), The New Tycoons (growth of the PE industry into a behemoth), Predator's Ball (rise of the junk bond industry and fall of Drexel), For God, Country and Coca Cola (Coke becoming America's greatest cultural export), The Smartest Guys in the Room (Enron scandal), The Billionaire Raj (India's gilded age), The City (development and status of the City of London as a global financial centre), The Man Behind the Wheel (Onkar Kanwar and Apollo Tyres), The Yes Book (negotiation).