My UCLA School of Law colleague Ted Parson asked that I pass along this question, and I’m interested in the answers myself. The law school lets faculty offer one-unit seminars on whatever topics they like, and they tend to be more theoretical than doctrinal. (For nearly all students, the overwhelming majority of the classes they take are primarily about current law, such as the law of torts, business associations, securities, bankruptcy and other practical things, as befits students in a professional school — but there is room for taking a few classes that are more about intellectual stimulation and more theoretical thinking, as well.) Prof. Parson will be teaching one such seminar on “Law in Futurist Social Visions,” and he’s looking for suggestions of works of science fiction (or other futurist fiction) that contain detailed and interesting descriptions of how law or government work in the speculative future world where the story is set. The following is from Prof. Parson (I didn’t want to set it as a block quote because of a formatting glitch with block quotes); if you have some suggestions, please post them in the comments: