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by Henry Cecil
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
Roger Thursby is prospering in the legal profession and is about to be made a Queen's Council. In this brilliantly funny sequel to Brothers in Law we follow him through a further series of hilarious legal highs and lows.
The Run of His Life
The People v. O. J. Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The inspiration for American Crime Story: The People v. O. J. Simpson on FX, starring Cuba Gooding, Jr., John Travolta, David Schwimmer, and Connie Britton
The definitive account of the O. J. Simpson trial, The Run of His Life is a prodigious feat of reporting that...
by Consuelo Sirvent Gutiérrez
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 13, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 13, 2014
La globalización implica la necesidad de conocer los sistemas jurídicos existentes en el mundo, lo cual resulta difícil, ya que cada país tiene el propio. Si bien encontramos diferencias entre ellos, también se pueden apreciar semejanzas y rasgos comunes, lo que nos permite agruparlos en categorías...
Contracts
A 1L Success Guide Outline
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2014
This outline is the outline I wish I had for my 1L Contracts courses. ***
One of the best ways to succeed in law school is to have skeleton outlines prepared in advance of class. That way, you already have a roadmap of where the day's lecture will go. It cuts down on confusion, allowing...
The Sasha McCandless Series: Volume 2
(Books 4-5.5)
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Volume 2 of the bestselling Sasha McCandless legal thriller series is a treat for Sasha lovers! This volume bundles four titles in the series--two full-length legal thrillers and two novellas that focus on the Sasha's relationship with Leo Connelly (with a dash of danger and intrigue!).
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by Victoria Saker Woeste
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2012
Henry Ford is remembered in American lore as the ultimate entrepreneur—the man who invented assembly-line manufacturing and made automobiles affordable. Largely forgotten is his side career as a publisher of antisemitic propaganda. This is the story of Ford's ownership of the Dearborn Independent,...
Is Killing People Right?
More Great Cases that Shaped the Legal World
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
'Great cases' are those judicial decisions around which the common law pivots. In a sequel to the instant classic Is Eating People Wrong?, this book presents eight new great cases from the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia. Written in a highly accessible yet rigorous style, it explores...
Trotskyists on Trial
Free Speech and Political Persecution Since the Age of FDR
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Passed in June 1940, the Smith Act was a peacetime anti-sedition law that marked a dramatic shift in the legal definition of free speech protection in America by criminalizing the advocacy of disloyalty to the government by force. It also criminalized the acts of printing, publishing, or distributing...
The Collini Case
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
The internationally bestselling courtroom drama centering on a young German lawyer and a case involving World War II
A bestseller in Germany since its 2011 release—with rights sold in seventeen countries—The Collini Case combines the classic courtroom procedural with modern European history...
Tyrannicide
Forging an American Law of Slavery in Revolutionary South Carolina and Massachusetts
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
Tyrannicide uses a captivating narrative to unpack the experiences of slavery and slave law in South Carolina and Massachusetts during the Revolutionary Era. In 1779, during the midst of the American Revolution, thirty-four South Carolina slaves escaped aboard a British privateer and survived several...
Groundwork
Charles Hamilton Houston and the Struggle for Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
"A classic. . . . [It] will make an extraordinary contribution to the improvement of race relations and the understanding of race and the American legal process."—Judge A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., from the Foreword
Charles Hamilton Houston (1895-1950) left an indelible mark on American...
The Supreme Court Reborn
The Constitutional Revolution in the Age of Roosevelt
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 1996
For almost sixty years, the results of the New Deal have been an accepted part of political life. Social Security, to take one example, is now seen as every American's birthright. But to validate this revolutionary legislation, Franklin Roosevelt had to fight a ferocious battle against the opposition...
Impassioned Jurisprudence
Law, Literature, and Emotion, 1760–1848
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
In this volume of essays, scholars of the interdisciplinary field of law and literature write about the role of emotion in English law and legal theory in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The law’s claims to reason provided a growing citizenry that was beginning to establish its...
Act of Justice
Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and the Law of War
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2007
In his first inaugural address, Abraham Lincoln declared that as president he would "have no lawful right" to interfere with the institution of slavery. Yet less than two years later, he issued a proclamation intended to free all slaves throughout the Confederate states. When critics challenged...