Legal category: 4736 books
Witches, Wife Beaters, and Whores
Common Law and Common Folk in Early America
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The early American legal system permeated the lives of colonists and reflected their sense of what was right and wrong, honorable and dishonorable, moral and immoral. In a compelling book full of the extraordinary stories of ordinary people, Elaine Forman Crane reveals the ways in which early Americans...
A Passion for Justice
How 'Vinegar Jim' McRuer Became Canada's Greatest Law Reformer
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2008
This richly detailed biography illustrates how a determined Canadian seeking justice created an enduring legacy. Through vigorous battles, Jim McRuer’s passion for justice was translated into laws that daily touch and protect the lives of millions today.
James Chalmers McRuer was not easy...
Enduring Conviction
Fred Korematsu and His Quest for Justice
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
Fred Korematsu’s decision to resist F.D.R.’s Executive Order 9066, which provided authority for the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, was initially the case of a young man following his heart: he wanted to remain in California with his white fiancée. However, he quickly came...
Justice in Lüritz
Experiencing Socialist Law in East Germany
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2010
As a child, Inga Markovits dreamt of stealing and reading every letter contained in a mailbox at a busy intersection of her town in order to learn what life is all about. When, decades later, working as a legal historian, she tracked down the almost complete archive of a former East German trial court,...
One L
The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
One L, Scott Turow's journal of his first year at law school introduces and a best-seller when it was first published in 1977, has gone on to become a virtual bible for prospective law students. Not only does it introduce with remarkable clarity the ideas and issues that are the stuff of legal education;...
Father, Son, and Constitution
How Justice Tom Clark and Attorney General Ramsey Clark Shaped American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Langum Prize, Honorable Mention
When Supreme Court Justice Tom Clark resigned his seat on the bench at the youthful age of 67 after 18 years, his decision was unique in the annals of Court history: he was leaving so that his son Ramsey, just nominated as Attorney General, could assume the job...
American Privacy
The 400-Year History of Our Most Contested Right
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
**As America reacts to Edward Snowden’s leaks about NSA surveillance, American Privacy offers a timely look at our national experience with the right to privacy. **
“The history of America is the history of the right to privacy,” writes Frederick S. Lane in this vivid and penetrating...
by Thomas Leaming
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
A fascinating insight into the London legal profession and courts of the early 20th century, written by an American attorney, Thomas Leaming. Leaming covers such diverse topics as wigs and gowns, training of lawyers, barristers, solicitors, the common law, the Cnancery Court, fees and the Police Courts.
The Rehnquist Court
A Retrospective
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2002
In 1986, the Supreme Court's leading conservative, William H. Rehnquist, labeled by Newsweek as "The Court's Mr. Right," was made Chief Justice. Almost immediately, legal scholars, practitioners, and pundits began questioning what his influence would be, and whether he would remake our constitutional...
Unfit for Democracy
The Roberts Court and the Breakdown of American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Asked if the country was governed by a republic or a monarchy, Benjamin Franklin replied, “A republic, if you can keep it.”
Since its founding, Americans have worked hard to nurture and protect their hard-won democracy. And yet few consider the role of constitutional law in America’s...
by Richard A. Posner
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
For Richard Posner, legal formalism and formalist judges--notably Antonin Scalia--present the main obstacles to coping with the dizzying pace of technological advance. Posner calls for legal realism--gathering facts, considering context, and reaching a sensible conclusion that inflicts little collateral damage on other areas of the law.
by Ruadhán Mac Cormaic
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2016
'A wonderful book ... a superb book and it's not just for people interested in law; it tells you a lot about Ireland' Vincent Browne, TV3
The judges, the decisions, the rifts and the rivalries - the gripping inside story of the institution that has shaped Ireland.
'Combines painstaking...
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Life and Law in the Commonwealth, 1684–2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2018
Established in 1684, over a century before the Commonwealth, Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court is the oldest appellate court in North America. This balanced, comprehensive history of the Court examines over three centuries of legal proceedings and cases before the body, the controversies and conflicts...
by Dawn Dixon
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
This book is a fictionalised version of the author's life, told through the eyes of the many PAs (personal assistants) who have worked with her over the years. The PA can make a person - solicitor or otherwise - look good or bad. It highlights the professional journey of a Black solicitor from childhood...