Legal category: 4736 books
by William Lynwood Montell
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
"A woman was sitting on the witness stand, and the lawyer asked her, 'Did you, or did you not, on the night of June 23rd have sex with a hippie on the back of a motorcycle in a peach orchard?' She thought for a few minutes, then said, 'What was that date again?'" -- from the book
Lawyers...
Ill Will
A Novel of the Law
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2019
Ian Elkins is a straight shooter,a genuinely honest man—something of a rarity in the profession of law.Married and on the verge of fatherhood, he's acquired a reputation, by his own admission, as a "hot-shot estates lawyer" after uncovering a massive fraud in a major case.On the strength...
So You Want to be a Lawyer
The Ultimate Guide to Getting into and Succeeding in Law School
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Completely revised and updated, So You Want to Be a Lawyer takes you through the process of becoming a lawyer, examining each phase in a helpful and easy-to-understand narrative. Find out what practicing law is like before you step into your first law school class. Practice solving legal problems...
Between Tyranny and Anarchy
A History of Democracy in Latin America, 1800-2006
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2009
Between Tyranny and Anarchy provides a unique comprehensive history and interpretation of efforts to establish democracies over two centuries in the major Latin American countries. Drake takes an unusual interdisciplinary approach, combining history and political science with an emphasis on political...
The Language of Law School
Learning to "Think Like a Lawyer"
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2007
In this linguistic study of law school education, Mertz shows how law professors employ the Socratic method between teacher and student, forcing the student to shift away from moral and emotional terms in thinking about conflict, toward frameworks of legal authority instead.
Law School Confidential
A Complete Guide to the Law School Experience: By Students, for Students
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
I WISH I KNEW THEN WHAT I KNOW NOW!
Don't get to the end of your law school career muttering these words to yourself! Take the first step toward building a productive, successful, and perhaps even pleasant law school experience—read this book!
Written by students, for students, Law...
by William J. Quirk, Randall Bridwell
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
American society has undergone a revolution within a revolution. Until the 1960s, America was a liberal country in the traditional sense of legislative and executive checks and balances. Since then, the Supreme Court has taken on the role of the protector of individual rights against the will of the...
The Supreme Court: Landmark Decisions
20 Cases that Changed America
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
“The Constitution promises liberty to all within its reach.”
—Obergefell v. Hodges
In the United States of America, the legislative branch is responsible for creating legislation, while the executive branch is responsible for signing that legislation and enforcing it. But how do senators,...
Extraordinary Justice
Military Tribunals in Historical and International Context
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
The Al-Qaeda terror attacks of September 11, 2001, aroused a number of extraordinary counter measures in response, including an executive order authorizing the creation of military tribunals or “commissions” for the trial of accused terrorists. The Supreme Court has weighed in on the topic with...
Declarations of Dependence
The Long Reconstruction of Popular Politics in the South, 1861-1908
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
In this highly original study, Gregory Downs argues that the most American of wars, the Civil War, created a seemingly un-American popular politics, rooted not in independence but in voluntary claims of dependence. Through an examination of the pleas and petitions of ordinary North Carolinians, Declarations...
Distinguishing the Righteous from the Roguish
The Arkansas Supreme Court, 1836–1874
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
During the period from 1836 to 1874, the legal system in the new state of Arkansas developed amid huge social change. While the legislature could, and did, determine what issues were considered of importance to the populace, the Arkansas Supreme Court determined the efficacy of legislation in cases...
The Japanese American Cases
The Rule of Law in Time of War
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
After Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt, claiming a never documented “military necessity,” ordered the removal and incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II solely because of their ancestry. As Roger Daniels movingly describes, almost all reluctantly obeyed their government...
A House in Gross Disorder
Sex, Law, and the 2nd Earl of Castlehaven
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 1999
Sex, privilege, corruption, and revenge--these are elements that we expect to find splashed across today's tabloid headlines. But 17th century England saw a sex scandal that brought disgrace to the ruling class and ended with the beheading of an earl. In A House in Gross Disorder, Cynthia Herrup presents...
The Mormon Question
Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
From the Mormon Church's public announcement of its sanction of polygamy in 1852 until its formal decision to abandon the practice in 1890, people on both sides of the "Mormon question" debated central questions of constitutional law. Did principles of religious freedom and local self-government protect...