Courts category: 288 books

Over the last several decades legal scholars have plumbed law's rhetorical life. Scholars have done so under various rubrics, with law and literature being among the most fruitful venues for the exploration of law's rhetoric and the way rhetoric shapes law. Today, new approaches are shaping this exploration....

The number of disputes involving trusts has risen significantly in recent years. Many disputes take place in the international environment and cross-border jurisdictional issues may arise. These disputes often involve large sums of money, impacting significantly on family relations. The handling of...

This is a guide to and commentary on the new procedural rules for arbitration adopted by the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in December 2012. The PCA is a unique arbitral institution - an intergovernmental organization counting over one hundred member states - with a rapidly growing annual caseload...

RAND Corporation researchers surveyed experts from five states that use a variety of approaches to funding state court systems to assess financing, accounting, and governance issues under various systems.

Children deserve our love, support and most of all our protection. This book is roadmap for anyone that wants to help keep children safe. This guide suggests practice standards to help judges, parents’ attorneys, children’s attorneys, CFS workers, GALs and family members ask the questions that...

Learn how to end a marriage fairly and inexpensively. This book guides you through a negotiated divorce, using mediation or an increasingly popular approach called collaborative divorce. Encouraging and straightforward, Divorce Without Court explains: how divorce mediation works how collaborative...

An opening preface opines on the need to shed off the past for a more perfect judicial procedure. Chapter 1 notes the foundation of our judicial system. The judge has godlike powers given to him by God as well as the people. The vengeance of God is dispensed by the state offices. This being the case,...

After suffering six years of massive judicial corruption and torture it became obvious that the cops, media, lawyers, prosecutors, judges and witnesses were all crooks. This fact was made crystal clear after I found the actual killer of the porn merchant and the cops responded by hiring another lifer...

This book is the standard used by attorneys all over the country to prepare a client to be deposed, and most major law firms maintain several copies in their law libraries, to be given to clients - thereby saving lawyers time and clients money. The book covers all the important things that any person being deposed should know about how to behave and how to properly answer questions.

Warning: Read All My Trials in a private place, unless you don’t care if others catch you laughing out loud. This collection of very funny and true stories about criminal trial law chronicles some of the legendary experiences of Alaskan Superior Court Judge Gail Roy Fraties. A fine judge and legal...

The true daily journals of a political prisoner. A father responds to protect his children. His wife has intimate political "connections". The father goes to prison for 7 years. One lawyer has been disbarred. True Justice eventually triumphs! Five Things You Can Be Sure Of In Prison. Commissary...

A First Amendment Profile of the Supreme Court focuses on the nine justices of the United States Supreme Court and determines their frames for assessing First Amendment cases. In each of the chapters, a justice will be profiled in terms of his or her claims during the nomination hearings and the positions...

Remarkably little is known to the general public, or even to the practicing legal profession, about judges—how they decide cases, how they allocate work between staff and themselves, their work ethic, their psychology, the extralegal influences that play on them. This important new book penetrates...

On March 9, 1976, a violent explosion, fueled by high concentrations of methane gas and coal dust, ripped through the Scotia mine in the heart of Eastern Kentucky coal country. The blast killed fifteen miners who were working nearly three and a half miles underground; two days later, a second explosion...