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An insightful collection of essays from leading voices on the challenges and promise of justice and law, this book is accessible and interesting to a wide audience. It features internationally renowned members of the academy, national political figures, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists, and crusading...

When American golfer Barry Vinson turns up dead at the British Open, golf writer John Morris and his companion, Julia Sullivan, search for clues, but when an antique golf ball is stuffed down a second murder victim's throat, they uncover a bizarre mystery as old as the game itself. Vinson could...

Set in the tumultuous sixties, and published by Little, Brown in the eighties, this novel of a people's governor and a Southern newspaperman still resonates with the moral choices that only strong people face. John Logue's compelling fiction is available again, in a new digital edition. "John...

Contents for this 5th issue of Stanford Law Review (May 2012) include: The City and the Private Right of Action by Paul A. Diller Securities Class Actions Against Foreign Issuers by Merritt B. Fox How Much Should Judges Be Paid? An Empirical Study on the Effect of Judicial Pay on the...

Classic resource in the modern study of legal anthropology, this acclaimed book is now available in an updated, expanded Second Edition. There are many societies that survive in a remarkably orderly fashion without the aid of judges, courts and police. Roberts contends that legal theory has become...

The recognized social-policy study of the disparate roles corporate lawyers play in representing and advising their institutional clients. Long passed around and cited by scholars and lawyers as an unpublished manuscript, the book explores the choices lawyers and executives make about how they are...

The University of Chicago Law Review's second issue of 2013 features articles and essays from internationally recognized legal and policy scholars. Contents include: Article, "Property Lost in Translation," by Abraham Bell & Gideon Parchomovsky Article, "Tiers of Scrutiny...

Frank May practices law, but just the safe kind--writing wills. He does not expect to be entangled in suspicious deaths, family secrets, and police business. But a series of odd wills, and new relatives discovered, drag him into the world he'd avoided. To probate the estate, Frank will have to solve...

A leading law journal features a digital edition as part of its worldwide distribution, using quality ebook formatting and active links. This issue of the Stanford Law Review contains studies of law, economics, and social policy by recognized scholars on diverse topics of interest to the academic...

One of the world's leading law journals is available as an ebook. This issue of The Yale Law Journal (the fourth of Volume 122, academic year 2012-2013, for Jan. 2013) features new articles and essays on law and legal theory by internationally recognized scholars. Contents include: -- Article: Text,...

One of the world's leading law journals is available in quality ebook formats. This issue of The Yale Law Journal (the second issue of Volume 122, academic year 2012-2013) features new articles and essays on law and legal theory, and in particular examines: the language of rights discourse, even before...

One of the world's leading law journals is available as an ebook. This issue of The Yale Law Journal (the 5th of Volume 122, academic year 2012-2013) features new articles and essays on law and legal theory by internationally recognized scholars. Contents include: Article: "Commandeering and...

This issue of The Yale Law Journal (the 7th issue of Volume 121, academic year 2011-2012) features articles and essays by several notable scholars. Principal contributors include Richard Re and Christopher Re, Nathan Chapman and Michael McConnell, Bruce Cain, Christopher Elmendorf and David Schleicher,...

Coauthored by W. Lance Bennett and Martha S. Feldman, 'Reconstructing Reality in the Courtroom' explains what makes stories believable and how ordinary people connect complex legal arguments and evidence presented in trials to assess guilt and innocence. The explanation takes the core elements of...