Legal category: 4736 books
Bewigged and Bewildered?
A Guide to Becoming a Barrister in England and Wales
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Misunderstandings and jargon prevent many from seriously considering a career as a barrister in the belief that such a career is not for them or that they are not for it. Others know that they might want to become barristers but not how to go about it, or just want to know more about this somewhat...
by Richard Epstein, Eric A. Posner, Michael J. Trebilcock
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 1999
Declared dead some twenty-five years ago, the idea of freedom of contract has enjoyed a remarkable intellectual revival. In The Fall and Rise of Freedom of Contract leading scholars in the fields of contract law and law-and-economics analyze the new interest in bargaining freedom.
The 1970s was a...
by William Lynwood Montell
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2005
Perhaps no one has keener insight into human nature than the small-town trial lawyer. All but lost in an era of corporate law firms and specialized practice, this charismatic figure was once at the political center of a community and was the holder of its many secrets. A small town attorney's only...
by Suri Ratnapala
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Jurisprudence offers a comprehensive overview of legal theory and philosophy. Written in plain English, it examines and demystifies the discipline's major ideas, promoting a deeper understanding of the social, moral and economic dimensions of the law. It critically assesses the major schools of jurisprudential...
The Jezebel Remedy
A novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Martin Clark—who has set, according to the Winston-Salem Journal, “the new standard by which other works of legal fiction should be judged”—now delivers his finest novel yet.
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Lisa and Joe Stone, married for twenty years and partners in their small law firm in Henry County, Virginia,...
The History of English Law before the Time of Edward I
In Two Volumes
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2010
First published in 1895, Sir Frederick Pollock and Frederic William Maitland’s legal classic The History of English Law before the Time of Edward I expanded the work of Sir Edward Coke and William Blackstone by exploring the origins of key aspects of English common law and society and with them...
by Jean Hanff Korelitz
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
As a little girl climbs off a school bus on the Upper East Side of New York, a man named Trent rushes from the shadows to stab her viciously, instantly becoming the city's latest pariah and setting into motion an increasingly bizarre chain of occurrences. At one end of the chain is Sybylla Muldoon,...
Introductory Scots Law Third Edition
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2017
A new and an updated edition of a core bestselling title.
Introductory Scots Law 3rd Edition develops the core knowledge and skills demanded in advanced law classes as part of Higher National courses and university-level business courses containing a strong legal component. Attractively designed,...
Crook County
Racism and Injustice in America's Largest Criminal Court
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
Winner of the 2017 Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Outstanding Book Award, sponsored by the Society for the Study of Social Problems.
Finalist for the C. Wright Mills Book Award, sponsored by the Society for the Study of Social Problems.
Winner of the 2017 Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award, sponsored...
The Gun Trial
A Legal Thriller
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2016
☆ The legal battle for gun control … murder, arson, intrigue, corporate spying, media frenzy, demonstrations …courtroom trial tests the Second Amendment ☆
☆ AMAZON REVIEWS 4.6 Rating: “Page-turning suspense,” “Read this one. Drama, Pathos ... Sensational ... A Great Entertainment...
Beaver vs. Beaver
a legal comedy
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2016
Young lawyer Portia Porter hails from the North. With only one pair of courtroom-worthy shoes and desperate for work, she sets up a shingle in a small city of Ducklingburg, South Duck, and prepares to wait. Inexplicably, the call comes straight away. Stranger still, the first client who wants to hire...
Religion, Race, Rights
Landmarks in the History of Modern Anglo-American Law
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2010
The book highlights the interconnections between three framing concepts in the development of modern western law: religion, race, and rights. The author challenges the assumption that law is an objective, rational and secular enterprise by showing that the rule of law is historically grounded and...
Governing the Hearth
Law and the Family in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2004
Presenting a new framework for understanding the complex but vital relationship between legal history and the family, Michael Grossberg analyzes the formation of legal policies on such issues as common law marriage, adoption, and rights for illegitimate children. He shows how legal changes diminished...
The Common Law in Colonial America
Volume III: The Chesapeake and New England, 1660-1750
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
In a projected four-volume series, The Common Law in Colonial America, William E. Nelson will show how the legal systems of Britain's thirteen North American colonies, which were initially established in response to divergent political, economic, and religious initiatives, slowly converged until it...