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by Farin Powell
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
Powell opens her novel with a bang, depicting the abduction almost as soon as the narrative begins. The story is impressive in the way it shifts readers sympathiesa gem of a legal thriller, full of plot twists and juicy secrets. Kirkus Reviews The Judge by Farin Powell expertly weaves a thrilling...
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Not a Legal Term
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
The inexorable intent of whistleblower Yeseph Albert Schindler is to complete the circuit in order to shine a light on the shoddy, fungal legal establishment of Quakerville as its hyphae infiltrate the Auschwitzerland federal arena of law and politics.
Yeseph grapples with the incoherent, disjointed...
Imbeciles
The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
**Longlisted for the 2016 National Book Award for Nonfiction
One of America’s great miscarriages of justice, the Supreme Court’s infamous 1927 Buck v. Bell ruling made government sterilization of “undesirable” citizens the law of the land**
In 1927, the Supreme Court handed down...
The Lawyer Bubble
A Profession in Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
A noble profession is facing its defining moment. From law schools to the prestigious firms that represent the pinnacle of a legal career, a crisis is unfolding. News headlines tell part of the story-the growing oversupply of new lawyers, widespread career dissatisfaction, and spectacular implosions...
by Warren Swain
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
The foundations for modern contract law were laid between 1670 and 1870. Rather than advancing a purely chronological account, this examination of the development of contract law doctrine in England during that time explores key themes in order to better understand the drivers of legal change. These...
Nuremberg Trials: Legal Responsibilities
Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2012 in the subject Law - Philosophy, History and Sociology of Law, grade: A, University at Albany, State University of New York, course: International Law , language: English, abstract: In this trial, prosecution for 'crimes against humanity' was not, in a legal sense,...
Vengeance Is Mine
The Scandalous Love Triangle That Triggered the Boyce-Sneed Feud
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
The 1912 Boyce-Sneed feud in West Texas began with a torrid sex scandal at the core of a love triangle, featuring Lena Snyder Sneed, the high-spirited, headstrong wife; Al Boyce, Jr., Lenas reckless, romantic lover; and John Beal Sneed, Lenas arrogant, grim, and vindictive husband, who responded to Lenas...
Reason and Imagination
The Selected Correspondence of Learned Hand
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
Judge Learned Hand is an icon of American Law. Though he was never nominated to our country's highest court, Hand is nevertheless more frequently quoted by legal scholars and in Supreme Court decisions than any other lower court judge in our history. He was the model for all judges who followed him,...
Slavery on Trial
Law, Abolitionism, and Print Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
America's legal consciousness was high during the era that saw the imprisonment of abolitionist editor William Lloyd Garrison, the execution of slave revolutionary Nat Turner, and the hangings of John Brown and his Harpers Ferry co-conspirators. Jeannine Marie DeLombard examines how debates over slavery...
Torture and the Law of Proof
Europe and England in the Ancien Régime
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
In Torture and the Law of Proof John H. Langbein explores the world of the thumbscrew and the rack, engines of torture authorized for investigating crime in European legal systems from medieval times until well into the eighteenth century. Drawing on juristic literature and legal records, Langbein's...
by Theodore F. T. Plucknett
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2010
As always during its long history, English common law, upon which American law is based, has had to defend itself against the challenge of civil law’s clarity and traditions. That challenge to our common-law heritage remains today. To that end, Liberty Fund now makes available a clear and candid...
Abraham Lincoln, Esq.
The Legal Career of America's Greatest President
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
As our nation's most beloved and recognizable president, Abraham Lincoln is best known for the Emancipation Proclamation and for guiding our country through the Civil War. But before he took the oath of office, Lincoln practiced law for nearly twenty-five years in the Illinois courts. Abraham Lincoln,...
by Christopher Moore
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1997
At the end of the eighteenth century, when ten lawyers gathered in what is now Niagara-on-the-Lake to form the Law Society of Upper Canada, they were creating something new in the world: a professional organization with statutory authority to control its membership and govern its own affairs. Today's...
The Right Wrong Man
John Demjanjuk and the Last Great Nazi War Crimes Trial
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
In 2009, Harper's Magazine sent war-crimes expert Lawrence Douglas to Munich to cover the last chapter of the lengthiest case ever to arise from the Holocaust: the trial of eighty-nine-year-old John Demjanjuk. Demjanjuk’s legal odyssey began in 1975, when American investigators received evidence...