Legal category: 4736 books
Lawyers, Guns & Money
A true story of horses & fairies, bankers & thieves
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2013
It is a story of Hollywood, and movie stars like David Bowie and Tatum O'Neal. It is a story of children's fairytales penned by one of Walt Disney's best-loved animators - the man who created Fantasia. It is a story of the Aga Khan, Robert Sangster, and the battle for control of the world's bloodstock...
by Michael J. Graetz, Linda Greenhouse
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
A revelatory look at the Warren Burger Supreme Court finds that it was not moderate or transitional, but conservative—and it shaped today’s constitutional landscape. It is an “important book…a powerful corrective to the standard narrative of the Burger Court” (The New York Times Book Review).
When...
by Arthur W. Ritchie
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
Want to know how lawyers use our screwed up legal system to steal BILLIONS of our dollars every year?
It’s the story of that greatest civil criminal act of all, THE CONTINGENCY CASE.
by Edward Carlson
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
For fans of Don DeLillo and Joseph O’Neill, an enthralling debut about the one percent, what they’ll do to stay on top, and the callous gaze they turn on those below them.
Burned-out and alienated, Kilgore associate attorney Stephen Harker spends his work days defending insurance companies...
Jane Crow
The Life of Pauli Murray
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017
Throughout her prodigious life, activist and lawyer Pauli Murray systematically fought against all arbitrary distinctions in society, channeling her outrage at the discrimination she faced to make America a more democratic country. In this definitive biography, Rosalind Rosenberg offers a poignant...
by Johnnie Cochran, David Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2003
The most famous lawyer in America talks about the law, his life, and how he has won.
Johnnie Cochran has been a lawyer for almost forty years. In that time, he has taken on dozens of groundbreaking cases and emerged as a pivotal figure in race relations in America. Cochran gained international...
Plessy v. Ferguson
Race and Inequality in Jim Crow America
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
Six decades before Rosa Parks boarded her fateful bus, another traveler in the Deep South tried to strike a blow against racial discrimination—but ultimately fell short of that goal, leading to the Supreme Court's landmark 1896 decision in Plessy v. Ferguson. Now Williamjames Hull Hoffer vividly...
Code Wars
10 Years of P2P Software Litigation
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
The content industry spent the better part of the last decade seeking to hold P2P software providers liable for the infringements of their users. Its emphatic victories against the providers of Napster, Aimster, Grokster, Morpheus and Kazaa led directly to a massive shakeout of large commercial file...
The Digest of Roman Law
Theft, Rapine, Damage and Insult
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2007
Codified by Justinian I and published under his aegis in A.D. 533, this celebrated work of legal history forms a fascinating picture of ordinary life in Rome.
Fragile Settlements
Aboriginal Peoples, Law, and Resistance in South-West Australia and Prairie Canada
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
This book will be of interest to scholars and students of trans-colonial history, Indigenous Studies, and the socio-legal history of the British Empire.
A Short History of European Law
The Last Two and a Half Millennia
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018
Tamar Herzog offers a road map to European law across 2,500 years that reveals underlying patterns and unexpected connections. By showing what European law was, where its iterations were found, who made and implemented it, and what the results were, she ties legal norms to their historical circumstances and reveals the law’s fragile malleability.
Crusader for Justice
Federal Judge Damon J. Keith
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
The Honorable Damon J. Keith was appointed to the federal bench in 1967 and has served as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit since 1977, where he has been an eloquent defender of civil and constitutional rights and a vigorous enforcer of civil rights law. In Crusader...
Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story
Statesman of the Old Republic
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2004
The primary founder and guiding spirit of the Harvard Law School and the most prolific publicist of the nineteenth century, Story served as a member of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1811 to 1845. His attitudes and goals as lawyer, politician, judge, and legal educator were founded on the republican...
In Your Defence
Stories of Life and Law
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
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SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
'A thoughtful, elegant book. ... often as thrilling as a detective novel. ' - Thomas Grant, QC The Times.
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Sarah Langford is a barrister. Her job is to stand in court representing the mad and the bad, the vulnerable,...