Legal History
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El Libro de la Ley (the Law Book)
$27.99 Add to cartGrandes ideas, explicaciones sencillas
Una completa introducci?n al mundo jur?dico con explicaciones claras y concisas que presenta de forma accesible las nociones b?sicas del Derecho y las principale- Series: Big Ideas
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 30 2021
- ISBN10: 0744040353
- Language: Spanish
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Five Bullets: The Story of Bernie Goetz, New York’s Explosive ’80s, and the Subway Vigilante Trial That Divided the Nation
$32.00 Add to cartFrom CNN legal analyst Elliot Williams, a revelatory account of how one man, four teenagers, and a struggling city collided over race, vigilantism, and public safety . . . exposing the fault lines of … [more below]
- Author: Williams, Elliot
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 0593833708
- Language: English
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Entering the Arena: The Spectacular History of Women at the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York
$34.95 Add to cartThis book tells the spectacular history of women lawyers at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York (SDNY). SDNY is a storied institution, the oldest federal prosecutor’s offi… [more below]
- Author: Zornberg, Lisa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1531513026
- Language: English
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Judicial Territory: Law, Capital, and the Expansion of American Empire
$161.93 Add to cartIn Judicial Territory, Shaina Potts reveals how the American empire has benefited from the post-World War II expansion of United States judicial authority over the economic decisions of postcolonial g… [more below]
- Author: Potts, Shaina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1478026480
- Language: English
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American Legal History
$12.99 Add to cartLaw has played a central role in American history. From colonial times to the present, law has not just reflected the changing society in which legal decisions have been made-it has played a powerful … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: White, G. Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: December 19 2013
- ISBN10: 0199766002
- Language: English
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Who Owns This Sentence?: A History of Copyrights and Wrongs
$19.99 Add to cartCopyright is everywhere. Your smartphone incorporates thousands of items of intellectual property. Someone owns the reproduction rights to photographs of your dining table. At this very moment, battle
- Author: Bellos, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1324105097
- Language: English
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The Majesty of the Law: Reflections of a Supreme Court Justice
$23.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – “Shows us why Sandra Day O’Connor is so compelling as a human being and so vital as a public thinker.”–Michael Beschloss
In this remarkable book, Sandra Day O’Connor explores th- Author: O’Connor, Sandra Day
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 13 2004
- ISBN10: 081296747X
- Language: English
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Sex and Punishment: Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire
$18.95 Read moreThe “raging frenzy” of the sex drive, to use Plato’s phrase, has always defied control. However, that’s not to say that the Sumerians, Victorians, and every civilization in between and beyond have not… [more below]
- Author: Berkowitz, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 09 2013
- ISBN10: 1619021552
- Language: English
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Roe: The History of a National Obsession
$27.00 Read moreThe leading U.S. expert on abortion law charts the many meanings associated with Roe v. Wade during its fifty-year history
“Ziegler sets a brisk pace but delivers substantial depth. . . . A must-read- Author: Ziegler, Mary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0300266103
- Language: English
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Storming the Court: How a Band of Law Students Fought the President–And Won
$19.99 Add to cartIn 1992, three hundred innocent Haitian men, women, and children who had qualified for political asylum in the United States were detained at Guantç–£amo Bay, Cuba — and told they might never be free… [more below]
- Author: Goldstein, Brandt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1416535152
- Language: English
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Great Dissent
$25.99 Add to cartA gripping intellectual history reveals how Oliver Wendell Holmes became a free-speech advocate and established the modern understanding of the First Amendment
No right seems more fundamental to Ameri- Author: Healy, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 09 2014
- ISBN10: 1250058694
- Language: English
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Justice: Crimes, Trials, and Punishments
$20.00 Add to cartDominick Dunne’s mesmerizing tales of justice denied and justice affirmed.
For more than two decades, Vanity Fair published Dominick Dunne’s brilliant, revelatory chronicles of the most famous crimes,- Author: Dunne, Dominick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 14, 2002
- ISBN10: 0609809636
- Language: English
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Lethal Injection and the False Promise of Humane Execution
$14.00 Add to cartWith a history marked by incompetence, political maneuvering, and secrecy, America’s “most humane” execution method is anything but.
From the beginning of the Republic, this country has struggled to r
- Author: Sarat, Austin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: June 28 2022
- ISBN10: 1503633535
- Language: English
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Supreme Court Decisions
$15.00 Add to cartA selection of the landmark Supreme Court decisions that have shaped American society
Penguin presents a series of six portable, accessible, and–above all–essential reads from American political his- Series: Penguin Civic Classics #06
- Author: Beeman, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 28 2012
- ISBN10: 0143121995
- Language: English
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Contempt of Court: The Turn-Of-The-Century Lynching That Launched 100 Years of Federalism
$20.00 Add to cartIn this profound and fascinating book, the authors revisit an overlooked Supreme Court decision that changed forever how justice is carried out in the United States.
In 1906, Ed Johnson was the innoce… [more below]- Author: Curriden, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 20 2001
- ISBN10: 0385720823
- Language: English
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Demand the Impossible: One Lawyer’s Pursuit of Equal Justice for All
$29.99 Add to cartStephen Bright emerged on the scene as a cause lawyer in the early decades of mass incarceration, when inflammatory politics and harsh changes to criminal justice policy were crashing down on the most
- Author: Tsai, Robert L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0393867838
- Language: English
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Judgment and Mercy: The Turbulent Life and Times of the Judge Who Condemned the Rosenbergs
$35.95 Add to cartAs featured on CBS Saturday Morning. Finalist for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize.
In Judgment and Mercy, Martin J. Siegel offers an insightful and compelling biography of Irvi
- Author: Siegel, Martin J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1501768522
- Language: English
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The Law Book
$34.99 Add to cartLearn about the most important legal milestones in history in The Law Book.
Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. L… [more below]- Series: Big Ideas
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 0744020417
- Language: English
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The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde: The First Uncensored Transcript of the Trial of Oscar Wilde Vs. John Douglas, Marquess of Queensberry, 1895
$21.99 Add to cartOscar Wilde had one of literary history’s mostexplosive love affairs with Lord Alfred “Bosie”Douglas. In 1895, Bosie’s father, the Marquessof Queensberry, delivered a note to the Albemarle Clubaddress
- Author: Holland, Merlin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 340
- Publish Date: October 05 2004
- ISBN10: 000715805X
- Language: English
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Who Owns This Sentence?: A History of Copyrights and Wrongs
$28.99 Add to cartCopyright is everywhere. Your smartphone incorporates thousands of items of intellectual property. Someone owns the reproduction rights to photographs of your dining table. At this very moment, battle
- Author: Bellos, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 23, 2024
- ISBN10: 1324073713
- Language: English
