Legal History
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The Rule of Laws: A 4,000-Year Quest to Order the World
$22.99 Add to cartFrom ancient Mesopotamia to today, an “exceptionally rich narrative” (Wall Street Journal) of how humans have used laws to forge civilizations
Rulers throughout history have used laws to impose order- Author: Pirie, Fernanda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1541606051
- Language: English
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Bending Toward Justice
$21.00 Add to cartThe story of the decades-long fight to bring justice to the victims of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, culminating in Sen. Doug Jones’ prosecution of the last living bombers.
On September 15,- Author: Jones, Doug
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1250353815
- Language: English
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Secession on Trial: The Treason Prosecution of Jefferson Davis
$35.00 Add to cartThis book focuses on the post-Civil War treason prosecution of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, which was seen as a test case on the major question that animated the Civil War: the constitutiona… [more below]
- Series: Studies in Legal History (Paperback)
- Author: Nicoletti, Cynthia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 356
- Publish Date: October 13 2017
- ISBN10: 1108401538
- Language: English
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Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck
$19.00 Read moreLonglisted 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 “undes- Author: Cohen, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0143109995
- 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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Citadels of Pride: Sexual Abuse, Accountability, and Reconciliation
$18.95 Read moreIn this essential philosophical and practical reckoning, Martha C. Nussbaum, renowned for her eloquence and clarity of moral vision, shows how sexual abuse and harassment derive from using people as t
- Author: Nussbaum, Martha C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1324022108
- Language: English
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Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age
$21.00 Read moreAn electrifying story of the sensational murder trial that divided a city and ignited the civil rights struggle
In 1925, Detroit was a smoky swirl of jazz and speakeasies, assembly lines and fistfight- Author: Boyle, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0805079335
- Language: English
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Dawn at Mineral King Valley: The Sierra Club, the Disney Company, and the Rise of Environmental Law
$30.00 Read moreThe story behind the historic Mineral King Valley case, which reveals how the Sierra Club battled Disney’s ski resort development and launched a new environmental era in America.
In our current age o- Author: Selmi, Daniel P.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: July 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0226816192
- 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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Kennedy’s Avenger: Assassination, Conspiracy, and the Forgotten Trial of Jack Ruby
$21.99 Read moreThe incredible story of one of America’s most publicized–and surprising–criminal trials in history.
No crime in history had more eyewitnesses. On November 24, 1963, two days after the killing of P- Author: Abrams, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 1335469524
- Language: English
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Everyone Against Us: Public Defenders and the Making of American Justice
$25.00 Read moreA former public defender testifies to the vivid human suffering at the heart of America’s criminal justice system.
As a public defender, Allen Goodman faced cross-examination from family and friend… [more below]- Series: Chicago Visions and Revisions
- Author: Goodman, Allen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: April 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0226826236
- Language: English
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The People’s Constitution: 200 Years, 27 Amendments, and the Promise of a More Perfect Union
$52.50 Add to cartThe 233-year story of how the American people have taken an imperfect constitution–the product of compromises and an artifact of its time–and made it more democratic
Who wrote the Constitution? That
- Author: Kowal, John F.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 21 2021
- ISBN10: 1620975610
- Language: English
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Justice Deferred: Race and the Supreme Court
$35.00 Read moreIn the first comprehensive accounting of the US Supreme Court’s race-related jurisprudence, a distinguished historian and renowned civil rights lawyer scrutinize a legacy too often blighted by racial
- Author: Burton, Orville Vernon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 31 2021
- ISBN10: 0674975642
- 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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Coyote Warrior: One Man, Three Tribes, and the Trial That Forged a Nation, Second Edition
$21.95 Add to cartFrom White Shield to Washington DC, new Indian wars are being fought by Ivy League-trained lawyers called “Coyote Warriors”–among them a Mandan/Hidatsa named Raymond Cross. Coyote Warrior tells the e… [more below]
- Author: Vandevelder, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: January 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0803225466
- Language: English
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Theodore Roosevelt for the Defense: The Courtroom Battle to Save His Legacy
$17.99 Add to cartLook for Dan Abrams and David Fisher’s new book, Kennedy’s Avenger: Assassination, Conspiracy, and the Forgotten Trial of Jack Ruby.
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
2020 Audie Finalist–History/Biography
A… [more below]
- Author: Fisher, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 26 2020
- ISBN10: 1335081917
- Language: English
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The Devil’s Advocates: Greatest Closing Arguments in Criminal Law
$26.99 Add to cart
The Final Volume in a Must-Have Trilogy of the Best Closing Arguments in American Legal History
In The Devil’s Advocates, Michael S. Lief and H. Mitchell Caldwell turn to the dramatic crimes and tria… [more below]- Author: Lief, Michael S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 09 2009
- ISBN10: 0743246691
- Language: English
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Keeping Faith with the Constitution
$25.99 Add to cartChief Justice John Marshall argued that a constitution “requires that only its great outlines should be marked [and] its important objects designated.” Ours is “intended to endure for ages to come, an
- Series: Inalienable Rights
- Author: Liu, Goodwin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 13 2010
- ISBN10: 0199738777
- Language: English
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Democracy and Equality: The Enduring Constitutional Vision of the Warren Court
$28.99 Add to cartFrom 1953 to 1969, the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren brought about many of the proudest achievements of American constitutional law. The Warren declared racial segregation and laws for… [more below]
- Series: Inalienable Rights
- Author: Stone, Geoffrey R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 06 2020
- ISBN10: 019093820X
- Language: English
