Legal History

Based on a rich array of sources that capture the voices of both political leaders and ordinary Americans, Uncle Sam Wants You offers a vivid and provocat...

this Unique Insider's Look At The Supreme Court In Session Includes Live Recordings And Transcripts Of Actual Landmark Cases, Including Miranda V. Arizona ...

In America's courtooms, the verdict is laughter. Sit back and enjoy a collection of verbatim exchanges from the halls of justice, where defendants and pla...

Jeffrey Rosen. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 245-258) And Index.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Politics & Government United States...

Why do we need laws? What rights are protected by law? When was forensic evidence first used in court? This book explores big questions like these, explaini...

One of NPR's Best Books of 2021 A New York Times Notable Book of 2021 One of TIME's 100 Must-Read Books of 2021 A masterpiece of reporting on the Supreme C...

The untold story of the slaying of a Southern town’s ex-slaves and a white lawyer’s historic battle to bring the perpretators to justice Following the Ci...

A provocative history that reveals how guns―not abortion, race, or religion―are at the heart of America's cultural divide.Gunfight is a timely work exa...

The role and function of criminal justice in a conquered colony is always problematic, and the case of Quebec is no exception. Many historians have suggest...

John Grisham's first work of nonfiction, an exploration of small town justice gone terribly awry, is his most extraordinary legal thriller yet. In the maj...

John Grisham's first work of nonfiction, an exploration of small town justice gone terribly awry, is his most extraordinary legal thriller yet. In the maj...

John Grisham's first work of nonfiction, an exploration of small town justice gone terribly awry, is his most extraordinary legal thriller yet. In the maj...

Jeff Ashton was part of the prosecution team in the Florida homicide trial of Casey Anthony, the single mother accused of murdering her little girl, Caylee....

in 1386, A Few Days After Christmas, A Huge Crowd Gathers At A Parisian Monastery To Witness What Will Become The Nation's Final "trial By Combat"—a Court...

Follows The 1925 Murder Trial Of African-american Doctor Ossian Sweet, Who Was Accused Of Murdering A White Person During A Mob Attack On His Home, And Incl...

celia Was An Ordinary Slave—until She Struck Back At Her Abusive Master And Became The Defendant In A Landmark Trial That Threatened To Undermine The Very...

Since its original publication in 1967, Freedom and the Court has become the standard text on civil liberties law, with more than 100,000 copies in print. ...

Lee C. Bollinger. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 249-290.Categories: LawLegal History

“A hair-raising account of a Barbie Dreamhouse-size Jarndyce and Jarndyce.”―Jill Lepore, The New Yorker This provocative work spotlights the legal ba...

This book, suitable as a primer for foreign LLMs ― or as an introductory survey for American students of both procedural and substantive law ― is a comp...