Legal History category: 1513 books
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Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2019
For centuries, courts across the common law world have developed systems of law by building bodies of judicial decisions. In deciding individual cases, common law courts settle litigation and move the law in new directions. By virtue of their place at the top of the judicial hierarchy, courts at the...
Out of Order
Stories from the History of the Supreme Court
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
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“I called this book Out of Order because it reflects my goal, which is to share a different side of the Supreme Court. Most people know the Court only as it exists between bangs of the gavel, when the Court comes to order to hear arguments or give opinions. But...
A People's History of the Supreme Court
The Men and Women Whose Cases and Decisions Have Shaped OurConstitution: Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2006
A comprehensive history of the people and cases that have changed history, this is the definitive account of the nation's highest court
Recent changes in the Supreme Court have placed the venerable institution at the forefront of current affairs, making this comprehensive and engaging work...
by Kurt T. Lash
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2009
The Ninth Amendment has had a remarkably robust history, playing a role in almost every significant constitutional debate in American history, including the controversy over the Alien and Sedition Acts, the struggle over slavery, and the constitutionality of the New Deal. Until very recently, however,...
Louis D. Brandeis
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2009
The first full-scale biography in twenty-five years of one of the most important and distinguished justices to sit on the Supreme Court–a book that reveals Louis D. Brandeis the reformer, lawyer, and jurist, and Brandeis the man, in all of his complexity, passion, and wit.
A huge and galvanizing...
Freedom for the Thought That We Hate
A Biography of the First Amendment
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2008
From one of the most influential journalists of the last half century, an essential explanation and defense of a foundational American idea: free speech
More than any other people on earth, we Americans are free to say and write what we think. The press can air the secrets of government, the...
by Danielle Keats Citron
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
Some see the Internet as a Wild West where those who venture online must be thick-skinned enough to endure verbal attacks in the name of free speech protection. Danielle Keats Citron rejects this view. Cyber-harassment is a matter of civil rights law, and legal precedents as well as social norms of decency and civility must be leveraged to stop it.
Enemies
A History of the FBI
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
The hidden history of the FBI and its hundred-year war against terrorists, spies, and anyone it deemed subversive—including even American presidents.
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“Turns the long history of the FBI into a story that is...
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.
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...
Rehumanizing Law
A Theory of Law and Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
In a popular sense, 'law' connotes the rules of a society, as well as the institutions that make and enforce those rules. Although laws are created and interpreted in legislatures and courtrooms by individuals with very specialized knowledge, the practice and making of law is closely tied to other...
The Passport in America
The History of a Document
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2010
In today's world of constant identification checks, it's difficult to recall that there was ever a time when "proof of identity" was not a part of everyday life. And as anyone knows who has ever lost a passport, or let one expire on the eve of international travel, the passport has become...
In the Interest of Justice
Great Opening & Closing Statements Throu
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
This rich and rewarding volume collects more than two dozen of the most memorable opening and closing arguments made by top prosecutors and defense attorneys of the last one hundred years. Carefully selected to explore every major aspect and challenge of the legal process, these speeches highlight...