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Justice for All
Penguin Group US 2007; US$ 22.00In Justice for All , Jim Newton, an award-winning journalist for the Los Angeles Times , brings readers the first truly comprehensive consideration of Earl Warren, the politician-turned-Chief Justice who refashioned the place of the court in American life through landmark Supreme Court cases whose names have entered the common parlance -- Brown... more...
Louis D. Brandeis
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009; US$ 24.95The 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 biography, a revelation of one man?s effect on American... more...
Stepping Stones
Lexington Books 2009; US$ 29.99Young people are rediscovering a vision that 'another world is possible' and dedicating themselves to public service. Alice and Staughton Lynd offer a significant model of what it can mean to devote a lifetime to these ideals. more...
Scoundrels in Law
HarperCollins 2010; US$ 21.99From the critically acclaimed author of Crazy '08 comes the thrilling true story of the most colorful and notorious law firm in American history. Scoundrels in Law offers an inside look at crime and punishment in the nineteenth century, and a whirlwind tour of the Gilded Age. Gangsters and con men. Spurned mistresses and wandering husbands.... more...
My FBI
St. Martin's Press 2007; US$ 18.99Louis Freeh led the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 1993 to 2001, through some of the most tumultuous times in its long history. This is the story of a life in law enforcement, and of one man?s determined struggle to strengthen and reform the FBI while ensuring its freedom from political interference. Bill Clinton called Freeh a ?law enforcement... more...
Deutschsprachige Zivilrechtslehrer des 20. Jahrhunderts in Berichten ihrer Schüler Band 2
De Gruyter 2010; US$ 168.00German civil law political theory is not in high demand these days. However, political theory is important for establishing an overall picture of German civil law and portraying an image of German civil law to Europe and beyond. This is especially true in times when ideas are widely circulated and the circulation itself can be useful for influencing... more...
Five Chiefs
Little, Brown and Company 2011; US$ 9.99When he resigned last June, Justice Stevens was the third longest serving Justice in American history (1975-2010)--only Justice William O. Douglas, whom Stevens succeeded, and Stephen Field have served on the Court for a longer time. In Five Chiefs , Justice Stevens captures the inner workings of the Supreme Court via his personal experiences with... more...
Court in the Middle
Hardie Grant Books 2007; US$ 14.95From 1975 to 2001, Andrew Fraser was a leading criminal solicitor with a successful national practice. And then it all went horribly wrong. In 1999 he was charged with being knowingly concerned with the importation of a commercial quantity of cocaine. Fraser pleaded guilty to a charge of possessing and to using cocaine over a period of time. He also... more...
Nothing to do with Justice
New Holland Publishers (Australia) 2011; US$ 9.99Charged wrongly under a criminal code in a disagreement over conditions of employment, Diane Fingleton, the former lawyer, magistrate and Chief Magistrate of Queensland, was unjustly sentenced, in the very same court she had presided over, to one year in prison. Stripped of her clothing, her dignity and her integrity, she was subjected to the deprivations... more...
Judging Thomas
HarperCollins 2009; Not AvailableClarence Thomas, the youngest and most controversial member of the Supreme Court, could become the longest-serving justice in history, influencing American law for decades to come. Who is this enigmatic man? And what does he believe in? Judging Thomas tells the remarkable story of Clarence Thomas's improbable journey from hardscrabble beginnings... more...









