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The Innocent Manby John Grisham
Random House Publishing Group 2010; US$ 9.99#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In the town of Ada, Oklahoma, Ron Williamson was going to be the next Mickey Mantle. But on his way to the Big Leagues, Ron stumbled, his dreams broken by drinking, drugs, and women. Then, on a winter night in 1982, not far from Ron’s home, a young cocktail waitress named Debra Sue Carter was savagely murdered. The investigation led nowhere. Until, on the flimsiest evidence, it led to Ron Williamson. The washed-up small-town hero was charged, tried, and sentenced to death—in a trial littered with lying witnesses and tainted evidence that would shatter a man’s already broken life, and let a true killer go free. Impeccably researched, grippingly told, filled with eleventh-hour drama,... more...
Scottsboro and Its Legacyby James R. Acker
Greenwood Publishing Group 2007; US$ 50.00A vivid account of the Scottsboro Boys case-the alleged crimes, their legal aftermath, and their immediate and enduring social significance. more...
Is Eating People Wrong?by Allan C. Hutchinson
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 22.00This book explores the consequences of eight exemplary cases around which the common law developed to reveal the diverse and uncoordinated attempts by the courts to adapt the law to changing conditions. more...
Ancient Greek Lawsby Ilias Arnaoutoglou
Routledge 1998; US$ 37.95Ilias Arnaoutoglou explores the significance of legislation in ancient Greece, the differences and similarities between ancient Greek legislation and legislators and their modern counterparts. more...
The Common Lawby Oliver Wendell Holmes
Digireads.com 2004; US$ 4.99Lucid, accessible coverage, from a historical perspective, of liability, criminal law, torts, bail, possession and ownership, contracts, successions, many other aspects of civil and criminal law. more...
The Fall of the House of Zeusby Curtis Wilkie
Crown Publishing Group 2010; US$ 12.99“Over the past four decades no reporter has critiqued the American South with such evocative sensitivity and bedrock honesty as Curtis Wilkie.” —Douglas Brinkley The Fall of the House of Zeus tells the story of Dickie Scruggs, arguably the most successful plaintiff's lawyer in America. A brother-in-law of Trent Lott, the former U.S. Senate Majority Leader, Scruggs made a fortune taking on mass tort lawsuits against “Big Tobacco” and the asbestos industries. He was hailed by Newsweek as a latter day Robin Hood, and portrayed in the movie, The Insider , as a dapper aviator-lawyer. Scruggs’ legal triumphs rewarded him lavishly, and his success emboldened both his career maneuvering and his influence... more...
Journey Into Darknessby John E. Douglas; Mark Olshaker
Simon & Schuster 1997; US$ 7.99In the #1 New York Times bestseller Mindhunter , John Douglas, who headed the FBI's elite Investigative Support Unit, told the story of his brilliant and terrifying career tracking down some of the most heinous criminals in history. Using behavioral profiling and criminal investigative analysis to get into the head and psyche of both the criminal and victim -- to feel what they felt at the critical moment -- Douglas helped crack many high profile cases, including the Trailside Killer, the Atlanta child murders, and the Tylenol murders. Now, working again with his co-author Mark Olshaker, Douglas delves further into the criminal mind with a series of chilling new cases in Journey into Darkness : Follow the FBI's premier investigative profiler... more...
The Constitutional Origins of the American Revolutionby Jack P. Greene
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 18.00Explores the constitutional issues at the heart of the conflict between Britain and its American colonies in the eighteenth century. more...
An Unruly Childby Bruce Kercher
Allen & Unwin 1995; US$ 40.90Provocative history of Australian law since white settlement. more...
J.S. Mill's On Liberty in Focusby John Gray; G. W. Smith
Routledge 1991; US$ 49.95This book gathers together for the first time J.S. Mill's On Liberty and a selection of important essays by the eminent scholars Isaiah Berlin, Alan Ryan, John Rees C.L. Ten and Richard Wollheim on Mill's seminal work. more...









