Lawyers & Judges

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809034796Author Andrew E KerstenFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)...

This is the first full biography of Justice Leah Ward Sears. In 1992 Sears became the first woman and youngest justice to sit on the Supreme Court of Georgia. In 2005 she became the first African American woman to serve as chief justice of any state...

My father's life represented many layers of the human experience, freedman and Native American, farmer and rancher, rural educator and urban professional. - John Hope Franklin Buck Colbert Franklin (1879-1960) led an extraordinary life; from his youth in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767916547Author Edward HayesFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 340g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692214305Author Ian GrahamFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Electric Avenue PublishingPublisher Electric Avenue PublishingWeight(grams) 381g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615554617Author Bobby Wilson JdFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Apache Publishing CompanyPublisher Apache Publishing CompanyWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595178322Author Kip M GrunskaFormat PaperbackPage Count 187Imprint Writers Club PressPublisher Writers Club PressWeight(grams) 322g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578880693Author Elman WoodsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Elman Woodson LLCPublisher Elman Woodson LLCWeight(grams) 127g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780473178185Author Peter KileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 405Imprint Peter KileyPublisher Peter KileyWeight(grams) 205g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452278592Author Paul M. BarrettFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 270gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 135mm *...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374526184Author Constance Baker MotleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

In this intimate volume, Michel Bastarache reveals details of his youth in Acadia and his multiple professional roles before becoming the first Acadian justice to sit on the Supreme Court of Canada. In a letter addressed to his two children who died from...

"This is an adoring photo history that wonderfully shows Ginsburg in her private life as well as public."--Publishers Weekly On the 25th anniversary of her appointment to the Supreme Court, this unofficial pictorial retrospective celebrates and honors...

The first comprehensive biography of Neil Gorsuch, President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee and the youngest Supreme Court justice at the time of confirmation in twenty-five years. Born in Denver in 1967, Gorsuch was--and still remains--somewhat of...

For more than half a century, James Hamilton has been an active participant and an inside observer of some of the most consequential moments in modern US history. He has been involved in investigations concerning Watergate, the Kennedy assassination,...

In this unauthorized biography, the most authoritative ever written about the controversial Supreme Court Justice, Andrew Peyton Thomas (no relation) explores Clarence Thomas' remarkable rise from a childhood of poverty in segregated Georgia to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839982149Author Bill DaviesFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 153g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Los Angeles Times Book Prizes 2012.Book InformationISBN 9780767927598Author John A. FarrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592408443Author Mark GeragosFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Gotham BooksPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 238g

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What led a former United States Attorney General to become one of the world's most notorious defenders of the despised? Defending the Public's Enemy examines Clark's enigmatic life and career in a quest to answer this perplexing question. The...

From legal expert and veteran author Bryan Garner comes a unique, intimate, and compelling memoir of his friendship with the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. For almost thirty years, Antonin Scalia was arguably the most influential and...

Providing readers with the unusual opportunity to enter into the extraordinary mind of a patriot immediately before the Revolution, the ""Portrait of a Patriot"" series presents the major papers of the Boston lawyer and patriot penman...

Donald L. Hollowell was Georgia's chief civil rights attorney during the 1950s and 1960s. In this role he defended African American men accused or convicted of capital crimes in a racially hostile legal system, represented movement activists arrested for...

In Pursuit of Right and Justice chronicles the life of the United States District Court's Judge Edward Weinfeld, from his humble Lower East Side origins to his distinction as one of the nation's most respected federal judges. Judge Edward Weinfeld's...

Haliburton Fales 2d, former President of the New York State Bar Association and senior partner in the law firm White & Case, has been centrally, until recently, involved during his professional life of the past half century in the on-going changes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805242935Author Alan DershowitzFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Schocken BooksPublisher Schocken BooksWeight(grams) 422gDimensions(mm) 224mm * 163mm...

In 1834 Harvard dropout Richard Henry Dana Jr. became a common seaman, and soon his Two Years Before the Mast became a classic. Literary acclaim did not erase the young lawyer's memory of floggings he witnessed aboard ship or undermine his vow to combat...

Following a deadly car crash, small-town lawyer Lance Cooper risked everything to battle one of the most powerful auto corporations in the world to get justice for a young woman. A fast-paced, journalistic account of tragedy turned to triumph, despair to...

Known as the "Great Dissenter," Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. wrote some of the most eloquent opinions in the history of the United States Supreme Court. A brilliant legal mind who served on the high court into his nineties, Holmes was responsible...

As the leading legal historian of his generation in Canada and professor at McGill University for thirty-five years, Blaine Baker (1952-2018) was known for his unique personality, teaching style, intellectual cosmopolitanism, and deep commitment to the...

From the late 1940s to the mid-1970s, American conservation politics underwent a transformation, nd Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas (1898-1980) was at the heart of this shift toward modern environmentalism. The Environmental Justice explores how...

Thurman Arnold (1891-1969) was a major iconoclast of American law and a great liberal of the 20th century. In this first biography of Arnold, Spencer Weber Waller traces Arnold's life from his birth in Laramie, Wyoming, and explores how his western...

Alternately vilified as a publicity-seeking egoist and lauded as a rambunctious, fearless advocate, William Kunstler consistently embodied both of these qualities. Kunstler's unrelenting, radical critique of American racism and the legal system took...

New Jersey's legal system was plagued with injustices from the time the system was established through the mid-twentieth century. In Battleground New Jersey, historian and author of Boardwalk Empire, Nelson Johnson chronicles reforms to the system...

"A classic...[It] will make an extraordinary contribution to the improvement of race relations and the understanding of race and the American legal process."-Judge A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., from the Foreword Charles Hamilton Houston...

An eighth-generation Charlestonian with a prestigious address, impeccable social credentials, and years of intimate association with segregationist politicians, U.S. District Court Judge Julius Waties Waring shocked family, friends, and an entire state...

This is a major biography of one of America's most influential and respected Supreme Court justices by a leading law scholar. In the late 1970s, Earl Warren's papers were opened and G. Edward White, a former law clerk of Warren, was given complete...