Lawyers & Judges

John E. Parsons: An Eminent New Yorker in the Gilded Age is the captivating biography about the life and times of a man who was a major figure in the history of New York at the turn of the 20th century. An attorney, philanthropist, and reformer, Parsons...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781510758780Author Robert AbramsFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Skyhorse PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 152g

This multigenerational memoir sketches the lives of three generations of the author's family that were involved with some of the most profound issues of the twentieth century. Smith's paternal grandfather was present at the creation of General Motors...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438474809Author Judith S. KayeFormat PaperbackPage Count 536Imprint Excelsior EditionsPublisher State University of New York Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648210266Author Nicholas Von HoffmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 520Imprint War Room BooksPublisher War Room BooksWeight(grams) 576gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

The inspirational biography of Juan F. Vasquez, the first Hispanic American appointed to the United States Tax Court. The book depicts his journey surmounting numerous challenges such as poverty, manual labor, and discrimination. It explores his pursuit...

The sudden disappearance of Judge Joseph Crater nearly 75 years ago led to perhaps the most famous missing persons case of the twentieth century. Crater, a justice of New York's state Supreme Court, vanished amid political scandal. Within days,...

Sydney Kentridge carved out a reputation as South Africa's most prominent anti-apartheid advocate - his story is entwined with the country's emergence from racial injustice and oppression. He is the only lawyer to have acted for three winners of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788175993099Author D. H. LawrenceFormat PaperbackPage Count 456Imprint Fingerprint! PublishingPublisher Prakash Books

Amid the halls of Harvard Law, a professor of legend, James Bradley Thayer, shaped generations of students from 1874 to 1902. His devoted protEgEs included future Supreme Court justices, appellate judges, and law school deans. The legal giants of the...

Though Clarence Thomas has been a Supreme Court Justice for nearly 25 years and has written close to five hundred opinions, legal scholars and pundits have given him short shrift, often, in fact, dismissing him as a narrow partisan, a silent presence on...

When Justice John Paul Stevens retired from the Supreme Court in 2010, he left a legacy of service unequaled in the history of the Court. During his 34-year tenure, Justice Stevens wrote more opinions than any other justice has. In THE MAKING OF A...

This insightful biography introduces readers to Justice Sonia Sotomayor, a remarkable woman with a single-minded pursuit of educational excellence, who rose from poverty in a Bronx housing project to a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court. Sonia Sotomayor: A...

An associate justice on the renowned Warren Court whose landmark ruling in Brown v. Board of Education overturned racial segregation in schools and other public facilities, Tom C. Clark was a crusader for justice throughout his long legal career. Among...

Karpal Singh is widely regarded as Malaysia's best criminal and constitutional lawyer. His sudden death on 17 April 2014 in a horrific car accident - just a month after he was convicted of sedition in the High Court - shocked and saddened Malaysians to...

Legal Life-Writing provides the first sustained treatment of the implications of life-writing on legal biography, autobiography and the visual history of law in society through a focus on neglected sources, and on those usually marginalized or ignored in...

When Clarence Thomas joined the Supreme Court in 1991, he found with dismay that it was interpreting a very different Constitution from the one the framers had written-the one that had established a federal government manned by the people's own elected...

Ignoring early advice that he had the wrong kind of name to go to law school, Frank Iacobucci, the son of Italian immigrants, made a name for himself as an outstanding Canadian jurist. Serving as justice of the Supreme Court of Canada from 1991 to 2004,...

The extraordinary story of a man who bestrode his era like a colossus, Hugo Black is the first and only comprehensive biography of the Supreme Court Justice of thirty four years, (1886-1971). Once a member of the Ku Klux Klan, Black became one of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781638292364Author M Lynn TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Austin Macauley Publishers LLCPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers LLCWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781510762855Author MR Sandor FrankelFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint Skyhorse PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780700633432Author Philippa StrumFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint University Press of KansasPublisher University Press of Kansas

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846828713Author Daire HoganFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press LtdWeight(grams) 900g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922417671Author Jo StewartFormat HardbackPage Count 56Imprint Smith Street BooksPublisher Smith Street BooksWeight(grams) 161g

By the early twentieth century, Basil Wilson Duke had established himself as one of Kentucky's most popular storytellers, but unlike many other talented raconteurs, Duke was not merely a man of words. In Basil Wilson Duke, CSA, the first full-length...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593084397Author Robin PogrebinFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint PortfolioPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

A whimsical, warm-hearted "autobiography of a twelve-year-old boy in Upstate New York in 1959. The oldest of four children in a prototypical Irish Catholic family, Pierce O'Donnell recounts growing up in a village with more cows than residents...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781928230366Author Gavin CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint MercuryPublisher Burnet Media

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771336376Author Mehrnaz MassoudiFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Inanna Publications & EducationPublisher Inanna Publications &...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588383426Author William AlsupFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint NewSouth BooksPublisher NewSouth BooksWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400052295Author Cupcake BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 472Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 608g

In this sweeping and revealing insider study, Seth Stern and Stephen Wermiel shine a bright light on the life, career, and thought of William Brennan (1906-1997), widely considered the Supreme Court's most influential twentieth-century justice, as well...

Engaging but caustic and openly ideological, Antonin Scalia was among the most influential justices ever to serve on the United States Supreme Court. In this fascinating new book, legal scholar Richard L. Hasen assesses Scalia's complex legacy as a...

Pillay, a trailblazer in Human Rights Law, was born in1941 to a humble Indian family in apartheid South Africa. She faced enormous obstacles to her aspirations for further education and a meaningful career. However, in 1967 she was the first black woman...

In recent decades, Oliver Wendell Holmes has been praised as "the only great American legal thinker" and "the most illustrious figure in the history of American law." In this volume, Albert Alschuler paints a much darker picture of...

Claire L'Heureux-Dube will interest students and scholars of law, Canadian and Quebec history, and women's studies, as well as legal professionals such as lawyers, judges, and law clerks. More generally, those who enjoy Canadian biography will find...

"My name will survive as long as man survives, because I am writing the greatest diary that has ever been written. I intend to surpass Pepys as a diarist." When John Frush Knox (1907-1997) wrote these words, he was in the middle of law school,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922235619Author John EmersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University PublishingWeight(grams) 367g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771335737Author Syr RuusFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Inanna Memoir SeriesPublisher Inanna Memoir SeriesWeight(grams) 363g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226658049Author Samantha BarbasFormat HardbackPage Count 424Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago PressWeight(grams) 152g