Lawyers & Judges

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781722510015Author James L. FerraroFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint G&D MediaPublisher G&D Media

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781510766167Author Robert S BramsFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Skyhorse PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 152g

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...

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...

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...