Lawyers & Judges

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 and Education Inc.Publisher Inanna Publications and Education...

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...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948122733Author Nelson JohnsonFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint RosettaBooksPublisher RosettaBooksWeight(grams) 152g

Jewish Justices of the Supreme Court examines the lives, legal careers, and legacies of the eight Jews who have served or who currently serve as justices of the U.S. Supreme Court: Louis D. Brandeis, Benjamin Cardozo, Felix Frankfurter, Arthur Goldberg,...

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." But in Albert Alschuler's critique of both Justice Holmes and...

A comprehensive introduction to Chinese legal scholarship and the scholars who developed the new Communist legal system during the initial decades of the PRC when the old system was abolished by the newly established Communist government. Through their...

The "superb" (The Guardian) biography of an American who stood against all the forces of Gilded Age America to fight for civil rights and economic freedom: Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan.They say that history is written by the victors. But...

This book closely recounts Judge Dyk's life and experiences in connection with some of the most significant times in modern American law, ranging from his time at the Warren Court, through a private career in First Amendment and other high profile...

This is the first biography written from a legal perspective on the public life of Judah P. Benjamin (1811-1884); a prominent figure in the common law world in the second half of the 19th century. Drawing on a range of primary source materials including...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809339464Author Wayne T. PitardFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Southern Illinois University PressPublisher Southern Illinois University...

What was it like to work as a Jewish district attorney in provincial Soviet Ukraine in the post-Stalinist eras? What role did antisemitism and Holocaust memories play in solving and investigating the criminal cases? How does a detective’s mind work? The...

Legal legend Judge Louis F. Oberdorfer once stated that there were ""only two people in the world who really understood the Constitution"" and its impact on American lives. One was Hugo Black, deceased Supreme Court justice. The other was William Benson...

Legal legend Judge Louis F. Oberdorfer once stated that there were ""only two people in the world who really understood the Constitution"" and its impact on American lives. One was Hugo Black, deceased Supreme Court justice. The other was William Benson...

What was it like to work as a Jewish district attorney in provincial Soviet Ukraine in the post-Stalinist eras? What role did antisemitism and Holocaust memories play in solving and investigating the criminal cases? How does a detective’s mind work? The...