Lawyers & Judges

From a young age Albie Sachs played a prominent part in the struggle for justice in South Africa. As a result he was detained in solitary confinement, tortured by sleep deprivation and eventually blown up by a car bomb which cost him his right arm and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988824130Author Nancy MorrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Durvile PublicationsPublisher Durvile PublicationsWeight(grams) 522g

The old judge enjoyed swapping tales and sharing company with other lawyers, politicians, and family members. A true aristocrat of the Old South, Garnett Andrews (1798-1873) so enjoyed hearing and telling good yarns that he decided late in his life to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873518062Author Lori SturdevantFormat PaperbackPage Count 253Imprint Minnesota Historical Society PressPublisher Minnesota Historical Society...

The Great Justices comes as close as any book ever has to getting inside the minds of Supreme Court jurists. And it paints a revealing picture of the often deeply ambiguous and difficult relationship between ideas and reality, between the law and the men...

On April 7, 1988, Albie Sachs, an activist South African lawyer and a leading member of the ANC, was car-bombed in Maputo, the capital of Mozambique, by agents of South Africa's security forces. His right arm was blown off, and he lost sight in one eye...

A memoir that is also a compelling page-turner, ""Philadelphia Freedom"" is the poignant, informative, often inspiring account of renowned civil-rights lawyer David Kairys' personal quest for achieving social justice during the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781552216903Author Norm DouglasFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Irwin LawPublisher Irwin LawWeight(grams) 345g

From "the Kid" on the Varsity Blues football team to "the Chief" at Osgoode Hall, R. Roy McMurtry has had a remarkably varied and influential career. As reformist attorney general of Ontario, one of the architects of the agreement that brought about the...

In this biography of Joaquin de Arredondo, historian Bradley Folsom brings to life one of the most influential and ruthless leaders in North American history. Arredondo (1776-1837), a Bourbon loyalist who governed Texas and the other interior provinces...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780883784006Author James D MontgomeryFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Third World PressPublisher Third World PressWeight(grams) 522g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781442657632Author Barry CahillFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 454g

The definitive biography of one of history's greatest Supreme Court justices. How did a conservative Republican end up creating the most liberal Supreme Court in modern history? This new biography of Earl Warren Sr., based on primary sources and...

In this frank and moving memoir, the author recalls growing up in a poor and alcohol-ridden neighborhood of a small city before and during World War II. Following his experiences after the war, the narrative relates the shattering of his mother's dreams...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588381583Author MR Frank SikoraFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint NewSouth BooksPublisher NewSouth BooksWeight(grams) 594g

Sir William Garrow was born in Middlesex in 1760 and called to the Bar in 1783. He was the dominant figure at the Old Bailey from 1783 to 1793, later becoming an MP, Solicitor-General, Attorney-General and finally a judge and lawmaker within the Common...

It was a time, much like today, when Americans feared for the future of their democracy, and women stood up for equal treatment. At the crossroads of the Watergate scandal and the women's movement was a young lawyer named Jill Wine Volner (as she was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307719287Author Alan M. DershowitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of School Library Journal Best Books of the Year - Adult 2013.Book InformationISBN 9780345804839Author Sonia SotomayorFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Vintage...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525576808Author Neil GorsuchFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Oliver Wendell Holmes escaped death twice as a young Union officer in the Civil War. He lived ever after with unwavering moral courage, unremitting scorn for dogma, and an insatiable intellectual curiosity. During his nearly three decades on the Supreme...

Ruth Bader Ginsburg's final book offers an intimate look at her extraordinary life and details her lifelong pursuit for gender equality and a "more perfect Union." In the fall of 2019, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg visited the University of California,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780759555150Author James PattersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Little Brown and CompanyPublisher Little Brown and CompanyWeight(grams)...

As one of only nine women in a class of 500 at Harvard Law School when she enrolled in 1956 and one of only four female Supreme Court justices in the history of the United States, Ruth Bader Ginsburg is frequently viewed as a feminist trailblazer and an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780912777672Author Browne JohnFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Zephyr PressPublisher Zephyr Press

Sir Oliver Popplewella's career goes a long way to explode myths and to show what judges are really like: impartial, skilled in the law, above party politics certainly, but essentially human. He was certainly born into a comfortable middle-class family,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671792114Author Evan A. ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 580Imprint TouchstonePublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 841gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061161506Author Donald McRaeFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 472gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627793834Author Corey RobinFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Henry Holt & Company IncPublisher Henry Holt & Company IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556523861Author Mark V. TushnetFormat PaperbackPage Count 552Imprint A Cappella BooksPublisher A Cappella BooksWeight(grams) 771gDimensions(mm) 228mm *...

A rare and evocative memoir of a respected constitutional scholar, dedicated public servant, political reformer, and facilitator of peace in the land of his ancestors. John D. Feerick's life has all the elements of a modern Horatio Alger story: the poor...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988225954Author Andrea D LyonFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Regina Ryan Publishing Enterprises Inc.Publisher Regina Ryan Publishing Enterprises...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640123007Author M Margaret McKeownFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Potomac BooksPublisher Potomac BooksWeight(grams) 159g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375726552Author Karen DonovanFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 301gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

The true story of the defender of the Chicago 7 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780446562072Author David R DowFormat PaperbackPage Count 271Imprint TwelvePublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 231g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538703625Author James PattersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Grand Central PublishingPublisher Grand Central PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525576785Author Neil GorsuchFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

This book explores the life and contributions of groundbreaking attorney, Elreta Melton Alexander Ralston (1919-98). In 1945 Alexander became the first African American woman to graduate from Columbia Law School. In 1947 she was the first African...

When Justice John Paul Stevens retired from the Supreme Court of the United States in 2010, he left a legacy of service unequaled in the history of the Court. During his thirty-four-year tenure, Justice Stevens was a prolific writer, authoring more than...