Lawyers & Judges

"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...

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 9780525573326Author Antonin ScaliaFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916447158Author Margaret BarnesFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Scribbling AdvocatePublisher Scribbling AdvocateWeight(grams) 286gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060565565Author Clarence ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060565565Author Clarence ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954332256Author Antonio Salazar-HobsonFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Wyatt-MacKenzie PublishingPublisher Wyatt-MacKenzie PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954332249Author Antonio Salazar-HobsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Wyatt-MacKenzie PublishingPublisher Wyatt-MacKenzie PublishingWeight(grams)...

The first book from Ruth Bader Ginsburg since becoming a Supreme Court Justice in 1993--a witty, engaging, serious, and playful collection of writings and speeches from the woman who has had a powerful and enduring influence on law, women's rights, and...

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)...

Just how do you become a barrister? And why do only 1 per cent of those who study law succeed in joining this mysteriously opaque profession? If it's such a great occupation, how come you work 100-hour weeks for less than minimum wage? And why might a...

The New York Times Bestseller 'Simply, utterly brilliant. Bursting with humility and humanity' The Secret Barrister 'An elegant, philosophical and, at times, moving memoir of what it is like to serve as America's most high-profile legal official'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062238474Author Linda HirshmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 318g

Crossing Hitler is a biography of the German trial lawyer Hans Litten (1903-1938), who dedicated his brief career to an uncompromising struggle against Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, and suffered accordingly in Hitler's concentration camps. Through the...

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...

A fascinating inside account of the attempt to prosecute former US president Donald Trump. Mark Pomerantz was a retired lawyer living a calm suburban life when he accepted an offer to join the staff of the district attorney of New York County in...

Winner of a Michigan State History Award; Gold Medal Winner in the Independent Publisher Book Awards; Finalist in the Midwest Book Awards; Finalist in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards!"There is no equal justice for Black people today; there never...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906978297Author David R BradshawFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint Hobnob PressPublisher Hobnob PressWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143124160Author Clive Stafford SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 327gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780639770420Author Roger S ChennellsFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Digital on DemandPublisher Digital on DemandWeight(grams) 422gDimensions(mm) 234mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734557107Author Mark ShaikenFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Mark ShaikenPublisher Mark ShaikenWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 18mm

In 1906 the Metropolitan Police Commissioner was asked by the Home Office to make available skilled investigators for murder enquiries nationwide as few constabularies had sufficiently skilled - or indeed, any - detectives. Thus was born the Reserve...

In his fiftieth book, The Price of Principle: Why Integrity Is Worth the Consequences, Alan Dershowitz-#1 New York Times bestselling author and one of America's most influential legal scholars-explores the implications of the increasing tendency in...

In the first modern biography of Lord Mansfield (1705-1793), Norman Poser details the turbulent political life of eighteenth-century Britain's most powerful judge, serving as chief justice for an unprecedented thirty-two years. His legal decisions...

In the summer of 2008 Kimberley Motley quit her job as a public defender in Milwaukee to join a program that helped train lawyers in war-torn Afghanistan. She was thirty-two at the time, a mother of three who had never travelled outside the United States...

This candidly written autobiography of Sir Michael Kerr chronicles the life of one of Britains most prominent judges of the 70s and 80s from his Continental childhood up to his career in the Court of Appeal and beyond. In the first part of his memoir,the...

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 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 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 9780997589900Author J W FreibergFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Philia Books, Ltd.Publisher Philia Books, Ltd.Weight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Ruth Bader Ginsburg's last book is a curation of her own legacy, tracing the long history of her work for gender equality and a "more perfect Union." In the fall of 2019, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg visited the University of California, Berkeley School...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061765100Author Emily WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 338Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 272g

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, has been called the greatest jurist and legal scholar in the history of the English-speaking world. In this collection of his speeches, opinions and letters, Richard Posner reveals the fullness of Holmes' achievements as judge,...

The bestselling historian and journalist James Rosen provides the first comprehensive account of the brilliant and combative Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia, whose philosophy and judicial opinions defined our legal era. With SCALIA: Rise to...

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)...

Oliver Wendell Holmes twice escaped death as a young Union officer in the Civil War when musket balls missed his heart and spinal cord by a fraction of an inch at the Battles of Ball's Bluff and Antietam. He lived ever after with unwavering moral...

In this highly unusual role for a lawyer, the author found himself in 1998 having to learn on his feet at a frightening pace as the newly promoted senior legal advisor to the charismatic General Sir Mike Jackson, the commander who led the Allied Rapid...

The Rt. Hon. Sir David Keene has had a long and distinguished career both at the Bar and on the Bench. From being called to the Bar by the Inner Temple, taking silk and becoming chairman of the Planning Bar to the High Court and Court of Appeal, Sir...

Barrington Black was for many years one of the UK's best-known criminal defence lawyers and founder of a solicitor's firm in Leeds now commemorated in the name of a practice known as Black's. He was later a Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate and Circuit...

During Justice Sonya Sotomayor's 2009 confirmation hearings, the idea of "biography" played a high-profile role in the debate. How much does a person's experience affect his or her judicial opinions? Should personal history be a key consideration when...