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 9781594137037Author Sonia SotomayorFormat PaperbackImprint Large Print PressPublisher Large Print PressWeight(grams) 544g

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...

This is the story of Miles Lord (1919-2016), who rose from humble beginnings on Minnesota's Iron Range to become one of the most colorful and powerful judges in the country, described as "an unabashed Prairie populist" and "a live-wire...

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...

As the longest serving Justice in the history of the U.S. Supreme Court, William O. Douglas was known for writing a host of dissenting opinions. He was also a prolific writer off the bench, a man whose work was as much concerned with nature as with law...

William Merrill was the Special Prosecutor who sent the plumbers to jail. Not just any plumbers, but the "Nixon plumbers", hired by the White House to "stop leaks" by any means necessary. Officially, they were the Special Investigation Unit...

Celebrated prison reformer Miriam Van Waters made history for her sensational battle to retain the superintendency of the Massachusetts Reformatory for Women in 1949. Maternal Justice provides a compelling biography of this early lesbian activist by...

Harry W. Arthurs is a name held in high esteem by labour lawyers and academics throughout the world. Although many are familiar with Arthurs's contributions and accomplishments, few are acquainted with the man himself, or how he came to be one of the...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780472038534Author Greg ZipesFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint University of Michigan RegionalPublisher University of Michigan RegionalWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780817311940Author Tony FreyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 472Imprint The University of Alabama PressPublisher The University of Alabama PressWeight(grams)...

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

This volume presents Richard D. Kahlenberg's memoirs of his time at the Harvard Law School. He cites incident after incident to show how students' natural public-spiritedness is turned into self-interest.Book InformationISBN 9781558492349Author Richard D...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978830141Author Dan BurtFormat HardbackPage Count 390Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University PressWeight(grams) 152g

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

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...

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)...