Lawyers & Judges

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780877973263Author Garnett AndrewsFormat PaperbackImprint Cherokee Publishing Company (GA)Publisher Cherokee Publishing Company (GA)Weight(grams) 181g

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...

Trial and Error offers an unexpurgated examination of the past half-century of American jurisprudence through the life of one of America's most celebrated and accomplished lawyers. Here is John C. Tucker, a man who twice argued before the Supreme Court...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743265683Author Jeanine PirroFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint TouchstonePublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 389g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595141708Author Evelyn A WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 367gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 158mm * 15mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997442120Author Patricia Ann MarcellinoFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Breaklight PublicationsPublisher Breaklight PublicationsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993237225Author David SwinfenFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint Shakenoak PressPublisher Shakenoak Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780867861723Author Christopher GeraghtyFormat PaperbackPage Count 334Imprint Spectrum PublicationsPublisher Spectrum Publications Pty LtdWeight(grams)...

This is the first full biography of Justice Leah Ward Sears. In 1992 Sears became the first woman and youngest justice to sit on the Supreme Court of Georgia. In 2005 she became the first African American woman to serve as chief justice of any state...

My father's life represented many layers of the human experience, freedman and Native American, farmer and rancher, rural educator and urban professional. - John Hope FranklinBuck Colbert Franklin (1879-1960) led an extraordinary life; from his youth in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692214305Author Ian GrahamFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Electric Avenue PublishingPublisher Electric Avenue PublishingWeight(grams) 381g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615554617Author Bobby Wilson JdFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Apache Publishing CompanyPublisher Apache Publishing CompanyWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595178322Author Kip M GrunskaFormat PaperbackPage Count 187Imprint Writers Club PressPublisher Writers Club PressWeight(grams) 322g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578880693Author Elman WoodsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Elman Woodson LLCPublisher Elman Woodson LLCWeight(grams) 127g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780473178185Author Peter KileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 405Imprint Peter KileyPublisher Peter KileyWeight(grams) 205g

In this intimate volume, Michel Bastarache reveals details of his youth in Acadia and his multiple professional roles before becoming the first Acadian justice to sit on the Supreme Court of Canada. In a letter addressed to his two children who died from...

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 a...

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,...

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.Book InformationISBN 9781592408443Author Mark GeragosFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Gotham BooksPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 135mm...

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...

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 that...

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. sailed to California as a common seaman. His account of the voyage, Two Years Before the Mast, quickly became an American classic. But literary acclaim could not erase the young lawyer's memory of the brutal...

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 for some...

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...

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...

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...

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...

In 1983, Judith S. Kaye (1938-2016) became the first woman appointed to the Court of Appeals, New York's highest court. Ten years later, she became the first woman to be appointed chief judge of the xourt, and by the time she retired, in 2008, she was...

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 BooksDimensions(mm) 220mm * 150mm * 20mm

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...