Lawyers & Judges

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087866024Author Gay Majure WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Cheryl Gay WilsonPublisher Cheryl Gay WilsonWeight(grams) 145g

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...

Judge Anthony Alaimo's life is a metaphor for quintessential American values: courage, hard work, patriotism, compassion. This biography does not dwell in the realm of metaphorical; it plunges us into the day-to-day life of an immigrant family struggling...

Through a life that spanned every decade of the twentieth century, Supreme Court advocate Bessie Margolin shaped modern American labor policy while creating a place for female lawyers in the nation's highest courts. Despite her beginnings in an orphanage...

Elite, personable, and persuasive, Edward Douglass White, a ''large and bearish man from Louisiana,'' served on the United States Supreme Court for twenty-seven years. During his tenure, first as an associate justice (1894-1910) and then as the ninth...

Early in his judicial career, U.S. District Judge Warren K. Urbom was assigned a yearlong string of criminal trials arising from a seventy-one-day armed standoff between the American Indian Movement and federal law enforcement at Wounded Knee, South...

When attorney John Jay Cornelison severely beat Kentucky Superior Court judge Richard Reid in public on April 16, 1884, for allegedly injuring his< honor, the event became front-page news. Would Reid react as a Christian gentleman, a man of the law, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806149165Author Amina HassanFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma PressWeight(grams) 590g

Supreme Court advocate Bessie Margolin (1909-1996) molded modern American labor policy while creating a space for female lawyers in the nation's high courts. In this comprehensive biography, Marlene Trestman reveals the forces that shaped Margolin's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767931564Author Elizabeth EdwardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)Publisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767916363Author Kevin MeridaFormat PaperbackPage Count 426Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692860496Author Sterling DanielsFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Raised in the Game, LLCPublisher Raised in the Game, LLCWeight(grams) 386g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865345904Author Lois Gerber FrankeFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Sunstone PressPublisher Sunstone PressWeight(grams) 417g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595271122Author Maximilian LongleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 186g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578638089Author Clarencia Newsome ShadeFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint New Some Legacy Publishing LLCPublisher New Some Legacy Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984020454Author Sandra A. SimmsFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Pacific Raven PressPublisher Pacific Raven PressWeight(grams) 148g

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...

Appointed by Abraham Lincoln to the U.S. Supreme Court during the Civil War, Samuel Freeman Miller (1816-1890) served on the nation's highest tribunal for twenty-eight tumultuous years and holds a place in legal history as one of the Court's most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595170234Author Diane HollowayFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Authors Choice PressPublisher Authors Choice PressWeight(grams) 386g

The surprising life of Chief Justice John Marshall, who turned the Supreme Court into a bulwark against presidential and congressional tyranny and saved American democracyIn this startling biography, award-winning author Harlow Giles Unger reveals how...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865345898Author Lois Gerber FrankeFormat HardbackPage Count 284Imprint Sunstone PressPublisher Sunstone PressWeight(grams) 572g

It was 1948 when Abner Mikva, fresh out of college, volunteered at the 8th Ward Democratic headquarters in Chicago. "Who sent you, kid?" the leery ward committeeman asked. "Nobody," Mikva said, and the man informed him, "We don't...

As the most learned and eminent public lawyer in Germany, a busy administrator, and a prolific writer, Moser (1701-85) lived and breathed the political order. His correspondence, memoranda, and manuscript autobiography reflect the intricate day-to-day...

The papers of Chief Justice Walter Clark of North Carolina cover some of the most explosive decades in American life. It was a period of great expansion, corruption, power aggregations of wealth, indifference to the general welfare, and a slow awakening...

In this life of Walter Clark, the author tells of an antebellum boyhood on a Carolina plantation and a long career of involvement in the bitterest sociopolitical battles the state of North Carolina has known, which won Clark a national reputation as a...

The Kentucky-born son of a Baptist preacher, with an early tendency toward racial prejudice, Supreme Court Justice Wiley Rutledge (1894-1949) became one of the Court's leading liberal activists and an early supporter of racial equality, free speech, and...

The Making of a Civil Rights Lawyer is Michael Meltsner's vivid account of how, as a lawyer for Muhammad Ali, for the doctors who ended Jim Crow at American hospitals, and for scores of death row inmates, he became such a deeply involved activist in the...

The papers of Chief Justice Walter Clark of North Carolina cover some of the most explosive decades in American life. It was a period of great expansion, corruption, power aggregations of wealth, indifference to the general welfare, and a slow awakening...

Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan (1833-1911) is best known for condemning racial segregation in his dissent from Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896, when he declared, ""Our Constitution is color-blind."" But in other judicial...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990437697Author Jan CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint Bold Truth PublishingPublisher Bold Truth PublishingWeight(grams) 422g

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 9780671760892Author Alan M. DershowitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 396Imprint TouchstonePublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 580gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595302734Author John E PhinazeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 272g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595141708Author Evelyn A WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Backinprint.comPublisher Backinprint.comWeight(grams) 367g

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) 159g

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) 449g