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 For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder That Shock ChicagoBest Price: $13.60 Absolutely abysmal work. The author describes the circumstances of this crime without any... |  The Challenge: Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and the Fight over Presidential PowerBest Price: $11.96 Here is an astonishing story in which two unlikely and oddly paired attorneys (read heroes) take... |  Gideon's TrumpetBest Price: $5.99 This book gives a great account of how a simple criminal case made its way to the Supreme Court,... |  Disorder in the Court: Great Fractured Moments in Courtroom HistoryBest Price: $7.89 I kept getting emails about funny anecdotes about things that happened in court attributed to... |  The Legal Analyst: A Toolkit for Thinking about the LawBest Price: $17.07 It's unfortunate that this book uses the term legal in the title since that might turn off... |
 In Our DefenseBest Price: $3.99 This is a nicely readable look at the U.S. Bill of Rights in action. Authors Ellen Alderman and... |  The Supremes' Greatest Hits: The 34 Supreme Court Cases That Most Directly Affect Your LifeBest Price: $5.65 This thin volume provides an excellent introduction to many of the most important supreme court... |  The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of ReconstructionBest Price: $15.52 This is a monograph about an incident in Reconstruction Louisiana that eventually made it to the... |  Ladies And Gentlemen Of The Jury: Greatest Closing Arguments In Modern LawBest Price: $6.99 Of course this book is going to be subjective simply because there is no way to determine (via a... |  The Buffalo Creek Disaster: How the survivors of one of the worst disasters in coal-mining history brought suit against the coal company--and won (Vintage)Best Price: $6.70 Well I will concede that this staple of civil procedure classes in law school is a good read,... |
 Slavery, Freedom, and the Law in the Atlantic World: A Brief History with Documents (The Bedford Series in History and Culture)Best Price: $11.43 In the Spanish, Portuguese, French, and English empires in the Americas, individuals and groups... |  Anne Orthwood's Bastard: Sex and Law in Early VirginiaBest Price: $16.69 This incisive work illuminates Virginia's colonial history in personal detail: legal procedures,... |  Skull Wars Kennewick Man, Archaeology, And The Battle For Native American IdentityBest Price: $8.89 I really savored every page of this book. One of the best I have EVER read on both an OVERVIEW... |  Law in America: A Short History (Modern Library Chronicles)Best Price: $7.97 I am a newcomer to this subject and found Prof. Friedman's book informative and approachable.... |  The Devil's Advocates: Greatest Closing Arguments in Criminal LawBest Price: $5.87 Yes, some chapters get pretty boring...but in all of the "Greatest Closing Argument"... |
 The Warren Court and American PoliticsBest Price: $20.70 This book is exceedingly interesting, and it was shipped much more quickly than I expected. |  The Activist: John Marshall, Marbury v. Madison, and the Myth of Judicial ReviewBest Price: $10.39 The story of the landmark case that put the "Supreme" in Supreme Court. Among the... |  Until Proven Innocent: Political Correctness and the Shameful Injustices of the Duke Lacrosse Rape CaseBest Price: $5.70 In the early twentieth century, we had "To kill a Mockingbird". Now in the twentieth... |  The Supreme Court: The Personalities and Rivalries That Defined AmericaBest Price: $7.46 I found this account of the Supreme Court far less engaging than "The Nine". Rosen's... |  The Supreme CourtBest Price: $8.88 Chief Justice Rehnquist is a great historian who focuses his history of the Supreme Court on the... |
 All the Laws but One: Civil Liberties in WartimeBest Price: $3.59 This is a brief book written by the late U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Rehnquist. If you... |  In Reckless Hands: Skinner v. Oklahoma and the Near-Triumph of American EugenicsBest Price: $8.95 This book is a history of the Supreme Court case of Skinner v. Oklahoma (1942), in which the... |  Class Action: The Story of Lois Jenson and the Landmark Case That Changed Sexual Harassment LawBest Price: $6.90 Throughout my college career, I have become more and more aware of America's history in regards... |  Dishonorable Passions: Sodomy Laws in America, 1861-2003Best Price: $11.88 To some Americans, it seems obvious that consenting adults should be able to have sex with... |  Plessy v. FergusonBest Price: $12.96 The book contains a good analysis of the Plessy v. Ferguson case, decided by the United States... |
 What Blood Won't Tell: A History of Race on Trial in AmericaBest Price: $21.56 Is race something we know when we see it? In 1857, Alexina Morrison, a slave in Louisiana, ran... |  Murder in Mississippi: United States v. Price and the Struggle forBest Price: $11.65 Author Howard Ball provides us with a detailed analysis of the June 1964 murders of three civil... | Murder in Mississippi: United States v. Price and the Struggle for Best Price: $11.65 Author Howard Ball provides us with a detailed analysis of the June 1964 murders of three civil... |  Conspiracy in the Streets: The Extraordinary Trial of the Chicago EightBest Price: $11.53 After watching the new anima-cumentary "Chicago Ten," I wanted to learn more about... |  Justice: Crimes, Trials, and PunishmentsBest Price: $2.22 I've read most of Mr Dunne's books and he continues to hold my interest. I have the utmost of... |
 Courts on TrialBest Price: $45.00 A book which laymen should read for insight into the operations of the courts of this country...... |  The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change? (American Politics and Political Economy Series)Best Price: $10.50 Rosenberg's The Hollow Hope goes through several court decisions and the wider political and... |  Crime and Punishment: A History of the Criminal Justice SystemBest Price: $35.16 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT is a powerful presentation of the scope and history of the American... |  Crossing Hitler: The Man Who Put the Nazis on the Witness StandBest Price: $16.77 One of the ironies of twentieth century history is that some of the strongest foes of Fascism... |  Property and FreedomBest Price: $6.10 Pipe's thesis on freedom and property is an in-depth evaluation of the effect that individual... |
 The Salem Witchcraft Trials: A Legal HistoryBest Price: $11.65 This is a fantastic book for the history of witch craft enthusiast. I loved it and learned a lot... |  Popular Justice: A History of American Criminal JusticeBest Price: $22.00 This popular one-volume analysis of the evolution of American criminal justice places... |  The Age of Impeachment: American Constitutional Culture Since 1960Best Price: $25.95 I disagree with the author's unarticulated major premise: the U.S. needs less not more... |  Escaping Salem: The Other Witch Hunt of 1692 (New Narratives in American History)Best Price: $15.65 I would probably rate this in at 3.5 stars...but I rounded up to 4 stars. 'Escaping Salem'... |  The Transformation of American Law, 1780-1860 (Studies in Legal History)Best Price: $23.99 Laissez-Faire means live and let live. In this history by Morton Horwitz, we see that along... |
 Legality and LegitimacyBest Price: $19.00 Carl Schmitt ranks among the most original and controversial political thinkers of the twentieth... |  Guarding Life's Dark Secrets: Legal and Social Controls over Reputation, Propriety, and PrivacyBest Price: $19.69 Guarding Life's Dark Secrets tells the story of an intriguing aspect of the social and legal... |  Uncle Sam Wants You: World War I and the Making of the Modern American CitizenBest Price: $19.95 In April 1917, the United States embarked on World War I--with little history of conscription,... |  In the Interest of Justice: Great Opening and Closing Arguments of the Last 100 YearsBest Price: $4.99 This book was a good read for a dreary return flight from DC. It falls short of the promise of... |  The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change? Second Edition (American Politics and Political Economy Series)Best Price: $17.47 The Hollow Hope is written for the serious Court-watcher. It uses empirical data to deflate the... |
 Minds on Trial: Great Cases in Law and PsychologyBest Price: $24.55 The authors provide a scholarly yet entertaining look behind the scenes to the expert... |  Manifest Destinies: The Making of the Mexican American RaceBest Price: $31.96 View the Table of Contents Read the Introduction We Know We're Not White: Author Interview on... |  The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Enquiry into the Salem Witch TrialsBest Price: $2.25 I recently became interested in Salem Witch trials and related subjects, and Starkey's "The... |  The Law Code of Manu (Oxford World's Classics)Best Price: $8.86 The Law Code of Manu is the most authoritative and the best-known legal text of ancient India.... |  God's Joust, God's Justice: Law and Religion in Western Tradition (Emory University Studies in Law and Religion)Best Price: $19.50 There are three things that people will die for - their faith, their freedom, and their family.... |
 Foundations of Law: Cases, Commentary and Ethics (West Legal Studies)Best Price: $98.99 In the fourth edition of Foundations of Law, concentration on the overview of American law and... |  The Scotia Widows: Inside Their Lawsuit Against Big Daddy CoalBest Price: $3.70 On March 9, 1976, a violent explosion, fueled by high concentrations of methane gas and coal... |  The Last Duel: A True Story of Crime, Scandal, and Trial by Combat in Medieval FranceBest Price: $7.90 People today look upon the custom with contempt. Not completely unjustly. But everybody's... | ||
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