Legal History Books


For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder That Shocked Chicago Best Price: $15.90 From the first chapter: "It was a good location and an auspicious time gambling was...	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: $7.14 Well I will concede that this staple of civil procedure classes in law school is a good read,...	The Challenge: Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and the Fight over Presidential Power Best Price: $12.79 Here is an astonishing story in which two unlikely and oddly paired attorneys (read heroes) take...	Gideon's Trumpet Best Price: $7.19 This book gives a great account of how a simple criminal case made its way to the Supreme Court,...	In Our Defense Best Price: $3.91 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 Life Best Price: $5.59 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 Reconstruction Best Price: $15.40 Charles Lane did a very good job on a disturbing part of our history. The Colfax Massacre was...	The Supreme Court Best Price: $8.88 Chief Justice Rehnquist is a great historian who focuses his history of the Supreme Court on the...	The Legal Analyst: A Toolkit for Thinking about the Law Best Price: $17.07 It's unfortunate that this book uses the term legal in the title since that might turn off...	Disorder in the Court: Great Fractured Moments in Courtroom History Best Price: $7.89 I kept getting emails about funny anecdotes about things that happened in court attributed to...



Anne Orthwood's Bastard: Sex and Law in Early Virginia Best Price: $17.95 This incisive work illuminates Virginia's colonial history in personal detail: legal procedures,...	In Reckless Hands: Skinner v. Oklahoma and the Near-Triumph of American Eugenics Best Price: $6.95 The disturbing, forgotten history of America's experiment with eugenics. In the 1920s and...	Class Action: The Story of Lois Jenson and the Landmark Case That Changed Sexual Harassment Law Best Price: $4.80 Throughout my college career, I have become more and more aware of America's history in regards...	Until Proven Innocent: Political Correctness and the Shameful Injustices of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case Best Price: $5.65 In the early twentieth century, we had "To kill a Mockingbird". Now in the twentieth...	Skull Wars Kennewick Man, Archaeology, And The Battle For Native American Identity Best Price: $8.89 I really savored every page of this book. One of the best I have EVER read on both an OVERVIEW...

Escaping Salem: The Other Witch Hunt of 1692 (New Narratives in American History) Best Price: $15.15 I would probably rate this in at 3.5 stars...but I rounded up to 4 stars. 'Escaping Salem'...	American Legal History: Cases and Materials Best Price: $40.00 Many people reading this book will be law students, but even for those who aren't, Kermit Hall's...	Minds on Trial: Great Cases in Law and Psychology Best Price: $24.44 The authors provide a scholarly yet entertaining look behind the scenes to the expert...	Justice: Crimes, Trials, and Punishments Best Price: $2.25 Yes, he is gossipy but in many ways that raises him above others. Any one who likes true crime...	The Devil's Advocates: Greatest Closing Arguments in Criminal Law Best Price: $5.25 Yes, some chapters get pretty boring...but in all of the "Greatest Closing Argument"...

The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Enquiry into the Salem Witch Trials Best Price: $4.76 I recently became interested in Salem Witch trials and related subjects, and Starkey's "The...	Sources In American Constitutional History Best Price: $58.40 This anthology includes all the most significant court decisions in the nation's history, as...	The Supreme Court: The Personalities and Rivalries That Defined America Best Price: $7.32 I found this account of the Supreme Court far less engaging than "The Nine". Rosen's...	Law in America: A Short History (Modern Library Chronicles) Best Price: $7.96 I am a newcomer to this subject and found Prof. Friedman's book informative and approachable....	The Torts Game: Defending Mean Joe Greene Best Price: $22.00 Use this short secondary text with any torts casebook to give your students a demonstration of...

The Majesty of the Law: Reflections of a Supreme Court Justice Best Price: $7.99 I have much respect to Sandra Day O'connor for not only being the first woman to sit in the...	Exporting American Dreams: Thurgood Marshall's African Journey Best Price: $13.94 Long before Senator Barack Obama was heralded as a man whose balance between African and...	Lincoln and Chief Justice Taney: Slavery, Secession, and the President's War Powers Best Price: $3.92 This is quite a thin book, but with an engaging writing style. It seems to glass over why Taney...	Documents of American Constitutional and Legal History: Volume 1: From the Founding to 1896 (Documents of American Constitutional & Legal History) Best Price: $30.30 Documents of American Constitutional and Legal History, Third Edition, is a two-volume companion...	Contempt of Court: The Turn-of-the-Century Lynching That Launched a Hundred Years of Federalism Best Price: $5.95 This is a terrific and rarely-told story from our nation's legal history. This well-written...

Murder Trials (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $8.95 I purchased this in order to follow Cicero's career as it has been documented in somewhat recent...	Fatal Justice: Reinvestigating the Macdonald Murders Best Price: $7.45 On its face, this book appears to be an accurate accounting of the case. However, one only...	Race, Law, and American Society: 1607 to Present (Criminology and Justice Studies) Best Price: $33.22 Race, Law, and American Society shows that progress doesn't 'just happen.' It takes the courage...	A History of the Supreme Court Best Price: $7.50 A number of aspects of this book make it very readable. Certainly, the four watershed cases,...	All the Laws but One: Civil Liberties in Wartime Best Price: $3.70 This is a brief book written by the late U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Rehnquist. If you...

Judges on Judging: Views from the Bench (Chatham House Studies in Political Thinking) Best Price: $24.98 This is a broad survey of many aspects of US court history and judging, assembled from a diverse...	Foundations of Law: Cases, Commentary and Ethics (West Legal Studies) Best Price: $74.50 In the fourth edition of Foundations of Law, concentration on the overview of American law and...	The Supreme Court: An Essential History Best Price: $22.78 This book is a survey of the history of the Supreme Court of the United States. It is divided...	The Transformation of American Law, 1780-1860 (Studies in Legal History) Best Price: $21.46 Laissez-Faire means live and let live. In this history by Morton Horwitz, we see that along...	An Introduction to English Legal History Best Price: $50.50 This book traces, in outline, the development of the principal features of English legal...

The Ages of American Law (The Storrs Lectures Series) Best Price: $11.88 I don't know why The Ages of American Law is regarded as a classic of American legal history. ...	Popular Justice: A History of American Criminal Justice Best Price: $24.25 This popular one-volume analysis of the evolution of American criminal justice places...	Cases and Materials on Law and Jurisprudence in American History (American Casebook Series) Best Price: $105.00 A classic book that helped create the modern field, this was the first casebook devoted...	The Vietnam War on Trial: The My Lai Massacre and Court-Martial of Lieutenant Calley (Landmark Law Cases and American Society) Best Price: $14.35 This is a fascinating, balanced history of the My Lai massacre and the prosecution of William...	Travesty: The Trial of Slobodan Milosevic and the Corruption of International Justice Best Price: $16.47 In this important book the tragedy of international justice is brought to light. With a forward...

Privilege and Creative Destruction: The Charles River Bridge Case Best Price: $18.50 Kutler's book provides a very interesting look at the Charles River Bridge case, a monumental...	The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change? Second Edition (American Politics and Political Economy Series) Best Price: $17.40 The Hollow Hope is written for the serious Court-watcher. It uses empirical data to deflate the...	A People's History of the Supreme Court Best Price: $6.00 Peter Irons is an ardent patriot. He believes passionately in the founding promises of America...	"HIGHER LAW" BACKGROUND OF AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, THE Best Price: $7.99 I first read this book for a Constitutional Law class as part of my undergraduate degree in...	Law and Revolution, II, The Impact of the Protestant Reformations on the Western Legal Tradition Best Price: $20.65 This is a fitting capstone to Berman's approach to Western law. At once more technically...

May It Please the Court: The Most Significant Oral Arguments Made Before the Supreme Court Since 1955 Best Price: $4.94 The book arrived in great condition. The material covered is great. I am very pleased. If...	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...	The Last Duel: A True Story of Crime, Scandal, and Trial by Combat in Medieval France Best Price: $7.90 People today look upon the custom with contempt. Not completely unjustly. But everybody's...	American Constitution: It's Origin and Development (American Constitution, Its Origins & Development) Best Price: $23.88 The book I have is slightly different that what is offered here. I have the 3rd edition of this...	Double Character: Slavery And Mastery in the Antebellum Southern Courtroom (Studies in the Legal History of the South) Best Price: $22.95 This groundbreaking study of the law and culture of slavery in the antebellum Deep South takes...

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