Browsing the "Law" category: 323 books
This classic of American political theory, first published in 1788, defends the Constitution and explains the complexities of a constitutional government based on the inherent rights of man. ...more »
ISBN: 1577999606 / Logos Research Systems, Inc. / Pub Date: Oct 2000 / File Size: 488K
In the tradition of A Civil Action and Erin Brockovitch, Class Action is a story of intrigue and injustice as dramatic as fiction but all the more poignant because it is true.In the coldest reaches of northern Mi ...more »
ISBN: 0385507283 / Doubleday / Pub Date: Jul 2002 / File Size: 379K
Anyone who has sat on a jury or followed a high-profile trial on television usually comes to the realization that a trial, particularly a criminal trial, is really a performance. Verdicts seem determined as much by which lawyer can best connect with ...more »
ISBN: 1400800986 / Princeton Univ. Press / Pub Date: Feb 2001 / File Size: 568K
The most basic assertions about our bodies--that they are ours and distinguish us from each other, that they are private and have boundaries, races, and genders--are all political theories, constructed in legal texts for political purposes. So argues ...more »
ISBN: 1400803950 / Princeton Univ. Press / Pub Date: Feb 2001 / File Size: 393K
The Internet revolution has come. Some say it has gone. What was responsible for its birth? Who is responsible for its demise? In The Future of Ideas, Lawrence Lessig explains how the Internet revolution has produced a counterrevo ...more »
ISBN: 1588360660 / Random House / Pub Date: Nov 2001 / File Size: 507K
ISBN: 1400809444 / Princeton Univ. Press / Pub Date: Oct 2001 / File Size: 1530K
A new dictionary which will provide a clear and concise explanation of terms used in land, property, construction law and management. ...more »
ISBN: 0203581792 / Spon Press / Pub Date: Sep 2001 / File Size: 344K
In June 12, 1963, Mississippi's fast-rising NAACP leader Medgar Evers was gunned down by a white supremacist named Byron De La Beckwith. Beckwith escaped conviction twice at the hands of all-white Southern juries, and his crime went unpunished for mo ...more »
ISBN: 074322339X / Scribner Book Co. / Pub Date: Jun 2001 / File Size: 397K
What does economics have to do with law? Suppose legislators propose that armed robbers receive life imprisonment. Editorial pages applaud them for getting tough on crime. Constitutional lawyers raise the issue of cruel and unusual punishment. Legal ...more »
ISBN: 1400802482 / Princeton Univ. Press / Pub Date: Feb 2001 / File Size: 566K
The ABA Complete and Easy Guide to Health Care Law is a comprehensive guide to understanding your rights as a patient and knowing how to move through the health care system. This guide allows you to understand issues about health care to the fullest. ...more »
ISBN: 0676793991 / Crown / Pub Date: Oct 2001 / File Size: 376K
Internet law is a vital topic about which anyone who conducts business online must become educated. This is true regardless of your online activities if you fall into any of the following categories:a self-employed businessperson or in ...more »
ISBN: 0679642471 / Random House Group / Pub Date: Oct 2002 / File Size: 397K
How does the trial advocate manage in just a few hours to summarize months of testimony and documentary evidence, transforming it into a compelling story that will persuade the jurors--and win the case? The closing argument is the lawyer's final oppo ...more »
ISBN: 0684867524 / Scribner Book Co. / Pub Date: Nov 2000 / File Size: 505K
We are all familiar with the image of the immensely clever judge who discerns the best rule of common law for the case at hand. According to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, a judge like this can maneuver through earlier cases to achieve th ...more »
ISBN: 1400807018 / Princeton Univ. Press / Pub Date: Feb 2001 / File Size: 188K
Here a leading scholar in constitutional law, Mark Tushnet, challenges hallowed American traditions of judicial review and judicial supremacy, which allow U.S. judges to invalidate "unconstitutional" governmental actions. Many people, particularly li ...more »
ISBN: 1400808154 / Princeton Univ. Press / Pub Date: Feb 2001 / File Size: 304K
An unforgettable firsthand account of a people's response to genocide and what it tells us about humanity ...more »
ISBN: 0374702632 / FSG / Pub Date: Mar 2002 / File Size: 371K
The explosive, never-before-revealed story of how William Rehnquist became a Supreme Court Justice, told by the man responsible for his candidacy. ...more »
ISBN: 0743229797 / The Free Press / Pub Date: Oct 2001 / File Size: 354K
Can the Supreme Court be free of politics? Do we want it to be? Normative constitutional theory has long concerned itself with the legitimate scope and limits of judicial review. Too often, theorists seek to resolve that issue by eliminating politics ...more »
ISBN: 1400806143 / Princeton Univ. Press / Pub Date: Feb 2001 / File Size: 654K
An intrepid investigator crawls through miles of air conditioning ducts to capture the implicating fibers of a suspect's wool jacket...A forensic entomologist discovers insects in the grill of a car and nails down a drug dealer's precise geographi ...more »
ISBN: 0345462041 / Ballantine Group / Pub Date: Oct 2002 / File Size: 886K
" Special feature! This e-book edition contains the full texts of the landmark legal documents that emerged from U.S. v. Microsoft. The humbling of Bill Gates and Microsoft is the last great business story of the 20th Century and the first great rid ...more »
ISBN: 0066213118 / PerfectBound / Pub Date: Feb 2001 / File Size: 1629K
An increasing number of constitutional theorists, within both the legal academy and university departments of government, are focusing on the conceptual and political problems attached to the notion of constitutional amendment. Amendments are, among ...more »
ISBN: 1400804884 / Princeton Univ. Press / Pub Date: Feb 2001 / File Size: 1031K
it ever legitimate to redraw electoral districts on the basis of race? In its long struggle with this question, the U.S. Supreme Court has treated race-conscious redistricting either as a requirement of political fairness or as an exercise in corrosi ...more »
ISBN: 140080101X / Princeton Univ. Press / Pub Date: Feb 2001 / File Size: 511K
How today's class-action litigation lawyers are threatening to become a new and unwanted "fourth branch" of government. ...more »
ISBN: 0312709595 / Truman Talley Books / Pub Date: Jan 2003 / File Size: 391K
ISBN: 1400800714 / Princeton Univ. Press / Pub Date: Feb 2001 / File Size: 907K
ISBN: 5552055217 / Amazon Press / Pub Date: Mar 2001 / File Size: 273K
ISBN: 1400075882 / Anchor / Pub Date: Jul 1999 / File Size: 379K
