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  • Denali Justice

    In mid-December, 1981, a small air taxi crashed at 10,300' on the slopes of Mt. McKinley in Denali National Park, Alaska. All four people aboard survived the crash and the wreckage was quickly located. The weather was good the next morning but no rescuers landed nearby and no emergency supplies were airdropped. After four days and nights, a volunteer civilian climbing team reached the wreckage and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Denali Justice

    In mid-December, 1981, a small air taxi crashed at 10,300' on the slopes of Mt. McKinley in Denali National Park, Alaska. All four people aboard survived the crash and the wreckage was quickly located. The weather was good the next morning but no rescuers landed nearby and no emergency supplies were airdropped. After four days and nights, a volunteer civilian climbing team reached the wreckage and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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    A successful former defense attorney exposes the raw truth about the courtroom "game" and a career spent defending the guiltyAs an advocate for the accused in Newark, New Jersey, criminal lawyer Seymour Wishman defended a vast array of clients, from burglars and thieves to rapists and murderers. Many of them were poor and undereducated, and nearly all of them were guilty. But it was not Wishman's ... Read more

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  • The Best Defense

    "Anyone interested in the true merits of criminal law and very fine writing must read Alan Dershowitz's book." --Truman CapoteIn this tell-all legal memoir, Alan Dershowitz describes his most famous, and infamous, cases and clients. In the process, takes a critical, informed look at a legal system that he regards as deeply corrupt. ... Read more

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  • Triumph of Justice

    Closing the Book on the O.J. Simpson Saga

    After the white Bronco, after the bloody glove, after the media frenzy and the verdict that set O.J. Simpson free, Daniel Petrocelli came to pick up the pieces. Outraged by the disastrous miscarriage of justice, the family of murder victim Ronald Goldman sought justice in civil court—their last chance to go after Simpson. To represent them, they hired Petrocelli, a respected attorney who had never ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • How Leading Lawyers Think

    Expert Insights Into Judgment and Advocacy

    by Randall Kiser ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    In this book, 78 leading attorneys in California and New York describe how they evaluate, negotiate and resolve litigation cases. Selected for their demonstrated skill in predicting trial outcomes and knowing when cases should be settled or taken to trial, these attorneys identify the key factors in case evaluation and share successful strategies in pre-trial discovery, negotiation, mediation, and ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Fiduciary Loyalty

    Protecting the Due Performance of Non-Fiduciary Duties

    Winner of the second SLS Peter Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship 2010.Fiduciary Loyalty presents a comprehensive analysis of the nature and function of fiduciary duties. The concept of loyalty, which lies at the heart of fiduciary doctrine, is a form of protection which is designed to enhance the likelihood of due performance of non-fiduciary duties, by seeking to avoid influences or ... Read more

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  • Tried and Convicted

    How Police, Prosecutors, and Judges Destroy Our Constitutional Rights

    When an individual is accused of a crime he is provided, at least in theory, with numerous constitutional rights throughout the legal process. These constitutional rights, however, are soft and flexible, and are subject to a tremendous amount of manipulation by police, prosecutors, and judges. The result is that these government agents are easily able to bypass, and in fact destroy, our ... Read more

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  • Measures of Equality

    Social Science, Citizenship, and Race in Cuba, 1902-1940

    Series series Envisioning Cuba
    In the years following Cuba’s independence, nationalists aimed to transcend racial categories in order to create a unified polity, yet racial and cultural heterogeneity posed continual challenges to these liberal notions of citizenship. Alejandra Bronfman traces the formation of Cuba’s multiracial legal and political order in the early Republic by exploring the responses of social scientists, such ... Read more

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  • Prairie Defender

    The Murder Trials of Abraham Lincoln

    2018 FAPA President’s book award medalist in the non-fiction adult, biography, and political/current events categories2018 ISHS Annual Award Winner for a Scholarly PublicationAccording to conventional wisdom, Abraham Lincoln spent most of his law career collecting debt and representing railroads, and this focus made him inept at defending clients in homicide cases. In this unprecedented study of ... Read more

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  • Understanding Clarence Thomas

    The Jurisprudence of Constitutional Restoration

    Though Clarence Thomas has been a Supreme Court Justice for nearly 25 years and has written close to five hundred opinions, legal scholars and pundits have given him short shrift, often, in fact, dismissing him as a narrow partisan, a silent presence on the bench, an enemy of his race, a tool of Antonin Scalia. And yet, as this book makes clear, few justices of the Supreme Court have developed as ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • Civil Disobedience in Global Perspective

    Decency and Dissent over Borders, Inequities, and Government Secrecy

    by Michael Allen ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book explores a hitherto unexamined possibility of justifiable disobedience opened up by John Rawls’ Law of Peoples. This is the possibility of disobedience justified by appeal to standards of decency that are shared by peoples who do not otherwise share commitments to the same principles of justice, and whose societies are organized according to very different basic social institutions. ... Read more

    $58.49 USD