Legal Profession: General

This volume presents a selection of 500 letters by Clarence Darrow, the pre-eminent courtroom lawyer of the late nineteenth and early twentieth cen...

Over the past several decades, the number of lawyers in large cities has doubled, women have entered the bar at an unprecedented rate, and the scal...

'If deaths are not investigated, then the authorities cannot be held to account and democracy is threatened. And if deaths are not investigated, we...

Judges and legal scholars talk past one another, if they have any conversation at all. Academics couch their criticisms of judicial decisions in th...

This book provides a detailed examination of the life and legal legacy of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, including a discussion of the ma...

More than 700 concise biographies of leading figures in the history of American law, from the colonial era to the present day This book is the firs...

On the surface, law schools today are thriving. Enrollments are on the rise, and their resources are often the envy of every other university depar...

A timely and multifaceted portrait of the lawyers who serve the diverse constituencies of the conservative movement, "Lawyers of the Right" explain...

A timely and multifaceted portrait of the lawyers who serve the diverse constituencies of the conservative movement, "Lawyers of the Right" explain...

Illinois political scandals reached new depths in the 1960s and ’70s. In Illinois Justice, Kenneth Manaster takes us behind the scenes of one of th...

Language shapes and reflects how we think about the world. It engages and intrigues us. Our everyday use of language is quite effortless we are all...

Lady Hale is an inspirational figure admired for her historic achievements and for the causes she has championed. Spider Woman is her story. As 'a ...

Harry W. Arthurs is a name held in high esteem by labour lawyers and academics throughout the world. Although many are familiar with Arthurs's cont...

Thoroughly revised and updated, this edition of the classic casebook on police ethics explores the moral complexities of situations faced by law en...

The outsider who transformed our justice systemNazir Afzal knows a thing or two about justice. As a Chief Prosecutor, it was his job to make sure t...

In the summer of 2008 Kimberley Motley quit her job as a public defender in Milwaukee to join a program that helped train lawyers in war-torn Afgha...

Using St. Thomas Aquinas's natural law philosophy and Divine Exemplar argument to prompt new discussion of ethical questions that lawyers and judge...

The authors present the first objective and carefully documented study of this new occupation and explore its development, operations, and future p...

Using St. Thomas Aquinas's natural law philosophy and Divine Exemplar argument to prompt new discussion of ethical questions that lawyers and judge...

This study examines judicial leadership in court reform, tying biography, political science, social psychology, law, and history into court reform ...

Newspapers as a record of the day's events and conduit for public business have been part of life in the United States for several hundred years. W...

This third edition provides thoroughly updated information on the status of women in all aspects of the U.S. criminal justice system, from incarcer...

This third edition provides thoroughly updated information on the status of women in all aspects of the U.S. criminal justice system, from incarcer...