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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...

In recent years, millions of TV viewers have devoured images of the law. Amy Fisher, O.J. Simpson, Rodney King and JonBenet Ramsey have become hous...

"Sure to be the standard reference for all subsequent scholarship."—John Noble Wilford, New York Times Book Review"A critical contribution to legal...

In recent decades, Oliver Wendell Holmes has been praised as "the only great American legal thinker" and "the most illustrious figure in the histor...

Lawyers today are in a moral crisis. The popular perception of the lawyer, both within the legal community and beyond, is no longer the Abe Lincoln...

In recent decades, Oliver Wendell Holmes has been praised as "the only great American legal thinker" and "the most illustrious figure in the histor...

Milner Ball takes an experimental journey into the inner life of law and the careers of men and women who use it to help disadvantaged people and t...

This book offers both a biography of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, only the second-ever woman appointed to the Supreme Court, and a historical analysis of h...

Formed in 1825, the Nova Scotia Barristers' Society is the second-oldest law society in common-law Canada, after the Law Society of Ontario. Yet de...

Ruth Bader Ginsburg's last book is a curation of her own legacy, tracing the long history of her work for gender equality and a “more perfect Union...

Retired Justice Macklin Fleming argues that in its quest for money, the legal profession has lost sight of its true tasks and responsibilities, wit...

Retired Justice Macklin Fleming argues that in its quest for money, the legal profession has lost sight of its true tasks and responsibilities, wit...

As state spending on legal services has come under pressure, so too has state commitment to equal access to justice. This volume brings together ex...

A concise, well-documented review and discussion of the exposure that lawyers and others in law-related professions have to malpractice suits again...

Despite clear evidence of a serious decline in morale, the major competitors in the law firm management marketplace have virtually ignored the moti...

Now, at last, there is a comprehensive and readable guide designed to help librarians, scholars, and the general public quickly find the legal info...

Henry Friendly is frequently grouped with Oliver Wendell Holmes, Louis Brandeis, Benjamin Cardozo, and Learned Hand as the best American jurists of...

A legal biography of Judah P. Benjamin (1811 1884): Jewish lawyer, US Senator, Confederate statesman, political exile, leader of the English Bar, i...

A provocative account of how Levinas' ethics can help us understand our relationship with lawEmmanuel Levinas's philosophy of ethics has frequently...

A whimsical warmhearted autobiography of a twelve-year-old who became a great trial lawyerThe oldest of four children in a prototypical Irish Catho...

Flint, Michigan's water crisis, the New Jersey "Bridgegate" scandal, Enron: all these incidents are examples of various forms of leadership failure...

Legal professionals are thought to have higher levels of mental health issues and lower levels of wellbeing than the general population. Drawing on...