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Freedom and the Court: Civil Rights and Liberties in the United States
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by University Press of Kansas
Paperback (01 July, 2003)
From Bondage to Contract : Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of Slave
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by Cambridge University Press
Paperback (13 November, 1998)
(1 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Whose Work is Never Done: This excellent study of nineteenth-century American households brings Hannah Arendt's assessment of the home as a place of labor and violence clearly into view.

Giantkillers: The Team and the Law That Help Whistle-Blowers Recover America's Stolen
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by Atlantic Monthly Press
Hardcover (01 January, 2004)
(6 reviews) 4.17 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: An informative history of the "False Claims Act": Giantkillers: The Team And The Law That Help Whistle-Blowers Recover America's Stolen Billions by freelance writer Henry Scammell is an informed and informative history of the "False Claims Act" from its legislative origins during the American Civil War as a way to halt the sale of lame horses and worthless gunpowder to the Union Army,
Gideon's Trumpet
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by Vintage
Paperback (23 April, 1989)
(15 reviews) 4.67 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: The Road to the Supreme Court: Gideon's Trumpet is a marvelous true story of how a poor man new in his heart his rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution and fought for those rights,

Governing Morals : A Social History of Moral Regulation (Cambridge Studies in Law
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by Cambridge University Press
Paperback (29 July, 1999)
Gypsy Law: Romani Legal Traditions and Culture
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by University of California Press
Paperback (03 September, 2001)
(1 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Wonderful read! Romanipen Vs. State Law: This book was an impulse buy for me, but it has come in very handy with my research into Romani Studies.

History, Memory, and the Law (The Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social
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by University of Michigan Press
Paperback (01 August, 2002)
Holocaust Justice: The Battle for Restitution in America's Courts
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by New York University Press
Hardcover (01 April, 2003)
(1 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: An original and core addition to Holocaust Studies reference: Holocaust Justice: The Battle For Restitution In America's Courts by Michael J.

Igniting King Philip's War: The John Sassamon Murder Trial
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by University Press of Kansas
Paperback (20 June, 2001)
Images and Cultures of Law in Early Modern England : Justice and Political Power,
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by Cambridge University Press
Hardcover (29 April, 2004)

In Defense of American Liberties: A History of the Aclu
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by Southern Illinois University Press
Paperback (01 November, 1999)
(1 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: A Sprawling, Wonderful History of ACLU, Warts and All: Samuel Walker has created a wonderful book on the history of the ACLU, In Defense of American Liberties,
In Defense of Honor: Sexual Morality, Modernity, and Nation in Early Twentieth-Century
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by Duke University Press
Paperback (01 February, 2000)
(1 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Honest brides and deflowered donzellas: "How could I think to marry an honest man if I do not keep my virginity until the wedding?"

In the Interest of Justice : Great Opening and Closing Arguments of the Last 100
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by Regan Books
Hardcover (28 September, 2004)
Interrogations: The Nazi Elite in Allied Hands, 1945
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by Penguin Books
Paperback (01 October, 2002)
(6 reviews) 4.67 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Confessions: in their own words.: "Interrogation: The Nazi Elite in Allied Hands, 1945" is a disturbing and enlightening book. It collect the transcription of the interrogations,

Irreparable Harm: A Firsthand Account of How One Agent Took on the CIA in an Epic
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by University Press of Kansas
Paperback (20 April, 2001)
(7 reviews) 3.71 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Absorbing Description of Life After the CIA!: One of the aspects of organizational whistle-blowing that makes it such a hazardous choice for the individual wanting to tell the explosive truth he has to share with us is the fact that too often he or she must pay a terrible personal price for the singular act of selflessness the whistleblowing represents.
Jim Crow's Children: The Broken Promise of the Brown Decision
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by Viking Books
Hardcover (12 September, 2002)
(3 reviews) 4.33 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Too complex of a problem for a single simple solution: Mr. Irons is an advocate. A graduate of Harvard Law school. He does a magnificent job of presenting the history of Jim Crow from a legal perspective.

John Marshall and the Heroic Age of the Supreme Court (Southern Biography Series
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by Louisiana State University Press
Hardcover (01 January, 2002)
(2 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: John Marshall and the Heroic Age of the Supreme Court: John Marshall and the Heroic Age of the Supreme Court written by R. Kent Newmyer is a biography about the fourth Chief Justice of the U.S
Jurists Uprooted: German-Speaking Emigre Lawyers in Twentieth Century Britain
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by Oxford University Press
Hardcover (28 February, 2005)

Just Interpretations: Law Between Ethics and Politics (Philosophy, Social Theory and the Rule of Law ,
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by University of California Press
Hardcover (01 February, 1998)
Justice : Crimes, Trials, and Punishments
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by Three Rivers Press
Paperback (14 May, 2002)
(71 reviews) 3.58 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: A Stale Helping of His Previous Work: I have never read Mr. Dunne and thought that I would enjoy his fresh and unique perspective on recent criminal trials.

Justice at Dachau : The Trials of an American Prosecutor
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by Broadway
Hardcover (08 April, 2003)
(2 reviews) 4.5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: A look into the lesser known concentration camp trials: "Justice at Dachau" chronicles the life and times of Prosecutor William Denson,
Justice at Nuremberg : Leo Alexander and the Nazi Doctors' Trial (St. Antony's Series
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by Palgrave Macmillan
Hardcover (18 September, 2004)

Justice in Plainclothes
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by Yale University Press
Hardcover (10 July, 2004)
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: Law and the Inner Self
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by Oxford University Press
Paperback (01 October, 1995)
(1 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: A wonderful book. Very detailed but also lucid.: Two apsects strike me in reading about Holmes. First is his life. What a great subject.

Justices, Presidents, and Senators: A History of the U.S. Supreme Court Appointments
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by Rowman & Littlefield Publishing (via NBN)
Paperback (01 November, 1999)
(2 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: packed with interesting information: Anybody interested in politics and the Supreme Court is bound to be enthralled by this book.
Kings, Barons and Justices : The Making and Enforcement of Legislation in Thirteenth-Century
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by Cambridge University Press
Hardcover (07 August, 2003)

Laboratory of Justice : The Supreme Court's 200-Year Struggle to Integrate Science
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by Times Books
Hardcover (03 June, 2004)
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN OF THE JURY : GREATEST CLOSING ARGUMENTS IN MODERN LAW
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by Scribner
Hardcover (02 June, 1998)
(14 reviews) 3.57 out of 5 stars
Editorial Review: Anyone who's ever watched Perry Mason knows that the closing argument is a very important part of a big legal case. The closing argument is the "game point" of law, the time when lawyers pull out all the stops on the cajoling and the litigating.

Landmark Supreme Court Cases: The Most Influential Decisions of the Supreme Court
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by Facts on File
Hardcover (01 June, 2004)
Law in America : A Short History (Modern Library Chronicles)
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by Modern Library
Hardcover (30 July, 2002)
(9 reviews) 4.33 out of 5 stars
Editorial Review: Although, in the eyes of many, the law "moves slowly and sluggishly" behind society's advances, Lawrence M. Friedman, in Law in America, a historical overview from colonial times to the present, posits that this is an "illusion."

Law in America: An Illustrated Celebration
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by Hugh Lauter Levin Associates
Hardcover (09 November, 2001)
(3 reviews) 2.67 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Boiled in Oil: The book makes several peculiar claims, among them that boiling in oil was a common punishment in Colonial America.
Lawyering for the Railroad: Business, Law, and Power in the New South
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by Louisiana State University Press
Paperback (01 November, 1999)
(3 reviews) 3.33 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: An excellent introduction for the layperson: Thomas writes with clarity and precision about a topic not easily cast in terms of easy generalities.

Leading Cases in the Common Law
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by Oxford University Press
Paperback (01 December, 1996)
Legality and Legitimacy: Carl Schmitt, Hans Kelsen and Hermann Heller in Weimar
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by Oxford University Press
Paperback (01 May, 2000)

Legality and Legitimacy
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by Duke University Press
Paperback (01 February, 2004)
Liberty and Sexuality: The Right to Privacy and the Making of Roe V. Wade
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by University of California Press
Paperback (01 October, 1998)
(4 reviews) 3 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Dry, but informative: I purchased this text for an Indepdendent Study course, figuring I could at least flip through the book and gain a summary idea of the case's depths and legal foundation.

Lincoln's Avengers: Justice, Revenge, and Reunion after the Civil War
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by W.W. Norton & Company
Hardcover (March, 2004)
(1 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Prelude to Reconstruction: The shock and deep mourning our nation went into in April 1865 is something we have never really gotten over.
Lincoln's Constitution
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by University of Chicago Press
Hardcover (15 May, 2003)
(3 reviews) 4.67 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Highly Recommended: The Civil War was, at its heart, a constitutional struggle. Although it was fought out on bloody battlefields,

Looking Back at Law's Century
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by Cornell University Press
Hardcover (01 June, 2002)
Making Agreements in Medieval Catalonia : Power, Order, and the Written Word, 1000-1200
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by Cambridge University Press
Hardcover (03 May, 2001)

Man and Wife in America: A History
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by Harvard University Press
Hardcover (19 May, 2000)
(2 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: The Way They Were: With numerous deftly chosen stories of husbands and wives and their contact and experience of the law from the Colonial Era to the present,
Masters, Servants, and Magistrates in Britain and the Empire, 1562-1955 (Studies
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by University of North Carolina Press
Hardcover (01 November, 2004)

May It Please the Court : The First Amendment: Live Recordings and Transcripts of
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by New Press
Hardcover (01 August, 1997)
(3 reviews) 4.33 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Thought provoking and interesting: Like it's predecessor, "May it Please The Court", "The First Amendment" contains cassettes with edited oral arguments before the Supreme Court.
Medieval Law and the Foundations of the State
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by Oxford University Press
Hardcover (01 March, 2002)

Miranda: The Story Of America's Right To Remain Silent
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by University of Arizona Press
Hardcover (01 October, 2004)
Moral Reconstruction: Christian Lobbyists and the Federal Legislation of Morality,
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by University of North Carolina Press
Paperback (06 May, 2002)

Murder in Mississippi: United States v. Price and the Struggle for
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by University Press of Kansas
Paperback (01 April, 2004)
National Cleansing : Retribution against Nazi Collaborators in Postwar Czechoslovakia
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by Cambridge University Press
Paperback (06 December, 2004)

Negotiating the Constitution: The Earliest Debates over Original Intent
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by Cornell University Press
Hardcover (01 May, 1999)
(1 reviews) 3 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: The book is uneven and promises more than it delivers.: Professor Lynch's book is uneven and in three general themes. Theme one is a history of the conflicts (verbal and physical) from just before the adoption of the Constitution until around 1800.
Never Too Late : A Prosecutor's Story of Justice in the Medgar Evars Case
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by Scribner
Hardcover (07 January, 2001)
(5 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: A Bible For Young Lawyers Like Me: As a new lawyer, this book really helped me realize so many things as to what a lawyer should do before,

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