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  • Discordant Notes, Volume 1

    The Voice of Dissent in The Last Court of Resort

    A dissenting judgment, as ordinarily understood, is a judgment or an opinion of a judge, sitting as part of a larger bench, who 'dissents' (i.e. disagrees) with the opinion or judgment of the majority. Dissenting judgments or opinions appear in different ways. Tracing, exploring and analysing all dissenting judgments in the history of the Supreme Court of India, from the beginning till date, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Rule of Five

    Making Climate History at the Supreme Court

    Winner of the Julia Ward Howe Prize“The gripping story of the most important environmental law case ever decided by the Supreme Court.”—Scott Turow“In the tradition of A Civil Action, this book makes a compelling story of the court fight that paved the way for regulating the emissions now overheating the planet. It offers a poignant reminder of how far we’ve come—and how far we still must go.” ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Supreme Court

    An Essential History, Second Edition

    For more than two centuries, the U.S. Supreme Court has provided a battleground for nearly every controversial issue in our nation’s history. Now a veteran team of talented historians—including the editors of the acclaimed Landmark Law Cases and American Society series—have updated the most readable, astute single-volume history of this venerated institution with a new chapter on the Roberts Court ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The Authority of the Court and the Peril of Politics

    A sitting justice reflects upon the authority of the Supreme Court—how that authority was gained and how measures to restructure the Court could undermine both the Court and the constitutional system of checks and balances that depends on it.A growing chorus of officials and commentators argues that the Supreme Court has become too political. On this view the confirmation process is just an ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Notorious RBG

    The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

    New York Times BestsellerFeatured in the critically acclaimed documentary RBG"It was beyond my wildest imagination that I would one day become the 'Notorious RBG." — Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 2019She was a fierce dissenter with a serious collar game. A legendary, self-described “flaming feminist litigator” who made the world more equal. And an intergenerational icon affectionately known as the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • To Catch a Killer

    by Tim Madigan ...
    The gruesome murder of a young woman named Brenda Salazar was only the first chapter in one of the most riveting crime stories in the history of Fort Worth, Texas. When it was all over, three young women were dead and a number of law officers were angry about the missed opportunities. The story came to a close in the killer's bedroom, where the detectives found a shop of horrors. ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sandra Day O'Connor

    How the First Woman on the Supreme Court Became Its Most Influential Justice

    by Joan Biskupic ...
    “Sandra Day O’Connor takes you behind the closed doors of the Supreme Court to reveal how Justice O’Connor helped craft landmark decisions on abortion, affirmative action, and a host of other critical issues. Joan Biskupic has broken new ground in reporting on O’Connor’s life and historic role on the high court. This lively, fast-paced account will make people rethink how they view this ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Justice on Trial

    The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court

    #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER!Justice Anthony Kennedy slipped out of the Supreme Court building on June 27, 2018, and traveled incognito to the White House to inform President Donald Trump that he was retiring, setting in motion a political process that his successor, Brett Kavanaugh, would denounce three months later as a “national disgrace” and a “circus.”Justice on Trial, the definitive insider’s ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Disorder in the Court: Great Fractured Moments in Courtroom History

    In America's courtooms, the verdict is laughter.Sit back and enjoy a collection of verbatim exchanges from the halls of justice, where defendants and plaintiffs, lawyers and witnesses, juries and judges, collide to produce memorably insane comedy.The Court: The charge here is theft of frozen chickens. Are you the defendant, sir?Defendant: No, sir, I'm the guy who stole the chickens.Attorney: What ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • One Vote Away

    How a Single Supreme Court Seat Can Change History

    by Ted Cruz ...
    ** WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER ** USA TODAY BESTSELLER ** PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY BESTSELLER ** NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER **With a simple majority on the Supreme Court, the left would have the power to curtail or even abolish the freedoms that have made America a beacon to the world. We are one vote away from losing our most precious constitutional rights.As a Supreme Court clerk, solicitor general ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Shadow Docket

    How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic

    An instant New York Times bestseller: An acclaimed legal scholar’s “important” (New York Times) and “fascinating” (Economist) exposé of how the Supreme Court uses unsigned and unexplained orders to change the law behind closed doors.The Supreme Court has always had the authority to issue emergency rulings in exceptional circumstances. But since 2017, the Court has dramatically expanded its use of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Brethren

    Inside the Supreme Court

    The Brethren is the first detailed behind-the-scenes account of the Supreme Court in action.Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong have pierced its secrecy to give us an unprecedented view of the Chief and Associate Justices—maneuvering, arguing, politicking, compromising, and making decisions that affect every major area of American life. ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Punishment Without Crime

    How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal

    A revelatory account of the misdemeanor machine that unjustly brands millions of Americans as criminals.Punishment Without Crime offers an urgent new interpretation of inequality and injustice in America by examining the paradigmatic American offense: the lowly misdemeanor. Based on extensive original research, legal scholar Alexandra Natapoff reveals the inner workings of a massive petty offense ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Uncertain Justice

    The Roberts Court and the Constitution

    Harvard Law School scholars Laurence Tribe and Joshua Matz reveal how Chief Justice John Roberts is shaking the foundation of our nation’s laws in Uncertain Justice: The Roberts Court and the Constitution.From Citizens United to its momentous rulings regarding Obamacare and gay marriage, the Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Roberts has profoundly affected American life. Yet the court remains ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Most Dangerous Branch

    Inside the Supreme Court in the Age of Trump

    In the bestselling tradition of The Nine and The Brethren, The Most Dangerous Branch takes us inside the secret world of the Supreme Court. David A. Kaplan, the former legal affairs editor of Newsweek, shows how the justices subvert the role of the other branches of government—and how we’ve come to accept it at our peril.With the retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy, the Court has never before ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The U.S. Supreme Court: A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    For thirty years, Linda Greenhouse, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The U.S. Supreme Court: A Very Short Introduction, chronicled the activities of the justices as the Supreme Court correspondent for the New York Times. In this concise volume, she draws on her deep knowledge of the court's history as well as of its written and unwritten rules to show the reader how the Supreme Court really ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Justice on the Brink

    A Requiem for the Supreme Court

    **The gripping story of the Supreme Court’s transformation from a measured institution of law and justice into a highly politicized body dominated by a right-wing supermajority, told through the dramatic lens of its most transformative year, by the Pulitzer Prize–winning law columnist for The New York Times“A dazzling feat . . . meaty, often scintillating and sometimes scary . . . Greenhouse is a ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $10.99 USD

  • A Matter of Interpretation

    Federal Courts and the Law - New Edition

    Series Book 47 - The University Center for Human Values Series
    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 the desired aim—“distinguishing one prior case on his left, straight-arming another one on his right, high-stepping away from another precedent about to ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Going to Family Court - How to be Prepared on the Day

    Law for Families

    by Helen Conway ...
    Series series Law for Families
    This book tells you everything you need to know about the practicalities of the Family Court in England and Wales.How the law worksThe Family Court – who we are and what we doThe different type of court hearings – Understanding the TerminologyComing to Court – How to be PreparedArriving at court – How to find your way aroundInside the Court Room – what to expectThe People in the Family Court – Who ... Read more

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  • The Court and the World

    American Law and the New Global Realities

    In this original, far-reaching, and timely book, Justice Stephen Breyer examines the work of the Supreme Court of the United States in an increasingly interconnected world, a world in which all sorts of activity, both public and private—from the conduct of national security policy to the conduct of international trade—obliges the Court to understand and consider circumstances beyond America’s ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Code of Silence

    Sexual Misconduct by Federal Judges, the Secret System That Protects Them, and the Women Who Blew the Whistle

    by Lise Olsen ...
    Winner of the 2021 IRE Book AwardWinner of the 2022 Texas Institute of Letters Carr P. Collins Award for Best Book of NonfictionIn the age of #MeToo, learn how brave whistleblowers have dared to lift the federal court’s veil of secrecy to expose powerful judges who appear to defy laws they have sworn to upholdCode of Silence tells the story of federal court employee Cathy McBroom, who had to flee ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Roberts Court

    The Struggle for the Constitution

    by Marcia Coyle ...
    For years, the Supreme Court led by Chief Justice John Roberts has been at the center of a constitutional maelstrom. Here, the much-honored, expert Supreme Court reporter Marcia Coyle's examination of four landmark cases is "informative, insightful, clear and fair...Coyle reminds us that Supreme Court decisions matter. A lot." (Portland Oregonian).Seven minutes after President Obama put his ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • A History of the Supreme Court

    When the first Supreme Court convened in 1790, it was so ill-esteemed that its justices frequently resigned in favor of other pursuits. John Rutledge stepped down as Associate Justice to become a state judge in South Carolina; John Jay resigned as Chief Justice to run for Governor of New York; and Alexander Hamilton declined to replace Jay, pursuing a private law practice instead. As Bernard ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Why the Innocent Plead Guilty and the Guilty Go Free

    And Other Paradoxes of Our Broken Legal System

    A senior federal judge’s incisive, unsettling exploration of some of the paradoxes that define the judiciary today, Why the Innocent Plead Guilty and the Guilty Go Free features essays examining why innocent people plead guilty, why high-level executives aren’t prosecuted, why you won’t get your day in court, and why the judiciary is curtailing its own constitutionally mandated power.How can we be ... Read more

    $9.99 USD