Legal systems: courts and procedures Books

Times have changed, and lawyers must change with the times. Jurors have become experts in everything and suspicious of everyone, including lawyers and their hand-picked experts. Jurors are increasingly focused on the information and increasingly annoyed...

This important new book penetrates that veil of secrecy with thirteen interviews tape recorded in the chambers of the respective judges. The author, Mr. Joel Cohen, who practices at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, LLP in New York, is a skillful and...

What was unfathomable in the first two decades of the twenty-first century has become a reality. Religious liberty, both in the United States and across the world, is in crisis. As we navigate the coming decades, We the People must know our rights more...

"A damning investigation of dark money by a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee" (Kirkus Reviews) with a new preface on recent disclosures about efforts to influence the CourtDark MoneyAs the story of Supreme Court malfeasance and ethics...

From a leading constitutional lawyer who has sued every president since LBJ, a masterful explication of the true "pillars of our democracy"On November 9, 2016-and again on January 6, 2021-many Americans feared that our democracy was on the verge of...

A legendary lawyer and a legal scholar reveal the structural failures that undermine justice in our criminal courts "An urgently needed analysis of our collective failure to confront and overcome racial bias and bigotry, the abuse of power, and the...

Age range 13 to 18A collection of 300 quotes from Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Part of theIn Their Own Wordsseries.As one of only nine women in a class of 500 at Harvard Law School when she enrolled in 1956 and one of only four female...

Written by an experienced trial lawyer, this book will help you understand the art of cross-examination. Not only will it prepare you for the courtroom, but it will also help you become a successful lawyer.One of the most well-known courtroom situations,...

In 2009, Harper's Magazine sent war-crimes expert Lawrence Douglas to Munich to cover the last chapter of the lengthiest case ever to arise from the Holocaust: the trial of eighty-nine-year-old John Demjanjuk. Demjanjuk's legal odyssey began in 1975,...

Robert A. Williams Jr. boldly exposes the ongoing legal force of the racist language directed at Indians in American society. Fueled by well-known negative racial stereotypes of Indian savagery and cultural inferiority, this language, Williams contends,...